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Truth
- A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t
- Auteur(s): Tom Phillips
- Narrateur(s): Tom Phillips
- Durée: 6 h et 43 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 16
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 16
We live in a “post-truth” world, we’re told. But was there ever really a golden age of truth-telling? Or have people been lying, fibbing, and just plain bullsh*tting since the beginning of time? Tom Phillips, editor of a leading independent fact-checking organization, deals with this question every day. In Truth, he tells the story of how we humans have spent history lying to each other - and ourselves - about everything from business to politics to plain old geography.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book, TERRIBLE audio editing
- Écrit par Hannah le 2024-09-03
- Truth
- A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t
- Auteur(s): Tom Phillips
- Narrateur(s): Tom Phillips
Great book, TERRIBLE audio editing
Évalué le: 2024-09-03
I’m still on chapter one and I’m really struggling. I love the author. I love the book. The CONTENT is amazing. The AUDIO editing is absolutely horrible.
Do NOT listen if you have even mild misophonia. The lip smacking and audible swallow is horrible and detracts from the actual content.
I’m deeply disappointed and will have to reorder the book as a paperback to get through it.
I very sincerely hope the author makes the decision to re-record at some point. It’s actually physically painful to listen to. :(
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The Pattern Seekers
- How Autism Drives Human Invention
- Auteur(s): Simon Baron-Cohen
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Cowley
- Durée: 5 h et 42 min
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Au global3.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 15
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 12
Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire. Indeed, Baron-Cohen argues that autistic people have played a key role in human progress for 70,000 years, from the first tools to the digital revolution. How? Because the same genes that cause autism enable the pattern seeking that is essential to our species' inventiveness.
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1 out of 5 stars
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DNF- Do not recommend!!
- Écrit par Hannah le 2024-01-18
- The Pattern Seekers
- How Autism Drives Human Invention
- Auteur(s): Simon Baron-Cohen
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Cowley
DNF- Do not recommend!!
Évalué le: 2024-01-18
I got this book on a recommendation because I particularly enjoy the narrator, especially when my own neurodivergent brain needs to quiet down. However, the authors take on human innovation lost me and I checked out in chapter 5 when he claimed Homo sapiens were the only hominid innovators.
Cohen seems to pick and choose his historical facts to suit his hypothesis, rather than adjusting his hypothesis to historical facts. The point where he fully lost me was in discussing Neanderthals, claiming stone tools don’t count as innovation. He seemed to have conveniently excluded the fact that they also fashioned clothing for themselves, softening animal hides through a variety of means and fashioning bone needles to stitch them together.
This level of deliberate fact exclusion will turn off most of the “pattern seekers” he seems to be attempting to describe.
Furthermore, his repeated statement that an autism diagnosis is only useful if the autistic person needs functional support is … horrible? Wrong? Ableist? All of the above? It was that exact idea that prevented so many “functional” autistics from getting a diagnosis until adulthood, leading to wretched childhoods.
If I could give negative stars, I would.
Deeply disappointing.
Do not recommend.
The hypothesis is interesting. The writing, fact exclusion, and ableism is HORRIBLE!!!
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Dragonslayer
- Convergence, Book 2
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
- Durée: 17 h et 40 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 68
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 68
The enemy unknowingly opened a portal to the Netherworld, and our world’s only wizard somehow managed to close it. Unfortunately, something got through. Something big. A dragon. Now Kaz Wolfe, with help from his dog Duke who is channeling the spirit of a wizard from ancient Babylon, and with no help from Azib the Cowardly Genie, must find the dragon before someone gets a cellphone video of the thing, and the world learns that magic is real. Or, you know, before the dragon eats someone.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too much filler
- Écrit par A M T le 2024-10-12
- Dragonslayer
- Convergence, Book 2
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
Amazing story
Évalué le: 2023-09-05
I absolutely love this series.
I do have one small complaint about the apparent forgetfulness of the characters. Some conversations in this book happened verbatim in the last one.
