Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
STOICISM: The Art of Happiness
Silvan Silvus · 2020
🎙 Narrated by dms (narrator credit listed as 'dms' on retail platforms)
50/100
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At just over three hours, this survey hits the Stoic basics — the dichotomy of control, dealing with grief, daily practice — but does nothing more than summarize ideas available in free public-domain texts, and does so without any original scholarship or identifiable author voice. The anonymous narrator credit ('dms') and minimal critical footprint make it hard to recommend over better-established introductions to the same material. If curiosity about Stoicism is the goal, a listen to a more credible introductory source would serve you better.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety74
Substance / usefulness54
Craft & writing56
Originality35
Evidence & accuracy52
Hype vs delivers45
Age-fit64
👁 Human-eye gut-check52
Penny’s verdict50
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