Patrick King

Sure, but Jason Sullivan has to do research when he reads a book the subject of which he knows nothing about. There have to be conservatively 12 documentaries about organized crime and Las Vegas he could watch to get the right pronunciation of proper names.

Mr. Moe could eliminate all his sarcasm with benefit. It is not especially amusing to the reader and serves mainly to undermine the journalistic integrity of his prose. I would also like to see a source bibliography. For example Al Moe appears to take it for granted that the urban legend that Joseph Kennedy was a "bootlegger" has substance. Kennedy passed the senate Republicans vetting exam twice when he became Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and again when he became Ambassador to Great Britain. There is no way those Republicans would have signed off on him had there been even a suggestion that he was involved in the manufacturing or distribution of illegal alcohol during prohibition. Where does Mr. Moe verify his statements and how does he think Kennedy got around those Republican senators? THAT would be a story!

I learned a lot about the history of Ben Binion and his criminal associates. This is also the first time I learned how ineffective Howard Hughes was in rebuilding Las Vegas.

Mr. Sullivan has a pleasant enough voice and is a good reader. Unfortunately he apparently believes he can get away with guessing at the pronunciations. Kefauver is pronounced KEEF-offer, NOT kifever. Meyer Lansky's first name is pronounced MY-yor NOT Mayor. Raymond Patriarca's last name is pronounced Pat-ri-AR-ka, NOT Patricka. The mispronunciation of Kefauver made me cringe every time he did it and he did it a lot.

Hopefully it does not. Only time can tell us this.

Overall I enjoyed the book. It fit in well with other books I've read about these people.

Never watched Little House. Just hoped for a candid description of growing up on screen in Hollywood. Man did I get more than I bargained for. Funny, poignant sometimes simultaneously, enlightening and brilliantly written, Alison is one charismatic bitch. I loved this book.

Winslow makes Michael Connelly, even James Ellroy read like the Hardy Boys. The hardest thing about The Force is that it has to be close to fact. The US prohibition on drugs does nothing but make those who maintain it rich. You don’t think so? Like to know how? Read on.

Mrs. Clinton leaves no stone unturned. She addresses the scandals that plagued her husband's administration and her campaign, the kernels of truth they were based on and how these were manipulated to skew the public's perception of her and her family, convincing voters to vote against their own interests.

Often humorous and very detailed, Mrs. Clinton brings her unique intelligence to bear not only on the 2016 campaign but on her entire relationship with the Republican party from her campaign efforts on behalf of Barry Goldwater in 1964 to her prosecution of Richard Nixon on the Watergate Committee, to her candid comments as First Lady of Arkansas, and her fight for universal healthcare as First Lady of the United States, and the role she played on the international stage as secretary of state for Barack Obama. Republicans have good reason to fear and hate her and she does not shy from recognizing the part her own words and deeds have played in making it difficult for Republican voters to cross the divide.

I have never read a book quite like this before and the fact that I was able to listen to it in the author's own voice, hear her stresses and inflections, hear her speak as she would never speak in a less intimate setting, is both thrilling and informative. I'd recommend this book to anyone but it is a MUST LISTEN to anyone considering running for public office. Win or lose, this is what it's really like.

This is the best autobiography I've read in a long time. Hearing it in Bruce's own voice is like spending a few days with him. He is funny, thought provoking, emotionally powerful and he explains most of the things I was curious about. He explains how he got his Telecaster for $189 and why it was that price, something that has had me wondering for years. His early travels west with his band, Steel-mill, make great stories. How he developed his talents is explained in detail. His meeting with Mike Appel and hence John Hammond is told more intensely than ever before. Also his experience with the Jon Landau review and his meeting with the author of it is explained as only he can do. How he fell in love with his horse is hilarious. There are as many laugh out loud hilarious moments as there are touching moments.

Probably Patti Scialfa but the stories about Clarence Clemons could make their own book if Bruce felt comfortable about openly discussing things he only hints about here. Bruce's father, Doug Springsteen, is also a powerful character who's influence is felt throughout the book. Carl "Tinker" West is also a lot of fun to read about.

I actually did read the book before the audio was available and loved it but believe me, the audio version is the way to go. Bruce's intonations when he's discussing various subjects offer humor, sarcasm and pathos you do not get reading text. The sequence in which he auditions Jake Clemons for Jake's late uncle's job in the E Street Band is powerful when you read it. But hearing Bruce say these things in his own voice adds a dimension to how serious he continues to be about his music and how he feels about that band you simply cannot get from mere print. Springsteen is also a master of metaphor and the tone he puts on his metaphors adds a great deal of understanding to his meaning and how he thinks.

