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Classic

Revisado: 11-20-22

The Hobbit is a great book, and this version is very well preformed. The usual classic tale that most will know, but if not - it's a hero journey with great virtue and innocence. The characters affect the world and are also affected by the journey in ways that are healthy to reflect on and the reason I look to enjoy fantasy novels. Songs and poems were performed here in dramatic fashion that's impressive (I've not been able to do nearly as well when reading them aloud to my kids at night).

Highly recommend.

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Bold research, terrible narrator

Revisado: 09-23-22

This was a pretty interesting book. I'd seen Dr. Morse on youtube in a couple videos and had seen posts by her Ruth Institute before. This book has pretty interesting review of the sexual revolution showing how contraceptives were pushed through on Connecticut. The book isn't that long, it fairly academic.

Her positions are vastly divergent from the common position of today, but they are well reasoned and were also the commonly held position globally for hundreds of years before the sexual revolution. I listened while driving so may have to listen to it again to really absorb some of the content.

The narrator, Cloey Kelly, is terrible. Easily worst I've heard on Audible. Sure she struggles with the Latin names of Vatican Documents, but she also garbled Thomas Aquinas and some how pronounced Aristotle as Aristotle-"E". I couldn't believe an adult in modern west did not know that name.
Really a young person reading this book was a mistake anyway, Dr. Morse is pretty old now and listening to her speak there is a calm sagelike wisdom conveyed...Cloey sounded lost a times, detached at times, and overall far to young to convey any confidence in the words from the page.

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Author clearly dislikes Augustin.

Revisado: 04-15-21

I've never heard an author insult a subject's major works, mother, and major works like Strathern does in this book.

Almost felt like reading a Jack Chic tract. Talks constantly about Augustine wasting his time on things that as a bishop was central to his job and life's focus. Calls his 2 major works unreadable despite there being many today who consider them essential reading.

Glad it was a free book, but with his very transparent bias, doubt I'll listen to the other free tracts of his I got access to.

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Very impressed with this book.

Revisado: 08-15-20

Amazing book. When I first read "Mere Christianity" I found Lewis' classic 'Lord, liar, lunatic' argument lacking for just the reasons Dr. Pitre relates. I also had a very similar experience to his when taking my first college New Testament class, so I was pretty hooked on this book after the first chapter... but there is so much more amazing scholarship in here. Any Christian, and especially Catholics should read this book to learn a ton about there creation of the gospels, the opinions of the early Christians on scripture and to better understand the Jewish history, prophecies, and language of scripture.

There were a few tables or lists this book must have contained that did not translate well to audio, but this happened infrequently and it would typically be 20 seconds of names and scripture verses or something like that listed one after another. It was infrequent enough and brief enough that I do not this it should deter anyone from enjoying the other incredible portions of this book.

I would say after reading this book, I feel far more informed on the history of the gospels and am far more convinced that Jesus did claim he is God many times in all the gospels and that Christians from the earliest days believed he was divine. The book does not try to covert people, and I doubt it would bring many people into the Church. I do think it would greatly help assuage the fears/doubts of many Christians who have found messages from atheist/agnostic Bible scholars have started to increase their doubts about the authenticity of their scriptures.

This book doesn't claim to be all encompassing (frequently pointing out it's limitations) & I won't pretend I'm an expert now that I've read it. But I'm much more informed and inclined to read more in this area now.

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Bland and underwhelming.

Revisado: 07-31-19

Not his best work. I've read several books by John Scalzi and he's never penned beautiful prose or gripping dialogue, but usually his work has a hook that draws me in...not so much in this one. Bland plot that is very much the middle of series, without much new compelling info added and no big plots resolved. His universe he made is full of formal titles, churches, offices and parliment; yet every single character hates the titles, curses like a sailor which everyone thinks is shocking despite it repeatedly haplening and has copious amounts of sex the reader/listener needs to trudge through. It's like Scalzi wants to lampoon govt or leadership, but what he created is so thin and flimsy there are no actually stuffy govt parliamentarians for these critiques to land on. Won't be continuing with this series except skimming a Wikipedia plot summary to see how it finishes out in 10 years.

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Love this book

Revisado: 01-11-19

One if my 2 favorite CS Lewis books. I've always enjoyed the read and find this Blackstone Audio version an incredible recording. A great reflection on morality and a challenge to readers to avoid so many forms of temptation and evil.

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