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Wonderful and inspirational!

Revisado: 11-28-24

Very insightful, it kept me hooked for the entire length of the book. Excellent narration. Dr. Carroll truly has a gift for science communication.

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Wonderful

Revisado: 08-08-24

This is life changing… I just want to hear this again.
Clearly one of the best content I’ve encountered in world literature.

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Good Story, ridiculous impersonations

Revisado: 02-05-21

The history of the atomic understanding is well recounted. Also the citations from famous key scientists are well chosen. However, the mimickery of voices of the European scientists and their ridiculous artificial (I suppose these were meant to suggest authenticity) misrepresentations of the likes of Einstein, Bohr, etc. Makes this at times an unbearable listening. Fortunately, these were short (~5%) compared to the overall story, which is pretty good. Keep in mind that with NEW Understanding, this book ends with the understanding of EP&R in 1935.

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What a wonderful overview of the wide and diverse field of Mathematics

Revisado: 12-11-20

What a great overview of the wide and diverse field of Mathematics. I have enjoyed listening to this book together with my 13 yo son, who had hundreds of questions throughout the journey through this book. What a great conversation starter with a teen who’s otherwise tough to get engaged. I found this book very good to follow. It attracted the curiosity of my teen boy equally as much as mine. The narrator was top notch, too. This audiobook really works, it’s a five star.
Dear Prof. Strogatz, you have this special talent of addressing people across different generations and walks of life. Please keep your books/columns coming. They have a special value in our current society, by pointing out the beauty and satisfaction of deeper insights, the rewards of education. A joyful read/listen from start to finish.

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This is a really good book!!!

Revisado: 10-02-20

I am very impressed how this book finds a very competent balance between analytical rigor, data-based learning and hilarious anecdotes. I have thoroughly enjoyed all chapters. I also enjoyed their logic buildup and flow. Yes, brother, I know you didn’t expect to be lauded for writing an excellent documentary. But Modern Romance is exactly that. It’s an excellent portrayal of our vastly changing society to a point that we often ask ourselves what’s happening around us? Why do we feel left out more than ever despite all this connectivity? Ansari’s book has the answers well researched and wonderfully written up. It’s great to hear about this complex topic, that quickly could become depressing, explained with ample wit and narrated with such an upbeat attitude. Great job! I enjoyed every minute.

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Very important message

Revisado: 07-13-19

I listened to all 3 books with my son and we both learned or re-learned a lot. This is overall a wonderful book series and is perfect as a trilogy. We found it a let down that the narration of the last book is so sleepy. It seems that the narrator is constantly suppressing his yawning. Which made me yawn several times and also made me fall almost asleep while driving. So, don’t listen to this book and drive. I recommend to the narrator to get more sleep, and to the author to stick with the narrators of book 1 (secret life of trees) and book 2 (secret love few of animals). They were perfect in every way. Overall, I am very impressed with this trilogy. A beautiful message to our young.

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Pretty Fantastic world history from a valid perspective

Revisado: 12-23-18

Frankopan keeps a strong focus on the Eurasia and thereby meets my expectations on this book. Much of his story line is indeed very gripping and it was hard to put it down at times. Especially, in combination with other world history books like Guns, Germs, and Steel, this book gives a great perspective to how we got to today’s global setting. The narrating was ok. Very good at times, but his suppressed yawns were so frequent that it took away from the excitement of the story line. It made me yawn even though the story was exciting, which felt odd. I still recommend this audiobook highly.

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The Human Nature summarized by a Robot

Revisado: 12-18-18

How ironic, I could bet that this Summary is read by a robot. No emotion no diction or voicing. The Human Nature summarized by a Robot? Hard to follow and hard to stomach. The book or audiobook are so much better.

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Stunning History!

Revisado: 09-08-18

This is an amazing story of the Imperial China. It weaves elegantly together the human efforts on the individual and grand scale along a two thousand year long journey. Beautifully researched and scripted. I immensely enjoyed listening to this. Excellence from start to finish.

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A Titan of a Biography

Revisado: 08-16-18

A gigantic storyline, very expansive, addictive, and fun to listen to, all the way to the end. What a life!

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