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Mesmerizing

Revisado: 05-07-25

Just gorgeous prose - which I did not (unfairly I admit) expect. Such intense tenderness particularly toward animals (weasel plume will haunt me for the rest of my days). Such tragedy this country was founded upon - is it any wonder we are where we are. It got a little tiny tiny bit mawkish at the end with grand Pere but still extraordinary. I’m buying all his books — this one deserves to be read not just heard.

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Excellent story AND narrator

Revisado: 10-07-24

Scary and well written - the older I get I realize the witches were right all along. Highly recommend- finely tuned narrator too, very adept with the different characters' voices. I never got confused who was speaking, which I almost always do. I think this book deserves a read more than just a listen, it is that good.

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Love this guy

Revisado: 09-23-24

An amalgamation of folk history, true heart conservation, maybe animist is a better word, and somewhere along the lines of Steinbeck meets an ascerbic whisky drinking prairie home companion -- plus gimlet eyed humor. I just love him. His podcast is awesome too though also some heartbreaking with the destruction of the desert. Highly highly recommend.

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Halfway through and nothing is happening

Revisado: 09-17-24

I dont know if I can take much longer of this book. It's all geeh wiz howdy doo, craft fairs, corn, plows, hogs, baking etc. The simpering wife (maybe it's the narrator's way with females but it is pretty unbearable) and the sturdy Cuh-rish-tin townsfok are so generic and dull - I do wish one of Stephen King's vampires would show up and take out the entire town. It is written by someone like the main character who may be enamored of rural places but has no real sense of them. It is overwraught and painful. I guess something happens, I mean that is what the description says, but WHEN? In the LAST TEN MINUTES? Returning.

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Run of the Mill Advice

Revisado: 02-20-24

Very basic advice with a few thee and thou invocations thrown in - doesnt seem all that interesting to me. An example, if you are not beautiful, in love matters do make sure you show off the other positive qualities you may have. Gee, never thought of that, thanks much mssr. sorcerer. Not sure how most of this is magical in the least, rather much was so prosaic it made my eyes roll back. Like listening to a conversation about whether asparagus or brussel sprouts are preferable.

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Just Wonderfully Inspiring

Revisado: 01-29-24

I resisted this book - I thought it would be too slick, too cool for me, about a former Londoner trading booze for yoga or some such. But it is just a fantastic read (and she is such a good writer, I wish I'd read this rather than listened). It made me (re)view some of my own sloppier incidents in my 20s in NYC through a new lens - the alcohol became front and center. And it explained some things I did not know as a well educated, supposedly well informed person (like alcohol worsens anxiety - not just during a hangover but overall - every single day, every single freaking hour if you drink chronically even at much lower so called normal levels; this shocked me; also see Huberman utube if curious). She just made me cry, with how honest she is, and the scenes with animals, like the boston who followed her around on her bad days and the mare and colt who came to her when she was lying in a field considering suicide. Just a moving, shocking, informative, and transforming book. Thank you, Catherine. xo.

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Fascinating

Revisado: 01-16-24

Love all his shows and books - more please. Untold stories about what happens to hunters sometimes

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Boring, lots of fight scenes

Revisado: 01-11-24

I loved Slewfoot but this one just kind of bored me. There is a lot of combat and fighting and traveling hither and thither, which I find both boring and confusing so not a great combo. I also did not like the setting of the kind of desertlike underworld, nothing interesting about that - like being stuck in back of the beyond in ugly Arizona. I liked some of the otherworldly creatures (the old gods, the spider lady in particular) but there seemed to be fewer of those than in Slewfoot so in the end I could not finish it. He does go on and on in the fight scenes (this is a boy thing I think, my husband rewinds fight scenes to my annoyance). But it did at least start off strong (and shocking with the grandmother) but once it got to the underworld death type place it lost steam. Too bad, he does have a fantastic imagination.

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Absolutely Changed my entire Worldview...

Revisado: 09-19-23

Just so illuminating - this book is a full of rich complex ideas regarding climate change and the trajectory of modernity as we, in the west, know it. A nuanced look at the response to Covid, the idea of industrial farming as feeding the world (it's actually only 30%), and gives hope but not idiocy for dealing with the world as it is, as it is becoming. I think he is so right that it is beyond the scope of governments and scientists, less out of avarice buta sheer inability to deal with the magnitude and heartbreak of it. The cartesian model in which they operate simply can't fix it and the techno savior systems for managing the environment are more of what got us here to begin with. Another reason not to touch that creepy incubator bio chicken and grow a garden however poorly (I speak for myself) and raise hens. I need to buy the book actually, listening is not enough.

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Loved - very witchy story

Revisado: 10-11-22

Perfect for Halloween season. Growing up in New England, I have always had a particular fear and loathing of the puritans so some of this, especially the torture of the women, was very disturbing to listen to but it was a fantastic imaginative tale for all that. Loved that Brom drew on some of the legends around here with the Puckwudgies and just the general history. It is an animist's story where everything is alive and our western 'christian' understanding of the devil is just a misunderstanding of the wild world, which really is the world so much more than we have ever been. The end does thump on a bit with all the fighting and violence, though you will thrill at a certain pivotal moment. Fantastic narrator. The prose is clear and uncomplicated so this book is perfect for listening to as you dont miss any joy in the prose which would for me require reading the book.

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