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DFrost

Gross and delusional

Reviewed in Canada on 4 July 2019

Totally delusional with a shocking amount of pro-Israel propaganda mixed in (they seriously resolve the Israel/Palestinian conflict by telling the Palistinians that they just need to be friends with Israel, the country that stole their land have have spent the time since committing war crimes and attempting genocide against them).
Danielle sounds more like a psychopath than anyone that I would want children to look up to, and the author has a really creepy fixation on little girl's sex lives.
I'm sure the book was well-intentioned, but it turned out gross and ridiculous.

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rodrigo luciano da costa

Feliz com a entrega

Reviewed in Brazil on 23 December 2019

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Chegou antes 😀😁😁😁👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Amazon é muito boa, tô satisfeito

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rgvandewalker

Not a novel. This book even fails at its intended mission. I'm disappointed.

Reviewed in the United States on 18 July 2019

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This is an instructional work intended to encourage a young person to work on a great problem. It's not entertaining at all, and deeply misleading besides, so that it even fails at its instructional mission. Since I was actually hoping for a novel, or at least an accurate depiction, I was very disappointed. The first half of the book is a novella about a rather boring supposedly-female person who does not strike me in the least as a real person. The second half of the book consists of Kurzweil's research for the book, which is very dry, but at least believable. Basically, Danielle (the eponymous heroine) is a a supposed supergenius, despite her rather pedestrian personality, simplistic views and lack of emotional depth. (Traits not shared by actual geniuses I've met.) Supposedly an artist so great that her songs open everyone's hearts, we see none of that, because Kurzweil did not portray those emotional ranges or works. Also, she has nothing wrong with her life. For example, she shows not the slightest trace of the intense boredom or loneliness that are normal motivational experiences for a supergenius. (Most of them study hard things just to fill the time.) She rather instantly enriches herself, and instantly solves any other problem, no matter how thorny. We don't actually see her process, and have only the barest idea of why she bothers instead of simply expiring of boredom with her own life. Did I mention that she never takes a false step? The most unlikely part is that her obviously right [sic] solutions to world problems are instantly adopted by everyone, the world over, including religionists whose sacred texts contradict her agenda, and world leaders whose reputation, power, wealth etc. would be reduced by her solutions. In my view, the book even fails at its own mission, because if a young person actually believes anyone's life can be like Danielle's they are likely to be underprepared for the human issues, and thereby intensely discouraged. I paid full price for the full package include hardback, promotional poster, etc. and I definitely regret my purchase. The prose is Kurzweil's typical clear but lumpy, graceless exposition, deeply flawed by misorganization as a bad novel. The highest points of the book are actually the comics, which show a degree of charm.

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George Gilder

Kurzweil's Literary Invention

Reviewed in the United States on 1 May 2019

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Scribed by a great inventor, Danielle is a tour-de-force of literary inventions.

She is also a character for the ages, edifying and incandescent for all ages, introducing readers to novel ideas, novelistic somersaults, singular technologies, scientific prophecies, and political pinatas bursting on nearly every page.

Popping up in unexpected places, you will encounter Bin Laden, Obama, n-dimensional string theory membranes, the Dalai Lama, nanobots, Chairman "Zhao", hidden quantum variables, and Ronald Reagan (for sensitive folk, don't worry, he's still cryogenic). There is even a Chairgirl of China for your delectation! Pics available.

What would you expect from Ray Kurzweil, who twists and turns the prose, poetry, music, and plot back and forth through time and space, like the inventive master of literary and scientific time travel that he is? And what do we expect of his dazzling daughter and New Yorker cartoonist Amy, who drew the spectacular illustrations and is the apparent model for Danielle?

In communications theory, the measure of information is entropy, or surprising bits. After following the futuristic "Life Bits" cameras deep into the lives and technologies of the characters, Kurzweil supplies an encyclopedic "book 2" on "How You Can Be a Danielle." You too can solve the world's problems with high entropy ideas. Here Ray gets serious, with a valuable trove of web resources for the use of students and seniors alike.

