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Thomas

I struggled in the sixties to get a college education, barely graduated, spent a life in the phone company as a technician in a call center.

Chicago, IL, United States | Member Since 2004

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  • His Brain, Her Brain: How Divinely Designed Differences Can Strengthen Your Marriage

    • UNABRIDGED (6 hrs)
    • By Walt Larimore, MD
    • Narrated By Max Bloomquist, Ruth Bloomquist
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (22)
    Performance
    (9)
    Story
    (9)

    Men and women really are different - even their brains are different - and they were divinely designed that way. Using the latest research, Dr. Walt and Barb Larimore show how the God-designed differences between the male brain and the female brain complement each other to help couples build a delightful, lasting marriage.

    Thomas says: "True and enlightening"
    "True and enlightening"
    Overall

    This book is accurate and true, and very helpful in understanding men and women and how their differences make them unique and precious. I also found that it described differences in the two current political parties, whose character resembles the differences between the way men and women think. Let's all read this book, and learn how to understand and get along with each other.

    4 of 4 people found this review helpful
  • Reading Skills

    • ABRIDGED (54 mins)
    • By Jeanne Godfrey
    • Narrated By Adjoa Andoh
    Overall
    (2)
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    Make the most of all the reading you do at university by listening to this audiobook. Unpicking the myths surrounding this core skill, Reading Skills helps you decide what to read, how to read it and, crucially, what your lecturers expect of you.

    Thomas says: "Good short (abridged) book."
    "Good short (abridged) book."
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    Would you listen to Reading Skills again? Why?

    Yes. It was very helpful for me as an Audible listener. It shows some things that sometimes slip our minds when we exposed to a barrage of opinions every day in the newspaper we have chosen from Audible, such as the opinions of the Wall Street Journal or New York Times. The author says to remember who they work for as we begin to read their material, which is sooo true.


    What did you like best about this story?

    Although in the format of a college great course book, it was short enough (one hour) that I didn't lose attention and abandon it. I have a short attention span when it comes to college courses and college lectures.


    Any additional comments?

    Audible should give this book for free as a customer perk, because it is very helpful in selecting the books one will buy and listen to in the future. Customers can come back to this book over and over again, for guidance and inspiration in their reading explorations.

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • Winter of the World: The Century Trilogy, Book 2

    • UNABRIDGED (31 hrs and 48 mins)
    • By Ken Follett
    • Narrated By John Lee
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (5360)
    Performance
    (4535)
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    Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English, Welsh - enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion.

    Tim says: "Brilliant Sequel"
    "Reading this book made me a better person."
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    If you could sum up Winter of the World in three words, what would they be?

    World War II


    Any additional comments?

    Before you ever make a comment on a blog or facebook again, about politics, about the USA, about its history of military actions around the world, please, read this book. It will change your mind for the better, and help you understand the USA so much better. Promise.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living your Dreams

    • UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 58 mins)
    • By Mike Dooley
    • Narrated By Mike Dooley
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (199)
    Performance
    (98)
    Story
    (100)

    Manifesting our dreams isn't about hard work -- it's about belief, expectation and, above all, knowing the truth about our place in the universe. Mike Dooley's manifesto, Infinite Possibilities, affirms that in our world of illusions there is no finite allotment of whatever your heart desires, especially not happiness, and that experiencing more love and new possibilities is limited only by the scope of our ability to imagine and act upon each.

    C says: "Surprisingly intelligent"
    "The Author is Mentally Ill, Spreading His Illness"
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    Any additional comments?

    The things that he says are not healthy for human beings to believe. The author is living in a fantasy world.

    3 of 13 people found this review helpful
  • The Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 58 mins)
    • By Armand M. Nicholi
    • Narrated By Robert Whitfield
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (51)
    Performance
    (29)
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    Renowned psychiatrist and educator Armand Nicholi here presents a fascinating comparison of the beliefs of Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis. In the 20th century, no spokesman was more prominent for nonbelief than Sigmund Freud, and no one argued for belief more successfully than C. S. Lewis. From pain and suffering to love and sex, from God to morality, Lewis and Freud carefully argued opposing positions and even considered the chief objections to their positions.

    Glenda says: "Excellent rivals!"
    "Prejudice of the author masks his errors."
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    Any additional comments?

    The author starts by saying he is comparing C.S.Lewis with Sigmund Freud. He quotes Freud's letters and finds all of his human faults, and says that proves Freud was wrong about his views of God. I have read Freud's books, not his letters, and find his books inspiring of further study in psychology and very descriptive of the processes of the mind and thought, which it was Freud's intent to do. I thought this author's descriptions of Freud extremely irrational and prejudiced. I would not buy or read this book, but, instead, buy and read Freud's books about psychoanalysis and other things, following your curiousity thru all of Freud's books. They are awesome. This author of "The Question of God" is not.

    2 of 11 people found this review helpful
  • BBC Newshour

    • NONE (59 mins)
    • By Owen Bennett-Jones, Claire Bolderson, Alex Brodie, and others
    Overall
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    What program can listeners depend on to cover everything from the growth of democracy to the threat of terrorism, from invasions and cataclysmic natural disasters to inspiring humanitarian triumphs? Newshour, the BBC's flagship news program that specializes in bringing listeners not only the facts but also the in-depth analysis and commentary behind the headlines.

    Thomas says: "BBC spins truth about owner killing of his miners."
    "BBC spins truth about owner killing of his miners."
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    What disappointed you about BBC Newshour?

