Jeff Berry
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The Sound Book
- The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
- By: Trevor Cox
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4 out of 5 stars 24
Trevor Cox is on a hunt for the sonic wonders of the world. A renowned expert who engineers classrooms and concert halls, Cox has made a career of eradicating bizarre and unwanted sounds. But after an epiphany in the London sewers, Cox now revels in exotic noises - creaking glaciers, whispering galleries, stalactite organs, musical roads, humming dunes, seals that sound like alien angels, and a Mayan pyramid that chirps like a bird.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Feels like a missed opportunity
- By Jeff Berry on 01-09-19
- The Sound Book
- The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
- By: Trevor Cox
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
Feels like a missed opportunity
Reviewed: 01-09-19
The content here is great - lots of interesting descriptions of aural phenomena. However, an audiobook feels like the perfect venue to actually include some of the field recordings the author describes. I want to hear the echo recording from the tower in Berlin or the sewers, or some of Chris Watson's Antarctic ice sounds, etc. I understand that to do so would increase the production cost, but it would really help this book out.
Unfortunately the narration on this one is pretty bad. The narrator uses the same prosodic inflection for every sentence, which is often distracting to the point of losing focus of what the reader is saying, and instead concentrating on the ridiculous way he reads it.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
- By: Daniel Kahneman
- Narrated by: Patrick Egan
- Length: 20 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19,745
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16,374
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16,219
The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life's work. It will change the way you think about thinking. Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Kahneman explains....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Difficult Listen, but Probably a Great Read
- By Mike Kircher on 01-12-12
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- By: Daniel Kahneman
- Narrated by: Patrick Egan
Good intro to cognitive biases
Reviewed: 01-06-15
This book has a ton of great information on cognitive biases written in an accessible and clear style. Kahneman isn't a Nobel prize winner and this work summarizes a lot of his clever research on behavior. The only downside to this book is that it has so much information, it starts to feel like reading a list about half way through. Also the text refers to a pdf file with figures that make listening in the car difficult to follow in some sections.
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