K Cornwinkle

Outstanding look at a good person but

Revisado: 12-19-24

Ultimately a bit short on policy, I.e., what would Governor Whitmer bring to a presidency, e.g. re health care, manufacturing, taxation, economy, foreign policy (maybe not). But a little more serious and in depth look at what she thinks should happen in her state and the country beyond the important lightning rod issues she describes well would be useful.

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Yes, it is ultimatrely a romance but...

Revisado: 02-05-24

I found ihe Major fascinating , admirable and enagaing.; a lovely archetypical Englishman. The book puts up the provincialism and racism of his village in a way that does not seem unjutifiably mean-pirited. Americans do not come off well...

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Bizarre & disturbing. Narration = compelling

Revisado: 01-09-24

You may know Michel Foucault and his biography -in particular, details about his proclivities. I did not. At first I thought that the section where what Foucault did, and what Jonboat Pellmore-Jason believes can be learned from it, was completely and shockingly invented. I had to look Foulcault up and read details of the thing he did (but did not invent). i used the Internet which does not exist in 2013 Bubblegum, In most other contexts– books movies, conversations, I don't know, dreams- I would have given up at that point. Call me squeamish and straightish. But the earnestness with which Triple J approaches this topic captured me. as did the many other sections of this disturbing book. Levin does Dickens proud: Belt Magnet. WTH? Belt Magnet!

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Fabulous picaresque -great writer, great reader

Revisado: 08-03-23

It very much feels as though Biggins had access to a real memoir from which to pull military, geographic and cultural minutiae from The Great War. Prohaska's inherent decency (contrasted sometimes with his necessary brutality as the commander of a submarine) is often stirring. The writing! I loved listening. He has many lovely casual metaphors: a man reminds him of "an unmade bed". It is long and there are many sudden changes of fortune, rescues etc, there was plenty of detail and though the characters were maybe only 2.5 dimensional, every one of them carried Otto forward,

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Too plausible

Revisado: 01-27-23

1. I like long reads. I think this is the longest audiobook I've experienced.
2. The multiple narrators give life to the text; hard for me to imagine an audio version with a single narrator that would be tolerable.
3. Watch Tim Dechristopher being interviewed by Bill Moyers. He went from civil disobedience regarding fossil fuels to an acknowledgement that climate change is not a problem that will be solved. He said that it is now important to help people live in the inevitable changed environment. Eco-t e r r o r seems exceedingly rare - also read about the ELF.
4. While I am writing this, my partner is listening to a live audio of legislators and interest group representatives speaking at a conservation voters forum, addressing our state's actions regarding aspects of climate change. Lots of optimism but in light of The Deluge, hearing someone say that "politicians need to be held accountable" made me just shake my head (and chuckle morbidly). I really don't know a better path forward but it is clear that our current "system" of capitalism and democracy-ish government won't do it.
5. I LIKE that there is an attempt to realistically include aspects of our society's changes with respect to race and gender. Calling it woke does nothing to characterize it one way or the other. Like Sarah Silverman said the other day in awe of a Newsmax reporter asking Biden if he is woke: “I think we’re just communicating wrong, because, like, what I know ‘woke’ to mean is, like, learning new things about people or the world, and then acting accordingly. Like, basic kindness. Maybe a gesture of care to people who are more vulnerable than you. You know what, actually you wouldn’t like it — it’s Jesus stuff.”
6. It is painful. A particularly scary component -wait, it's ALL scary, is the evolution (accelerating) of the surveillance state as AI is adopted for more and more things.

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Worst narration ever

Revisado: 03-21-22

It was impossible to listen. Emotionless. Oddly slurred speech. Bad pronunciation -starting with Moren county for Marin County. Even if one could tolerate this voice, it did not match the character in the book -well educated kid from one of the wealthiest suburbs in the country. TRY AGAIN.
Can't comment on the content. I'll get a print copy.

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Frightening

Revisado: 02-02-22

And prescient. And here are thirteen more words so that i can submit this review

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I loved the milieu

Revisado: 12-09-21

of the quaintish small town on Vancouver Island. The somwhat depressing back story in Minnesota is necessary to the story and I laughed when she works at the new agey bookstore.

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Lovely

Revisado: 10-19-21

And perfectly compact. I hope that art will imitate art and, uh, life and that this becomes a screenplay.
Gratias tibi

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Narration is quite good despite

Revisado: 05-04-21

Other reviewer's displeasure. It helped to run it at 1.4x. Yes, accents swerved sometimes but not enough to matter. Story is quite straightforward and actually, at this point, even with a bunch of conflict, this one felt like a bit of a breather.

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