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the old book plus new interesting chapters

Revisado: 12-16-24

This is an edition of the old book from 1978 plus a few, new interesting chapters full of info. The computer-generated voice does a good job.

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novel insight from an excellent scholar

Revisado: 08-31-24

dr. Litwa offers a number of online courses also. He offers novel insight into the subject matter. The delivery is no-frills, packed with details. The voice actor does a good job, too.

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good with a grain of salt

Revisado: 08-07-24

Most of what she says makes sense and I agree with her. However, she suggests to "discipline" (her word) one's love interest as one would a small child. I mean whatever floats her boat, but unless one (male or female) is incredibly (yes, incredibly!) valuable/attractive/endowed on the dating/relationship market, it is highly unlikely anyone would go through her laundry list of requirements, fair or otherwise...the woke/snowflake attitude of me, wonderful me would not be enough I fear. The computer-generated voice does a good job.

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beat gaslighters at their game

Revisado: 08-01-24

The computer-generated voice does a good job. I basically agree with her "down with tolerance, up with expectations" motto, yet -in the end- she is indistinguishable from the gaslighters, troublemakers, moochers etc she warns us to stay away from. Namely, she claims that when her own daughter calls her yet again with yet another emergency, she states what she wants in return for her assistance, and even requests the daughter to sign a contract! I mean whatever floats her boat, but unless one (male or female) is incredibly (yes, incredibly!) valuable/attractive/endowed on the dating/relationship market, it is highly unlikely anyone would go through her laundry list of requirements, fair or otherwise...the woke/snowflake attitude of me, wonderful me would not be enough I fear.

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interesting book but the narrator sucks

Revisado: 07-21-24

the book is interesting and worth the while, whereas the narrator just sucks: mispronounced words and kind of a stammering drawl.

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potential plagued by left-wing bias

Revisado: 06-25-24

I have all of Richo's books and they make interesting, worthy points at times.
This one book, however, intermixes equal parts of self-help with the usual left-wing manifesto.
For example, the footbal macho guy who is a closeted homosexual ought to discover his hidden self in the open...what if his hidden self requires to join the ALT-RIGHT or to take a tiki torch to protest the removal of a Confederate statue? The political messaging gets in the way...too much of the time: 1/5

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mostly stream-of-consciousness style drivel

Revisado: 06-21-24

I am a sort-of atheist myself and I doubt the historicity of characters like Jesus or Buddha or Zoroaster etc. The robotic virtual voice does a solid job and at times you forget it's a computer reading. The work consists in stream-of-consciousness, disjoined, Left-wing (duh!) drivel.

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course ok, her accent is god-awful

Revisado: 06-10-24

the course is rather interesting, yet her accent is god-awful. She whitewashes a few icons of the radical political Left as "existentialists".

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good but with a strong Left-wing bias

Revisado: 04-22-24

The book is good and interesting. There is, however, a predominant Left-wing bias at work. Be prepared to hear to your satisfaction how Russia is the cradle of all evil (EG Russian hackers drove Trump to success). How coherent...when the USSR groomed and abetted firebrands who stoked polarization in the old days, the Left called it the feminist revolution and the Civil Rights crusade: not fueling discontent but “righting wrongs”. Another bias at work is elitism. One panelist hails that California did not put the vaccine question to a referedum because voters are too, you know, stupid to decide...says who? Other panelists insist that people in general are too stupid or gullible and fall for a lie, so "scientists" ought to be in charge (the panelist sees oneself included I suppose). You'll need more than a grain of salt here.

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book is passable but plagued by left-wing bias

Revisado: 03-16-24

the book is passable but poisoned by left-wing bias and innuendo. "”Cato was an early populist-nationalist. He was a paleo-conservative even relative to the standards of the day— militaristic, misogynistic, and racist ”. Uh?! Of course, Berger here simply “telegraphs” the politically convenient rubbish some other woke somnambulist published elsewhere: academic cronyism. It is absurd to apply to people or events centuries or even millennia in the past the standards political opportunism dictates here this season. "”The actions of the conquistadors left as many as 70 million dead through a combination of intentional massacres, the effects of enslavement, and the introduction of deadly diseases ”. If only one figured that estimates for the Ottoman Empire's population in the year 1500 are at 15 million people.Of course, for many the only purpose of publishing any book on any arcane subject is to add political condiment that tickles the taste buds of the radical today. And many other examples I dispense with.

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