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A classic

Revisado: 09-17-24

I do hope this gets faithfully adapted one day, be it live action or dark animation. Quite different from the film that later adapted it, but in a good way. The narrator does a fine job, nothing super special. Overall, it holds up.

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A great book for intermediate-level history fans

Revisado: 09-17-24

If you are past the beginner parts of learning history but aren't so into it that you try to find arcane and obscure academic papers on tiny topics about days long gone, this is a great book for you. It's comprehensive but not bogged down in minutia like, all due respect to him, Will Durant could often be. I felt all the important subjects were covered in an excellent manner. I see some Reddit atheist types really don't like how she takes Abrahamic myths at face value, but she does the same to nearly every religion or folklore. She questions them of course, but taking them at face value tells us a lot about the peoples who wrote them and the culture and geopolitical atmosphere they lived in. The narrator is good and thankfully does a good voice change when narrating primary sources and accounts.

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I hope this is given an anime-style series one day

Revisado: 09-17-24

What TRULY started Legends, and what a way to start. What can I say that hasn't already been said before about this masterpiece? It and many other Legends books and comics and video games combined jettisoned Star Wars into the likes of Star Trek in terms of complexity, world building, characterization and plots. Marc Thompson does amazing narration, and all the proper sound effects and music cues are used. With all of that, it makes it feel like an actual canon true continuation of the original trilogy. Thrawn is an amazing villain, and Joruus is good, but the true best character here is, in my opinion, Admiral Palleon. His character arc is among the best from here all the way to New Jedi Order. I hope Disney-Lucasfilms continue to publish more and more Legends audiobooks. I for one would like to see the young jedi knights (until book six), new jedi order (including Rogue Planet) and Darksaber be given audiobooks.

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Overall pretty good

Revisado: 09-17-24

Some stories better than others. Some maybe a little too bizarre in character motivations that come out of nowhere at last minute. I liked it, but I hope Clive Barker improved and perfected with each volume. This is only one I've listened to so far. All the narrators are great. My favorite story was probably Midnight Meat Train.

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good, but outdated

Revisado: 02-21-22

overall good, but some info is either inaccurate or outdated such as certain quotes mainly from Lenin. the stuff on Saddam didn't age well at all

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A biased yet informative masterpiece

Revisado: 04-04-21

I myself am a syndicalist, which is technically a form of socialism, and yet even I enjoyed this book. There is a clear American neoconservative capitalist bias but it mostly doesn't cloud the surprisingly mostly well-done research and narrative of the book. It chronicles the life of modern socialism from its origins in the French Revolution by Babeuf, peaks at Lenin's USSR and Fascist Italy (while not going too far and claiming fascism is far-left and socialist. He calls its early stages far-left but shows they later went to the right and adopted capitalism and later corporatism until they attempted socialism in 1943, but highlights the socialist roots of fascism. He only briefly touched upon National Socialism), and ends with Sanders and Xi. I do however wish he went into more detail with chapters dedicated to Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot (the last figure being mostly skimmed over) and I also noticed the occasional error in his research. For example, his chapter on fascism contains a quote taken from Hermann Rauschning, who is largely considered heavily unreliable by the historical community. Overall, a good book that anyone can learn from, especially fellow socialists who must learn the failures of socialism and the successes of capitalism to see what can be combined from the two camps.

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FANTASTIC

Revisado: 03-14-21

An absolutely fantastic book on the Third Reich from 1933-1939 right as the war with Poland breaks out. You could hardly find a more entertaining yet detailed account of pre-war Nazi Germany. It talks about everything from every facet of life from the military to the economy to the night of broken glass to negotiations with the French and British. I definitely recommend this. This trilogy is the best there is on the Third Reich.

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A short yet well made book about the oldest mythos

Revisado: 12-22-20

This was a decent book all around. The narrator was fantastic though for the stories themselves while classics in their own right were less interesting me to than other mythologies. Likely due to time having lost many conclusions and consistencies between the stories. If you want a short narrative telling of the stories of Mesopotamian mythology, this book will do you well.

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good overview, but narrator is a little dull.

Revisado: 12-03-20

it was a good lecture but the narrator, while very interested in this field, is a little dull in voice. But if you want an overview on greek myth and the psychological, historical and other contexts for them, this is the lecture.

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A great course but with one major issue

Revisado: 09-28-20

So Patrick is a fantastic narrator, and this audiobook is well researched and short, but it's incredibly Americentric. Still, for the length and price one can't beat the overall excellence of this work.

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