Lacci Battafarano

Fantastic

Revisado: 04-25-23

Patrick Wyman does a fantastic job of doing really detailed and in depth history in a way that's accessible. I really enjoy this podcast, I've listened to every episode, some more than once.

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An illuminating look into a fascinating 40 years

Revisado: 08-08-21

This is a really engaging and interesting book that paints a detailed picture of many of the groundbreaking things going on in this period. I'm pretty in the weeds with history, but this will be really accessible even to people who aren't while still being very engaging to people who already are familiar with the period. I'm really impressed, I think this book ranks really highly among accessible histories of the middle ages and early modern period. Especially impressive because it's the author's first book.

The author's narration is very good, Patrick Wyman does a fantastic job. That's hugely important and saves the audiobook because the audio production is not good. The audio quality is poor for a professional recording and the editing is quite bad. The 2nd chapter is repeated in it's entirety and smaller edits are very noticeable with big changes in quality and audio tone. Make sure you download the high quality audible version of the book, it's necessary to compensate for the poor recording quality if you want this to be listenable.

All that said the high quality version of the audiobook is listenable and the narration is well done. And the book is really good. So I'm still giving it five stars. Just keep the audio quality issues in mind if that's something that you have trouble with.

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Excellent

Revisado: 02-18-21

An excellent episode of one of my favorite podcasts. It paints a pretty nuanced picture of Uruk.

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One of My Favorite Podcasts

Revisado: 11-19-20

I've listened to every episode so far of Futility Closet. The idea of a historical story and a thinking puzzle being put together each week is one I never would have thought of but it works incredibly well. Both parts are engaging and the chemistry between the two hosts (who are married) is really wonderful. I highly recommend it.

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A Great Anthropology Story

Revisado: 11-19-20

I really enjoyed this. The discovery of Homo Naledi and Professor Berger's whole career are fascinating. There are a few editing errors in the audio, repeated passages and stuff like that. I didn't find them too distracting.

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Excellent

Revisado: 10-04-20

I really enjoyed both the book and the performance. Megan Whalen Turner does such an amazing job of putting stories together and weaving mythology into the story.

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An Excellent Comprehensive History of WWI

Revisado: 04-21-20

This is a solid and very readable history of all fronts of WWI that includes necessary background material. It's well written and researched. When someone who is first approaching WWI asks me where to start A World Undone and The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman are what I recommend.

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A Fantastic Read

Revisado: 10-13-19

This is a classic and very fun history of liquid rocket propellants up till 1970ish. it contains some chemistry but I think you can enjoy it even if you only have a decent high school chemistry background. You definitely should look some of the chemicals up so you have a feel for what they are.

the performance is quite good. The only flaw is that the narrator occasionally misreads Al as A capital i instead of A lowercase L and the same with Cl. I was able to follow it.

I first read this book as a college student and loved it, it's nice to be able to come back to it after a bit more than a decade.

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Fun and Informative

Revisado: 08-18-19

This course is so fun and full of great information. Dr Curzan has a great speaking voice and style and is clearly both a great teacher and very well versed in her field. I highly recommend it.

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An excellent history

Revisado: 09-03-18

This is an excellent and very detailed discussion of the origins of WWI. The narrator struggles with a few names but otherwise is very good.

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