Eric Holloway

brilliant advice, deep insight, compelling narration

Revisado: 07-05-24

Peterson finds many deep lessons in familiar stories and experiences that explain the nature of existence and our attitude towards or away from existence. This is all best understood by considering the lobster.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

great big picture to details editing process

Revisado: 10-31-21

The biggest takeaway I got from the course is that there are multiple levels to editing, and it is important to start at the top first. When I edit, I usually start somewhere near the bottom, and it shows. The other interesting takeaway is that there is a known structure to what makes a story good. The book recommended is called "Save the Cat". Following this structure is a necessary, but not sufficient step to writing a good story.

I also learned the importance of hiring an outside editor to gain distance and professional quality line editing. Line editing gives it that final polish to make the manuscript publication material, but is also a step that requires a lot of expertise, and is at the very bottom of the editing hierarchy. Therefore, it is best done by a professional, while the higher levels are best done by myself.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

esto le resultó útil a 5 personas

great content, misinformation re: al andulus

Revisado: 09-19-21

great overview of pivotal thinkers of the medieval ages

gives a misconception regarding al andulus

it was only advanced because muslim invaders conquered and sacked the much more advanced greek roman empire, which is also why the muslims were the conduit for greek philosophical work. not because they were great cultural preservers, but because the culture was preserved despite the islamic dislike for culture

and the so called tolerance to the extent it existed was either strategic treaties the muslims broke whenever it was to their advantage or the second class dhimmitude status for non muslims

additionally, conservative jewish author klinghoffer states it is also a myth the jews were better treated under islamic rule than in chrisendom

otherwise, there were numerous great thinkers introduced that i didn't previously know about, such as hildegard and the mendicis and the caxton printshop

the professor also gave a good sense of historical place to all the thinkers and why they were so important for the historical course of culture, making the interesting point how much the middle age universities and culture were much like our modern culture

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

eye opening account of massive death camps

Revisado: 01-09-21

make no mistake, the gulags were death camps
the author is very clear the enormous human toll of the camps
15 to 20 million people lived in the camps at a time being worked to death
all sent to prison for disagreeing with the soviet state, or even for no reason at all
many many religious were sent because the USSR was declared atheist
the author accounts his own struggle, as a committed marxist, coming to terms with the reality of communism
the author puts the blame squarely on communism itself, not stalin nor lenin
the mass executions of over a million people and the even greater purges of untold millions were all part and parcel of eliminating the ownership of private property and religious institutions, directly derived from communist principles

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

esto le resultó útil a 16 personas