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Dense and informative. Worth $125? Not really, although I applaud Brian Kurtz for taking on custodianship and putting it back into print. I will read it again after I have put some of what I learned into practice.

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I don't have the first idea about running ads online, or I didn't until I read this. I will return to it when I'm ready to start running ads for sure.
I would like to have had setting up pixels explained with more depth as I am still not sure how to do that, but I know I can go to the AdSkills YouTube channel to find that.

Recommended by a good friend. This is potentially a life-changing book for me. It's the sort of book that really could use multiple reads.

Recommended by a good friend. This is potentially a life-changing book for me. It's the sort of book that really could use multiple reads.

It literally took me years to get through this. I guess I have the COVID-19 lockdown to thank!

The concepts are explained very well and the exercises really work, but I do find the flippant style rather unfunny and annoying.

I'm a player of some 30 years and never bothered with theory. That has help me back in a big way and this book, along with volume 1, have helped me a lot. I love the ring bound format and the paper stock works well with a pencil and eraser.

I recommend this for all guitar players and I use a lot of it in my teaching now too.

It loses a star because the attempted humour annoyed me, although I admit that I did laugh at the ‘Starring Harrison Ford' chapter title!

A good primer on Putin's journey. It has awoken my curiosity and I'm now looking for some more in-depth material. I used to follow Russian politics pretty closely back in my Bradford days; I would read Johnson's Russia List most days.

This Audible production has me wondering how my life could have been quite different if I'd followed that path instead of the translation path. A fruitless wondering of course, but I can't help myself.

The production is very surface-level, but very well done and easy to listen to. Well worthy of your time if you have even a passing interest in international politics.

This was recommended to me by guitar maker Rosie Heydenrych of Turnstone Guitars. She and her husband Karl both spoke very highly of this book, so I added it to my queue. I'm glad I did. I enjoyed every minute of it.

Well, well, well - my first China Miéville novel and I'm smitten! This was some seriously good writing.

I started out with the Audible version and started it five or six times. Each time, at about 90 minutes, I realised that I didn't really get what was going on; my concentration had lapsed. This was going to be one of those books that I'd actually have to read, wasn't it?

Turns out yes, it was. Just that. The last time this happened was with Catch 22, and reading that with my eyes paid off big time.

Okay, used paperback bought from Amazon. There's something about used paperbacks that I really love: the smell of the aged paper, the creases, it all adds to the experience.

The premise of the novel I found super intriguing. I hadn't picked up on some of the literary cues about the second city when listening, but did so when reading. ‘Riiight, I see what's going on here'. And the whole Breach thing - so redolent of the KGB in Stalinist Russia.

It's a concept and a story that will stay in my mind for a while I'm quite sure. I gave it four stars rather than five because the the last 60 or so pages felt a little rushed and James Bondy, but only a little.

This might just be one of the best books I've ever read. And what's kinda funny is that, the first time I started listening to it a few months ago, it really didn't resonate at all.

Right book, wrong time. Probably.

Second time around though, boy did it resonate! I'm new to marketing and have always found it to be kind of icky. This book has turned me around on that completely. Sure, it can be icky, or, as Seth puts it, evil, but it can also be philanthropic.

I will most definitely listen to this book again in a few months' time, after I've read more and learned more about what it is I want to be doing and how I want to be doing it.

The biggest takeway would be that we are marketing to ourselves. The idea that what we do has value is something we need to embrace. Love thyself.

This is a book that I know will resonate with my clients and many of my friends whether they be interested in marketing as a profession or not. I will be recommending it to a lot of people, so Seth's done a fantastic job of finding advocates simply by writing a valuable book.

The other takeway is learning how to identify ‘people like us' and be comfortable telling others that ‘this isn't for you'. I know lots of people like me that will be able to relate to that quite well!

I found this enjoyable and helpful. I'm a solo freelancer and have been thinking of ways to apply this philosophy to my own situation as I was listening to it; I'm not really quite sure yet, but it feels like I ought to get the philosophy first and then keep that in mind as I build my company of one. I've joined the group and bought the Mailchimp course too — the former mainly to give me access to discussion and the latter, well, because Paul's automated sales funnel works well and I took advantage of the discount he offered. I look forward to learning more and keeping growing into the author's mindset.

