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Too perky and banal

Revisado: 02-24-25

The overly enthusiastic narration makes it very difficult to stay with the author; an object lesson in “don’t narrate your own books, hire a professional”. I didn’t get far due to the degree to which this made listening a chore. But what I did hear amounted to a little history about conversation and Kant that felt straight out of Encyclopedia Britannica and some advice that any sentient being who regularly speaks with others would have figured out by the time they were 20. Tiresome.

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Tedious. Great story but needs a good editor.

Revisado: 11-15-24

Some interesting history and characters, but every step of the way is tooooo-drawwwn-oooout. And too much gore- how many ways from sideways do you need to describe the details of an amputation? Too many superlatives and lacking any subtlety. Some good bones but needs refinement.

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More evidence that women’s appearance is thebinlybthinkbthatbmatywrsbtonthe world.

Revisado: 11-03-24

I really disliked this book: more sexiest tropes, this time with a rainbow lens. Repetitive, predictable and cringy. An illogical premise that **spoiler** a man found dead in a celebrity’s car the same night the celebrity dies in hospital due to loss of too much blood would escape the notice of everyone, leaving a ‘mystery’ for 30 years. Absolutely a waste of time.

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Great book distracting narration

Revisado: 11-11-21

This is a succinct and coherent summary of attachment theory and other recent neurological and psychological research pertaining to navigating a successful couple relationship. Could use a little less “non-sciency” glossing over (we can handle it) but overall really useful info well explained.
But some pronunciations of the narrator as very distracting and overall narration is dull. Maybe this is personal preference, but I found the narration very difficult to listen too
Pls re-record with a more skillful reader!!!

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Another book about the white male world view!

Revisado: 10-02-21

So many cliches, and long winded descriptions this book needs a serious editor. Some historical descriptions that are engaging, but mainly just dripping with overly romantic, patriarchal rambling. So dated. Undisciplined fantasy celebrating male domination of women and women lapping it up.

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A voice of reason in a world of imbalance

Revisado: 05-20-21

Suzanne Simard’s life’s work, meticulous, curious and constructive brings to light our history of exploitation and ignorance in “resource management” in BC. She has shown us where our mantra of more more more, and the fiction that has been constructed to justify it is not the only way, and comes at a terrible cost. Her careful study of complex forest, river and ocean system interactions points the way to a deep truths about the place of humans in the natural world, and the urgent need to abandon notions of our superiority. These unassailable truths are the key to a way forward for humanity in a time of climate change and catastrophic instability. If Darwin was the father of evolutionary theory, then Suzanne Simard is the Mother. It’s time for people to listen to the truth, to hear the voice of the Mother.

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Great messag , but not great narration

Revisado: 04-11-21

Really enjoyed the science and anthropological insights. A sound message. But narration is monotonous and distracting. Repetitive inflection. Still with listening to.

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Confused nonsense

Revisado: 03-21-21

When your “rock solid” starting point is that procreating family is the basis of the only acceptable social order, you’re standing in fog. Thankyou for giving me insight into why conservatives are so sure any other form of sexual orientation is so abhorrent. But such a blatant disregard for empirically established truth and reality is stunning.
Perhaps the author and his followers should stop looking at ancient texts, written in a time of much less knowledge about the complexities of reality and learn what observation and methodical analysis have taught anyone willing to pay attention. We are on a planet, in space. There is no up or down except except what we designate. All meaning is a human construct. Evolutionary processes have preserved adaptive behaviours, including diverse sexual identities.
I invite you to be a thinking person instead of a deluded conservative, conserving nothing but a catalogue of lies.

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Painful

Revisado: 03-10-21

While there’s a germ of a good story here, it is told in slow motion, repetitive and with excruciating cringing detail. Too bad she didn’t have a good editor, ironically to help her tell the is story of an editor.

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Obnoxious characters and narration

Revisado: 02-05-19

If you enjoy lengthy passages, that make you uncomfortable, and a highly predictable plot, this book is perfect for you.

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