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Farewell Summer
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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October 1st, the end of summer. The air is still warm, but fall is in the air. Thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding, his younger brother Tom, and their friends do their best to take advantage of these last warm days, rampaging through the ravine, tormenting the girls...and declaring war on the old men who run Green Town, IL. For the boys know that Colonel Quartermain and his cohorts want nothing more than to force them to put away their wild ways, to settle down, to grow up. If only, the boys believe, they could stop the clock atop the courthouse building.
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Just weird and not in a good way.
- By Sharon on 04-22-21
- Farewell Summer
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
The third, final, Green Town story
Reviewed: 09-21-24
In the afterword, Ray Bradbury describes how he always saved the title, Farewell Summer, for his final return to Green Town - the imaginarily enriched version of his boyhood in Illinois- and old age.
The two preceding novels - Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes - are among my favorite books for mixing mystery, memory and a bit of poetry and philosophical allegory on childhood. The storytelling is magical and (even of sometimes a bit heavy handed in their symbolism), moving.
For me, the style of Dandelion Wine was slightly strange at first, like a puzzle of its own. I needed to find the rhythm of Bradbury’s prose, before truly losing myself in it. The key, for me, was drifting into a seamless mix of boys’ imagination, considerations and feelings, blended with the possibility of magic, and life remembered from a small town in the early 20th century. While Bradbury is most famous for his science fiction, these sorts of stories are my favorites.
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The Experience Machine
- How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
- By: Andy Clark
- Narrated by: Andy Clark
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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For as long as we’ve studied human cognition, we’ve believed that our senses give us direct access to the world. What we see is what’s really there—or so the thinking goes. But new discoveries in neuroscience and psychology have turned this assumption on its head. What if rather than perceiving reality passively, your mind actively predicts it?
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About halfway through, it became propaganda
- By Jesse Helton on 08-13-23
- The Experience Machine
- How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
- By: Andy Clark
- Narrated by: Andy Clark
Maybe the most important current theory of human cognition accessibly explained
Reviewed: 08-05-24
Andy Clark is one of the most recognized and important faces in cognitive science. The theories of the predictive and extended mind have proven extremely successful at explaining everything from placebo effects and magic tricks, over stupid everyday mistakes, to how conditions like ADHD and addictive behavior work.
The book does an excellent job of explaining everyday (as well as more extreme) psychological phenomena, by interpreting the basic architecture of the human brain, senses and body as fundamentally a prediction machine.
Accessible and interesting. Well worth a listen.
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How to Deal with Stupid People
- A No-Nonsense Guide to Handling Idiots
- By: Kevin Carillo
- Narrated by: Luther Lampert
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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Here’s handbook you never knew you needed but can't live without. In a world where common sense seems as rare as a unicorn sighting, this book is your survival guide. It's packed with witty insights, practical strategies, and a healthy dose of humor to help you navigate the sometimes absurd world of human interactions. Ever found yourself banging your head against the wall after talking to a conspiracy theorist or a stubborn relative? Or maybe you've been at a loss for words dealing with a know-it-all colleague?
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Like random notes on a napkin
- By Lieberoth on 05-19-24
- How to Deal with Stupid People
- A No-Nonsense Guide to Handling Idiots
- By: Kevin Carillo
- Narrated by: Luther Lampert
Like random notes on a napkin
Reviewed: 05-19-24
By “No nonsense” guide, the publisher may have meant, that the book wastes no time on providing arguments or support for the advice contained within.
While some of the thoughts are fairly common sense, most of the chapters reads like random notes jutted down on a napkin, by someone who argues too much on the internet.
The text is interspersed with folksy analogies, often involving coercing cats; a style that gets tired and repetitive very quickly.
The narration is not horrible.
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Bad Advice
- How to Survive and Thrive in an Age of Bullshit
- By: Dr. Venus Nicolino
- Narrated by: Dr. Venus Nicolino
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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In Bad Advice, relationship expert Dr. Venus Nicolino - aka Dr. V - takes a blowtorch to the shrink-wrapped “feel good” BS that passes for self-help these days. Smart and irreverent, Dr. V fuses the brains and insight of a nerdy PhD with the heart of a doting Italian mother and the artful profanity of a Philly trucker. Dr. V’s signature combination of humor, hard science, and heart make Bad Advice an iconoclastic course correction like no other. Bad Advice is a fiercely sharp wake-up call that tackles some of self-help’s most damaging truisms.
