Emily Brandt

Very Well Written

Revisado: 11-08-24

What a joy of a book. It makes a very convincing case. Arguably the best of the JFK books I’ve read

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Dangerous and Unnecessary

Revisado: 10-23-24

Few people will argue against the importance of eating whole, plant-based foods for a healthier body. However, that message is diminished greatly when presented alongside frankly dangerous advice like “cancer patients don’t need chemotherapy, they just need to eat right to live 30 years longer.” “Doctors can’t prescribe this *method* because of big pharmaceutical money.” “Coffee enemas are essential to health and to *detox* your liver.” What?! No!

Why can’t we just have valuable information on nutrition and eliminating processed food in our regular diets without all the junk pseudoscience and anti-doctor fear-mongering. Following this book outright is dangerous.

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Disappointing Ending but Interesting Book Overall

Revisado: 03-17-24

This book was very interesting. It detailed daily life alongside literal murder rampages of this cult from a child’s perspective. It was tragic but a fascinating look into this lifestyle.

It’s just such a shame that she never got truly free from the religion and the control it had on her mind. I wish her well and hope she continues to break free.

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Sociopaths Guide to Manipulation and Toxicity

Revisado: 01-24-24

Eww. This is a manual for absolute lunatics. “If you like a woman, pay attention to her sister. Play them off each other” was the quote that got me to audibly yell “eww!”

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Can someone tell the narrator how to pronounce Quantico please?

Revisado: 12-30-23

I do like John Douglas’s books. His writing is frank and insightful, uniquely terrifying, and I always come away feeling more knowledgeable about crime. I’ve read 4 of his other books and really like this- but this one stands out as by far the worst.

There are glimmers of those other stories, examples of horrible phenomena that result in crimes, key takeaways from crime scenes to advise law enforcement, and his personal connection to high profile cases. But this one was very scattered. A how to guide to talk to your kids about pedos, listed by grade level…an entire chapter about Susanne Collins’ family before you even know why it’s included and then 2 more about the death penalty and legal theory… stories that start somewhere, end, start something new and then go back to the first story, etc. It’s like they published the first draft before it was properly compiled.

Combine that with a narrator who has a grating voice and who can’t pronounce “Quantico” or “macabre” and it’s a tough listen.

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Auspicious

Revisado: 05-28-20

I really like the great courses but was underwhelmed with what could have been an amazing topic. I found the input of the lecturer’s personal jokes, anecdotes and frequent “we’re out of time” distracting. It started off strong but I grew annoyed near the end.

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A Book About Jeffrey Gitomer, For Jeffrey Gitomer

Revisado: 04-27-20

This book was plain awful. Unless you like someone quoting themselves incessantly complete with their name at the end, avoid at all costs. I made it through 50 minutes and couldn't take it anymore.

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Amazingly Disapointing

Revisado: 11-08-15

We are all victims. White people are evil. Rich people are all conspiring together. America is awful.

There... I just saved you 30+ hours of your life.

This book was a horrible use of my money. Having just read Martin Gilbert's History of the 20th Century, I was looking for something similar but for the United States. I realized early on, that was not the case but kept listening. What I got was not a history book full of facts and truth, but instead got this man's call to action against capitalism and continued droning on about victimization of every social class at some point. The book is poorly researched (he often says, "we do not know what the reasons are for this... But any history book or a basic history class has the exact documentation he claims doesn't exist), is very biased, and horribly edited (as if it wasn't bad enough). I will never buy or recommend another book by this author or narrator.

Save your money and get a real history book.

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Jarring Narration

Revisado: 10-26-15

The story was interesting but the narration was so strange! Overall, the author himself did a fantastic job but frequently someone else pops in to do quotes with such strange, obviously fake, accents that it is really distracting and leaves you feeling bounced around a bit (and mocked, if you have one of the accents he was trying to imitate)

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We get it. The roads are dangerous.

Revisado: 09-20-15

The book was interesting, there's no denying that. However, I thought it was quite odd what the author chose to include and exclude. The part about the Korean War was excellent and is often excluded in books of this nature but statistics for road deaths are included at least 10 times, despite having no relevance to the story. Idi Amin, Amelia Earhart, FDR's health, and just about anything happening in South America or Africa weren't included at all or were given less than two minutes. I loved the format of the story but wish it wasn't so Eurocentric and so focused on wars as opposed to important cultural moments, which got almost no attention past the 1920s. Additionally, I had hoped the author would spend more time on stories that weren't so well known so I could have listened for 30 hours and come away feeing like I learned something.

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