Jeremy

Possibly the best book for inspiring creativity

Revisado: 11-27-22

It’s short, it’s to the point. There’s no fat here, no dithering, no time-wasting. Pressfield gets right to it by concisely identifying the cause behind artistic blocks, and giving his strategies for winning through. Indispensable.

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Mostly okay but for one major issue

Revisado: 10-19-22

It’s not really a spoiler since it’s outwardly stated in the first chapter, but having the pre-teen girl and the grown-ass adult be destined future lovers is gross and casts a shadow of cringe and disgust over the entire novel. I mean, quite literally this is a love story between a man and a child, and maybe you can get past that to enjoy the rest of it, and maybe you can’t. If you do, you’ll find a mixed bag, not up to the standards of the one-two punch of the previous novels in the series. But it does continue the narrative, and so completionists may feel compelled to finish. There are a few mind-blowing concepts introduced here, like the Pax resurrections but on the whole, it’s not what you remember afterward. My brain needs a hot shower and a palette cleanser. I feel like I know more about Simmons’ predilections than I did before, and I wish I didn’t.

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I loved this but it was hell to listen to

Revisado: 09-02-22

Idk why, but the Audible app on iPhone did not want to save my place, loved jumping me to the end of the episode if I dared to pause, etc. a real nightmare. Only persevered because the story was so good and important.

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Inappropriate applause my only complaint.

Revisado: 08-20-22

Love the Great Courses and I know that applause after a lecture is traditional, but it’s really awkward to have a lecture end in a really horrific note (as it can when one is talking about this era of history) and have the room burst into applause. That’s all. That’s my only feedback.

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Selma Blair brings Anne Frank to life.

Revisado: 08-09-22

My only complaint with this book is the abruptness of the ending, though that is no fault of the author or production. Full blame for this goes to the Nazis. Otherwise, this is a wholly unique and historically important document that needs no words of mine to validate it.

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It’s pretty good!

Revisado: 08-03-22

This book really needed Jaim Grymauch. It knows it, too; there are numerous occasions where characters stop and say some equivalent of ‘I wish Grymauch were here’, because he leaves such an echo of presence and casts such a large shadow.
THAT SAID, this one’s still pretty good, and a satisfying (of bittersweet) end to the Rigante saga. The narrator (as before) is simply extraordinary, and probably the reason I bought a book I already had, just to hear the story read by her. Her accents are breathtaking and immersive, her child voices are genuinely adorable; I really can’t imagine anyone doing a better job.


Love Gemmel, love the Rigante, love this book, even if Ravenheart is the better.

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An amazing story by a master storyteller, read by the perfect narrator.

Revisado: 07-25-22

Mostly writing this to offset that poor guy who thought the Rigante books should be read by a ‘big powerful man’ or whatever nonsense. The reader here has a wonderful voice that sounds like the Morrigu herself telling the greatest Rigante tale about the Greatest Rigante. Her Scottish brogue is just amazing and created such flavour for the story.
Finally, Jaim Grymauch is one of my favourite fictional characters in all of books. He’s got a soul as large as the world, and makes me a better person when I remember him. He’s real for me, despite being nothing but a character made of words. What a wonderful book this is.

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This Book Owns

Revisado: 03-09-22

Wasn’t sure what to expect from this one, but was surprised to find something so lovely and concise. This will reset your feeling of awe and wonder, and you can bang it out in a single afternoon.

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Not too technical at all

Revisado: 10-05-21

Look, I’m basically an idiot and I was able to grasp at least the scope of this book, if not all the nuance. This book really opened my eyes and gave birth to many an interesting thought in my brain box. Highly recommended.

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Does Malcolm Gladwell have ADD? Or dementia? Has he ever been tested for sociopathy?

Revisado: 07-27-21

I hated this book. I finished it in the hopes that the author would have some sort of point for including the Brock Turner case — some of his analysis which seemed to dismiss or explain away the rape as ‘bad interaction between strangers’. It was a truly baffling, tone deaf take; and I felt the inclusion of the Sandusky case to also be in pretty poor taste, although there at least he’s unambiguous in his condemnation of Sandusky’s actions.
This book was also slightly aggravating in its delivery; in pulling in so many examples to make his larger point — namely that we are not good at talking to strangers — the author leaps wildly from topic to topic in ways that may appeal to some, but made me wonder about his attention span. Entire threads are dropped, never to be addressed again, when the author finds something else that’s shiny and catches his eye.
Finally, there’s just something vaguely smug and insufferable about the man; in the afterword (spoiler I guess?, but not really), Malcolm Gladwell refers to this as a ‘historic’ audiobook. Really?!? Historic? Because you have a theme song and interviews? That’s not historic, that’s Radiolab.
I’ll be returning this book for my credit, because I hated it so much.

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