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Not my cup of tea.
- By ocean22 on 05-18-19
- Bad Advice
- How to Survive and Thrive in an Age of Bullshit
- By: Dr. Venus Nicolino
- Narrated by: Dr. Venus Nicolino
Just another self-help book
Reviewed: 03-21-19
I was hoping for a book on the self-help genre. Turns out that this is just another one, based on the premise that others are wrong, and that common tropes like “be yourself” are stupid - with more swearing.
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Flat Earth News
- By: Nick Davies
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
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When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided to break Fleet Street's unwritten rule by investigating his own colleagues, he found that the business of reporting the truth had been slowly subverted by the mass production of ignorance.
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A scathing critique of the news media
- By Csaba Turkosi on 04-10-16
- Flat Earth News
- By: Nick Davies
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Two books in one - half only about UK newspapers
Reviewed: 11-12-15
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
I recommend this book to anyone interested in the inner workings of the press, and sound explanations for the increasing amount of "churnalism" over originally researched and fact-tested stories. The book divulges very interesting mechanisms behind the sway of PR-people over the media, the economy of fast and readable headlines, and unscrupulous wartime coverage in favor of Irak 1 and 2 despite the press having solid sources saying that Hussein had no WMDs.
Any additional comments?
Unfortunately, that is only half the book. The other half concerns frontal attacks on particular British Fleet Street Newspapers. The author has his own bones to pick combined with solid resarch based on personal experience and many professional contacts. This sometimes feels a bit personal, but the big problem is that those parts are largely irrelevant to readers outside the UK, even if meticulously researched and easy to read. In conclusion, this could have been a five-star listen for me if an "international edition" of maybe 9 hours was available,. If you aren't in Britain, you might get bored with Fleet Street name games.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: By Stephen Covey -- Summary
- By: Save Time Summaries
- Narrated by: John Steele
- Length: 31 mins
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WARNING: This is not the actual book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. Do not buy this book summary and review if you are looking for a full copy of this insightful and impactful book, which can be found back on the Amazon search page.
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A great reminder
- By Sheila on 05-17-24
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: By Stephen Covey -- Summary
- By: Save Time Summaries
- Narrated by: John Steele
Need a rundown of "7 habits"? Read a website.
Reviewed: 07-10-14
What would have made The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: By Stephen Covey -- Summary better?
Several of the "chapters" in this summary are just marketing for other products. More real content would be needed to take this anywhere beyond 1 or 2 stars. Apart from that, it simply confirms my worst impressions of the self-help genre.
What could Save Time Summaries have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
This review is exceptionally shallow. It does not present any arguments from the book (which I assume are there) - almost only reads the chapter headlines and sales pitches aloud.
Did John Steele do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?
There are no characters. The question does not apply.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: By Stephen Covey -- Summary?
Again, no scenes. The review is so short, that I would have cut nothing. Additional material was needed for me to get much out of this.
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The Design of Future Things
- By: Donald A. Norman
- Narrated by: Bill Quinn
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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In The Design of Future Things, best-selling author Donald A. Norman presents a revealing examination of smart technology, from smooth-talking GPS units to cantankerous refrigerators. Exploring the links between design and human psychology, he offers a consumer-oriented theory of natural human-machine interaction that can be put into practice by the engineers and industrial designers of tomorrows thinking machines.
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The design of future cars - a view from 2007
- By Lieberoth on 01-17-14
- The Design of Future Things
- By: Donald A. Norman
- Narrated by: Bill Quinn
The design of future cars - a view from 2007
Reviewed: 01-17-14
If you could sum up The Design of Future Things in three words, what would they be?
Don Norman is one of the foremost minds in the psychology of things, and how we interact with them. Always a pleasure to hear his thoughts, although already a bit dated.
What did you like best about this story?
The book is on one hand a good view of design psychology in a time where machines are becoming more and more smart and automated, and interaction more a question of them communicating with us in the right way (and second guessing us gently rather than forcefully) than us understanding their workings fully.
Any additional comments?
Sadly, a lot of the book is about cars and "smart homes", and it was written before the true advent of cloud computing and the smart phone. It's absolutely worth a listen, even if it's a view from the recent past, which is fascinating in itself.
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