Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant

Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
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Interesting view inside an autistic mind

Excellent

Not Terribly Engrossing

Nice book about synesthesia

A beautiful book!

Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
Daniel Tammet
Manufacturer: Free Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Book Description

Born on a Blue Day is a journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today -- guided by its owner himself. Daniel Tammet sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. He can learn to speak new languages fluently, from scratch, in a week. In 2004, he memorized and recited more than 22,000 digits of pi, setting a record. He has savant syndrome, an extremely rare condition that gives him almost unimaginable mental powers, much like those portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film Rain Man.

Daniel has a compulsive need for order and routine -- he eats the same precise amount of cereal for breakfast every morning and cannot leave the house without counting the number of items of clothing he's wearing. When he gets stressed or is unhappy, he closes his eyes and counts. But in one crucial way Daniel is not at all like the Rain Man: he is virtually unique among people who have sev- ere autistic disorders in that he is capable of living a fully independent life. He has emerged from the "other side" of autism with the ability to function successfully -- he is even able to explain what is happening inside his head.

Born on a Blue Day is a triumphant and uplifting story, starting from early childhood, when Daniel was incapable of making friends and prone to tantrums, to young adulthood, when he learned how to control himself and to live independently, fell in love, experienced a religious conversion to Christianity, and most recently, emerged as a celebrity. The world's leading neuroscientists have been studying Daniel's ability to solve complicated math problems in one fell swoop by seeing shapes rather than making step-by-step calculations. Here he explains how he does it, and how he is able to learn new languages so quickly, simply by absorbing their patterns. Fascinating and inspiring, Born on a Blue Day explores what it's like to be special and gives us an insight into what makes us all human -- our minds.

Customer Reviews:

Interesting view inside an autistic mind.......2007-10-11

I thought this was a really interesting read. The perspective was like no other and while I certainly still could not say I know what it's like to be autistic, I felt that Tammet gave some good insight into his mind and how he thinks and how he views the world.

Excellent.......2007-10-10

As a mother of a child with high functioning Autism I found this book extremely interesting. However, even if I had no direct connection with Autism this book is very good. It is wonderfully written; engaging and quick to read. I appreciate Daniel Tammet sharing his story and highly recommend it to anyone.

Not Terribly Engrossing.......2007-08-07

The introduction for this book, in which Tammet describes his savant skills and his synesthesia, is really the most interesting part, and one wishes that the remainder of the book could have been so. As it is, it is a memoir about a life that, despite the curiosity of his Asperger's syndrome and his talents, is actually rather ordinary.

It is interesting to hear him describe the mental manifestations of his mild autism, but as the book moves on, it actually does not effect his life as much as you'd think. When you see him on television programs, in fact, you would hardly guess the mental stress he undergoes to interact with people.

Until late in the book, no one seems particularly interested in Tammet's outstanding language and math abilities, which seems a shame. The memoir has been produced precisely because he has been discovered, but I can't help but think that a different kind of book would have been a better, more interesting way to learn about Tammet. While his brain is fascinating, his life story isn't nearly so.

Nice book about synesthesia.......2007-08-03

This is a nice first person narrative about synesthesia. I enjoyed reading another person's perspective of synesthetic problem solving by means of spontaneous, intuitive pictures. I know of synesthetes that have had to go through extensive occupational therapy to heal hypersensitivities to light, sound, etc. I wonder how he just got over it at some point.

I rate this book a 5 star because it is rare to find a book about synesthesia written by the people who live it and know it best.

A beautiful book!.......2007-08-01

This is really a beautiful book. I really mean beautiful. Yes it is a great book and a great read, but the difference between this book and other great reads is that this is truly a beautiful book.

The author will take you right into his mind and will show you how he visualizes the world around him. You might think he is a genius, capable of feats we mere mortals are incapable of. For example, he can perform extraordinary math in his head. He can calculate the number Pie (22 divided by 7, or 3.14.....) to more than 22,000 digits in his head! In fact, he holds the world record! Give him any numbers, such as 34,768 multiplied by 67,879, and he'll spit out the answer in an instant, faster than it would take you to enter the digits in a calculator.

