Mike Christensen
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Blink
- The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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In his landmark best seller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant, in the blink of an eye, that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept?
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Interesting read with contradictory messages
- By Danny on 04-21-05
- Blink
- The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Interesting
Reviewed: 07-17-22
Interesting book. I don’t know that it really proves a point, so much as just tells a bunch of interesting (true) stories connected by themes, but there’s interesting stuff to think about. There’s also a weird amount of the book that focuses on the perspectives of cops, especially in situations where it does seem like we should hear some other perspectives as well.
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Heads Will Roll
- By: Kate McKinnon, Emily Lynne
- Narrated by: Kate McKinnon, Emily Lynne, Tim Gunn, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
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Heads Will Roll is an Audible Original from Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon and her cocreator/costar (and real-life sister) Emily Lynne. Produced by Broadway Video, this is not an audiobook - it’s a 10-episode, star-studded audio comedy that features performances from Meryl Streep, Tim Gunn, Peter Dinklage, Queer Eye’s Fab Five, and so many more. Please note: This content is not for kids.
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More like this please
- By Anon893 on 05-03-19
- Heads Will Roll
- By: Kate McKinnon, Emily Lynne
- Narrated by: Kate McKinnon, Emily Lynne, Tim Gunn, Meryl Streep, Peter Dinklage, full cast
It’s a Sitcom ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Reviewed: 06-18-22
It’s a lot like Hello From the Magic Tavern, but it’s scripted and the characters get a lot more done. That might be what you’re looking for, but to me it was only all right - sometimes really funny, others pretty cliche. Incredible cast and production, though.
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The Power of Habit
- Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
- By: Charles Duhigg
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. Distilling vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives that take us from the boardrooms of Procter & Gamble to the sidelines of the NFL to the front lines of the civil rights movement, Duhigg presents a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential.
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Nice! A guide on how to change
- By Mehra on 04-22-12
- The Power of Habit
- Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
- By: Charles Duhigg
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Excellent and Insightful
Reviewed: 05-14-22
An excellent book with a lot of insights, some stories that are inspiring or shocking or ridiculous or sickening, but all of which do so on purpose and communicate their desired effect - and all of them get you thinking about the role habits play in your life…
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Jukebox Joyride
- By: Jacob Stein, Jason Rabinowitz, The Pop Ups
- Narrated by: Jason Rabinowitz, Jacob Stein, Cara Samantha, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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Jukebox Joyride follows 12-year-old twins Jules and George on a wild adventure through time. Their Uncle Bob, a renowned ethnomusicologist (he studies music!), has discovered the secret to time travel and is having a ball joyriding through history checking out the best concerts ever...but something’s gone wrong! A sinister force has been unleashed, someone is chasing after Uncle Bob, and the fate of all music hangs in the balance! Now, it’s up to Jules and George to find their uncle before their new rival does!
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Fantastic for the whole family!
- By brooklynmama on 06-07-19
Edutainment!
Reviewed: 05-13-22
It’s so hard to do modern time travel stories, but this one is really cute and fun - and educational for young people!
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The Dead Drink First
- By: Dale Maharidge
- Narrated by: Dale Maharidge
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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Dale Maharidge’s father, like many World War II veterans, never talked about “the good war”. There was just one clue to his dad’s experience as a US Marine - a portrait with a close friend that hung permanently in their home. In The Dead Drink First, Dale, now a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, recounts his 18-year quest to find and repatriate the missing remains of his dad’s buddy, Herman Walter Mulligan, 73 years after he was killed in action.
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read it even if it's not your usual genre
- By Kindle Customer on 06-07-19
- The Dead Drink First
- By: Dale Maharidge
- Narrated by: Dale Maharidge
An Intimate Story
Reviewed: 05-13-22
A wonderful, intimate, true story about intergenerational trauma, closure, and forgiveness. Definitely worth your time.
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The Things They Carried
- By: Tim O'Brien
- Narrated by: Bryan Cranston
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.
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Heavy Load
- By Mel on 10-28-13
- The Things They Carried
- By: Tim O'Brien
- Narrated by: Bryan Cranston
Powerful Memoir
Reviewed: 05-13-22
I bounced off this once because the opening chapter seemed to be a simple list - it wasn’t until I came back to it that I realized the author was one of the soldiers. Definitely worth a read, it’s a powerful memoir.
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Start with Why
- How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- By: Simon Sinek
- Narrated by: Simon Sinek
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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The inspirational best seller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our why. Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time - with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the why of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, and these ideas remain as relevant and timely as ever.
