Mark Hedden

A bird's eye view, but a good one

Revisado: 08-27-22

Excellent overview of the past 250 years of industrial development from a broadly classical-liberal perspective. There are so many subjects I wish he had had the time to go into greater depth on (the development of the German chemical industry in particular), but that is the nature of an overview course. The lecturer is vastly more optimistic about the sustainability and benedits of industrialism than I am, but I would rather listen to someone who's enthusiastic about his subject than one who hates it.

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Guillaume le conquerant

Revisado: 02-15-21

I feel bad for being the guy who's adding the 1067th review of this, lol. It's an excellent overview, like most Great Courses products, even if the lecturer has rather more than the usual amount of vocal tics.

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Wonderful story

Revisado: 02-04-21

But for goodness sake, 'talisman' is one of the most common words in the story, please learn how to pronounce it!

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Much better than it has any right to be.

Revisado: 01-14-21

I got this as some background reading for an Old Solar System project I'm working on, and it was exactly what I expected. Captain Future is pulp trash, but decently well written pulp trash. The ludicrous plot is better paced and structured than in some much more well-regarded works I could mention, and the exotic settings are described with verve. The narrator is excellent, and brings a bit of that mid-century radio style to his reading.

But this is, in the end, a book thay you absolutely can judge by its cover. If you 're the kind of person who finds something called "Captain Future: Man of Tomorrow" enticing, you probably will get a few cheap thrills out of it. If you're hoping that maybe that title hides something with a bit more depth, well, it doesn't.

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Fascinating & encyclopedic

Revisado: 09-26-19

Can't recommend it highly enough. Heavy on primary sources, this book extensively examines how individual Britons of all social backgrounds living in colonial India lived, thought, and died. A comprehensive documentation of a vanished society.

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Utterly fantastic reading

Revisado: 03-25-19

I just can't get over how good David Case's reading of the Flashman novels is.

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Lush and informative.

Revisado: 12-05-18

McPhee's sensitive interweaving of science, nature, and humanity is as compelling here as it always is.

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Flashman IN SPACE

Revisado: 10-05-18

Do you lile George Fraser's "Flashman" stories, about a cowardly, hedonistic rogue who manages to accidentally wind up a hero? Do you like the grim darkness of the Warhammer 40K universe, but find the quality of the novels set in it very hit-or-miss? Then you're like me, and will very much enjoy the pulpy fun of Sandy Mitchell's Ciaphas Cain stories. The narration is professional and well-done, and the use of a different narrator for Inquisitor Vail's notes reqlly helps preserve their charm.

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An excellent reading of the Decadent classic

Revisado: 06-13-17

I had previously read Á Rebours some years ago, and picked up this audio as a refresher for a project I'm working on. The novel retains all of the unsettling force I remembered. The translation used is very subtle, and Mr. Boulton's reading is fluent, precise, and artful, without showiness or excessive flourish.

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