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Looking forward to hearing more from Dr Krasner

Revisado: 10-18-24

I was glad to see a second audible original / great courses teamup from Dr Krasner. Hope there's more in store!

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another joy

Revisado: 12-09-23

release day is always a mixed bag...on the one hand I can't wait to finish it and on the other I want it to last forever

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very superficial

Revisado: 06-08-23

he tries.

exceptionally bad Austen criticism, generally shallow or point-missing throughout, uncaptivating lecture style.

note to self: you've got this twice before, stop adding it to your library

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Interesting but incoherent

Revisado: 05-10-23

"London in the NIneteenth Century" is probably not a good topic for a single book. This book is extremely disorganized and offers a deluge of trivia rather than a coherent historical narrative.

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0 stars for the audio mixing alone.

Revisado: 12-06-22

You can't redeem someone like Wickham.

He is a bad man. Considering his serial targeting of naive and shelteted 15 year old women when he is 28, he is what we'd call a predator. The point isn't that Lydia was bad, it's that her parents' negligence led her to get targeted and hurt by someone like Wickham.

If you want to pass commentary on how unfair it was that Lydia had to marry him &c, you can't make him out to be good. Or misunderstood. The "bad boy just needs a good woman to reform him" narrative is as rooted in misogyny as "a woman's virtue once lost is lost forever."

The world needs a Lydia Wickham story, but this isn't it.

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don't believe the negative reviews

Revisado: 12-06-22

This series is an excellent Christie pastiche. easily outstrips the worst of Christie (think Cat Among the Pigeons or Nemesis) and places maybe a notch below the best.

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good book, skip the audio

Revisado: 11-16-22

the random bursts of song were obnoxious

however, good overview for someone who doesn't know the timeline of the civil war!

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ok until prof collapses under his bias

Revisado: 09-02-22

the author completely loses his ability to control his bias around the year 1900.

all feminists are butlerian, evolution is a myth, kids these days have blown their brains out with rap and metal, and so on. what any of those has to do with litcrit is unclear.

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such promise, much undeliver

Revisado: 07-16-22

the negative reviews stem from the fact the ending (last 10 minutes maybe) falls completely flat.

until those last 10 minutes, though, it's absolutely amazing. devise your own solution and make it perfect!

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geez

Revisado: 11-28-21

I'm not sure how such a mealy-mouthed victim-blaming tour de force of cowardice and self-absorption gained so much traction in queer circles. Setting aside how thoroughly absurd this book is, the word "trauma" does not have three syllables or a short a.

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