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- The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone That Dominates and Divides Us
- Written by: Carole Hooven
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
Through riveting personal stories and the latest research, Harvard evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven shows how testosterone drives the behavior of the sexes apart and how understanding the science behind this hormone is empowering for all.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good, but felt lacking
- By Justin on 2022-07-09
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- The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone That Dominates and Divides Us
- Written by: Carole Hooven
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
Good, but felt lacking
Reviewed: 2022-07-09
I really wanted to listen to this book because of the interview the author did on Joe Rogan. However the best parts of the book were discussed better on the podcast interview than the book itself.
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Stolen Focus
- Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again
- Written by: Johann Hari
- Narrated by: Johann Hari
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 385
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 332
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 329
In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions—even abandoning his phone for three months—but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention—and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sleep Data, Sleep.
- By David Lakhan on 2022-02-14
- Stolen Focus
- Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again
- Written by: Johann Hari
- Narrated by: Johann Hari
Overall a great book
Reviewed: 2022-05-22
I really enjoy Johann's work, this book was great as expected.
The book was excellent as it ensured the reader knew what was established scientific consensus and what was not while exploring different topics.
The conclusion feels disconnected from the rest of the book as Johann goes on the longest tangent about climate change like the lack of general focus is why people aren't excited to move faster toward those goals.
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Red Rising
- Written by: Pierce Brown
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,752
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,282
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,281
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Greatest Narrative Experience
- By Joe Marshall on 2018-08-29
- Red Rising
- Written by: Pierce Brown
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
This free book will have me getting the next 5.
Reviewed: 2020-10-11
I wasn't really sure if this book was going to be that good in the beginning, there was a lot of background and character building going on. This was totally worth it. I had no idea what this book was about going into it, which made the plot twists so great.
If you are are a fan of future dystopia style novels I think you'll love this. This is the first book since Dune or Ready Player 1 that really drew me in.
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The Problem with Everything
- My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
- Written by: Meghan Daum
- Narrated by: Meghan Daum
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19
In this gripping new work, Meghan examines our country’s most intractable problems with clear-eyed honesty instead of exaggerated outrage. With passion, humor, and most importantly, nuance, she tries to make sense of the current landscape - from Donald Trump’s presidency to the #MeToo movement and beyond. In the process, she wades into the waters of identity politics and intersectionality, thinks deeply about the gender wage gap, and tests a theory about the divide between Gen Xers and millennials.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Half memoir, half critique of woke feminism
- By philip moss on 2021-01-04
- The Problem with Everything
- My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
- Written by: Meghan Daum
- Narrated by: Meghan Daum
Worth a listen
Reviewed: 2020-01-17
This book makes some good points but isn't to pushy with the ideals. I felt like it brought awareness to areas of society that maybe should be looked at through another lense while trying to keep our self grounded to stuff that has already stood the test of time.
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Antifragile
- Things That Gain from Disorder
- Written by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 418
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 355
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 347
In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem, and in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. For what Taleb calls the "antifragile" is actually beyond the robust, because it benefits from shocks, uncertainty, and stressors, just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension. The antifragile needs disorder in order to survive and flourish. Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Almost a 5
- By Marfew on 2019-04-03
- Antifragile
- Things That Gain from Disorder
- Written by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
Good, but I'm not sure if I am convinced.
Reviewed: 2019-09-24
I liked the book, but I am not sure how much of the authors views are data based and how much is just his hand wavey position on things. It all sounds good, but it very well could all be rhetoric. I think a little differently about certian topics now, but the book could have made much more of an impact.
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A Clockwork Orange
- Written by: Anthony Burgess
- Narrated by: Tom Hollander
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 106
A vicious 15-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic, a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. In Anthony Burgess' nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolute masterpiece
- By Chris Rasmussen on 2018-09-04
- A Clockwork Orange
- Written by: Anthony Burgess
- Narrated by: Tom Hollander
This book is wild.
Reviewed: 2018-12-30
I don't know what I expected when I started to listen to this book, but I was really impressed with how insane this story is. The narrator nails the voices in my opinion. Did a story of its day, it was ahead of its time, and for many of us today it still may be.
Listen to this because you want to listen to a story that is beyond the normal boundaries of conversation in your personal life. Allow this story to let you experience a way of life that you thought never existed though it likely did. Many other non fiction titles make me believe that this likely has roots in reality, though it may be a hard pill to swallow.
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Chasing the Scream
- The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
- Written by: Johann Hari
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 132
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Story5 out of 5 stars 120
It is now 100 years since drugs were first banned in the United States. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, 30,000-mile journey into the war on drugs. What he found is that more and more people all over the world have begun to recognize three startling truths: Drugs are not what we think they are. Addiction is not what we think it is. And the drug war has very different motives to the ones we have seen on our TV screens for so long.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Provides very good arguments
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-01-08
- Chasing the Scream
- The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
- Written by: Johann Hari
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Shining light on drug use and addiction.
Reviewed: 2018-12-20
Loved this book. It breaks done addiction and drug use while using research and some statistical data to back up the conclusions.
This book gave me a fresh look at drug addiction and how to deal with it.
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Armada
- A Novel
- Written by: Ernest Cline
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 993
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 890
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 885
Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. And too often, he catches himself wishing that some fantastic, impossible, world-altering event could arrive to whisk him off on a grand spacefaring adventure.
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2 out of 5 stars
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One Trick Pony
- By shalot on 2017-12-14
- Armada
- A Novel
- Written by: Ernest Cline
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Good, but I had higher expectations.
Reviewed: 2018-12-03
I'll be blunt. I wanted this to be as good as ready player one. It was still a decent book but if you're looking for another book like that, this just doesn't quite do it.
Still worth a listen though.
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Radical
- My Journey from Islamist Extremism to a Democratic Awakening
- Written by: Maajid Nawaz
- Narrated by: Maajid Nawaz
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story5 out of 5 stars 15
Born and raised in Essex, Maajid Nawaz was recruited into politicised Islam as a teenager. Abandoning his love of hip-hop music, graffiti and girls, he was recruited into Hizb ut-Tahrir (the Liberation Party), where he played a leading and international role in the shaping and dissemination of an aggressive anti-West narrative. While studying for his Arabic and law degree, he travelled around the UK and to Denmark and Pakistan, setting up new cells.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surreal.
- By Justin on 2018-10-08
- Radical
- My Journey from Islamist Extremism to a Democratic Awakening
- Written by: Maajid Nawaz
- Narrated by: Maajid Nawaz
Surreal.
Reviewed: 2018-10-08
I had been putting this book off cause I wasn't sure if it would be my thing. I was mistaken. This book is unreal. I couldn't stop until I finished after getting a few chapters in.
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Coming Apart
- The State of White America, 1960–2010
- Written by: Charles Murray
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12
In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An interesting book.
- By Justin on 2018-10-06
- Coming Apart
- The State of White America, 1960–2010
- Written by: Charles Murray
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
An interesting book.
Reviewed: 2018-10-06
I came away impressed with this book. Well formated arguments and enough statistics to back it. I really appreciated the normative statements that followed the data, I didn't get the feeling that any of the authors conclusions were over reaching.
The book definetly makes you re-evaluate your life a little and see if you've made some of the decisions found in the different social economic classes.
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