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362 reviews for:
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
Dan Carlin
3.74 AVERAGE
362 reviews for:
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
Dan Carlin
3.74 AVERAGE
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I love Dan Carlin and Hardcore History. I've been a longtime listener of almost every episode. So it seemed this book would be a no brainer slam dunk. I did like the book and feel anyone not familiar with Dans work would enjoy it. But it definitely comes across as a loose thread connecting previous podcast episodes and notes. It's all good stuff but didn't feel particularly novel for Dan. The book also ended a bit aburptly for my taste as well and I had hoped there would be more thoughts on nuclear proliferation in the late 20th and early 21st century.
Two and a half stars rounded up. This was a bit maybe too broad in focus, but had extremely fascinating parts. It did read like a longer form podcast. Interesting, scary and disturbing.
If I didn't hear a lot of this covered in podcasts previously, it'd be an easy 5 star review. As it is, there was quite a bit of stuff that I've heard before, presented a bit differently... But I feel it's be unfair to give it any less than 4 stars for that.
I listened to the book on Audible, so it felt like a longer version of one of Dan's podcasts (although not much longer :) ). It bothered me a bit that you could tell he was reading the book, while I'm used to a slightly different style from him, but I got used to it after a while.
I listened to the book on Audible, so it felt like a longer version of one of Dan's podcasts (although not much longer :) ). It bothered me a bit that you could tell he was reading the book, while I'm used to a slightly different style from him, but I got used to it after a while.
Basically an extended version of his podcast. Interesting but not super exciting. It's kind of quaint to read the chapter about pandemic during coronavirus though.
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I seem to enjoy non-fiction books done by podcasters. It generally just feels like an extended episode of what I hear normally. This book is only about twice as long as Dan Carlin usually does, so it's not that much more, but it is still interesting. It's was really interesting reading/listening to this while we have the COVID-19 racing through the world, since he does talk a bit about different pandemics that have affected the world.
The end is Always Near plays just like Dan Carlin's podcast series Hardcore History. I'm not sure why he decided to put this in book form since it really doesn't seem any different and it mildly underwhelms since it feels a lot like his Destroyer of Worlds podcast. The mystery of the Bronze age collapses is interesting but I was hoping for something unique in his first book and all I got felt like more of the same.
Som en enda lengre episode av Hardcore History med de samme temaene som Carlin har vært innom flere ganger i podcasten, med minst like mye krig, ødeleggelse og grotesk vold som man kunne forvente fra denne gærningen.
Kapitlet om pandemier ble plutselig veldig aktuelt, og boka er jevnt over urovekkende. Apokalypsen er alltid nær.
Kapitlet om pandemier ble plutselig veldig aktuelt, og boka er jevnt over urovekkende. Apokalypsen er alltid nær.
dark
informative
tense
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