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18 ratings, 3.50 average rating, 7 reviews
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published
2006
by PublicAffairs
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Hardcover, 259 pages
isbn
1586483595
(isbn13: 9781586483593)
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The legendary financier-and founder of the Open Society Institute-offers crucial insight into the real meaning of freedom, and how societies can best ...more
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Read in January, 2008
recommends it for:
Anyone who liked Orwell's 1984, or political writings by Chomsky or Vidal
This book is so impressive that I have to start my review by stating that I do not currently have the skills I would need to do this book justice.
If you like the political writings of Chomsky and Vidal you'll almost assuredly like this book.
If you liked Orwell's 1984 you will almost assuredly like this book. I would even say that anyone who liked 1984 would find this a modern sequel that is entirely adequate to the task.
In this book we get a very clear and honest look at the curren...more
If you like the political writings of Chomsky and Vidal you'll almost assuredly like this book.
If you liked Orwell's 1984 you will almost assuredly like this book. I would even say that anyone who liked 1984 would find this a modern sequel that is entirely adequate to the task.
In this book we get a very clear and honest look at the curren...more
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Read in August, 2006
recommends it for:
Politically interested people
I had never heard of George Soros until I read an editorial he sent in to the Wall Street Journal. The editorial piqued my interest and so I looked him up and discovered this book.
The Age of Fallibility is very well written and presents very complicated theories in an easy to grasp from. Soros writes with the mentality of someone that really wants to get his point across: He tells you what he is going to talk about, talks about it, and then tells you what he just talked about. This has the ...more
The Age of Fallibility is very well written and presents very complicated theories in an easy to grasp from. Soros writes with the mentality of someone that really wants to get his point across: He tells you what he is going to talk about, talks about it, and then tells you what he just talked about. This has the ...more
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Read in April, 2007
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Everyone
George Soros devided his book into two parts. In first part which has 2 chapters he tried to explain his conceptual framework. Mr. Soros expalin more deeply about many issues which already familiar in philosophy about mind, reality and as his concern, open society. Mr. Soros concept on these subject influence stronly by his professor Karl Popper. According to Mr. Soros, reality is something that independent from our mind. It means that reality is exist around us and waiting for us to understand ...more
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Read in September, 2007
George Soros is one of those geniuses that probably make more sense to themselves than they can ever make to others. This book is his current (2006) take on world affairs. Mostly a treatise on what is wrong with America and the many looming threats around the world. The main points are largely self-evident but Soros puts them in a unique framework. I found it interesting that he uses the same framework for analyzing world affairs that he uses to analyze the financial markets. His take on th...more
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Read in January, 2008
I did not actually finish this book. I do not believe in finishing a book merely because it's been started and this book did not deserve to be finished.
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