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Awful performance

Reviewed: 01-12-24

The product is totally ruined by the decision to produce this dialog as a sort of dramatized "theater". The philosopher is calm and nice to listen to, but the student is dramatized to the absurd and makes for a tiresome and downright unpleasant listen. The volume difference between the two is very noticeable and constant sound adjustment is required or you just suffer through the students tantrum to get back to the philosopher. If you have experienced a teenager in an emotional tantrum you get the idea.

This book and it´s companion "the Courage to Be Happy" have great content on Alfred Adler´s psychology or philosophy of life. It is structured like a discussion between a "philosopher" and a "young student". The conversations in themselves are interesting and give insight into Adler´s ideas, and I would like to listen again but just can´t bare to do so. I bought it on Kindle.

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Awful performance of an interesting book

Reviewed: 01-12-24

The product is totally ruined by the decision to produce this dialog as a sort of dramatized "theater". The philosopher is calm and nice to listen to, but the student is dramatized to the absurd and makes for a tiresome and downright unpleasant listen. The volume difference between the two is very noticeable and constant sound adjustment is required or you just suffer through the students tantrum to get back to the philosopher. If you have experienced a teenager in an emotional tantrum you get the idea.

This book and it´s companion "the Courage to Be Disliked" have great content on Alfred Adler´s psychology or philosophy of life. It is structured like a discussion between a "philosopher" and a "young student". The conversations in themselves are interesting and give insight into Adler´s ideas, and I would like to listen again but just can´t bare to do so. I bought it on Kindle.

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Technical and uninspirering

Reviewed: 12-31-23

The first chapter or so has some interesting information. However, the continuation is very clinically oriented, and there is a lot of info on possible medical issues, social conditioning etc. In addition the author uses a lot of acronyms making the understanding difficult if you are not familiar with them. I did not complete the book.

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Listen to the entire sample first!

Reviewed: 09-14-22

An entertaining book that presents research, anecdotes and speculations at the boundaries of current scientific paradigms.

However, beware that the narration is "special". The reader over emphasizes certain parts and tends to end sentences with a downward inflection/tone that for me feels unnatural and quite distracting.

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Does not work as an audio book

Reviewed: 04-22-22

The content is great and the narration is very good, but unfortunately I find this title does not really work as an audio book. Listening to the technical stuff is interesting but I found I would like to have it in writing to review and highlight. Furthermore, listening to recipes turns out to be rather boring.

There is a large pdf (364 pages) you can download with lots of recipes and some of the technical stuff. Obviously, it is not the entire book and things like the overview of "Stocking a wok-friendly pantry" with suggestions for different sauces and pastes is not included (you can review this with the "Look Inside" feature on Amazon). I would have liked that in the pdf.

I appreciate the effort of trying to make this into a good audio experience with a generous pdf to boot, but unfortunately it does not work for me and I gave up listening after a couple of hours and ended up returning it and buy the hard copy.

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