I did not want to stop on those frequent times I had to but I would need a solid two days to listen to it non-stop. As it was I listened to the entire book in about four days while I was driving, a great way to listen to Springsteen.

The use of his music and lyrics to illustrate certain points was very helpful and interesting. His candor about his problems as well as his success made this autobiography feel honest as opposed to other autobiographies I've read recently. I have a much better understanding of where the lyrics I've loved for decades came from.

I think this book would be very interesting to paranoid personalities, especially those looking for a demagogue with an exaggerated image of his own importance to follow. I was looking for a history of the Bilderberg group, not a diatribe on freedom, evil and love. Mr. Estulin has lost his credibility with me.

This would be a better book if Mr. Estulin simply gave a history of the organization, warts and all, if he was able to find one. This book is a hatchet job on David Rockefeller, The Council on Foreign Affairs and the Trilateral Commission which, for all I still know, maybe awful organizations, I still don't have enough reliable info to decide. The info here on Bilderberg, however, I could have gotten faster on Wikipedia. The idea that the Bilderbergers attempted to throw Mr. Estulin down an elevator shaft to prevent his research was one of the funniest moments in the books. Mr. Estulin clearly believes he's living in a James Bond fantasy. Between his highfalutin rhetoric and his absurd personal recollections, he has written a ridiculous book.

To my recollection I have not heard Peter Ganim's work before, but he did a very credible reading job of an improbable book. There are a lot of foreign place names and terms here and he did a good job of pronouncing them correctly.

Disappointment. I really do want to understand more about this organization and the other organizations Estulin links to it in this work. I don't know what experiences Estulin really had researching this book, but he clearly cannot separate his personal political ideas and his own self importance from straight forward facts. He makes assertions about facts that in no way necessarily follow. Without a cataclysmic collapse of civilization, I'm pretty sure "one world government" is an inevitability. Does he really imagine that because people are very wealthy they have no right to privacy? After spending days with this book I have honestly come to the conclusion that the people who apparently cooperated with Estulin were putting him on.

David Rockefeller is 101 this year. I'm pretty sure the baton has passed to a different Fu Manchu-like villain. Should billionaires and the very-well educated be allowed to hold cocktail parties without a representative of the press being present? Mr. Estulin talks a lot about our "freedom" but he never defines what he thinks our freedom is. In that respect Janice Joplin did a better job.

I probably will listen to it again. There are many details about the apparent causes of this problem and it's hard to take them in on one listen. What I did pick up is that psychopaths cannot worry and by the same token cannot learn from mistakes nor process punishment as others do.

Brian was easily my favorite test subject. Dr. Keihl introduces him generally in several early chapters then focuses on him specifically so we know his background before we know his horrible crimes. It's a fine piece of writing technique. I also like the background on presidential assassin, Charles Guiteau.

Mr Pariseau reads the text in a serious tone but, as the book is also a narrative of Dr. Kiehl's career, and Dr. Kiehl clearly sees the humor in his experiences, Mr. Pariseau is able to change course when the text requires it. Mr Pariseau also did the work of learning to pronounce the technical and Latin terms used by the medical community in citing some of the problems discussed.

I was moved often throughout this book. I was as disappointed as Dr. Kiehl and his team were when their first FMRI project was rejected by Scientific American. I Was thrilled when the Institute of Life hired Dr. Kiehl to set up their MRI clinic and even more when he was hired in New Mexico and his entire team elected to leave Connecticut and go with him.

I've been reading about mental illnesses and especially psychosis/antisocial personality disorder for years. This is the first real explanation I've found of how a psychopath is tested although I was aware of both Hare's and Navarro's check lists. We hear this term bandied about on television and in courts, but 'psychopath' has a very specific meaning. If one has not been tested by a psychologist who knows what to do, it is irresponsible to apply the term. Dr. Kiehl offers a good example of how this can be done incorrectly with devastating results.

I will absolutely listen to this again. First it is Chandler's most complex and involved plot offering the reader/listener much to consider. Chandler's thoughts on law enforcement and the part wealth and power play as to what gets investigated are clearer today than they were when he wrote this. Secondly, Porter's subtle depictions of the various characters offer an element of realism to this performance I don't often encounter. This was a hard story to stop listening to. It's Chandler's longest book and I listened to the entire thing in 2 days.

The Long Goodbye appears to be two plots which initially seem to be unconnected. Only as Marlowe begins to think things through do the connections appear. The characters are vivid. Only Candy is a flat character and that is "flat" in a good way, like Odd Job or Uriah Heap. The rest of the cast are very complex, well constructed people who behave in unexpected ways that are consistent with the problems they face. Bernie Ohls is the analyst of the tale. When he shows up you know you are in for an explanation of what Chandler really means by this story. Roger Wade talks and thinks like a writer. I suspect a lot of his problems were those that Chandler himself faced in writing this book.

