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Amazing performance of a fascinating and charismatic man’s life story

Revisado: 11-30-23

Rarely has a book made me wish more that the author had not died young. Malcom X was clearly an intelligent and extremely energetic man whose path through alienation from society, crime, drug addiction, jail, then radicalization into a faux-Islamic cult and the into alienation from that cult and towards orthodox Islam is extremely compelling. His biggest failing as a thinker is always a compulsive collectivism, a rounding down of people to peoples, and his wrathful perspective on the racism is an exemplary showcase of the temptations and demagoguic power of that kind of narrative.

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First 40k book, pretty solid!

Revisado: 11-21-23

I enjoyed the out there nature and strangeness of this book and felt it was very competently done, but was not sold on the 40k universe in general; I found the more standard battle content a bit repetitive

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Great book, low quality recording

Revisado: 08-11-23

Fascinating romp through a future world that’s tilted at an angle to our own but has all the same issues and more

Recording sounds kinda like I’m listening to a tin can and string telephone but not totally unlistenable

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Like Guy Ritchie was told to write Discworld + Dishonored

Revisado: 03-03-23

Really fun book and great narrator

Shit load of characters but they’re almost all distinct and interesting, and some of them are loveable

Tons of worldbuilding but it’s a good enough mixture of original and derivative that it feels fresh but not overwhelming

Probably a bit too long

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Unfocused and pretentious but not boring

Revisado: 01-09-23

I think it would have been a lot better with more stories about startups and Thiel fellows and their successes and especially failures, which are all but ignored, and less pointless backstory about the author’s possibly secret agent dad.

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Laugh out loud hilarious and interesting

Revisado: 08-15-22

Amazing performance of a great book by a screenwriter with a strong sense of humor and a lot of interesting experiences in the movie industry.

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Mostly good and interesting, annoyingly whiny

Revisado: 05-11-22

This is a fun tour of a variety of precise mechanisms and their history in industry, but the author is annoyingly Luddite about the progress of precision and just won’t shut up about it. Yes yes maybe we are going too far, I get it shut up already and tell me about jet turbines and lenses. And being self-aware and pointing out that you’re doing this makes it worse, not better.


The annoying preachy “MAYBE SCIENCE HAS GONE TOO FAR!” Bits are a small percentage of the book but it would be better if they weren’t there, or restricted to one chapter that I could just skip.

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Great author, bad reading

Revisado: 08-08-21

As others have said, this narrator is far worse than the one for the first volume, and the audio quality of the recording is also noticeably worse.

Both aren’t bad enough to ruin the book but take away a lot

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Interesting book, surprisingly non-dated

Revisado: 02-12-21

I liked the book but the narrator was bad. Lots of stumbling over words, it sounded like the whole time he had a cold, and he was pretty monotone.

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Much better than Volume 1

Revisado: 11-27-20

The recording is much better than volume one.

A fun work and interesting perspective on the French Revolution, probably almost completely opaque if you don't have a familiarity with the people and events already, as well as a decent grounding in works and concepts Carlyle references.

Don't listen if what you want is to learn the events in a non-committal way.

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