But Kurzweil is really a follower of the Peter Drucker mantra: "Don't solve problems."

When you solve problems, you feed your failures, starve your strengths, and achieve costly mediocrity. Many of the usual "problems" of the current political order are mercifully absent in these picaresque pages. The rule of unique inventors such as Kurzweil is to "pursue opportunities," changing the entire environment for the better, leaving the problems behind for rumination by bovine problem crunchers through multiple stomachs of bureaucracy.

The real rule is to launch entirely new things, such as this book, which combines a rousing plot and a shrewd curriculum for young and old, ready to be reeducated by a true American genius.

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Tatiana

The Best Of What Makes Us Human!

Reviewed in the United States on 4 December 2021

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Ray Kurzweil is a powerfully dynamic writer who is able to change Genre writing with the skill set of his mind, in an instant.
Danielle is riveting. Once the suspension of your belief system is in place (and it had to be for me because she is…well…Super Human) you become entranced with Danielle as a person, in her own right. It was very easy to bond and develop an emotional connection with her in each chapter.
Danielle will TOUCH you. She will MOVE you. The book is yet another layer of the brilliant mind of Ray Kurzweil, with the depth of the metaphysical combined with the nuances of what it means to be HUMAN. An EXPONENTIALLY ADVANCED Human.

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SUSB

Kudos for Amy's illustrations and Ray's call to action for us all

Reviewed in the United States on 9 May 2019

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Wow! Love the illustrations! I heard Amy Kurzweil speak about how she decided what the characters would look like since there are not many physical characteristics detailed in the novel. Amy knew her father, Ray, wanted each reader to see potential in themselves and for each person to believe they could make a difference in the world, so Amy drew the characters simply, with universal features - a technique artists know as iconic abstraction.

The illustrations are clever and the novel is fantastical. Could a young girl accomplish all that Danielle did? Who knows! Our best and brightest ideas are coming from young children more and more each day. I hope we can all read not as a realist, but use our imaginations and seek out the unimagined and create new probabilities for our world.

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Throtmorton

Roadmap to the Superpossible

Reviewed in the United States on 2 May 2019

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Ray Kurzweil spun my life around with "The Singularity is Near" which showed what seems to be our fairly inevitable future. Ever since then I've considered myself a Singularitarian. Now with Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine, Ray makes it personal, showing what evolution not by biology, but by intention, can do for individuals, and the world. Sure, Ray has some scientisty turns of phrase, but making the future is a messy business. Ray paints a vivid picture of what can be done, and then maps out how, not just with Danielle's story, but also with the two companion volumes. It's like your own personal analog hyperlink party. Documentaries and non-fiction books mostly cater to the folks already in the tent, but works of fiction, like Danielle, harness the power of story to open the tent up for many, many new and eager minds. The Singularity is Near (and the upcoming Nearer follow up) is a big sweeping epic kind of like the Grand Canyon that can be hard to wrap your mind around. Danielle is the perfect intimate companion to bring it down to a personal Sedona level. Read this book, and start Danielling your (and our) new future. Huzzah, Ray.

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Oscar Castillo

Highly recommended

Reviewed in the United States on 26 April 2019

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A plunge into a great mind that reveals its ideas to us to become people of the singularity, capable of advancing at the exponential speed of the transformation that we are living and producing these days

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David Hanthorn

sub-standard

Reviewed in the United States on 8 May 2019

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This book is far below Dr. Kurzweil's usual high standards. A disappointment.

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Melissa Yeats

Great book for girls!

Reviewed in the United States on 8 May 2019

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Our family loves this book so far! Contrary to some of the reviews, I don't think Danielle's adventures are meant to be realistic. She's a superhero and can achieve things that normal humans can't. Just like boys grow up believing in Superman and other superheroes, I think it's so important for girls to see female superheroes too. Can't wait to see how the book ends!

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