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pure joy

Revisado: 06-08-24

gripping, suspenseful, immediate, Leaves the listener wanting more!
Chriton and Patterson ... pure magic!

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exceptional narration!

Revisado: 02-17-24

this story grabas you, keeps you in its fascinating grip, and then delivers you in the end and leaves you breathless and smiling.

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Paradigm shattering

Revisado: 04-09-23

Brilliant originality!
Challenges dominant thought in a robust, intelligent, and illuminating analysis... awesome exposé

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Phenomenal Stories About Ultra Geniuses

Revisado: 12-08-21

From the first chapter - Prussian Blue - to The Night Gardener's VI chapter, this fascinating in-depth set of biographies of scientific geniuses, tortured by their individual and unnatural gifts, held my attention through the very last word. After finishing this Audiobook I was compelled to also buy the Kindle version so that I would have on hand the sea of references of unusual facts and gifted personalities. This book will hold you fascinated. From the inventors of Pervitin and cyanide and their morbid uses by the Nazi Regime during WWII, to the unusual bursting beauty of how an old lemon tree dies. Mr. Labatut produced a literary masterpiece for us to enjoy and to provoke wonder.
The largely unsung geniuses like Karl Schwarzschild and his singularity to Shinichi Mochizuki and his brilliant a+b = c conjecture, which no one yet even understands, this book has many more treasures to uncover. And you will be unable to tell where you have unsuspectingly fallen into the historical fiction part of this wonderful work!
Excellent work!

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Eye opening and terrifying

Revisado: 07-30-21

this was a terrifying exposé of beaurocracy at its worst during pandemics. a must read.

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I'd give this 10 stars if I could

Revisado: 07-18-21

page-turner. multiverse theory made an interactive intellectual theme park. everyone should read or hear this amazing work!

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Borrowed from Murakami

Revisado: 06-11-21

Tom Lin almost transparently borrowed from Haruki Murakami in the magical realism throughout his just ok book. I bought the Audible because of a review on The New York Times. I was not overwhelmed. I did finish the book in one week on my daily walks.
But the review was inaccurate.

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prescient vision from 2018

Revisado: 05-26-21

Prof. Chemerinsky saw in the Supreme Court what we in 2021 are watching ... aghast.
great work and superior analysis

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Excellent thriller until the tepid ending

Revisado: 05-18-21

This thrilling story gripped me for three days until I got to the last chapter. The ending does not belong in this otherwise great legal thriller.

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Slaying Colonialist sacred cows

Revisado: 02-23-21

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the U.S. by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
5 Stars, except for the culturally insensitive narrator, awkwardly mispronouncing Spanish names and other words. Like Hee-dahl-go for "Hidalgo" where the "H" in Spanish is always silent, and many others. This failure by a narrator of this type of ethnically-sensitive book becomes distracting.

On the positive note, Ms. Dunbar-Ortiz has managed to slay many Colonialist, English-American Hero worship Sacred Cows in her wonderful work.
She provides an exceptionally thorough, informative, educational, shocking and necessary clarification of the distorted history written by those who win wars and want to justify slavery, massive genocide and ethnic cleansing. So what do I really think?
As I listened to the Audible version, I found myself wanting the print or Kindle edition so that I could research as much of the accuracy of the detail. And I did. And all of it proved solid and enlightening; as it simultaneously also opened many historically revealing doors for me to gleefully enter.
What a wonderful magisterial true historical contribution to us all.
The many historical revelations also enlighten today's "divided" America where open racism is not only tolerated, but encouraged and celebrated by the ignorant philistines among us. Buy this book and listen to it, read it and hold it tightly.

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