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Revisado: 06-12-15

She delivers as if she's talking to class of slightly dim 8 year olds.

The content is very interesting.

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Interesting and engaging

Revisado: 01-16-13

There's not much about on the Tudors and English Civil War - this covers both: Brings us up to date with historical thinking; tells the story of each monarch, and I was left feeling invigorated, engaged, and edified!

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Brilliant

Revisado: 10-20-12

A really fascinating view of all the relevant events leading up to the start of the horrors of trench warfare. There are so many people, and the events so complicated, that her ability to make it comprehensible is very impressive.

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Clear, engaging, and fascinating

Revisado: 10-20-12

Alison Weir has that rare gift of making the convoluted and confusing seem clear and straightforward. She also brings various of the key personalities to life, reminding us that in this violent era,, it was as much people's foibles as glorious leadership, that forged countries.

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It has a lecture on Gender in Greek Myths.

Revisado: 10-20-12

Would you try another book from Peter Meineck and/or the narrator?

It depends what it was about. He narrates really very well indeed.

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

He has this weird approach, generally, which seems to leap from "myths can't be taken literally because they're only myths" to fairly detailed extrapolation of the social behaviour of the day from the said myths.

Which scene was your favorite?

When he, an ex-Royal Marine, got the date of the WW1 Gallipoli campaign wrong!

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

There've been loads of movies using the Greek myth stories.

Any additional comments?

Generally great, but a bit weirdly obsessed with gender issues.

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Nothing really to do with a Roman legion

Revisado: 04-03-12

What disappointed you about The Last Legion?

I thought that it was going to be about a Roman Legion at the end of empire. It was about a guy who'd apparently been in a legion.

What was most disappointing about Valerio Massimo Manfredi’s story?

The characters are a bit thin, it's not in the least bit evocative of extraordinary times.

What does Martin Shaw bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Martin Shaw can make an 'Items for sale' listing sound interesting.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disappointment

Any additional comments?

The book was a really good idea - there is space for another version.

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Not History.... probably

Revisado: 02-13-12

If you could sum up Grey Wolf in three words, what would they be?

Engaging unproved idea

What was one of the most memorable moments of Grey Wolf?

Hitler was a forgettable little old man, rather in everyone's way.

Which scene was your favorite?

The most interesting was the scene, and reasoning, behind the idea that the top Nazis fled, rather than die in the bunker.

It's well established that the SS robbed billions of dollars from almost anything that wasn't nailed down, and much that was. This was done, we're told, after they realised that they were going to lose. So why was there no escape route for Hitler? It always seemed a bit weird. Despotic leaders tend not to be the suicidal type.

This book is merely a story of the creation of the escape route, the escape, and the life in S. America. There's no evidence provided beyond claims of conversations with people who claimed to have overheard things. I might be doing them an injustice to some extent as this is, after all, an audiobook, and I didn't look at the bibliography, if there is one.

There are checkable claims (the report from the Russian officer tasked with finding the body, for example).

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Not really

Any additional comments?

I enjoyed listening to it. I usually enjoy these sorts of

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Thoroughly enjoyed it

Revisado: 09-21-09

... but then I read it when it came out - I found it in a friends house.
It's a grim view of the 'future', but it has the feel of UK in the 1970s.
It's the style of sci-fi that I prefer, lacking wizzo tech, and lacking wizzo social stuff: Just a premise, and see where you go.

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Disappointed

Revisado: 09-21-09

I'm a great fan of what-ifs, so I bought this without even reading the reviews!
Most of the stories are not 'what-ifs' as I understand the genre, i.e. the change in the past, in most of these stories, have no effect on the future. When you listen to them, it's a bit odd, you're left thinking 'er, so what?'.
Personally, I didn't find any of of them evocative enough to make up for the lack of plot interest.
My most recent 'what-if' is SS-GB, which I did enjoy!

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Disappointed

Revisado: 09-21-09

I'm a great fan of what-ifs, so I bought this without even reading the reviews!
Most of the stories are not 'what-ifs' as I understand the genre, i.e. the change in the past, in most of these stories, have no effect on the future. When you listen to them, it's a bit odd, you're left thinking 'er, so what?'.
Personally, I didn't find any of of them evocative enough to make up for the lack of plot interest.
My most recent 'what-if' is SS-GB, which I did enjoy!

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