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How to Write a Book ASAP
- The Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Your First Book Fast!
- By: Garrett Pierson
- Narrated by: Tom Underwood
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 85
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 87
Discover inside secrets to writing and publishing a book fast. It doesn't matter if you want to write a novel or a non-fiction book: Garrett Pierson's tools and strategies will guide you step by step. There are many mind-boggling and complicated ways of writing a book at our disposal. This is not one of those. In fact, this book is perfect for someone who wants a simple, flexible, and streamlined approach to start, write, and complete a book fast.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly Useful
- By Pam on 05-21-12
- How to Write a Book ASAP
- The Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Your First Book Fast!
- By: Garrett Pierson
- Narrated by: Tom Underwood
Lots of great information
Reviewed: 10-26-12
If you are wanting to write that novel you've been meaning to your whole life, this is a great place to start. Lots of information and a way to plan out your prose. If you need a great starter kit, this is it.
Narration is also excellent!
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How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam Is Dying Too)
- By: David Goldman
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 258
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 227
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Story4 out of 5 stars 226
Past and present civilizations failed and fail for many reasons, but the number-one predictor of a civilization’s survival is its sense of religion—or lack thereof. So argues David Goldman in How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam Is Dying Too). The strength of a civilization’s religion affects its purpose, its fertility rate, and ultimately, its fate, says Goldman—who then argues that, contrary to popular belief, Islamic countries are in the last throes of death while Christian America is in a position to flourish.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pseudointellectual Clickbait
- By Sam on 12-22-20
- How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam Is Dying Too)
- By: David Goldman
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
Is this really the future?
Reviewed: 10-26-12
The week I first started listening to this book, the President of Iran came forward to tell his population to have more babies. From then on, this book had my attention as statistical truth.
There are many things you cannot argue with and, numbers and data are one. Goldman lays out the future of many of our world's civilizations through the use of demographics. From there, he offers a few explanations for why many civilizations are willing themselves out of existence.
For instance, the change in attitude of children now becoming a financial liability rather than an asset. When a society reveres children as an expense, these are the first signs that the civilization is on its way to decline, if not extinction.
Whether you agree with Goldman or not, this is certainly a read that will make you think. Highly recommend this thought provoking book.
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The Power of Now
- A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
- By: Eckhart Tolle
- Narrated by: Eckhart Tolle
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40,157
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32,160
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31,725
It’s no wonder that The Power of Now has sold over 16 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 30 foreign languages. Much more than simple principles and platitudes, the book takes readers on an inspiring spiritual journey to find their true and deepest self and reach the ultimate in personal growth and spirituality: the discovery of truth and light. In the first chapter, Tolle introduces listeners to enlightenment and its natural enemy, the mind.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Consciousness Altering
- By Darius on 02-13-04
- The Power of Now
- A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
- By: Eckhart Tolle
- Narrated by: Eckhart Tolle
Not worth your time
Reviewed: 10-26-12
I've heard about this book for well over a decade (credit the Oprah effect) and bought this to satisfy my curiosity. And, like most Oprah recommendations, this book fails to deliver.
I found it quite repetitive. I think I can sum up the book in one sentence: Be in the moment and pay attention to everything around you using your five senses. That's pretty much it. Tolle then goes on...and on...seemingly to pad the book so it could be salable.
The narration is comatose. Do not read this while driving a car! You will go to sleep.
There are other parts of the book that make me question what Tolle did with his life. He claims to have sat on a park bench, soaking up the atmosphere for two years. How did he do that? What did he do to eat? Where did he get the money to do this? Is the author a trust fund baby? I don't know many people who could sit on a park bench for two years and just observe. The rest of us have something called "responsibilities" which seems to be the one word missing from this book.
There are better books out there. Pass on this one.
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On Writing
- A Memoir of the Craft
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King, Joe Hill, Owen King
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 15,299
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 12,565
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Story5 out of 5 stars 12,460
“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999—and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who needs a print edition when King reads King?
- By Cather on 11-18-05
- On Writing
- A Memoir of the Craft
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King, Joe Hill, Owen King
Highly Recommend
Reviewed: 07-08-12
Great book for those who want an autobiography plus a guide to how Mr. King finds his muse. There is some great advice here for writers. It is also a cautionary tale of addiction and, fortunately for Mr. King, redemption.
I love the fact that it was narrated by Mr. King himself. It adds to the authenticity of the experience as well as his emotional response to things like adverbs and facilitated writing retreats.
Go ahead and get this. You will not be disappointed.
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