Max G

Insightful book, quiet audio

Revisado: 05-28-24

A very insightful dive into the Black Death, the societies it impacted, and other forces simmering in the background of Middle Age Europe. However, the audio is very quiet compared to other books, making some of the recording harder to hear when there is background noise.

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An epic exploring family and culture

Revisado: 05-21-24

Min Jin Lee creates dozens of intricate, intriguing characters that tend to exit as suddenly as they enter. She keeps the reader invested throughout the decades as their lives unfold

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Spooky yet riveting listen

Revisado: 05-19-24

Excellent work by Shine in terms of bot plot and character development, I’m certain that listening was more enjoyable than watching the upcoming Shyamalan jr. flick

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Extremely powerful storytelling with poignant data

Revisado: 05-08-24

The author does an excellent job shedding light on a far too common problem that exists under our noses. By providing an intimate picture of the experiences of abused and abusers alike, the book unwinds the nuances of such a complex problem and closes by providing examples of the many interventions needed to lessen the problem.

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An ode to the author’s career

Revisado: 04-30-24

This book is an autobiography disguised as an educational nonfiction book. Wastewater is not discussed until about 60% of the way through, and even then only sets the scene while the focus stays on the author’s career. Absent is any meaningful discussion on how prevalent this issue is (aside from a single statistic) and what solutions can be implemented to address this problem (simply calling for more money and bipartisanship is not sufficient)

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Pretty good, a little dense, could really use a different narrator

Revisado: 04-09-23

As an outsider to the subject matter I found the book interesting but a little hard to understand and follow. This was really not helped by the narrator, who sounded like she was smiling the entire time, even when it was clear that the author was trying to be serious during certain parts

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Overly simple and pedantic

Revisado: 02-25-23

The author goes into painful detail about basic aspects of communication, such as the exact words to say when coaching or firing somebody, rather than providing a broader, but more useful, explanation of how to create a productive culture and healthy dynamic with one’s team

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Painful pontification and narration

Revisado: 04-02-22

This boom would have been better served to be half the size and read by somebody other than the author, who tends to over-enunciate and drag out her speech, resulting in a narration that sounds like it is meant for children.

The story itself is interesting, but poorly served by the author’s attempt to go into pedantic levels of detail on mundane aspects of the narrative complimented by mind-numbing pontification on subjects that merit little discussion.

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Tries too hard to make the connection to bears

Revisado: 03-14-22

This book felt like two stories, one of which was the phenomena of libertarians moving en masse to a small town in New Hampshire, the other was the tendency of bears to wander into residential neighborhoods to seek food.

While there is a slight connection due to the town getting rid of municipal trash collection, it just felt too weak, resulting in not-so-subtle transitions between the libertarian parts and the bear parts. The author would have been better served to chose one story or the other at the expense of the cheeky title

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Way too pedantic

Revisado: 01-07-22

This book starts off strong for the first 2 hours or so, recommending to the reader a new paradigm for networking that involves staying in loose touch with a good number of people using simple means like email, text, or social media, rather than grinding away at networking events.

But then the author goes into asinine detail about the intricacies of Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram, the functions of email, and even emojis. These were written as if the reader would be ignorant as to these services, even though this book was published in 2018.

I still overall found the book helpful, but most readers can safely call it quits once she starts diving into the section on social media

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