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Not King's best work

Revisado: 11-02-22

The characters weren't engaging. Too much fantacy for me to suspend disbelief. The reading was slow. Speeding it up to 1.25 brought it to natural cadence, but I took it to 1.50 to slog through it faster.

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It's okay if you are into 19th century authors

Revisado: 10-11-22

I personally find the 19th century authors too naive, and heavy on the passive voice. I should have read more of the description before buying this book. I saw the 2006 release date, and assumed that was first publication. The narration was very stilted. The voice and cadence was nearly the same for young French girl in conversation or adult English man in a fist fight.

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Very educational

Revisado: 05-29-22

This was a great overview of current AI and Machine Learning in a very accessible and entertaining writing style. I learned a lot about ethical and safety issues in AI. Good information on human and machine learning theories, Excellent section on the pitfalls of aligning goals with outcomes in reinforcement learning.

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Action packed technothriller

Revisado: 05-13-22

This book was long on action, and short on plausibility. Not my cup of tea.

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a little slow to get into, but worth it.

Revisado: 11-07-19

it was a little slow to get into. In the beginning, the book didn't describe events that happened, but instead described conversations about events that happened after the fact. Later there was more description of events as they happened. It kept my interest, and I learned something about that period of history

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This book does not work in audio.

Revisado: 03-22-18

The recording quality was poor. It sounded like it was recorded in a very live room (echos), rather than a recording studio. That fact alone was very distracting. Much of this book was audio recitation of computer source code mainly in python, which is complete gibberish when delivered in audio format.

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good physics, too much anti-theology

Revisado: 07-02-17

The physics was pretty good, but large portions of the book were devoted to arguments for atheism and poetic naturalism. I have no problem with Carroll being atheist and mentioning that in the book, but much of the book was devoted to arguing against a creator.

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Interesting story but recipes got in the way

Revisado: 10-14-13

Would you consider the audio edition of Salt to be better than the print version?

The story was interesting. I learned a lot. It was interesting to see the political, economic, and environmental impact that this common household product, had on world history. The one negative about the audio version of this book is that the text is broken up with recipes relevant to the chapters. While a reader can easily glance over the recipe, and skip to the next section of prose, the audio listener doesn't have that luxury, and the recipes for sour kraut and soy sauce are not very useful in audio form.

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Interesting story but recipes got in the way

Revisado: 10-14-13

Would you consider the audio edition of Salt to be better than the print version?

The story was interesting. I learned a lot. It was interesting to see the political, economic, and environmental impact that this common household product, had on world history. The one negative about the audio version of this book is that the text is broken up with recipes relevant to the chapters. While a reader can easily glance over the recipe, and skip to the next section of prose, the audio listener doesn't have that luxury, and the recipes for sour kraut and soy sauce are not very useful in audio form.

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Not good for a casual listen while commuting.

Revisado: 07-10-11

I'm about half way through, but I have little idea of what is going on. It is very hard to follow. One criticism that I haven't seen in this list is that several of the characters are named either Anne or Thomas, and the author makes little effort to differentiate them in conversations. I was about half way through the first section, when for several minutes there was a description of how Anne, who I thought was Anne Boleyn, died. Since Anne Boleyn is integral to the rest of the story, I had to figure out which Anne the author was talking about.

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