Frequently several characters appear in a conversation in this book. Porter makes a clear distinction between every character and he does it so subtly it's as though different people are speaking. His performance could not be better.

Chandler's use of language is something his contemporaries try to imitate and in this respect he's in top form in The Long Goodbye. Lawyer Endicott and Detective Ohls offer several comments on the philosophy of law and how law enforcement works that have stayed with me. Marlowe's own assessment of the various types of blond is very funny and cynical.

Marlowe's reluctance to take either sex or money from anyone leaves one wondering, as several characters ask, what does he live on? In many respects Marlowe is TOO noble. In this book he is several times in grave danger on the behalf of his clients and yet he refuses payment and in one final gesture he returns payment every dollar of which he earned and more. Is being a private detective just a hobby for this guy? Marlowe's altruism is the one false note in this otherwise thinking person's mystery.

To Kill A Mockingbird is beautifully told. There are only a few authors who really capture the thought process and dialogue of children, Mark Twain, Booth Tarkington, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Portis and Harper Lee are in the top tier at this talent.

This book has everything. It's a mystery, a childhood memoir, a cultural exploration, a study of great parenting skills, and a courtroom drama. Atticus Finch instills respect in his children but he does not use fear to instill it. His children have the option of contradicting him and when they're right he admits it. Not many writers can convincingly depict an eight-year-old girl backing down a lynch mob. This is only one of the great great scenes in this book.

I'm very familiar with Ms. Spacek's acting career but this is the first time I've listened to a book she narrates. Her work on To Kill A Mockingbird is sublime. Her understanding of southern US dialect is skillful and subtle. The distinction she makes between characters' voices enhance the beauty of the prose without distracting the listener. I listened to the entire book in two days and in my opinion Ms. Spacek's performance is flawless. I loved it.

Absolutely. I nearly did listen to it all in one sitting.

I read this book when it first came out and enjoyed it very much then. I think I was about thirteen at that time. I listened to this audio version in preparation for Ms. Lee's new book. At sixty-five I enjoyed it much more. I am very interested to know what became of Scout and Jem and Dill growing up under the influence of Atticus Finch as teacher and role model.

I found the breakdown of how and what we think when faced with interpersonal crises very thought provoking and very accurate.

Eric Berne's the Games People Play, Timothy Leary's Interpersonal Diagnosis of the Personality, Grinder and Bandler's Frogs Into Princes, L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics, Milton H. Erickson's Healing With Hypnosis, Jay Haley's Uncommon Therapy

Grenny has a youthful, strong, clear presentation. His reading of Crucial Conversations gets to the heart of the problem and shows the reader how to solved it. I will listen to this program several times.

The difference between "facts" and "story" is very important to distinguish. We take a fact and we make assumptions about how that fact came about which may not be accurate. People unaware of this research usually act as though the information they've intuited is true. If we can use good language skills to unravel facts from intuited "stories," we may be able to help others and ourselves get closer to the truth.

There is really a lot of new information here that can be very useful when using language to support our relationships both personal and business.

Mr. Johnson writes with authority about the reasons the city was founded, how those ideals were corrupted and the types of people that drive a city, perhaps any city. I think the book is not so much a cautionary tale as a candid one.

Frank Farley was such a quintessential hypocrite he left me cynical about all politics. The idea that the ice cream and hot dog concessions in one city were controlled by an organization ruled by one man and no one could get ice cream to sell without getting it from him and every scoop sold ALSO put money into his pocket made me wonder about the people selling ice cream around me.

Mantagna was an excellent choice to read this book. His voice is familiar and very pleasant to listen to. He did his research and correctly pronounced the names and locations referred to. While he made the characters distinct he has the wisdom not to over-do it. You can always understand what he's saying. This is a well-written piece of non-fiction. The author injects very few fiction-style dialogues giving an air of serious research to this book. These facts made Mr. Mantagna's job easier as well as giving the reader confidence that this is a well-documented account of history.

There were many moving accounts. Enoch Johnson's prison term, marriage, and long life was very moving at the end of the sequence about him. Farley's final defeat was terrific. The Democratic convention and the disheveled description of the city at that time was very powerful. The people and events that led to the legalization of gambling in the city was fascinating.

This was one of the two or three great pieces of non-fiction I've read this year. It really has very little to do with the TV show (which I think is excellent) that shares the title. I enjoyed this book on an entirely different level than the TV show.