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Vital, urgent, sane, unexpectedly funny

Revisado: 04-28-24

Desperately needed corrective to all the forces making parents feel out of control, and making them cede their common sense to a metastasizing industry with a track record of failure and misery. Shrier minces no words, and there’s plenty of flat-out polemic here, but it’s what most of us need to shake us awake. She has a gift for metaphor and is continually surprising you with laugh-out-loud moments. Audio version is excellent.

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Thoughtful, timely, incisive

Revisado: 02-22-24

A generous and hopeful argument for a return to the highest tradition of American civil rights from one of the most remarkable young thinkers writing today. Highly recommended.

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A masterpiece on the creative process

Revisado: 06-30-23

Take it from a working artist with decades of experience: this guy knows his stuff. Countless vital lessons you have to learn and relearn over a creative life: they’re all here. Spiritual sustenance and practical advice. I will revisit this often, and but many copies for others. The audio version is an extra treat.

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Important, timely, chillingly persuasive

Revisado: 03-06-23

By the end of the book, it’s amazing how her extensive research and argument comes down to what so long was common sense, should be today, and will be again. Great and important read.

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Staggeringly beautiful stories, brilliantly read

Revisado: 09-29-22

I am not a reader given to hyperbole, but believe me that there is no praise high enough for this collection. Ryan is hands-down one of the finest living writers working in English. The Audible performance is a masterpiece in itself. Can’t recommend it strongly enough.

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Good compact introduction to Borg

Revisado: 04-29-22

Came to this through Diana Butler Bass’ recommendation and wasn’t disappointed. Engaging, provocative, and entirely listenable, as it was based on a series of lectures. Fine neutral narration too.

Borg stretches a bit on some points (suggesting logos and sophia are “functionally equivalent”), but overall it’s well worth a read/listen or two.

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Breathtakingly beautiful

Revisado: 04-26-22

Open, artful, insightful, life-giving meditations that deepen as they go and add up to far more than the sum of their parts. 5+ stars. I’m buying copies for friends and family.

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Valuable, but VERY heady

Revisado: 03-19-22

I’ve read many of Rohr’s books and listened to dozens of hours of his talks, and this series hits many of his most valuable themes, but even by his standards, it’s extremely heady and at times difficult to follow. The talk on grace is an exception—it’s excellent. If you’re looking for a better place to start, try his Great Themes of St. Paul, which is brilliant and grounded.

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A delight, and a must for spiritual seekers

Revisado: 02-10-22

This book is a gift. It’s like having a wise, generous, and endlessly insightful friend lead you through one of the greatest works of world literature--not just as literature, but as an incomparable guide for the spiritual path.

Vernon writes (and in the Audible version, narrates) beautifully, achieving an agile balance of summary, close reading, and context that brings the Divine Comedy alive canto by canto. Most importantly, he uncovers fresh psychological and spiritual insights in even the more obscure sections.

You'll come away staggered by the scale of Dante’s achievement, and invigorated by the timeliness and urgency of his vision as elucidated by Vernon. Brilliant work.

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Great effort, pales beside the real thing

Revisado: 05-15-18

The professors’ enthusiasm for and commitment to Nietzsche, his work, and his thinking is unmistakable. But having read quite a bit of Nietzsche himself, it was hard not to be disappointed...their earnest paraphrasing falls so far short of the original works—probably inevitably—I kept thinking, “I should just be rereading/listening to the real thing.” And that’s what I’d recommend to the Nietzsche-curious. Go straight to the source. What interpretation and context you need, you can get from the Introduction to any Walter Kaufmann edition/translation.

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