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Great story, simply incredible narration

Revisado: 04-14-24

The story is fun, intriguing, and stoked my curiosity in Japan and Japanese history. Between this and Musashi I’ve been able to begin exploring Japanese history/culture in a very approachable way. The narrator does a superb job, voices really bringing you into the story and being extremely distinctive.

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A fair enough telling of the story of the late republic, but some issues.

Revisado: 02-17-24

Interesting to see the story of the late republic from a perspective outside of the norm. Well written and well researched, though terms and ideas are frequently adapted to be more in line with their modern equivalents or are compared to modern equivalents/examples which I find very distasteful and lazy. The other notable issue are mis-pronunciations by the author, which risk changing the meanings (Catalina vs. Cataline).

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Like a narrative history

Revisado: 10-11-22

This is akin to a narrative history, in the vein of Adrian Goldsworthy, without the modern science of history approaches. Fascinating take on fantasy.

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Terrible narration

Revisado: 09-28-22

I just hate the narrator. Everything sounds the same and totally depressed, like a person talking who has lost all joy in their lives. Not dynamic at all. Okay for some of the parts but it’s miserable to listen to mostly.

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Narrative

Revisado: 08-26-22

This is not history, it’s a story with a historical setting. Holland synthesizes the arguments of many historians and essentially writes a story of the events leading to the end of the Republic. Well written and entertaining, just don’t expect it to be a history.

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Faux-intellectual attempt at history

Revisado: 11-08-21

Not sure why this book is being promoted by audible. This is an apologists book for people who want to believe the British Empire is incapable of wrongdoing, and is nowhere near an honest retelling of events, let alone a decent history book.

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Excellent book

Revisado: 10-19-21

Really loved this book, it was a great narrative history of the siege of Acre and the fall of the crusader states. Only reason I knocked a star off is because I couldn’t get over the narrators pronunciation of Trebuchet (a hard T at the end instead of the ey.

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Interesting listen, worth the time.

Revisado: 10-03-21

I found the story to be interesting and well constructed, but towards the end Gladwell begins to moralize quite a bit.

Also, interestingly enough, it turns out I just hated his voice. Something about his method of narration just seems off to me, but I’d never listened to his podcast or other books. And hey, he’s the famous podcaster, not me, so what do I know.

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First person history

Revisado: 08-10-21

Excellent popular history, which has a focus on ten individuals well placed to tell the story of the Renaissance and the great divergence. Highly recommend it.

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