Rolland Coleman

Just Hire a Professional Narrator

Reviewed: 05-11-24

It's hard to take a guy seriously about his success when he reads at a third-grafe level. Poor editing as well. I started to lose interest when he started talking down on atheism and when he started shouting about how he had all sorts of expensive gold watches and pulls up in a limo, I realized this dude is not nearly as stoic as he claims.

A real man wouldn't give two sh*ts if someone else thinks he's materialistic. This author not only cares what poor people think about him, he actually gets himself worked up to a shouting level when talking about it. He's got a lot of daddy issues which seems to be his motivation. He's not necessarily the "alpha male" he claims to be. He's just an angry man trying to show up his own dad. Sure that's powerful motivation, but that's not what being a man is about.

In general, this book is just senseless ramblings of a guy trying to convince people that he's a man. This is his way of validation seeking. Everything he learned came from Fight Club or Ayn Rand which is demonstrated by his ubiquitous use of quotes from these two sources.

I only listened as far as I did so I could leave a review. Do yourself a favor and just go get a job in construction if you want to learn to be a man.

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Excessive Exhibition

Reviewed: 04-22-24

The writing is very juvenile. I lost count of how many times the author told me how Conner was a badass because of his past. And that's exactly how he did it. Author seemed to forget the first rule of writing: show-not-tell.

And it was too easy. Half way down the road the kid suddenly has a back pack full of stuff he'll need for camping. Why? Oh, because Connor had once taught him that. Oh wait. That's the answer for every problem in the book!

The door is locked but the kid can pick it! How? I guess we'll just tell the reader it was Connor who showed him.

A good author maybe describes a scene where the protagonist is a boy in the IRA. He doesn't just go, "He learned to be tough because his uncles were IRA and he hung out with them." That's lazy writing. Especially the fifth and sixth time it's used.

I couldn't make it through the whole first book, let alone the series. Maybe spend less on cover art and take a writing class.

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Doesn't Provide

Reviewed: 04-10-24

This is one of those books where the author attempts to sell you on Dan Kennedy's Information Marketing scheme but never really does what it claims to do. It's more an advertisement for the authors classes and seminars where he promises to teach you how to make money doing _____ when the reality is that he makes his money teaching classes and seminars about how to make money.

I got irritated right away when Chapter 2 (which claims to explain the process) does nothing but give yet another example of how some broke fool made billions in 3 days. No process explained whatsoever.

He changes his claim as he goes on as well. He starts by saying it requires nothing but what you already have. And the. it moves to, "Okay he had a list of names". And then it moves on to "Okay there may be aittle time and money invested in getting the list of names."

Just silly. He is following the path of many evangelicals before him, getting rich by selling tickets to his events where he doesn't tell you that he gets rich by selling tickets to events.

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Wil Wheaton Goes Overboard!

Reviewed: 03-17-24

I had such a hard time trying to listen to this. Wil Wheaton just goes way too hard in the wrong places. Over-acting at its absolute worst. Seems like a good premise though and Scalzi is legit, so I'll probably get the Kindle version to read.

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it Just Okay

Reviewed: 09-06-23

What became clear is that Zen is a hard-core religion for Brad Warner, which is not something I feel Buddhism needs. It's either Dogen"s way, or you're wrong. "You must have a teacher! And don't forget to pay him."

Also, the music overlay was unnecessary and annoying. I don't want to have to fish my phone out of my tool bags to skip through some racket that takes away from the message.

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Great Listen

Reviewed: 09-19-22

There's a lot of information packed in here but presented in a way that makes it easy to digest.

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These Books Are Not For

Reviewed: 07-26-22

Pirog is amazing at wrapping a theme up in a cleverly crafted adventure. These are stories that you just can't put down. Unless you hate good writing.

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Meh

Reviewed: 07-06-22

I've been getting into this universe and this isn't my favorite of the books.

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Loved It

Reviewed: 06-30-22

Humor mixed with a great story line. I've listened to a couple of books by this duo and so far I haven't been let down. My favorite is the way he writes in present tense as if it's happening right at the time you're listening.

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Is this Peter Clines?

Reviewed: 03-12-22

I love all of his stuff but this was a total bummer. Narrator put me to sleep and the story did nothing to draw me in. Doubt I'll finish this.

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