Paul Lemke

To know the future

Revisado: 09-30-21

The greatest novel I have listened to in all my life. The pronunciation is flawless, the inflections superb. The content is required reading for the future of civilized man. The theme is more relevant now than ever. What does freedom require? The knowledge of man as a rational being and that motivations of individuals matter.

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Don't buy this isn't an audiobook

Revisado: 07-07-19

Audio drama sucks, there's little to no introspective character development and he's coasting on the story.

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Too much eco guilt

Revisado: 01-14-19

Tired of eco guilt, sick of naked emperors, tired of anti-industrial unintelligent global smarming this isn't the novel for you.

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ark-uh-mee-dees not ar-kim-idees

Revisado: 01-02-19

You have one job as a voice actor know how to pronounce words, how did checkers miss this...ur maths suck

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no chapters?

Revisado: 12-27-18

I love the story but what happened to chapters? I've downloaded it twice and couldn't get the chapters to work.

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Good book but villain is way too Cliche

Revisado: 11-21-17

the evil corporation cliche, really? You couldn't do better? So lame. Seemed a bit rushed at the end.

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Surely The Truth will set you free.

Revisado: 03-14-17

Objectivity and a careful consideration does not begin to describe this book. The astounding conclusions are so obvious, in retrospect, and so unknown in common parlance, that one can see their daily effect on world events but before reading this they are invisible. This is great literature of the highest intellectual tradition, a solid integration that makes new discovery possible whilst carefully considering ALL the facts.

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Food for the soul

Revisado: 07-20-16

Love this book, can't wait for the next book. Great characters, delightful heroism and story telling.

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The next Industrial Revolution begins here

Revisado: 04-13-15

Alex Epstein eloquently defends life giving industry in this succinct exploration of of the morality of fossil fuels. He thoroughly exposes the limits of faddish alternative energy while showing exactly why a society that is based on pristine nature ideology is doomed to fail.

If you love human ingenuity and relish human life, this is a must read.

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Buckley esposes a problem without aparent solution

Revisado: 01-02-09

William F. Buckley, Christopher Buckley's father was the supposed father of modern conservatism. Apparently the only thing that William taught his son was that modern bible thumping is slightly out of place in modern America and you should try to "spin" any problem into three different stages which are: controversy, compromised acceptance, and then ignoring that the problem is still a problem. These are in fact the separate stages of the plot.

As for the Heroine of our novel, she just becomes another modern libertarian freedom advocate that makes a small political splash about an ideal, that Ayn Rand wrote about, and then disappears into the mists of bureaucracy.

It is surprising that although the main heroine claims to "love" Rand she shows little emulation of the things that Rand stood for which seemingly are in short supply in out society these days. Things like integrity, honesty, strong will, and a lack of compromise on the issue of one's morals. She capitulates in the book several times even toward the end of the book letting her father off of the hook instead of blowing wide open the scandal on the software used in Gideon Payne's retirement communities.

The solution no matter how harsh it may sound, is to make people pay for their own retirement. Apparently not even the conservatives in this country can understand this fact. The government should never have set up a social security program in the first place. I am of course sorry for all of those people who paid in expecting a larger payout and expecting that government means providing for your life in old age. Buckley tries to find much more evil ways to solve the problem of social security and I am afraid that this will also be the course of political events to come unless people realize that the only path that should be taken under capitalism is self reliance.

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