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Évalué le: 2021-03-08

There are good things in the book, solid examples of how thinking the right thoughts can transform a horrible situation into a positive one... however, I find the author to be inconsistent in his thoughts, judgemental of others despite claiming to have always had an open spirit, to have always been one who thinks for himself... yet he often jumps to conclusions, negative ones about things/people he barely knows.
Jumping to conclusions about random evens being “divine” or too good to be coincidences and thus assuming they are proof of how amazing the universe is, and how it’s all perfect and following some divine will, all this makes me cringe since I see nothing but leaps of logic. Just because something bad turned out to be good we’re supposed to be
Ieve it was all god’s amazing plan for us. Then what about the good things that turned bad? It’s so easy to beat this way of thinking using its own methods that it comes across as childish, forced, fake positivity, even though there may be some real value in being able to use your mind to make yourself happy regardless of how the world is... and if believing everything’s divine helps some people, I have nothing against it, I only mind when they try to convince me of their nonsense using crappy fallacies.

Yes, there’s good things in this book, but I’m cringing more often than I’d like.

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Amazing listen

Évalué le: 2021-02-28

One of the best audiobooks I’ve ever listened to, and certainly the best in this genre. Great story and characters as well as narration. Can’t wait for Shad’s next book.

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Was expecting more.

Évalué le: 2021-02-19

Spoilers ahead. Don’t read if you want to try the book.

I found Tobias to be very annoying. Ok, I get that he doesn’t want to be with Cassima, but he keeps repeating that over and over around a billion times, seeming to forget that by winning he also gets to live, which is kinda essential if he wants to be with this other girl. His strategy seems to be to do the bare minimum required to stay alive, which makes the whole tournament seem like a joke.
Tobias never used his brain to think about the future, about ways to win or what he could do if he was the sovereign, about the other men and the possible ways they’d kill him or he would kill them. His thoughts were all about his girl, and that soon became endlessly frustrating.
Why has nobody killed him yet? Why didn’t he even try to befriend the savior? Why didn’t the powerful men just massacre everybody from the start? I have no idea. Why didn’t Tobias want to win so that he could survive and later look for ways to cheat the system/ set himself free or reform the country. He swore over and over to protect his gf, yet when a competitor found out about their secret, he let the guy go after making threats to torture him if he talked... seriously? Tobias could be killed on the spot for far less reasons and his girlfriend too. He puts himself and her in danger for the sake of...? His humanity? Putting his girlfriend in danger to give this other guy a fair chance to kill him is his idea of humanity?

Now, about the girl... she has qualities, alright, but she never peaked my curiosity. Whenever Tobias picked her over the savior I rolled my eyes... at least the savior is someone we don’t know, at least there’s something about her to discover. The author saying how amazing he feels around his gf does nothing for me. I won’t feel amazing reading about her until she’s actually doing stuff, not just kissing and moaning and telling him about the challenges.

Speaking of, I’m beyond sick of the kissing scenes... When you see people kiss, do you politely ignore them or do you prefer to stare into their mouths? I feel like this book forced me to do the latter, no story-driving elements involved.

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Loved it

Évalué le: 2021-01-05

A perfect listen if you enjoy true psychological stories. The psychiatric facility and the characters felt real, which is rare for me.

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Great stuff

Évalué le: 2020-06-19

This book brings science and tons of solid, useful advice. I look forward to implement everything I heard in my diet. I am vegan but there's so much info on plant-based eating I had no idea about. I used to improvise and hope what I was doing was right, now I've got a direction to follow that I feel confident will take my health to a new level, all while bringing new tasty stuff to the mix.

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The narration is weird the first few chapters

Évalué le: 2020-06-16

After few WEIRD sounding chapters, his voice goes back to normal!

I overall love his narration and this book. The amount of information in this is insane and yet the narration makes all the science sound genuinely interesting throughout the book. I can't believe the amount of content in this.

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Best book ever

Évalué le: 2020-06-09

This book's got tons of useful tips on how to eat plants smarter to get the full benefits. It's packed with scientific studies and yet it was a fun listen as well. I'll be implementing them, rereading this and I'll check the author's other books, as well as Nutritionfacts.org

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Realistic characters, good dialogue.

Évalué le: 2020-05-28

This was a serious, dark story with realistic characters and strong dialogue. It was slow paced but enjoyable throughout.

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A very dark and depressive story

Évalué le: 2020-05-07

Great narrator.
The story goes in depth on mental illness and addiction. The writter seems to have very honestly poured his pain and darkness into this.

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