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A true conservative intellectual of our time

Revisado: 02-09-25

MacIntyre stands among the true intellectuals of the new right. His critique and diagnosis are novel and compelling. I expect history will bear out his predictions. A must read.

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Superb read

Revisado: 07-20-24

Riveting. Knowles is a stellar author and the book is an interesting read!
Get this book. You won’t regret it!

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Fascinating and scary

Revisado: 06-01-24

The size and scale of the coverup must be known. Prepare for uncomfortable truths and gripping narratives. I could’ve done without some of the play by play of hearings - we all know that bureaucrats weren’t about to answer anything of substance in congressional hearings. However the overall story was compelling, logical and clear. Worth a read to understand what went on.

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The narrator kills it. In a bad way

Revisado: 08-30-21

The topic is an interesting take, especially in the charged atmosphere we live in currently. The occasional sarcasm I could do without. It was less funny and more sophomoric. But my main gripe was the reader. The narrator reads with all the gusto and sophistication and haltingly monotone choppiness of an apathetic fourth grader reading to their class. It was SO distracting!

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Required reading for the Centrist mind

Revisado: 04-29-21

Read this if you actually want to learn something. If you’re just looking for partisan drivel, regardless of which you belong to, you’re who should read this book the most.

Haidt and Lukianoff are take a critical but dispassionate approach to framing the issue and do a fantastic job of weaving their arguments in a compelling way that makes it challenging to disagree with. The way they manage to wield their objectivity commands attention and respect, which I think given our current US state of affairs is a breath of fresh air - or more to the point, intellectual panacea.

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Spare me the religious diatribe

Revisado: 01-07-21

Interesting and captivating autobiography of an interesting man doing extraordinary things, however a “spy novel” it is not. I found the entire subject of his sudden religious conversion near the end uncomfortably out of place and irritatingly distracting. It’s certainly the author’s choice as to what to include and emphasize in their own autobiography but it was so out of place and annoyingly “in your face”. Again, the author’s choice but I didn’t pick up this book for a religious diatribe about the virtues of Christianity. This person would not be relevant to history or pop culture (as in, nobody would be reading this book) but for their spy history. That’s the entire point of anyone choosing to read it and the subject bleed was irksome. I wound up skipping an entire chapter and a half of it.

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Voice inflection!

Revisado: 09-06-19

I listened to most of this in the car during a road trip. The narrator drove me nuts speaking with the voice inflection of a news caster and then trailing off to near inaudible sighs at the end of a sentence and all of a sudden starting a new sentence or clause with the volume of a used car sales commercial in the same breath. I kept having to turn the volume down and up depending on the force of the point the author was trying to make, which brings me to the story. The first quarter is about drug smuggling, the remainder is about hanging out in South America and hoping he doesn’t get caught. I get it, he lived an interesting life, but I don’t think the subtitle really lives up to the subject matter.

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“Co-caine”, not “kick-caine”

Revisado: 08-29-19

Loved the book. Interesting topic explained through a well-written book. The narrator was fine but it drove me absolutely bonkers hearing about “kickcaine” for twelve plus hours.

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