Randy Lopez

OK if you are into romantic historical fiction...

Revisado: 03-29-25

I guess I did not realize this was a romance novel. Really felt the history was used as a romantic backdrop more than an actual setting and felt the troubles were somehow trivialized by the romance novel. Also had a hard time with some of the temporal anomalies (the journals, for example) but, gee whiz, its a romance novel so I suppose I was confused. Not my (cross)genre(s)?

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Reality of the west

Revisado: 03-29-25

Hard to match Cormac McCarthy for pithy reality of the wild west. Existentialism without the fancy philosophy - and cowboys!

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Good review of current sleep research

Revisado: 03-29-25

This was a helpful book. As is often the case, it could have been shorter but, then, it would not have been able to be sold as a "book" but would have made a GREAT long pod cast or article if boiled down pithily into a few hours.

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Interesting but I am not sold on his predictions

Revisado: 03-29-25

Interesting read but I am left with feeling "I hope he is right but I don't think so." I read this early in 2024 and, since then, elections have happened and it is March 2025. I am doubling down on that same feeling.

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Interesting range of odd tales

Revisado: 03-29-25

This was a fun read and well written. Some were a bit frivolous (tailgaiting in the polar vortex?) and some were disturbing and I am not sure any of them really went anywhere deep or far, but a fun read.

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Time, people, history and relationships

Revisado: 03-29-25

This is one of my all time favorite books. Well told story of complex characters, greatly flawed but noble, talented and committed, facing the primitive western frontier and their own stubborn desires and needs. No heros, no villans - but great characters.

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Great performance of a classic

Revisado: 10-15-24

The Hobbit is beloved by many, including me, and this is a great production that does it justice.

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not your average historical fiction

Revisado: 08-08-24

This was one of the most enjoyable books I've read in years. Whimsical while thought provoking, spiritually uplifting yet humble, full to overflowing with love, duty and moral courage - with cartoon-like characters keeping it all moving along in hilarity. Dante's Inferno for the modern Buddhist

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A Renaissance of American writing could be dawning

Revisado: 06-03-24

This was a deftly written, hauntingly American but blazingly beautiful novel and I look forward to reading more from this author. The plot weaves strands of family, love and honor into the dark, ugly spaces of our country and it's checkered history in a manner that educates as it entertains, challenges as much as it comforts, providing caring refuge as it reflects light and love into some dark places in our collective pasts.

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Incomplete and not objective

Revisado: 04-10-24

This is an odd "performance" and I cannot recommend it. I suppose the most salutory thing I can think to say is that if you are believe short selling is an evil plot by "wall street" to steal money from "average investors" then this is a tolerably well produced audiobook that will support your bias. If you believe "meme stocks" are nutty phenomenon driven by crazy people who should not be allowed to trade, you too can find support for your bias here, as you will be listening through different ears. The truth is, as usual, much more complicated. If you don't really understand short-selling don't expect to be objectively educated here. If an audiobook is neither enlightening or entertaining, why bother? From the very few reviews, it appears few did. Good choice.

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