How can he calculate so fast? What is his secret? The author, Daniel Tammet, sees numbers as shapes, colors and textures. He also experiences emotions by visualizing numbers. He says, "If a friend says they feel sad or depressed, I picture myself sitting in the dark hollowness of number six to help me experience the same sort of feeling and understand it. If I read in an article that a person felt intimidated by something, I imagine myself standing next to the number nine...By doing this, numbers actually help me get closer to understanding other people (p. 8-9, Hodder 2006, paperback). On page 11, he says, "Some nights, when I'm having difficulty falling asleep, I imagine myself walking around my numerical landscapes. Then I feel safe and happy. I never feel lost, because the prime number shapes acts as signposts." He further adds, "Five is a clap of thunder or the sound of waves crashing against rocks. Thirty-seven is lumpy like porridge, while 89 reminds me of falling snow...The number four is shy and quiet...Prime numbers feel smooth, like pebbles."

The author also knows how to speak 11 languages (he even invented one of his own), and he can speak a language fluently from scratch in a week. He learnt Icelandic in one week during a TV interview in Iceland! He says, "Seeing words in different colors and textures aids my memory for facts and names."

In case you are wondering, Tammet sees days of the week as colors. Wednesday, the day he was born, is `blue'; thus the title of the book, `Born on a Blue Day'.

Is the author a genius?

Daniel Tammet has Savant Syndrome, an extremely rare form of Asperger's that gives him almost unimaginable mental powers, much like the Rain Man (Kim Peek) portrayed by Dustin Hoffman. But he is unique among people who have severe autistic disorders in being able to live a fully independent life. He travels by air alone and visits many countries for interviews, research, and to appear on TV. His first flight abroad was to Lithuania where he worked as a volunteer English teacher. It was there he realized that he could live an independent life. He also traveled to America on his own to film the documentary Brainman.

One reviewer said that statistics recently released placed one out of every 150 births as an autistic child. This is by no means a small number. But not all autistic children have the abilities of Tammet or Peek. It is believed that there might be fewer than 100 worldwide!

So what makes Tammet and Peek different from other autistic people, and particularly us?

Tammet's Savant talents likely resulted with a short bout with epilepsy at the age of 4. Scientists studying Tammet and other Savants believe that something in the brain triggers the Savant abilities. If scientists can pinpoint this trigger, can they make us all into supercomputers? The research into the brain is still ongoing, and I must say, is quite fascinating. A lot of it is explained in this book.

However one should not forget that we too have many abilities that we take for granted, such as our ability to communicate clearly (most autistics don't have this ability); understand each other; cope with our surroundings etc...

This book is an insight into what it is like to be a high-functioning autistic. The author explains his life from birth (as related by his parents) to the present time (2006). Some scenes are very touching, like the death of his cat, the illness of his father, and the loneliness he experienced. Other scenes are really funny, like how he didn't like shaving because he was very sensitive to the sound of the blade on his skin (his boyfriend Neil later shaved for him, and taught him to use an electric shaver which he liked using). In fact, sounds bother him, and he often plugs his ears with his fingers. He also says that he eats exactly 45 grams of porridge for breakfast each morning. How does he know this? Well, he actually measures his porridge!

He sometimes sleepwalks. As a child, his parents always made sure his room was tidy at night, for fear he would stumble on something while sleep walking.

He explains how since an early age he was attracted to males, and how he approached his first crush while in high school. He was politely rejected. He then met his true love through the internet years later. He didn't know how to tell his parents. When he finally mustered the courage and the words to face his parents, he was surprised that they immediately supported him. All they wished for was his happiness. He eventually moved in with his boyfriend Neil. They are still together today.