    Clearly, the police began murdering striking platinum miners in South Africa, without provocation, and were in the wrong. Clearly, they were ordered to do this by the UK CEO. Clearly USA car makers in Detroit who need the platinum for pollution control devices currently used on all vehicles pressured him into the murders. Yet, the BBC Newshour reported none of this. From the BBC report, which is a mess of confusing statements, the real cause was workers demanding safer working conditions or double their wages. Now the BBC has joined industry in the murder of workers, and I will never listen to its news report again in the same way.


    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • The World

    • NONE (1 hr)
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    Thomas says: "PRI The World distorted truth about USA"
    "PRI The World distorted truth about USA"
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    What disappointed you about The World?

    Yesterday, Aug. 20, 2012, The World reported on the slaughter of South African platinum miners protesting their unsafe working conditions and low wages. The slaughter was caused by a UK accountant in charge of the Lonmin Mining Company, and motivated by the pressure of USA and Japanese auto makers for platinum to be cheap so they can use it for devices of vehicles that cut emissions of poisonous materials from their exhaust as they move. The World reported only that the miners fired on police first, which clearly wasn't true, from viewing the pictures and video clips. I will never forgive the World and the USA for this great evil. Let the world's people never forget it.


    What was most disappointing about the author’s story?

    The USA is doing many grave evils in the world today, as in its past, and if our news media never reports the truth and the true causes of this behavior, it will never end. Human civilization cannot continue on this planet in such a state of suffering. The news media is responsible.


    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The New York Times Audio Digest

    • NONE (51 mins)
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    Townsend says: "Nominee for worst performance by a narrator"
    "Today the NYT revealed its bad character."
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    Any additional comments?

    Today the NYT presented the apparent winner of the election July 1, 2012, of the election for President in Mexico, Enrique Pina-Nieto, as a PRI autocrat who would bring dictatorship to the Mexican people. On the contrary, he is not a dictator. He campaigned promising to refocus the work of the government from slaving to the desires of the USA, which is buying street drugs thru Mexico, and, at the very same time, selling the weapons it makes to bad Mexican people who do this and to the government leaders in the Mexico who fight violently with them, and electing leaders in the USA who support the whole process, such as by making street drugs people criminals. The USA continues to abuse Mexican immigrants to do work no American wants to do for the pay, and deports Mexican immigrants who commit any crimes to Mexico to plague that country. These USA behaviors are causing great violence and corruption in Mexican government units and businesses, and thousands of Mexican citizens are being tortured and murdered as a direct result. The NYT is siding with the wrong side in this issue, and, I feel very unhappy with the spin of the articles and editorials it is broadcasting to Americans. I take care of my family, too, but my family is all good people on the planet. alive today and coming soon.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 4 mins)
    • By Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated By Paul Boehmer
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (453)
    Performance
    (382)
    Story
    (383)

    The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that "their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live." Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable. He examines our current state, then teases out its implications for democracy, for monetary and budgetary policy, and for globalization. He closes with a plan for a more just and prosperous future.

    Grant says: "Dense, but important."
    "Wow!"
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    Any additional comments?

    Well-researched, well-written, well-read. The book covers every important area of the USA that is in the current events, every major problem of the existing democracy, every cause of the problems, and gives many good solutions.

    16 of 33 people found this review helpful
  • The Plundered Planet: Why We Must - and How We Can - Manage Nature for Global Prosperity

    • UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 31 mins)
    • By Paul Collier
    • Narrated By James Adams
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (11)
    Performance
    (5)
    Story
    (6)

    Proper stewardship of natural assets and liabilities is a matter of planetary urgency: natural resources have the potential either to transform the poorest countries or to tear them apart, while the carbon emissions and agricultural follies of the rich world could further impoverish them. The Plundered Planet charts a course between unchecked profiteering on the one hand and environmental romanticism on the other to offer realistic and sustainable solutions to dauntingly complex issues.

    Thomas says: "This book is a Godsend about global economics."
    "This book is a Godsend about global economics."
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    What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?

    The author's treatment is competent, independent, and helpful. It is in a class by itself, far above any other book I have listened to about the most important problems we face in our generation.


    What about James Adams???s performance did you like?

    Mr. Adams had a good, concerned reading that used pauses and emphasis appropriately. i have no complaints.


    Any additional comments?

    Really, folks, I'm not making this up. This is one of the most important books that any author in our generation has produced. It covers over-fishing and global warming in a complete and thorough manner. After listening to this book, you will respect the author's wisdom, understanding, kindness, and goodness, and have a good plan for facing the future, the near future, of mankind on the planet. I hope audible.com promotes this book as a must-read for all its customers.

    3 of 3 people found this review helpful
  • The Morning Read from The Wall Street Journal

    • NONE (39 mins)
    Overall
    (186)
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    (106)
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    (97)

    Lynn says: "I love having the WSJ read to me!"
    "Crooked newspaper articles by crooked people."
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    Would you try another book from the author and/or the narrator?

    The people who publish this trash don't realize how many people can see their hidden motives of self-interest in the distortions of news they are reproducing here.


    Would you ever listen to anything by the author again?

    I subscribed to Forbes, too. Same thing.


    What character would you cut from The Morning Read from The Wall Street Journal?

    Editorial staff.


    Any additional comments?

    You will be hurt and insulted by the spin and disrespect the paper shows, and not want to listen to the newspaper ever again, but you can't get your money back from audible for cancelling. Don't even try to subscribe to this trash.

    1 of 2 people found this review helpful

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