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A Hollywood Movie Script (Almost)

Revisado: 02-04-22

I was expecting a more documental. Something that played like a documentary, but the book is like a novel. Actually I really think it is almost like a pop Hollywood movie. The writing is very engaging, but too much of inner dialog and persons impressions on the text. I guess if the book was a pure documental piece would be much more short... Maybe too short to become a book. But it is very entertaining.

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A ranting self-help book

Revisado: 01-26-22

The tangent rants already on the first chapter got me bothered. But I wasn't sure why. Then struck me: This is a self-help book. Why the hell I reading a self-help book?!

Even so I give any book at least two chapters to try to hook me in. Chapter 2, another useless tangent rant to the most of the chapter.

It also bothers me the way the author selectively doesn't back some allegations with data or sources, but other times offers useless details about authors of other references.

I am not going to finish this one.

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Annoying narration

Revisado: 01-22-22

The narrator's performance was very unsatisfying. The rhythm was very off and uneven. It was really annoying how chopped it sounded. It was a irritating to soldier through it to finish the book.

A fair warning: the bulk of the book is about the author's view on the scientific community, not on the scientific knowledge of Particle, Relativity, Astronomy or Cosmology.

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Describes the vehicle

Revisado: 01-20-21

Humans are still responsible for steering the wheel.

The author strikes me as very optimist about the capabilities of a more connected world, but for the most the book is very sober about the powers bestowed by the internet and its tools. it is a great reference book, and some of the definitions, arguments and conclusions are precious (the inner works of any social tool where fame is a thing is a marvelous eye opener).

One those books that most people should read.

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An unexpected way to teach science

Revisado: 12-20-19

This book is not seriously scientific. And that is great and low about it. The lack of scientific references may be defended on the merits of literary stylistics, but it strikes me as a shortcoming. Don't get me wrong most of the style is fun and clear, very educational. The sound effects may be a bit dispensable, but is easy to get it over.
At the same time it remembers me lots of youtube channels devoted to scientific communication, most topics are beaten horses in such channels and not much news for the same audience .
Overall it is a fun, clear, educational book to introduce some interesting topics and subjects.

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How to make a hero

Revisado: 12-20-19

This is a great book. Snowden's insights are marvelous. The very beginning of the book, while he retells his family story, concerned me that the book could be long for the sake of being long, but from his infancy forward we can seen a hero on the making. A nerdy hero to all nerds around the world, but a hero none less.

We may be tempted to idealize such a figure, but Snowden also let's us pick under the hood and see some embarrassing moments. His love for his wife is simple, kind, latent and ordinarily human on most of the book.

This is a portray of a pacific hero, a very smart guy, a tenacious character, a humble human and an uncompromising citizen.

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A challenging book

Revisado: 12-20-19

First, a fair warning: this is not a scientific book. The author doesn't cite or credit most explanations and claims. It is filled with scientific knowledge, but the the author is explicit about having an agenda.

This book is challenging on many aspects, not all may be considered good.

While the tangential rants against the way other scientists describe their finds is more easy to catch than the sneaky burps of hypothesis and conclusions without data to back them up, all of them have no place on an actual scientific book.

An recurring impression is the author trying to tell an history ( different of the one on the main scientific sphere) and complaining that the main scientific theories do not explain or predict that history, and the author has a better "theory" to explain such history.

The author is not coy about opinions and stand points. But while there are many complaints about others scientists writings (including Darwin's) the author do not seems to bother in being snark and condescending when criticizing other people's work.

On the author's merit is the suggestion of solutions. Plenty of people just rant things are not okay, but do not provide any suggestion. But again, when the author starts diving into ethics the science ends. The author's viewpoint tries to convince the reader to adopt some kind of ethics.

I would strongly recommend most of people to read this book, but not without some bases like other content like Daniel Kanhiman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" - https://www.audible.com/pd/Thinking-Fast-and-Slow-Audiobook/B005TKKCWC - and Nick Lane's "The Vital Question" - https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Vital-Question-Audiobook/B00YI0FGMA .

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Yet another instance of doctors self praise

Revisado: 06-26-19

It is funny this is the first book I got on Audible and took me so long to actually read it. What a disappointment. A more sincere title would be: medical doctors are amazing, they even use checklists sometimes.
The relevant information could fit on a pamphlet. The rest of the book it is a long and annoying toast on how medicine is complex and medical doctors are incredible. The author dabbles on praises to airplane pilots and even a small one to engineers, but at most it is a petty pat on the back to the medical mainly surgeons like the author himself.

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Overall: more than half good

Revisado: 06-13-19

This book hooked me at the beginning. It is a shorter book compared with some of the "scientific" books I read. Most of the time the author is right on point on how to discuss science: properly citing the references and discussing methodology and results. For the most part she only went on 2 larger digressions, but toward the end the things sink. The final chapters are not so big on references, and she switches gears to the self-help side of the things. The only more sterile discussion than the cliche "use this information to be a better person" is her insistence on semantics. This sterile, almost aesthetic, insistence advocating to deprecate the word "evil" is the lowest point.

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A MUST read: One of the Greatest

Revisado: 06-12-19

I should had read this book 10 years ago. The subject must be understood for everybody on this millennium. The historical recollection is also very good. The importance of the subject in physics, philosophy, economics, sociology is maybe boundless.

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