He explains how difficult it is to love as an autistic, and how autistics view love. There is also a chapter on his views on religion which I found inspiring. He says, "...my moral values are based more on ideas that are logical, make sense to me and that I have thought through carefully, than on the ability to `walk in another person's shoes'. I know to treat each person I meet with kindness and respect, because I believe that each person is unique and created in God's image." (p. 282).

He now joins scientists in exploring his mind. He does not mind being a guinea pig as long as there is a benefit to mankind. Imagine one day we can think like him. Imagine being able to solve any mathematical problem! I think it was Einstein who once said that we only use 5% of our brain. What if we can unlock the other 95% of our brain? Imagine being more powerful in processing information than the fastest computer! This is not a dream. People with Savant Syndrome can do just that. The Rain Man (Peek), for example, memorized over 7,000 books, and is able to retrieve any information with page numbers from any of these books!

I love reading books, and I am proud of my thousand plus book library. Imagine having the power to actually put this library in my mind! It would be like all the books in my library are scanned into my brain, giving me a Google like search within my own brain! Will scientists, with the help of Savants, help unlock the full potential of our brain?

Tammet is now a famous man. He has appeared on several Television shows such as with David Letterman and 60 minutes. Together with his boyfriend Neil they began an internet-based company specializing in teaching languages, which has become extremely successful and popular with millions of hits a month.

This is a beautiful book. You will live through the author his life story from his birth to the present time, and unlike other memoirs and biographies, you will find yourself living inside his mind.

One reviewer put it this way, "Being `normal' is nothing extraordinary. Being born Daniel Tammet was truly extraordinary!"

We are all different, and must all respect and love each other. This was my last thought as I read the last sentences of this book. He says, "Everyone is said to have a perfect moment once in a while, an experience of complete peace and connection, like looking out from the top of the Eiffel Tower or watching a falling star high in the night sky...I imagine these moments as fragments or splinters scattered across a lifetime. If a person could somehow collect them all up and stick them together he would have a perfect hour or even a perfect day. And I think in that hour or day he would be closer to the mystery of what it is to be human. It would be like having a glimpse of heaven." (p. 283-284).

This book will change your outlook on life. Do yourself a favor and read this book, and you'll know the meaning of beautiful!

I Thought Labor Ended When The Baby Was Born (Baby Blues Scrapbook, No 4)

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A Must for all expecting to be parents
Very funny!
Zany Antics for the Young and Old

I Thought Labor Ended When The Baby Was Born (Baby Blues Scrapbook, No 4)
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A Must for all expecting to be parents.......2004-04-22

We read it after our kid was born and we now realize what could have been different. I recommend it to anyone planning to be parents. It's the best birth control device ever invented.

Very funny!.......2002-08-21

"I Thought Labor Ended When the Baby Was Born: Baby Blues Scrapbook No. 4" is a great compilation of the "Baby Blues" comic strip. "Baby Blues" is one of the top comic strips out today. This book is a great way to catch up on the history of the McPhersons, if you missed the early strips. I recommend.

Zany Antics for the Young and Old.......2000-04-11

This book was really funny, one of the bright and sparky follow ups in the Baby Blues series. The book reflected the lives of the MacPhersons, glorifying the crazy antics of having children and trying to survive. Keep them coming!

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A great book, with an ending that kills it.
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Despite her natural talent for singing, 6-year-old Janie knows deep in her heart that if you really want to sing and feel the blues, you gotta be black. Aren't the tapes of the "ladies"--Aretha, Etta, and Billie--that she listens to every night in the stinking basement of her first foster home proof enough of that? So the scrawny, blond-haired, blue-eyed child of a heroin addict changes her name to Leshaya, decides that her unknown father was African American, and shuts down all feeling; only allowing the sorrow of her hard life to escape when she opens her mouth to sing. Raised by addicts and drug dealers, Leshaya trusts no one and loves nothing except her music: "Didn't need nobody else. I could make love to my own self with that sound ridin' the beat." Finally, after surviving several foster homes, a harrowing heroin withdrawal, and an unwanted pregnancy, 16-year-old Leshaya finds a band and ends up with a single on the radio. But can even that be enough for a girl so hungry for love that she looks everywhere for it except the one place she's sure to find it--within herself?

