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Narrado por:
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Robert Petkoff
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De:
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Tom Wolfe
The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.
Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.
From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hardwired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zigzags of Darwinism, old and neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech.
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Written in a style that pure Tom Wolfe and with hilariously on-point narration by Robert Petkoff, this is a short book that I found fascinating from beginning to end. I learned about Darwin conspiring with Charles Lyell to present his idea of natural selection before Alfred Russel Wallace; how Wallace later turned on the theory due to its lack of explanatory power, how Noam Chomsky lorded over the linguistics world for 5 decades and how his biggest theory of language has proven to be a house of cards. All in all, a fascinating read. Highly recommended for all those with an interest in science and/or language or for those who can't get enough Tom Wolfe!
FIVE STARS.
Rollicking takedown of Neo-Darwinism
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You can either hate him or love him, but you should not ignore what the pugnacious Wolfe has to say about his past anti-hero Darwin and his current antagonist Chomsky.
If you ever wonder how intellectual elites rule our world, read this book. And if you want to see how contrary voices can be squashed by those elites, here are some sad examples.
I listened to this book and it was, I think, even more powerful than reading it, mainly because of Wolfe's sometimes biting prose. But read it even if you don't have Audiobooks.
A Book by an Atheist That Every Creationist Should Read
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Fascinating
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What did you like best about The Kingdom of Speech? What did you like least?
It's Tom Wolfe--that answers both questions.What did you like best about this story?
Wolfe's way with words.How did the narrator detract from the book?
I have been a subscriber since Audible began and have never been moved to write a review. This is the worst job of pronunciation I have encountered. Please tell narrators to look up words they don't use every day. Even then, High School biology student know that Gregor Mendel's name is not pronounced like a discount store in Massapequa. As to the Latin and German, he just didn't try. I like the book but it is agony to hear.Was The Kingdom of Speech worth the listening time?
Yes, if you can stand the narration.Any additional comments?
Did I mention the narration.Just Don't If You are Literate
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It's just that kinda book.
Afterwards, think it over, read the zany reviews here on audible... and enjoy the audiobook again.
P.S.
Disclosure:
I bought the audiobook.
And, (still) liked it just as much.
The four hours flew by
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A short and excellent classic by Wolfe
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His sense of the intimacy and ultimately understandably-competition-born crawls, leaps, and scurries of history's ideas and movements are convincing in that they render concrete the facts that he has quite thoroughly and with great veridical sensitivity unearthed from the landfills of information about past singular human beings.
One feels that one is there, watching a furtive and despairing Darwin sending Wallace's paper to established members of the Linnean Society, caught between the rock of his less-developed theory and the hard place of his desire to stick to the code of conduct of a gentleman.
This is a history of ideas of the sort that I love: The sort that is an initiation ceremony belonging to the mini Elusinian Mystery Cult of learning for intellectual improvement. One is guided through the narrative by the author, and, based upon the trustworthiness, convincingness, and the storyteller's spellcasting ability of the author, one is brought into a slightly different, slightly better-comprehended world than one inhabited before the final chapter displays for one the truths the author has gleaned from the ceremony/ordeal of writing the book.
For this reason, I love Tom Wolfe.
Tom Wolfe continues to make me feel brilliant...
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Good read
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However, once it got to the linguistic section, where he argues that there is a dead-end in thinking about the origin of language in evolutionary terms, I feel like he started to fall flat. He felt particularly bitter against Noam Chomsky when resorting to attacking his character and political positions to support his argument for the weakness of his intellectual position.
And the final chapter, which explains the title, made me feel that he was totally out of his depth in endeavoring to write this book, because I feel that he completely missed the stakes of what people are endeavoring to do by explaining things in evolutionary terms.
Applying my X-Ray vision goggles, I think I get the sense that his deal is that he had become more conservatively aligned and pessimistic about Liberalism and “wokeness” and the decline of religion (in a Jordan Petersonian way) when writing this work, and, with not very much clarity internally, was trying to help indirectly pry open some more space for traditionalism and a useful fundamentalism.
I really think he would fit right in if he were alive today, as an “offensive” anti-woke entertainer. I must stress that, though I am woke, this book was highly listenable, with a great vocal performance, but also a very witty writing style. I just think the author invested more in style than substance, which grasped my attention long after I realized this wasn’t exactly what I was looking for.
In praise of speech, but misses the point
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The Kingdom of Speech examines the one thing, language/speech, that separates humans from all other animals. I love this little book!
Takedown of a pseudointellectual bully!
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