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From boy to man

Revisado: 03-02-23

Believable and gradual transformation from wannabe tough guy to competent, upstanding citizen. Appeals strongly to the masculine soul.

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interesting premise, mediocre delivery

Revisado: 07-01-22

This book features a character type that Lamour uses occasionally, but never till now for the protagonist: the easterner who's offended by the wildness of the West. Interesting to see how he learns to embrace the roughness the country demands, but a bit irritating in the process, maybe less well written than usual. Glad I listened, but it's one of the few LL's I probably won't re-read.

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Moral backbone

Revisado: 05-10-22

A rare story that accurately depicts the moral growth that most of us value but is out of fashion. And it does this largely through Emma discovering her own conscience. Also depicts the masculine and feminine, offering various types from the inspiring to the obnoxious. Some may find it slow in places, but I'm inclined to think it adds to the experience; it's a celebration of realistic good, which comes along with occasional dullness of putting up with less than scintillating people and situations. As a preacher, husband and father of five, I heartily recommend.

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overwhelmingly worth it

Revisado: 06-26-18

The only thing I'll add about the story is... I love how it takes you along through the landscape.

Here's the part that could be better: the narrator has too much mouth noise, makes everyone sound old or goofy, and his singing is dreadful. Overall I get used to his voice, but not the songs, which I can't skip fast enough; as another review suggests, these would be better spoken.

That being said, Audible take note: I wouldn't want a new narrator unless he was really, really, really good, because on the whole Rob Inglis creates the right mood, with a realism that would be hard to improve on. With all his foibles, overwhelmingly worth it (This is my second time through).

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a bit too "balanced" but otherwise excellent

Revisado: 06-02-17

Great storytelling. Good mix of quotes from founders, employees, investors, competitors, customers and regulators past and present, both friendly and hostile to the Startups. My main criticism is that the author seemed to go out of his way to give equal weight to various judgments about the moral purity or depravity of the founders (as if we can know). He left readers with a balanced assessment in the end, but along the way there was too much made of unprovable motives in a bit of a weird political way, rather than sticking to plain words and actions. Still, one of the best audibles I've heard.

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Are you the most ambitious person you know?

Revisado: 06-26-16

This book was written for you. You likely already have the Seventh Sense; the job of this book is to give those with this new "instinct" a common language to recognise and communicate with each other. If you don't have the 7th sense already, this book may enrage you, terrify you, or challenge you like never before. But if you're Bruce Wayne or Neo, this book is your bat trial, your red pill. It's a crash course on the nature of our age, and a call to master your inner game. But the outcome of this age? The future of freedom, order, war and peace? That's on you.

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Like Thiel's Zero to One: a great book badly read

Revisado: 03-04-15

What did you love best about Bold?

It lives up to it's name: Diamandis brings his interstellar vision all the way down to earth, coaching the ordinary entrepreneur to catch the exponential wave.

What did you like best about this story?

I'm challenged to go big: don't just build another app, he says--change the world.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

He sounds like a the voice on my car's GPS unit, not a real human being. He lacks emotion, fails to express basic sentence grammar in how he reads, and pronounces things in a robotic way--"INterNET."

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Far cooler than fiction.

Any additional comments?

Midway through chapter three there is a period where every other word is partially missing, like a phone call with bad reception (this is listening offline, downloaded in my Audible app).I will update my review when I'm finished the book. So far quite worth it in spite of drawbacks.

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