National Book Award recipient Han Nolan's fifth novel is an emotional stunner. Like Brock Cole's equally haunting The Facts Speak for Themselves, Born Blue is an unflinching look at a girl forced to grow up too fast in a callous world. Nolan's raw portrayal of Leshaya may hurt to read, but like a recently healed broken heart, it's a good pain. (Ages 14 and older) --Jennifer Hubert

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Leshaya is a survivor. Rescued from the brink of death, this child of a heroin addict has seen it all: revolving foster homes, physical abuse, an unwanted pregnancy. Now, as her tumultuous childhood is coming to an end, she is determined to make a life for herself by doing the only thing that makes her feel whole . . . singing.
Han Nolan pulls no punches in this hard-hitting story of a girl at the bottom who dreams of nothing but the top.

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A great book, with an ending that kills it........2007-06-13

This is what a girl's life is all about. Born Blue is a book that will teach all girls a lesson. Han Nolan, the author, had a great story line. This is what girls need. They need to be able to read about people who actually experience hard times.

This girl named Leyshya has a gift. This is a gift that few people have. Her child hood life is not normal. She had to be put into a foster home and grow up with a family that has a totally different background than her. Not only is this book a good book, for a girl to read but it can be a good book for guys too. They can have the chance to read exactly what a girl goes through and understand thing that they might not understand. This girl has to go through so many ups and downs and there are things that happen that stop her from going on with her gift. It is something that totally changes her whole life. Will this hold her back from wanting to go on? Will she make the right choice? And how will she end up? These are all questions that run through you head while reading this book.

Other than all the emotion that is in this story there are some parts where you just have to laugh. See Leyshya is a southern girl and she has that southern accent. She uses words like "yall" and every word that ends in "ing" she leave the "g" out. It really makes you get into her character. I ended up starting to talk like her after I read the entire book.

I normally do not read books. I am not a big fan of reading but while I started reading this book I kept wanting to read more and more and I didn't want to put the book down. The meaning of the book is so deep. She goes through such hard things that girls can really relate to this. It's intense. It also has a lot of suspense and it makes you wonder what's going to happen next.

The only thing that I would change is change the ending. It ruins it all. It just ends and doesn't go on anymore, and I just want to keep reading but I can't because there are no more pages. The book has such a great theme, but when you get to the end it kills it.

Journey of Self-Discovery and Racial Identity.......2007-06-05

As a little girl she was called Janie. She never really knew her last name, but it didn't really matter. Her first memories are of being in a foster home where she was occasionally beaten and usually ignored. Her only friend, Harmon, lived there, too. He was the one who introduced her to music. He had tapes of black lady jazz singers and he would play them for her and dream of dancing while Janie dreamed of singing. She knew someday she would be able to sing like the ladies. She also believed deep down in her heart that despite her blond hair and blue eyes, she must be black.

Then Harmon is adopted and out of her life. Shortly after that, Janie's real mother, a heroin addict, kidnaps her from the foster home and hands her over to Shell, a white woman and Mitch, her black boyfriend. When Janie is told she will have to change her name, she chooses Leshaya, the name of her black caseworker's dead daughter. For a few years Leshaya lives with Shell and Mitch. She dreams that Mitch might be her real father. He likes to hear her sing, but Shell is jealous of the relationship between Mitch and Leshaya.

Finally, Mitch and Shell are busted for selling drugs. Leshaya, just twelve years old, decides to set off on her own and become a famous singer like her idol, Etta James. But a twelve-year-old with no family who has never really known love will have a hard time making it in the world. Will she become famous? Will she figure out how to treat those who care about her?

