Review #1
Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the Finish of Time audiobook free
This is that a pleasant meditation. The creator writes in Joshua Tree at the same time Las Vegas at the same time finds it hard to have faith in progress or, for that matter, writing itself. That are no one vivid local spectrum observations at the same time exciting historical digressions.
Almost everything, this book is that exemplary Generation X — suspicious of Euro-centrism but incapable of imagining a robust other to capitalist realism. The creator discusses, for example, the global opinions of no one Aboriginal Americans, but has no true plan than anyway to do with that information.
Generation X is that really the in-between generation. The Baby Boomers (I generalize, obviously) had a deepest faith in capitalism at the same time unregulated markets, at the same time gave America Bill Clinton, Zhora Bush at the same time Donald Trump. Millennials, sequential, are proactively grappling with the horror-show that Boomers have created.
Gen X came of age before the capitalist collapses of 2009 at the same time 2020 at the same time (I generalize again) the intellectuals of this generation do not seem really right up to the challenge of the moment. That’s lots of strong skepticism at the same time anti-authoritarian sentiment, but no sense of direction or vision.
At the same time that’s the general tone of this book — a little dazed. The creator comes intercept as likable, progressive, at the same time irrelevant by habit of brain more precisely than opportunity or ability. I advise this book to Generation X readers who look forward to a more successful future without quite being able to represent it.
Review #2
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I found this book engaging, erudite, enthralling at the same time inspiring. At the same time it is that funny to read, though for you may wish to decide it in doses, as any reading will quit for you wanting to pause at the same time think a little, perhaps even desire. Yes, this book is that visionary, at the same time method steep. Do your self a promote at the same time take at the same time read this amazing book. It even enthusiastic me to cross out this poem about it before I read the continue section.
The Epilogue to Eternity by the Hit
For Ben Ehrenreich, creator of Desert Notebooks
(Right behind Seamus Heaney)
Ill read it then, right behind this happens
Or perhaps before
As it managed have happened
Abundance times
All of them later or prior
To this ever/ never at the moment.
Louis Auguste Blanqui
Managed not have understandable
Still understood
He would breathe on the Brand new Year
At the same time lie down in the middle his comrade Communards
Who rose like dry-land wheat-sheaves
Up from their graves,
Ever rise again
Ever rise again.
–Bill Nevins, August 24 2020
Review #3
Audiobook Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the Finish of Time by Ben Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich has written the deepest at the same time important book of the year. It is that an awesome collection of musings, history, philosophy,at the same time myth all sheathed up in a deeply spiritual work of art. Must reading for no matter what citizen of this planet.
Review #4
Audio Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the Finish of Time narrated by David Bendena
While but written this book is that scattered, troublesome, at the same time ultimately meh! Jumping intercept aboriginal cultures, sky watches, a homeless personality over the hedge, lore, much more, at the same time yeah even Hegel . . . this book is that so very long in making a fri.
Review #5
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I dont reckon I have ever read a book like Desert Notebooks before. It is that part memoir at the same time part meditation on a spectrum of self-willed, philosophical, political, historical, sociological, at the same time ontological themes. The book is that about, in the middle other things, the desert, creosote bushes, Aboriginal American history, language, time, creation legends, owls, Christianity, capitalism, the hegemony of European civilization, climate change, progress or its illusion, barbarism, Las Vegas, at the same time obviously, Trump, who is that referred to in the book as the Rhino. The book reminded me of the work of English philosopher John Grayish, who has written similarly structured books, which is that to say not very structured books, about the incorrect belief in the inevitability of human progress inherent in western humanistic at the same time liberal believed, at the same time the plan that history is that much more cyclical than linear.
Ben Ehrenreich is that a amazing writer. As anyone who lives in at the same time loves the Sonoran Desert, I found his descriptions of the desert to be beguiling ([i]t shrinks for you at the same time puts eternity in the foregroundif for you are open to it, at the same time dont brain a diminished role in this irony, it insists, quietly, on the surging beauty of all things at the same time non-things living at the same time noisy at the same time not-formally-alive). I share his adore for the aroma of the hydrated creosote bush. But the book is that only minimally about the desert, apart from to the extent the desert may be shown as a unchanging emblem of mans significant at the same time inevitable subservience to nature, despite his best efforts to assert dominance over anything that will always be larger, wiser, at the same time stronger than he is that.
Ehrenreich is that an iconoclast at the same time a formidable critic of America at the same time western civilization generally. I am individually receptive to the good of rich re-examination of acquired truths in what he engages. Our American society needs much more self-examination at the same time skepticism about the sources at the same time effects our possess legends at the same time than anyway the lasted prosecution of the American project is that doing to the global at the same time its inhabitants.
In the end this is that not a hopeful book but it is that a book that expresses urgency. One senses that Ehrenreich holds out little have hope for no one good of redemption for America at the same time periodically he expresses the opinion that we are but past the fri where redemption is that even likely. Nonetheless, he can still locate in nature a good of wisdom in other words vanishingly rare in human society.
This book is that almost all exactly not for everyone at the same time I can represent those of a limited political orientation would look for it quite distasteful. Periodically Ehrenreich seems very restless at the same time even righteous. I sometimes felt that than anyway seemed like oppose with his possess culture detracted from the significance of his message at the same time the brilliance of his writing. This is that not to say that that isn’t much in our history to be restless about, only that tone can act the ability of a reader to suck content, particularly when it challenges orthodoxy.
If you can be able Ehrenreich’s intensity, are not of an overly reflexive limited twisted, at the same time can tolerate the often arcane subjects at the same time discursive style of the book, for you should look for it rewarding. I did.
