*Crichton was ahead of his time on so many issues.* *This issue is real, the fact that the "Climate Crisis" is a burlesque, a scam by the tecnocratic elite of the UN and World Economic Forum.* *There is no climate crisis.* *Humans have no part in effecting the climate which has been in flux since the planet cooled down and generated an atmosphere and climate.*

Dave and Alice Baker are amazing, great to hear them on your show Dane 😊👍

I'm about halfway through this books and find it really boring. It's also full of feminist butt kissing. I'll keep reading with some hope it will get more interesting but it's tedious. It really feels like the author was just filling pages to meet a deadline. This book really fell off his previous work in my opinion.

Just finished reading the book. Thank you for your review. I have a double feeling about the end, without giving spoilers. I just think the story isn't finished. There are in my opinion too much loose ends. Also, I agree with you. I don't really like the hate to love trope. I wonder if a sequel is in the make. BTW, Biggy steals the show :)

Nice wrap up. I've seen cousins a few times at the store. Might have to check it out along with some others

This really helpt me cuz I didn't have time to read it in mah free time. I had to for school but thanks for you review man

I really like the movie of the Bridge Over the River Kwai. I had no idea that the author was the same person who wrote Planet of the Apes.

The hot potting story I believe is inspired by the same exact incident that happened in yellowstone park where a boy and his dog were boiled to death in the geyser. Having grown up in the area where it occured, every visit to the geysers would remind me of the excruciating details of their demise. As I was reading the short story, the imagery was especially present. I swear I could hear the sizzling of the fat as if I was there. And I also feel as though exodus was the short story that impacted me the most. Perhaps I was projecting onto the character as someone who has seen some pretty atrocious behavior from men in the workplace. I really felt that there was a disconnect between director denials character and the backstory she chose to present. It's as though she shouldnt have been there yet her actions tell me otherwise. Maybe I need to reread the book now that I have read all of the short stories.

I have read The Planet of the Apes and I really enjoyed that book. On the cover it says that Pierre Boulle is the author of Bridge Over The River Kwai. I hope that one day I get a copy of it because I enjoyed The Planet of the Apes. I hope you enjoy it.

I couldn't recall having read any AGs and thought I'd have a look. I'm not a fan of Poirot in the films, so picked this out of all the options and, so far, I'm finding it a reasonable read. I'm enjoying the tongue-in-cheek (or genuine disdain, I haven't decided) ribbing of the upper classes (except for the occasional intelligent character in the form of "Bundle") and haven't been tempted, so far, to skip to the end for a peek at how it all pans out. Every time one of the idiot upper class-types appears in the narrative, I have visions of the comedic Jeeves & Wooster. It's always a relief to find a read that doesn't descend into banality in the form of bad language and sex (at least so far and I wouldn't expect it in an AG) - so, no rolling of eyes there, but so many words have been hi-jacked to give them smutty meanings and that's a bit sad - AG wouldn't have used them in that way. Anyway, hopefully it won't lose too much momentum - it can't be worse than any number of "light reads" out there that are either written by AI or churned out and finished off quickly to deadline any old how. I'm reading this "free" on Kindle Unlimited, but, if I like something, I often buy it in paper- or hardback. I might start my AG collection with this, but I doubt it will include any Poirots. If you enjoy the charm of gentility (or, as a Scot myself, the comedic value of the English upper classes) and something that won't tax your brain much or at all, The Seven Dials Mystery is a nice wee read.

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Thank you for doing this! It sounds like a very cool book, and I've ordered it.

Thank you, I just finished the book so it was nice to read someone else's thoughts. It's not my favorite, as the adventures right before Sir James's reveal seem tedious to get through. But I do appreciate it overall. Great analysis!

2+ minutes of full rambling before even getting to the point. Ridiculous “review”

Oh great, adding the Compleat Ankh Morpork to my list. I was mostly disappointed by all the additional books around discworl so stopped checking them out.

I picked up this book yesterday. I find there is a LOT of terminology, people, and dates. My approach is likely going to be "wolfing" it down within a few days, using AI tech to condense the information, and study chapter by chapter to thoroughly digest and process the information. I am curious how other people have approached this book. Though I took organic chemistry, geology, and a few other science courses at my University, I was concerned that I may actually be daft in proclaiming "I read this book" when there are numerous details to process. <3

_First!_ Hey, Dane 🎸 I have and have read _A Promised Land_ 😊 I want to read _Circe_ and still need to get to _RAMA_ (which is upon my shelf). Good one, mate 🎉

Just finished reading it and I truly enjoyed reading it. If you’re looking for a novel with lots of humour, this is definitely the one to read!