I can’t wait to start the 3rd book though!
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Convergence
- Convergence, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
- Durée: 16 h et 56 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 350
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 350
My name is Kazimir Wolfe. People call me "Kaz", except they don’t. I never use my real name; it’s too dangerous, for me and for anyone I meet. I’m on the run from the law, who think I killed my aunt, and from whoever did kill her, because they want to finish the job. So, I move around a lot, working construction or whatever job I can find. It’s a lonely life. I don’t let anyone get close...people who get close to me end up dead. Why? I’m a wizard. The world’s only wizard, as far as I know.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I wanted to like this book.
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2022-09-24
- Convergence
- Convergence, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
Actually laughed out loud!!
Évalué le: 2023-09-03
This is just about the perfect nerd book! Laugh out loud references to nearly every fandom
I found the narrator a little monotone. I got used to it as it sort of worked for the story. It definitely worked for the first person POV of Kaz. But a little more variety in intonation for other characters would have been great.
Such a great story! Bought the second in the series before I even finished this one and have preordered the 3rd!
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House of Earth and Blood
- Crescent City, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Sarah J. Maas
- Narrateur(s): Elizabeth Evans
- Durée: 27 h et 50 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 1 971
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1 712
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 1 714
Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working hard all day and partying all night - until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. She'll do whatever it takes to avenge their deaths. Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. His brutal skills and incredible strength have been set to one purpose - to assassinate his boss' enemies, no questions asked.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tought start, worth pushing through
- Écrit par Red le 2020-04-05
- House of Earth and Blood
- Crescent City, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Sarah J. Maas
- Narrateur(s): Elizabeth Evans
Incredible
Évalué le: 2023-07-03
This was the first book by Sarah J Maas I’ve ever read/listened to. I thoroughly enjoyed it!! Towards the latter half of the book, I got shivers from how intense the emotion and action was. I am immediately starting the next in the series.
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Here and Now and Then
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Mike Chen
- Narrateur(s): Cary Hite
- Durée: 9 h et 54 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 15
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 15
Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career...as a time-traveling secret agent from 2142. Stranded in suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone around him, despite the increasing blackouts and memory loss affecting his time-traveler’s brain. Until one afternoon, his “rescue” team arrives - 18 years too late.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story
- Écrit par Hannah le 2023-06-18
- Here and Now and Then
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Mike Chen
- Narrateur(s): Cary Hite
Amazing story
Évalué le: 2023-06-18
The story was so good!! The poignancy of the father daughter relationship transcending time was just incredible.
The narrator’s attempts at an accent were a little jarring, though he was otherwise ok. It would have been better if he hadn’t tried the accent.
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Rogue Darkness
- Immortal Guardians, Book 12
- Auteur(s): Dianne Duvall
- Narrateur(s): Kirsten Potter
- Durée: 12 h
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars 7
A gifted one under the Immortal Guardians' protection, Nicole has worked hard to land her dream job—that of an Immortal Guardian's Second or mortal guard—and loves working with Sean. He's smart. He's funny. And despite the sometimes dark existence he leads, the two of them laugh a lot. Years spent as a special ops soldier prepared Nicole well, enabling her to keep Sean safe despite his tendency to dive headlong into danger. But can it keep her safe? The enemy they face is determined and shrewd. Uncovering his identity may require new methods of engagement and force her to take a few risks.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I am in love with this entire series
- Écrit par Scott Schroter le 2023-06-22
- Rogue Darkness
- Immortal Guardians, Book 12
- Auteur(s): Dianne Duvall
- Narrateur(s): Kirsten Potter
So great!!
Évalué le: 2023-06-14
There is SO MUCH in this book to love!! The friends to lovers romance hit me right in the heart. It was so fun to read.
The subplot that I don’t want to spoil that hints at the potential for another book has me biting my nails waiting for it to come.
The final moments in the last chapter made me squeal with delight.
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