Justin Dillon

Superb. A master class in why and how to forgive.

Revisado: 03-17-24

This book was recommended to me by a priest friend. It is absolutely fantastic. If you’ve ever had to work on forgiving someone, whether for something small or something that you really believe is unforgivable, then this book is for you. It is practical, scientific, full of, common sense, and written in a plain, non-academic style that is very accessible. Just terrific.

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Brilliant book full of wisdom

Revisado: 10-23-23

This book was absolutely wonderful, and it was read incredibly well. It would make a perfect gift for a graduate of any age, or anyone interested in just trying to be the best person they can be. Mr. Ullman extracts so many life lessons from a brilliant career. Can’t recommend it highly enough!

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Fantastic and important

Revisado: 08-04-22

A remarkably clear and even sensitive exploration of gender ideology. Great read, and Walsh is a fun narrator.

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Fantastic and surprising

Revisado: 01-26-21

I’ve been a casual fan of Colin Jost and a long time fan of SNL. Like a lot of people, I assumed he was sort of a smug, rich Harvard kid. That, as it turns out, was completely wrong and unfair. He grew up blue collar on Staten Island and has worked his butt off at SNL. There is so much to love in this book – it’s so funny that I laughed until I cried several times, and it is really poignant when he talks about his family and especially his mother. It’s a wonderful break from the many things our world is going through these days, and I recommend it highly.

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Absolutely wonderful trip through the 80s

Revisado: 08-24-20

I will confess that I had never heard of Flint Dille, but I was struck by the blurb that said he wrote my childhood. Boy did he. This was a wonderful book, and the perfect August read. It took me entirely out of the crazy world of August 2020 and back to a simpler and more innocent time. The book is wonderful, smart, and self effacing, with a remarkable amount of good life advice he draws from his experiences. I was also struck by the almost total lack of profanity. I think there may be one bad word in there somewhere, but that’s it. He just seems like a genuinely good guy who’s not trying to show off by throwing around cursewords, which would’ve been so easy to do in a book like this. I am very grateful to him for taking the time to write this book and for making it such a delightful read.

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Fantastic. And a great pandemic read.

Revisado: 04-13-20

As we all struggle with how to handle the Coronavirus, I thought it might be useful to learn more about how the English handled something much worse—the Blitz. This book delivered. I had heard of Larson, of course, but never read him. I see now why people like him so much. The books moves like a novel and does a terrific job of focusing on a selection of main characters you want to know more and more about. The narration is terrific, too. Highly recommend.

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Buy this for your kids! (And you read it, too.)

Revisado: 11-29-19

What a wonderful book. Meghan Daum, a self-described liberal feminist and proud member of Gen X, provides a much needed antidote to the silliness that pervades much of the culture these days, in the guise of what she calls the “wokoscenti.” This book is full of common sense, and because it is written by someone on the political left, is bracing in a way that a conservative attack would not be. If you have a kid going off to college, buy them this book. Heck, you should probably buy it for a kid in high school, too, because the silliness indoctrination starts there, if not earlier. She also reads it wonderfully, with a wry voice that I found eminently bingeable. Just a great book.

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One of the greatest nonfiction books I have ever read

Revisado: 09-03-19

I had heard a lot about this book, and I doubted that it could be as good as people said it was. I was wrong. It is absolutely riveting. A thrilling detective story of greed, lies, and a journalist’s dogged pursuit of the truth, in the face of a company that is doing its best to intimidate him and anyone who is talking to him. It’s also a master class in ethics, from some of the people who stood up to this terrible company and told the truth despite extreme pressure. Highly recommend!

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Everyone with a social media account should read this book

Revisado: 07-30-19

This is an absolutely wonderful book that everyone, regardless of their political affiliations, should read. It will give you practical advice for how to interact with people with whom you disagree and treat them with respect, not contempt. I honestly wish that before getting a Facebook or Twitter account, people were required to say they’ve read this book. It would make our world a much better place.

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A genuinely important book

Revisado: 06-20-19

This book belongs on your shelf right alongside the latest one by Jonah Goldberg. It’s a stirring defense of western civilization and a very smart overview of how intellectuals, some good and some bad, got us where we are today. I didn’t know much about Ben Shapiro before reading this, besides knowing that he is a devil to the Left, and I was genuinely impressed by him.

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