"majormike24"

Very thorough and entertaining

Revisado: 07-01-23

The book covers a large expanse of history of the land that is now considered Afghanistan. It evaluates the social, societal, and religious reasons for unity or disunity. And it looks to explain why the region is the way that we see it today.

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A Great Second Perspective

Revisado: 05-01-23

There are mixed reviews of people saying that this book isn't representative of Anthony Bourdain's voice, but I think that is a misguided review. The book isn't trying to be Tony, the book is from the perspective of his right hand man, Tom. You can tell that it was written with a lot of love, as well as sadness. It also provides some great insights into what happened on the shows behind the camera. I found myself binging this book and was sad when it came to an end.

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The Great Courses are Great

Revisado: 04-28-23

I've listened to a few of Bill's lecture series and this one is one of the most comprehensive set of lectures thus far. They do a great job at providing context and explanations around the people that Dante encounters during his journey. without this context, the poem would probably have lost my interest but knowing it opens up a ton of new meanings for the poem.

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Technical Text

Revisado: 04-19-23

This is a book for someone who has a good grasp on chemistry. If you are new to wine and don't have experience with organic chemistry, then you can easily get lost. For those with this background, it is a very well written book that does a great job at balancing between a peer reviewed journal and an accessible text.

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Great context on Machiavelli

Revisado: 04-13-23

The Great Courses does and excellent job at taking complex subjects and making them palatable in small sections.

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Good info, but a little pompous

Revisado: 04-02-23

I'll start by saying that Raj is a great taster and well respected in the industry on the somm and service side. My problem with this book is that it comes off pompous and Francophillic. If this was the only book that you listened to about wine, you'd think that France is the only country "worthy" of growing grapes. Yes, France has a long winemaking history, but that doesn't mean that their wines are superior.

With that being said, the profiles on the regions are well done, in depth, and do a good job at showing the reader the winemaking styles. The "watch out" here is that there is a lot of opinions that are not based in science. For example, they act like natural winemaking and organic farming is the only way to make terroir driven wines. This is untrue for many reasons and perpetuates the unscientific approach to wines. in addition, the soil associations to wine quality are completely unsubstantiated by science. It is more pomp and marketing from the luxury brands.

In summary, its a book that will get you thinking about wine. And the approach to tasting described in the early chapters is great. Just make sure that you don't use this as the gospel and do your own research to supplement their data.

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Equations make it hard

Revisado: 09-08-22

The narration was fun and the topic is interesting but it's hard to follow the math just over audio

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