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Useless Dribble
- By Chimdi Azubuike on 03-10-18
- Start with Why
- How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- By: Simon Sinek
- Narrated by: Simon Sinek
A Very Valuable Read
Reviewed: 05-09-22
This is a really good book, and excellent at evaluating how a clear vision makes a successful business. Temped to dock one star because of how completely uncritical the author is toward some businessmen with some pretty huge flaws (Henry Ford is probably the biggest, at least as far as I’m aware), but I understand that that’s inevitable in a book like this.
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Around the World in 80 Days
- By: Jules Verne, Anna Lea - adaptation
- Narrated by: Toby Jones, George Blagden, Don Gilet, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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One of the most celebrated tales of all time, Around the World in 80 Days is part high-octane thriller, part fascinating fantasy travelogue. Pragmatic gambler Phileas Fogg has made a gentlemanly wager to the members of his exclusive club: that he can circle the world in just 80 days, right down to the minute. Fetching his newly appointed French valet, Fogg embarks on a fabulous journey across land and sea - by steamer, rail, and elephant - to win the bet of a lifetime.
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Good Dramatization but Abridged Version of Story
- By Dennis & Veronica on 09-18-20
- Around the World in 80 Days
- By: Jules Verne, Anna Lea - adaptation
- Narrated by: Toby Jones, George Blagden, Don Gilet, Vineeta Rishi
Fun Adaptation, Dated Subject Matter
Reviewed: 05-06-22
This book got off to a very promising start - I had no idea that the whole affair kicked off because of a bet. I thought that was neat, since it was about the biggest possible “um actually” and I hoped he would learn a lesson. But I was wrong - his pride wasn’t a flaw he had to overcome, it was a justification for the whole affair and we’re meant to, at least on some level, understand it.
I knew there would be some stereotyping but for some reason I wasn’t expecting as much colonialism - but I should’ve guessed it, since he passes through India during the British rule, and he’s British, so there’s a lot that’s just totally taken for granted as “good.”
It’s BS that the woman he “saves” from India marries him, and not Jean. Yes, he learns money isn’t everything I guess, but she can do so much better than him.
Also, there’s no hot air balloon? Bogus.
Anyway, it’s fine.
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Dragons of Spring Dawning
- Dragonlance: Chronicles, Book 3
- By: Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
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The war against the dragon minions of Queen Takhisis rages on. Armed with the mysterious, magical dragon orbs and the shining, silver dragonlance, the companions bring hope to the world. But now, in the dawn of a new day, the dark secrets that have long shadowed the hearts of the friends come to the light. Betrayal, treachery, frailty, and weakness will nearly destroy all that they have accomplished. The greatest battle they have left to fight is within each of them. Yet, in the end, they will be heroes.
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Still Good, but narration got weaker
- By Tianaran on 11-15-13
- Dragons of Spring Dawning
- Dragonlance: Chronicles, Book 3
- By: Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Endings are Hard, But This Ending is Solid
Reviewed: 05-03-22
Endings are hard, and this one certainly gets off to a rocky start (it has to pick up on the many plot threads from the second book). And while it has a few too many characters and a few too many storylines to successfully balance, it does a really good job of threading them together and paying the stories off.
One of the things I enjoy most - aside from the end of Raistlin’s story, which I basically knew going in but still enjoyed - was the fact that Tanis is decidedly a flawed hero in this book. He made a major decision at the end of the last book, and nobody lets him off the hook, including himself. This makes his story really refreshing - I did like Tanis a lot in the other books too, but here he is really beating himself up for his mistake, and it’s very compelling.
This has a lot of Return of the Jedi vibes (shaky beginning, solid but slightly uneven ending), but with a story that better sets up future installments (unlike RotJ, where the story was over and the sequels had to do a lot of work to wind the clock back and justify making more movies).
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The ONE Thing
- The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
- By: Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
- Narrated by: Timothy Miller, Claire Hamilton
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
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This is an audiobook for busy people. If you want less on your plate and more for your life and career, tune in to the #1 Wall Street Journal best seller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. The ONE Thing will bring your life and your work into focus. Authors Gary Keller and Jay Papasan teach you the tricks to cut through the clutter, achieve better results in less time, dial down stress, and master what matters to you.
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Really Helpful Book!
- By Marisela Gutierrez on 04-01-17
- The ONE Thing
- The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
- By: Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
- Narrated by: Timothy Miller, Claire Hamilton
Skip It
Reviewed: 03-15-22
Boy, this guy really, really likes famous billionaires. But I suppose there’s a lot we can learn from the lives of Bill Gates, J. K. Rowling, and, um… the fictional Ebenezer Scrooge.
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