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Not great

Revisado: 11-06-19

I cannot recommend this book. The author is also a terrific narrator - he sounds like he’s yelling at you.

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Horrible

Revisado: 10-11-19

The old saying, “an inch deep and a mile wide” comes to mind. The authors display little comprehension of the thoughts of the saints represented, tinged with modernism. The narrator slaughters Latin pronunciation, and slaughters even names right and left. Horrible on all fronts.

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Buckle up - you're in for a rought ride

Revisado: 10-05-18

I wanted to like this book; had I read it, I probably would. I was constantly sidetracked by the horrid narration. You cannot go beyond 4 minutes without encountering a mispronounced word; in some sections, you cannot go beyond 30 seconds. One would hope (and one might reasonably expect), that a narrator of a non-fiction book concerning warfare as it existed from pre/proto history, through the various geographies of Greece/Rome/China/Japan/Korea/Europe/Africa/America, would either have a familiarity with the major languages in those areas/times, or at least seek to familiarize himself with them. Nope. The sections on Greece and Rome are atrocious. He leaves these chapters littered with the corpses of the many words/concepts/people he's mangled along the way. The sections on European warfare are no better. Even his pronunciation of English is at times odd, as if he's reading words he's never heard pronounced. If you prefer that narrators narrate unobtrusively, this is certainly not a book for you. The content was good, but the narration was so awful, I have to demand my money back, and I'll buy the book instead.

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Awful - as in: really really bad

Revisado: 09-29-16

The frequent swearing and obscenity comes across as infantile in the same way that preteens sound when they're swearing in order to appear more grown-up. The humor is forced. This was an absolute chore to listen to. Hated it. Hated it.

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Not what I'd hoped

Revisado: 07-19-16

I was hoping for a historical novel. This is a woman's fantasy of what it would be like to marry a seventeenth century highlander, complete with endless pages of intimate acts, over and over again.

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It's Steinbeck

Revisado: 05-25-16

I don't know how many books I've read in my life. A lot, I guess. But few would wring from me the adjective "superb", perhaps none since Updike's 'Rabbit Redux' some three decades ago. Don't taste it, devour it and feel it seep into your bones.

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Terrible narration of a good book

Revisado: 03-30-16

As others have noted, the narrator is difficult to listen to - he sounds very much like Mr. Peterman from Seinfeld. Also, and I can't emphasize this enough - PLEASE find narrators who can actually pronounce the terminology in the book CORRECTLY. "Synod" pronounced "SIGH-nod", seriously? 30-40 words mispronounced over and over again is very grating.

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Waste of time

Revisado: 02-23-16

The only thing worse than the stilted, silly dialogue is the incredibly awful narration. I regret the purchase and the time I wasted on this. I wish there were a button on the Audible site to automatically filter out anything narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, just to be sure I don't accidentally find myself listening to him again.

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