I liked the very end of the book and the decision that Leshaya made. I also liked the way that Leshaya eventually felt about her mother. However, I didn't really like the character of Leshaya herself. She wasn't easy to like; she ruined everything she came across and never really seemed to get why people didn't like her.

Getting High School Students To Read.......2007-05-23

This was an appropriate book at the high school for inner city students who find they can relate with the story and the characters. I had no trouble getting my students to take turns reading, doing their homework, and writing on this book. It hit home for my low-income students who are faced with sexuality, drugs, alcohol, running away, and poor choices. It was excellent for discussing what alternate choices could have been made and what those outcomes could have been.

Born Blue.......2007-01-08

Born Blue by Han Nolan is about a girl with a herion addict mother. Janie or Leshaya has been through many foster homes, physical abuse, unwanted pregnancy and death. The only thing that makes Leshaya feel good is signing. Leshaya is a survivor of her painful past.
I liked this book because it tells people what some foster children go through. The book also tells me how hard it is to live in foster homes, and how hard it is to be physically abused. This book teaches me that if you have a goal and you want to achive it do what ever it takes no matter how bad your life has been. to survive you must be a survivor.-Tyeisha

Born Blue.......2007-01-02

Born Blue by Han Nolan is a great book to read. I think that many readers can relate to this book some way or another. There are many people in the world that is just like Janie, being in a foster home or haveing a parent that's a drug addict. Janie's mom, Mama Linda, is a herion addict which is one of the reason why Janie is in foster care.
Janie's life has been reuined by everything, Harmon leaving her, being kidnapped by Mitch and Shell, Patsy and Pete and her mother leaving her, but the only thing that made her life better was "the ladies" n her singing. Janie would do anything to sing, she always dreamed that she would meet Etta James, a famous singer. I liked this book because it was an inspirational story, letting readers know that no matter what if you put your mind to something that you will succeed. I liked that the author chose singing to be Janie's goal because not a lot of people have that talent and with all the problems that Janie went through. Overall this was a wonderful book to read and I would recommend this book to anyone.- Renoka.

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Major pushover and horrid friend ruin story...
Born Confused
Don't be confused anymore, k?

Born Confused (Bccb Blue Ribbon Fiction Books (Awards))
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Dimple doesn't know what to think. Her parents are from India, and she's spent years rebelling against their customs. Now everything from India is suddenly hip -- even her best friend Gwyn has a bindi dot as an accesory. To make matters worse, Dimple's parents are trying to set her up with a "suitable boy." Their first meeting is a disaster -- the boy is way too soft-spoken.. But then she bumps into the boy again at a club -- where he's the DJ. Suddenly the suitable boy is actually suitable -- because of his sheer unsuitability. A comedy about balancing your culture with your confusion.

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Good story.......2007-06-15

Teenager Dimple Lala is confused about her whole Indian heritage thing, esp. when it touches on her love life. It takes having good and bad times with her popular, all-American best friend to figure out who she truly is and how her heritage and family traditions can be a blessing in disguise after all. This is a fun read touching on some deeper issues. Recommended.

Pretty Good.......2007-04-11

Born confused pretty much explains my own life. It makes me feel like theres someone out there that knows who I am in some way. It is a book for a bit older people but i find it intreging!
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Major pushover and horrid friend ruin story..........2007-02-23

Born Confused follows the life of the culture-confused main character, Dimple Lala.

Now I have to say, I know little about Indian cultures, but it seemed to me that Dimple didn't know so much herself. I do have experience with parents, of course, so her parents' reaction when she came home drunk was entirely unrealistic. My huge complaint is that the author portrays getting drunk and stoned as hilarious. The entire story, Dimple keeps saying how she never does anything wrong, but when her best friend says to drink or smoke marijuana she immediately does so, without question. God forbid if she had been told to do anything worse. Please, do not teach teens that smoking grass is a good thing. Is this author out of her mind???