Left behind by my mother in law. I started reading it as a joke to my wife but got drawn in. I actually quite enjoyed it.

This was an incredible audiobook. It took me a few goes to get past the first hour because the Spanish names were all so unfamiliar, but once I got going it drew me right in. The editing was tight, the translation superb, the pacing just right and a superb plot. Highly recommended.

Outstanding. I'd love actually to get my daughter (15) to read this, but it's unlikely I suppose.

I might just read it again in a year or so, as I'm a bear of very little brain and it would do me some good I think. I'm not saying it's a difficult book — quite the opposite in fact, but I find these concepts a little challenging to grasp fully.

Highly recommended and thank you Waterstone's for having this as a book of the month, else I wouldn't have seen it.

Not as good as the reviews and the Incomparable podcast led me to believe, but still enjoyable enough that I finished it.

My God, what a slog this was. I think it took about 18 months to get through. It kind of felt like a book I knew I should read and was making myself read but finding it a chore, a bit like reading Russian lit at university – fantastic books but a real slog at times. Yes, I read War and Peace.

I love the first and second chronicles, particularly the second. In fact love might not be a strong enough word for the second chronicles. There's barely a day goes past that I don't find myself thinking of the Sunbane. Hellfire! Even my website is sunbane.com. I'm not a Linden hater - I know there are many of you out there, but I'm not one. I find her inner struggles to be quite relatable. Not sure what that says about me, but there you have it. She struggles with self esteem and self confidence and is acting out of love. She herself is a bit of an ‘unbeliever' - Covenant didn't believe in the land so felt he could act with impunity; Linden doesn't believe in herself, despite her earlier achievements in the second chronicles. But now there's love of a child and that's her motivation for seeing her decisions through, even though she's not sure that they are the right ones.

Is the decision she saw through at the end the right one? I really don't know, but it's sure going to make for an interesting book 3.

I love the history that we get in this novel – I wonder how much of it was already in Donaldson's head during the writing of the previous books. Did he always plan this story right through I wonder? I guess some of you might know. Let me know if you do.

I put the book down for months and months and picked it up again right as the giants appeared, then battered through to the end. I don't know if it was the story that drew me in and hooked me on the last 100 pages, or maybe it was just my state of mind, that I was ready for the book where I hadn't been before. I don't know.

I did actually groan a bit when the giants appeared. Like ‘Really? You're bringing giants in at a seemingly random point?'. It felt a bit like - ‘I know. Lets put some giants into the story right here cos giants are awesome'. And yes; giants ARE awesome. So I got over that and started to enjoy them, even though some of the names are pretty ridiculous.

And talking of ridiculous – that vocabulary. Seriously. That's the worst thing about these books. Some of the words aren't even in the Kindle dictionary and some that are I find myself looking up again and again because I just can't get my head round them. There really is no need for it. I read and loved the Gap series without a dictionary. I looked up only a few words in Mordant's Need and the other one - demesne being one that I recall. But this? Mansuetude? I mean come on. That's just silly.

So - history - yes.
Story - kinda.
Editing - nope; Too long.
Vocab - ridiculous.
Plot - okay.
Giants - awesome.

Will I continue? Naturally. I'm expecting another slog, but a worthwhile one. Maybe not as worthwhile as Les Miserables, but worthwhile nevertheless.

A little dated, or actually a lot dated, but still a worthwhile listen (audiobook, obvs).

I enjoyed this. It's very modern and idealistic but it hit some high spots for me. I'm 46 and either going through or getting deeper into self evaluation, personal development and spirituality. I've gone through life feeling like an imposter at times, and untouchable at other times. I'm coming to believe that I can be a good person and work things out to be happy.

Some of the characters in the book at tragic. The vagina smell guy - such a shame. The selfie girl. Same. The gangster - an amazing tale of self discovery.

The book talks of motivations and cultural shifts and neo liberalism. I found the latter most enlightening, going back in time to Reagan and Thatcher. The concept of different cultures too - West vs East with the fish analogy. Fascinating.