I agree I thought the Book Thief was bloody awful but this book is great if you allow it in. When I first read TSOTW it lost me and I stopped reading it (couldn’t see what the fuss was about ) but I then took the time to reread it and I discovered how brilliant it really is. It’s not supposed to be a gripping fast paced page turner ? If that’s what you want stick to someone like Dan Brown or the Ben Hope novels. I will say that a love of Barcelona does help with the enjoyment of this book.

Good book!

Thanks for the review. This book has been sitting on my shelf for years. Time to read it and escape Earth for a while.

Dane, you disliked this novel because you had the wrong expectations. You were expecting a page-turner, a genre novel with a lot of plot twists and very dopamine deliver. But this is a literary novel, not a genre novel. Literary novels are not meant to satisfy consumers' dopamine with a heady plot, as genre novels do. In literary novels, the plot is secondary, since the point is to empathize with the characters and their motivations and learn more about human condition by diving into their past and memories; the plot is just a secondary tool that only exists to uncover the characters's past and psychological struggles (in the case of this particular novel, guilt and remorse is the common thread). The brothers Karamazov and 100 years of solitude (among other classics of world literature) are other perfect examples of what a literary novel is: they are written to teach us valuable things about human condition. On the contrary, genre novels (like harry potter and game of thrones) are jus meant to be consumer products to make more money by satisfying your dopamine demands. Literary novels are art, whereas genre novels are indistinguishable from pornography

I wish it went a bit more into the seafaring on the way to the island.

One great story.

Lovely bro, I’ve been looking for a review of this book and I think yours is the only one

You should read the sequel, Brothers.... it's an LSD trip compared to this grounded novel

What an extraordinary channel. I found it randomly, looking at reviews of a Hemingway novel. Now I want to watch all of Dane's book reviews. This guy is really something else.

So many good messages shared in this video/episode! Very personal poems ❤‍🩹

The shallow characters in the novel utter just two types of speech: One is scientific technobabble and the other is that of a juvenile delinquent with a tendency for the profane. I’m left with the impression that the cast of so-called scientists are very clever at a superficial level but lacking in both maturity and common sense - just like a group of precocious and excitable high-school students. In this novel the white-coated professor type with an areole of fuzzy hair is replaced by a beach boy with a T-shirt saying ‘I am Root’ (whatever that means). All through the book I was willing a grown-up person to come along and take charge of the situation but they never do, leaving the adolescents to squabble amongst themselves. The only reason I read this book at speed was not that I found it gripping and anxious to read what happened next, but solely to end the misery of ploughing through the appalling dialogue. I award it one star, however, for the science which the author has researched in the bibliography provided.

This book reminded me of being put in a rehabilitation center where everyone is together in the same space but none of them are really well put together. They all appear to come from places where they were unwanted. They're neither family or friends and can't get out. The resemblance are uncanny.

The book was definitely very preachy. He had more footnotes in a work of fiction than anybody other than David Foster Wallace. That said, most of the book was prophetic in terms of what he predicted.

The cowedly loin is my favorite character I played him once in a high school play of the Wizard of oz and we did do the songs from the movie version so memorized the lions song .

I prefer solo running as well. I usually tell people who try to convince me to join a running community or group that running is not a group activity for me :D

It wasn't bad. It wasn't good. :D So true for so many books.

I haven't read any Paula Hawkins I need to give at least one of her books a go.

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The Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities are the only Charles Dickens I have read so far, but I really liked them. I am going to read a couple more of his Christmas ghost stories in December.

It is fun to get the Blind Date with a Book packages. You never know what you are going to get. I hope the gamble works out for you.

I was disappointed in the PBS series..

Nicely done, I appreciate that you provide plenty of quotation from the novel-it grounds your analysis in the text itself and gives listeners a taste of the prose style. Here is some unsolicited advice, as well, make of it what you will, but I think that it would have been nice to complement those quotations with even more of your own reflections on them (i.e. more on, say, the themes and devices that Huxley uses).

Ive read some of those pages of this book

Onto the silent world of nicholas quinn right now, quite enjoying them, i think this one will be my favorite out of any of the others i have read so far ( i've read them in chronological order )

Love finding new channels through videos like this.

Bookish Chas is a great channel.

I also thoroughly enjoyed the book, but one thing about the story that didn't make sense to me was, how were these micro-humans able to process oxygen molecules in their shrunk-down bodies when these O2 molecules were regular size?

Hi, Dane. Just popping in to say hi. Hope your'e doing well. Any new books coming out? I just discovered Cliff's Dark Gems' channel. I'll check out your other recommendations. Happy Halloween! 🎃👻

Glad to hear/see you shout out Courtney's channel @tangiblereads ☺ She's geeat 🎉

Could you plz put timestamp and have all your videos in the playlist.

Lots of Sci-fi! I'd like to read the Michelle Obama book (I read her husbands) 😊

Its been about 25 years since i read any of James Herbert's books, but i always remember magic cottage being one of my favourites along with creed. I would say its probably less shocking than most of his books, but i loved it.