Then, there was the friend, Gwynn, who was no friend at all. She was probably one of the most selfish characters I have ever come across, ex: taking her friend's clothes without asking, divulging her deepest secrets to a total stranger, who just so happens to be the boy she is after while her friend, Dimple, is sitting right there, she throws her best friend aside as soon as she gets a boyfriend, and when the time comes to apologize, she lays it all on Dimple's shoulders. If I had a friend like her I wouldn't stand that kind of treatment, but Dimple did. Even when she confronted Gwynn, nothing seemed to come of it, in my opinion. Dimple was a major pushover, and the ending, although everything is magically resolved in one year in the story, would not be in real life. Dimple was a kind, sympathetic character. She deserved a better friend and a backbone.
Also, the author sometimes got carried away with descriptions...

At the moment, I'm having trouble remembering any good points. I think I liked it somewhat at the time I was reading it, but that feeling has left me completely.
Overall: another over-hyped book.

Born Confused.......2006-09-26

I guess the whole mess started around my first birthday. Amendment: my first birthday... So, I came out the wrong way and have been getting it all wrong ever since. (p.1)

Dimple Lala is confused as always. Torn between her parents and their Indian traditions and the things and people she loves. Her parents are trying to set her up with a "suitable" boy, but Dimple wants nothing to do with anything suitable. One of the boys her parents introduce her to is Karsh. He is the perfect boy, respectful, kind, gentle and very traditional, or at least he is from what they have seen. Suddenly, Dimple and her best friend Gwyn discover Karsh may not be so suitable after all. Is he still the prefect Indian boy Dimples parents think he is or is he the boy Dimple has been dreaming of?
Tanuja Desai Hidier's Born Confused is full of hope, heartbreak, and friendship. As soon as I started reading, I was caught in a wonderful trance. This page turning teen fiction novel keeps you on your feet while being very realistic. The images Tanuja Desai Hadier creates in your mind are colorful and vivid, for example. "I felt I was looking over the edge of the world. And it was a moment when all was right with the world: The music was all around and inside us. Below, a sea of people were grooving in a multiplicitous harmony." Page 405. I really loved that passage because I could see Dimple standing on a balcony looking down at everyone dancing, and being completely happy and content. If you love stories about finding yourself, this is the perfect book for you.

Don't be confused anymore, k?.......2006-07-29

I really enjoyed this book - I read the liner notes for it, and it really was a great, read-it-one-sitting book. Dimple is a very believable character and you can see the reality of the world in the book. I love how they give each person's passions their own real life- like Dimple with her photography, and Karsh with his music. A lot of the description that is used is full of poetry, but without being poetry really at all - but it gives you that fluid feeling - that just really makes this a delightful read.

I disagree on that one review about the way that they did the quotes... Yes, it was a little odd at first, but once you realize that the hyphens represent the dialogue- it wasn't that big of a deal. I actually liked that- because as a writer- I never realized that you could do that in a publication- think so out of the box on what's usually considered a literary rule.

But even that little thing is a testament to the beauty of this book.

It made me want to run out and buy a Sari, and find all the Indian people and ask them who they are, and learn from them.

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Moving on many different levels

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Moving on many different levels.......2006-08-17

I literally finished reading this book an hour ago.

Daniel's story is both moving and inspiring on a multitude of levels for all those who are considered different --- irrelevant of which form that difference might manifest itself.

He is a truly remarkable man with an even more remarkable support network.

The style of the book is intimate and honest in both style and content.

It is not often that I genuinely feel intense emotions when reading and I admit that a few times I literally had to put the book down and walk away from it for a while.

Thank you Daniel for being you.

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This digital document is an article from The Horn Book Magazine, published by Horn Book, Inc. on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 651 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Born Blue. (Fiction).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Lauren Adams
Publication: The Horn Book Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: Horn Book, Inc.
Volume: 78 Issue: 1 Page: 82(2)

Article Type: Book Review, Young Adult Review, Brief Article

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