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Mike Christensen

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Interesting

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

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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It’s a Sitcom ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

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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Excellent and Insightful

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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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Edutainment!

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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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An Intimate Story

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Reviewed: 05-13-22

A wonderful, intimate, true story about intergenerational trauma, closure, and forgiveness. Definitely worth your time.

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Powerful Memoir

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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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A Very Valuable Read

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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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Fun Adaptation, Dated Subject Matter

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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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Endings are Hard, But This Ending is Solid

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4 out of 5 stars

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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Skip It

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1 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

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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