Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
The Age of Resilience
Jeremy Rifkin · 2022
🎙 Narrated by Adam Barr
70/100
👍 Worth It
Rifkin's big idea — that efficiency-obsessed systems are fragile and the future needs to be built around resilience instead — is timely and genuinely provocative, especially post-pandemic. But multiple reviewers flagged the prose as dense and repetitive over its full length, so pace your expectations. Adam Barr narrates competently, though this is a book better suited to patient listening than a quick binge.
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🎙 Narration: fine Narrated by Adam Barr for Macmillan Audio; no notable praise or complaints found about the performance itself.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety95
Substance / usefulness82
Craft & writing60
Originality75
Evidence & accuracy65
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit85
Human-eye read70
Penny’s verdict70
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