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Wrong Voice

Revisado: 12-17-24

Audra MacDonald is a great actress, but the Iliad is a very male story, She is not convincing as the voices of the macho men who slaughter each other and use women as merchandise . Her reading of Dr Wilson’s introduction is excellent.

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Kingdom

Revisado: 10-04-24

It breaks the silence like a thunder clap. Well written and professionally read. Hard to put down.

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Look elsewhere angel

Revisado: 09-28-24

This is the most embarrassingly overwritten, puerile, and racist, misogynistic, and antisemitic novel I have ever read or listened to. I would ban it being in any high school or college reading list. I finished it merely to see whether TW ultimately realized the hatefulness of his writing. Oh lost!

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The Doudna gene

Revisado: 07-18-23

Of course the main genes worthy of editing in human embryonic stem cell lines would be those of Jennifer Doudna: honesty, intellect, curiosity, hard work, kindness and good judgement. Inject me now!

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Well read. Fine take

Revisado: 03-03-23

Beautifully and expertly done read. The individual characters all with a distinct accent and timbre

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Jay H

Revisado: 02-09-23

This used to be my favorite Dickens novel. Listening to it again, I find it impossibly sentimental, soppy and melodramatic. As Trollope commented, Dickens characters are unreal. Simon Vance reads this superbly. My only criticism is that Esther’s voice is too male. This was Dickens only female main narrator.

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I quit; I wasn’t fired

Revisado: 09-10-20

That just about sums up this book which reads like an unedited diary of Bolton’s daily schedule. It is so full of self congratulation and patting himself on the back that it is nauseating to read.

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Best of many!

Revisado: 08-08-20

I have read all the books covering Trump and this period in history. This book is scholarly and thorough and exceptionally clear. There is a lot of new personal color that came from interviews with many of the main players and lots of inside information on the Mueller inquiry as well as the impeachment. For the majority of the book, I thought the account was straight reporting without bias. Toward the denouement, the author’s bias becomes more apparent. Since I totally share his bias, I thought the book was a terrific recounting of recent history, well researched, and highly readable.

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Listening pleasure

Revisado: 06-27-13

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David McCullough manages to weave the biographies of a dozen 19th century American painters, writers, physicians and diplomats into an engaging and totally pleasurable experience. The only disappointment was that it ended; the only shortcoming was that it lacked photographs and pictures.

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Washington's Crossing Audio

Revisado: 06-15-07

Great history writing with use of many newly discovered original sources (diaries and letters of common soldiers) and expertly read.

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