Andrew J

Great book!

Revisado: 05-12-24

Well written, great performance and illuminating! A great read/listen for sure! You’ll learn something guaranteed!

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All biographers should side this as template

Revisado: 09-03-23

One of the best researched and fairly presented biographies I’ve ever read. This the most objective, matter of fact presentations of a biography I’ve ever read/heard. And yet, the author still manages to weave a compelling narrative. This is a must listen!

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Pronunciation is important

Revisado: 08-29-23

This is a well researched and informative look into the crimes and mind of BTK. Unfortunately, the narrator struggles with properly pronouncing Quantico and all variations of garrote. Considering the number of times both words appear in this book, it is a frustrating problem that plagues the entire narration. Additionally, the narration feels flat. It almost feels like a computer generated audio… I’d suggest buying the book and reading it yourself.

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Comedy icons usually don’t write books this funny

Revisado: 08-06-23

Read by Mel so you here his timing and turn of phrase exactly as intended. Worth your time!

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Must read!

Revisado: 06-03-23

Well written, well researched, and well told! This is a must read for anyone trying to understand the historical divide between the East and West!

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Inconsistent

Revisado: 04-13-23

Seems like some notable changes in the story from the Rogan podcast to this book. As with any story, the Devil is in the details.

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Disappointed

Revisado: 09-19-22

If you’re looking for a detailed account of the rise of Genghis Khan and his empire, then you’ll likely be disappointed. By chapter 4’the author moves from Genghis Kahn to his descendants. You spend the rest of the book with an overview of the expansion and collapse of his empire. Rather than a detailed accounting of his military prowess, the brutality of his tactics, and a dispassionate overview of his rule, the reader will find that this work minimizes or omits the brutality of these war campaigns, and instead expends copious amounts of energy extolling the virtues of the Mongol empire. The author even goes so far as to spend a chapter chastising western scholars of the 19th century for denigrating the Mongolian empire, which the author clearly believes to be something approaching the progenitor of modern liberal ideals of open commerce, free exercise of religion, and women’s rights.

It is of course possible that, that may in fact be true. However, when I selected this title I believed I was purchasing a well researched, dispassionate, and objective accounting of the Rise Genghis Kahn to power, rather than some pulp that was going to make unsubstantiated claims that the most liberal, tolerant, and advanced society in history was that of Genghis Kahn’s Empire… I’m not sure how you get tolerance from a man who is said to have killed close to 40 million people.

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Illuminating and insightful

Revisado: 01-08-22

I’ve read several books about the inception of the BSU and Criminal Behavioral Profiling, most of them very good; this is the missing piece. Dr. Burgess is the academic piece, the key to bridging the gap between investigative process and refined scientific process. She was there from the beginning and her piece of the story is illuminating and her contribution to the science impeccable. This is a must read/listen!

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One note performance

Revisado: 01-04-22

Literally repeats the exact same cadence, tempo, and tone every 2 or 3 sentences regardless of what’s happening in the story. Not the worst performance I’ve heard, but still very distracting… it reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where George is trying to listen to a book on risk management and the narrator sounds like him…

The story is good, interesting, and if it were read better I might have upped the whole thing ton5 stars, but it was hard to experience the story with the current narration.

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It feels like you’re getting further away from it.

Revisado: 12-11-21

I’m not a neophyte when it comes to matters of finance. This book wanders through the literary and historical worlds occasionally making tenuous connections to principles of finance. I can see what the author was going for, but it’s a big swing and a miss… I’m also not sure that it’s a good look for an academic to quote Mao and say that anything attributed to Mao is part of “his personal ethos.”

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