A pretty decent primer on blockchain technology but I have to say that after having read it I still don't think I could explain it. I found my way to this on Audible after spending a month on Steemit.com, a social media platform that pays crypto in Steem to its users as rewards for content curated by the platform's users. I'm keen to invite others to the paradigm, but without being able to explain it, it's a real problem. I thought this book would give me the info I needed, but it fell short.

Don't get me wrong - I did learn a lot from reading this, but it skirted over the surface of the technology by giving repeated examples of how useful the technology could be without really going into how it works. Of course explaining how it works could actually have made it rather turgid and dense as I'm not sure whether that can be explained to the layman very comprehensibly.

A pretty decent primer on blockchain technology but I have to say that after having read it I still don't think I could explain it. I found my way to this on Audible after spending a month on Steemit.com, a social media platform that pays crypto in Steem to its users as rewards for content curated by the platform's users. I'm keen to invite others to the paradigm, but without being able to explain it, it's a real problem. I thought this book would give me the info I needed, but it fell short.

Don't get me wrong - I did learn a lot from reading this, but it skirted over the surface of the technology by giving repeated examples of how useful the technology could be without really going into how it works. Of course explaining how it works could actually have made it rather turgid and dense as I'm not sure whether that can be explained to the layman very comprehensibly.

It's no Owen Meany but it's clearly an Irving novel. Europe, gender fluidity, family, New England, wrestling, death; love, loss, self discovery, novelist protagonist, teacher. It's like a recipe, but, just like enjoy my favourite recipes, so too do I enjoy John Irving's novels.

I enjoyed this a lot, but do understand a lot of the frustration that other reviewers have mentioned. It's long though, especially in the Fae realm and even more so in Adem (I don't know how things are spelled because Audible). The worst is that Kvothe seems to be able to do anything better than anyone else. Even when he gets beaten up by two soldiers, it's a ruse. “I almost forgot who I was there for a minute,” he says. Ha!

I can easily overlook the flaws though because, as a yarn, it's just flat out ripping good. It doesn't require my undivided attention like Thomas Covenant in places, so it's an ideal winter dog walking audiobook, and Rupert Degas is perhaps the best narrator I've ever heard, besides Simon Callow of course.

And now I play the waiting game that GRRM has taught me how to play. I learned that game young when David Eddings was so long with the last book of the Mallereon, but GRRM is the master. I just hope that the next one comes out soon enough that I don't have to read them all again.

I don't really get it. And the pages smell awful. I bought this at a concert I really enjoyed. The book was expensive and pretty rubbish. Maybe I'm just not the right audience, but I do get JoCo's songs, so I thought I would be the right audience. I only really bought the book to support him and do my bit to make sure he keeps making great music, so I'm that sense it was worth it.

I don't really get it. And the pages smell awful. I bought this at a concert I really enjoyed. The book was expensive and pretty rubbish. Maybe I'm just not the right audience, but I do get JoCo's songs, so I thought I would be the right audience. I only really bought the book to support him and do my bit to make sure he keeps making great music, so I'm that sense it was worth it.

This could very well be the best performance I've heard of an audiobook. It could be that it's a three- and not really a four-star book, but the performance was so good that I can't help but give it four.

I used to read a lot more fantasy than I do now. Some of it I've revisited as an educated adult and found rather poor - David Eddings' Belgariad etc., Terry Brooks' Shannara books, books that I really enjoyed as a late teen / early 20-year-old. The only fantasy that I really still enjoy has been A Song of Ice and Fire and my old favourites, the rather unwieldy and somewhat turgid Thomas Covenant Chronicles.

So it was rather a delight for me to be drawn so much into a new fantasy novel. Okay, so it is somewhat formulaic, but that didn't really matter. I found it to be well written and well plotted, with a really strong main character and excellent supporting characters. It's not the type of novel that I'd read more than once, as I have done with TC and ASoIaF, but it's not quite throw-away entertainment either.

I wonder if there are more fantasy books other there along these lines?

This was even better in my mid 40s. The concepts of despite and desecration are deep and interesting, but the love that shines through this book is strong. And what an ending! This was my third read and I still couldn't see it coming.