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Angron: The Red Angel
- Warhammer 40,000
- By: David Guymer
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 293
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 239
In the darkness of Imperium Nihilus, across half a million worlds cut off from the dim light of Holy Terra, a beacon is lit. The Red Angel returns to an unsteady galaxy and his scattered sons heed the call to slaughter. Aboard the World Eaters’ flagship, Kossolax the Foresworn, self-appointed lord regent of the XII, fights to keep the old dreams of the Legion alive, but finds the return of his hated father both an opportunity and a threat to the warriors’ fragile unity.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Oooofffffff
- By Anonymous User on 02-15-23
- Angron: The Red Angel
- Warhammer 40,000
- By: David Guymer
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
A story truly disconnected from a title
Reviewed: 03-06-23
I was hoping to get a deeper perspective on what it means to be a thrall to the God of martial prowess, rage, and bloodshed and I got a lot of screaming and anarchy, which makes sense, but nothing else.. which doesn't. khornes daemons are supposedly granted more sentience the higher they ascend, and I figured I'd get some dialogue here that humanized khornes servants, and the story repeatedly had moments where that was possible and just.. didn't, instead writing instead about just how angry someone is. Some characters are more humanized than others, but I was really hoping for the most sentient fleshing out of khornate ethics in WORD and action in the daemon primarch who barely makes an appearance. Trying to avoid spoilers, but I wouldn't recommend this to a friend.
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The Fatal Conceit
- The Errors of Socialism
- By: F. A. Hayek
- Narrated by: Everett Sherman
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 491
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 428
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 425
Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures in the many different practical applications of socialist ideas that this century has witnessed were the direct outcome of these errors. He labels as the "fatal conceit" the idea that "man is able to shape the world around him according to his wishes."
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4 out of 5 stars
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If more had these insights we'd be better off
- By Doug on 11-12-12
- The Fatal Conceit
- The Errors of Socialism
- By: F. A. Hayek
- Narrated by: Everett Sherman
just buy it
Reviewed: 03-04-16
totally worth it. slow start, but strong finish. rounds off the discussion. still very relevant
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Wealth, Poverty, and Politics
- An International Perspective
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: David Cochran Heath
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,410
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,119
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,090
In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in the country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while ignoring the true determinant of income inequality: the production of wealth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A paradigm shift on the subject of equality
- By Steven Schardein on 10-02-15
- Wealth, Poverty, and Politics
- An International Perspective
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: David Cochran Heath
Assists in understanding modern cultural movements
Reviewed: 11-09-15
This book uses an information based argument to better understand the driving forces of cultural movements of 2015. The book spends time showing similar movements causes and effects on a global scale.
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The Denial of Death
- By: Ernest Becker
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,830
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,477
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,454
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie: man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than 30 years after its writing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not for the closed-minded
- By Yhatze on 05-27-17
- The Denial of Death
- By: Ernest Becker
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
Piercing straight to the heart of the human drama
Reviewed: 11-09-15
An incredible framework for understanding the mechanisms by which man on his earthly journey produces evil as a by product of his best intentions.
Expect no miracle cure or new age religion to turn back the clock on the psyche after finishing this book. This book is haunting.
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The Economics and Politics of Race
- An International Perspective
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robert Morris
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 339
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 306
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Story5 out of 5 stars 300
Using an international framework, Sowell analyzes how much a racial group’s economic fate is determined by the surrounding society and how much by internal patterns that follow that same group around the world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting material, with not very good audi
- By Martin P. Rodgers on 04-03-13
- The Economics and Politics of Race
- An International Perspective
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robert Morris
eye opening
Reviewed: 08-08-15
a wonderful survey of races and cultures often left out of the discussion on race and races and cultures over represented in the discussion in an objective light with critical evaluation of commonly misunderstood metrics.
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A Conflict of Visions
- Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Michael Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,611
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,339
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,323
In this book, which the author calls a "culmination of 30 years of work in the history of ideas", Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives as a disagreement over the moral potential inherent in nature. Those who see that potential as limited prefer to constrain governmental authority, he argues. They feel that reform is difficult and often dangerous, and put their faith in family, custom, law, and traditional institutions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Critical read for 2008 change election
- By Elaine C Grimes on 06-05-08
- A Conflict of Visions
- Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Michael Edwards
useful
Reviewed: 05-30-15
The book flew by for me and provided a useful framework understanding and classifying ideologies.
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