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Our Beloved Kin
- A New History of King Philip’s War
- De: Lisa Brooks
- Narrado por: Rainy Fields
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England and of American origins.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Poor reading
- De An Amazonian en 09-01-19
- Our Beloved Kin
- A New History of King Philip’s War
- De: Lisa Brooks
- Narrado por: Rainy Fields
Important, interesting book --poorly read
Revisado: 03-05-21
I've just started this and will come back to it when I'm done, though I can already share that this is a monumentally creative and information-rich book with all sorts of insights about early (for Europeans) New England that by rights should be reframing centrally any kind of standard narrative about this place and this time. The reader, though. I like her voice, her pronunciation is clear -- but this sounds like a trial run, like a beginner's effort. I'm glad it's an audiobook, but I wish the publisher had hired someone who could parse the syntax comprehensibly. The reader pauses as bizarre places (ends of lines?? page break??) that force a person to be aware of her reading -- and often to re-listen to the paragraph. She also heavily over-emphasizes and in illogical places. ("She heavily over-EMPHASIZES and IN illogical PLACES", for example.) It's as if she's not fully understanding what she's reading. Actors do this all the time, and you can catch their non-comprehension occasionally, but the sounds of what-does-this-mean are all over the place in this audiobook. It's a shame, because this book is IMPORTANT and deserves more professional treatment. In addition, because she does such a strange job with the sentences, the reader cannot be trusted, to my ear at least, to be offering the pronunciation of the many Wampanoak and other Native names and words correctly. She seems to be consistent, at least, so it's comprehensible. Nevertheless, this audiobook has that one worst flaw: it creates a palpable divide between the reader and the text rather than becoming an imperceptible conduit to the content. Hire professionals (and pay them properly). This is a librivox-level narration. A *poor* librivox narration.
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What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia
- De: Elizabeth Catte
- Narrado por: Jo Anna Perrin
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 139
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 139
What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia is a frank assessment of America's recent fascination with the people and problems of the region. The audiobook analyzes trends in contemporary writing on Appalachia, presents a brief history of Appalachia with an eye toward unpacking Appalachian stereotypes, and provides examples of writing, art, and policy created by Appalachians as opposed to for Appalachians. The audiobook offers a much-needed insider's perspective on the region.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Stop trying to make us fit into your ideology
- De Anonymous User en 03-08-19
- What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia
- De: Elizabeth Catte
- Narrado por: Jo Anna Perrin
Antidote to JD Vance pablum/ nicely read
Revisado: 01-13-20
Writing the review mostly as a counter vote to the ones claiming the reading is bad. It's not bad. I'm picky and I found Perrin's reading (just glanced up to find her name) clear, listenable, just fine. De gustibus and all, but she didn't bug me in the least. Wonderful book.
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