Konya Marton

Very useful, issues with pronounciation

Revisado: 10-09-23

This book comes very handy if you want to learn ancient greek on the go. The only negative thing about it is the american pronounciation of some words. As I am not a native US english speaker I was very surprised how the letter alpha and the letter omikron become essentially the same. Both Λόγος and τόπος are essentially pronounced "lagas" and "tapas". In words with both alpha and omikron, such as ἀπό or αὐτός, the two sounds are indistinguishable to my ear, becoming "apa" and "autas".

Other than this, I highly recommend this as a supplement for greek studies.

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Living account of an extraordinary scholar

Revisado: 07-13-20

Originally I bought this piece because I very much enjoyed the other books read by Mr Bernard Mayes, who excelled himself in this work. He breathes life into the characters, but is not voice-acting as many readers do, and leaves a great deal for the imagination. His voice only helps illustrating, which is a really rare thing amongst readers. This explains my 5 star for performance.
This was the first biographical work I have "read", and I enjoyed every minute of it. My greatest enjoyment came from the fact that not only is it an account of a great and extraordinary historical figure, but it is an account by a close friend and contemporary, James Boswell.
Dr Johnson's person is interesting enough in itself to capture the mind. He lived the life of a really great man: producing invaluable works of scholarship, and heroicly suffering his physical and psycholocigal ills. A fruitful, eventful, thoughtful, but miserable life. His life as a literary figure mainly revolved around conversation, acquaintances, writing and exchanging letters, so action-fans may not enjoy this book all that much.
And apart from the doctor's life this book gives a first hand account on the literary life of 18th century Britain. The great poets, journalists, scientists etc. you read about on Wikipedia come to life, and can be observed in their everyday discussions, one can feel as if one sits with these great men around a table in "the Club". Many historical events, political turbulences (like the American Revolution, the Gordon riots, etc.) can be recognised as our heroes experience and discuss them.
I can encourage everyone, especially those interested in history and human nature to read it. It is great to read and re-live the life events of these great figures day-by-day, and it comes as a real sorrow when the book eventually ends, upon Dr Johnson's death.

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A book about virtually everything in economics

Revisado: 10-02-19

This book is an astonsihing piece of work. From the simple principles of rational human action, von Mises builds up an entire theory of social cooperation. Whether one likes this strict method of deduction or not, the conclusions mentioned are, with very few exceptions, accepted in orthodox economic doctrine, and even the unorthodox conclusions have considerable explanitory power about many socio economic questions, such as trade fluctuations, interventionism, and the problems of economic calculation.

The confident and scholarly voice of Bernard Mayes is the perfect one through which these ideas can be learned.

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