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"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Audio book)
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Audio book)
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2 journalers for this copy...
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This is an audiobook, originally purchased from audible.com, and then burned onto cds and deleted from my itunes so that this would be the only copy and legal. Please do not copy this, but pass it along to a friend or release it! Thank you.I so much enjoyed this book that it was my choice for the "Best of 2009" yankee-style bookswap on bookobsessed.com. Of all the books I read (or listened to) last year, this is the one I talk about the most. I found it really interesting and entertaining. In fact, I bought another copy from audible as our Christmas gift for one of the people in our family. I haven't given the book a 10. I had minor quibbles, like that the first section, on the kouros, seemed to go on too long. But I keep talking and thinking about the research into married couples and the devastating effects of contempt. I loved the section near the very end on blind auditions for orchestras. And the stuff about the war game do-over is just so depressing that I don't even want to comment on it. A super-interesting book! |
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I'm a little overdue in getting this sent off, but it'll soon be on its way. In the meantime, I was excited to see a new tv series based on the work of Paul Ekman, who is featured heavily in one of the chapters of "Blink" (I had also seen him interviewed in a linguistics documentary several years ago). If you enjoy that chapter of Blink, I'd recommend at least the first episode of "Lie to me" - and then you can decide for yourself whether to carry on or not. |
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