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Good information swathed in endlessly repetitive insane ideology

Revisado: 04-04-24

Buss’s evolutionary psychology seems fine, and even insightful. It might be fine, and this book would be useful if it wasn’t largely dominated by endless parades of virtue signaling to the effect that rape is a bad thing, because apparently no one knew that. It would’ve been better to read this in print, so as to be able to skim all the endless moralizing. The reader was fine, only he added extra layers of emotion in his delivery to make sure all of Buss’s ideological points landed home. The useful information in this book could have been pared down to less than 100 pages. For all of Buss’s attempts to bring scientific reality about the differences between the sexes into the conversation, he ends with an attack on men for their sexuality being based on objectification. How this is supposed to be changed isn’t gotten across, and to end the “patriarchy” women are encouraged to stop finding high status men attractive, and take up with Joe Schmoes, because this will eventually cause humanity to evolve along more egalitarian lines. I won’t be holding my breath.

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Highest Recommendation

Revisado: 03-13-24

I’ve read and/or listened to as audiobooks a ton of literary biographies. John Stubbs’ JONATHAN SWIFT: RELUCTANT REBEL is one of the very best. Stubbs is a terrific writer and a subtle thinker, and Swift and his world of England and Ireland in the late 17th and early to mid 18th centuries comes alive. There’s only a small amount of presentism in Stubbs’ presentation, and the small amount there is was largely welcome to me, as it was mostly concerned with psychological analysis of Swift and others, all of which seemed reasonable and to the point. Derek Perkins is a superb reader. One felt he understood the book so well, he might’ve written it himself. I could listen to this fellow endlessly. The until-listened to daunting 31 hours of this audiobook flew by in my free time over a couple of weeks. Highest recommendation.

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