Victoria Smith

Nice and Concise

Revisado: 01-03-25

I was looking for a nice introductory soap and business book. I thought this did a great job of giving you a lot of information in a straightforward and easy to understand way. I thought the business tips were good and am very happy with my purchase. I even got the Kindle edition so I can reference that too.

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What the heck Audible narration?

Revisado: 08-24-24

I really struggled with the narration. I find it ironic that a book whose author advocates strongly against collective guilt has a book narrated by a very neutral voice. I find it very frustrating that the German authors I have listened to on Audible do not have German accented narrators. I feel that this is contributing to collective guilt about the Germany/German language. In this book, a woman asks how he can still write in German, the language of Hitler, as if Hitler invented German. It bothers me on a very deep level that German (or similarly) accented narrators are not used for these books. I have had many books from Scotland or Ireland that are narrated by people with those accents and though it does take me a minute sometimes to get used to the accent, I think it is very important to hear other people way of speaking and expose yourself to various accents and dialects. Obviously, I need this book to be English because I don’t speak German, but you can’t tell me they can’t find an English-speaking German person. I am very disappointed in German narrations.

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Teasers, not short stories

Revisado: 07-16-24

This book is a compilation of “stories”. Honestly, I really struggled with this one. The stories seem much more like excerpts from larger stories, so I often felt like I was starting on like the 3rd book in the series and then lots of cliffhangers. I am not sure if these stories are excerpts, but if so, it would be nice if you were told from what books/series. The stories are well written overall, but I felt like I was missing a lot of details and storyline. Left me wanting more and unsatisfied.

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Narrator Shock

Revisado: 03-24-24

This book is fantastic, but I’m sad Arnold didn’t read the whole thing. It was a bit of a shock to go from Arnold in the first chapter, to an American sounding generic male voice. I appreciate Arnold came back in the end and it’s still worth the listen, but it would have been better with a different narrator.

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Not a typical biography

Revisado: 08-01-23

While this book is an amazing history covering the time period of Chaucer’s life, I would categorize it more as a history centered around Chaucer as opposed to a biography. Though I feel that I learned a ton about the period; there are a lot of names and dates that get thrown out at you and I think having familiarity with world events in the 1300’s would be helpful. I also understand why she organized by places, but I was very unused to a non-linear timeline and kept trying to remember who was alive, dead, etc. as years are talked about with relevance, not time order.

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Good, but disturbing

Revisado: 10-05-22

Would I say this book has great writing? Yes. Could I put it down? Only when required. Would I recommend this book? Yes, but not to everyone. If it is intense, creepy, horrifying, and sometimes gory. But the writing was very well done and it had me intrigued and wanting to know how it ended right up until the last few minutes. The narrations are well done as well.

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I HATE THIS NEW DOWNLOAD FORMAT

Revisado: 04-16-21

The audiobook was amazing as always; Brandon Sanderson lives up to my expectations in every way, but I HATE how the download was split in to 5 parts, for “convenience”. This was so frustrating for me. I mainly listen in my car and the fact that I had to scroll yo select which part was very frustrating if I was trying to resume listening after taking a phone call for instance. I hated the story getting interrupted at the end of each part telling you that you should have the next part in your library and that you should go to that next part and that this is all for your convenience. I did not find this convenient at all. Anyone who has made it this far in the series knows that this is a long book and to prepare for downloading. Please do not do this format with future books.

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Jim Dale Made Me Love HP

Revisado: 05-08-20

I love Jim Dale’s narration of this series! I first listened to it on cassette tapes on my way to Mesa Verde right around age 11. I re-listen to them regularly and am enchanted every time! I love his character voices and, of course, the story is amazing. So glad to add it to my Audible Library!

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Not what I was looking for, but not bad

Revisado: 09-01-19

I wanted more information about the Caesars particularly. Not that this didn’t have that, but it was much more about the politics and less about the Emperors. Kinda felt about this as I did A Feast for Crows; I understand why it’s important and good to know, but not as interesting as the battle and adventure filled books . I learned a lot, but found it textbookish and mainly covered the first 700 years of Rome. That was interesting, but as I said, not the most intriguing years for me. Still a great and informative read.

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Bad Narrator

Revisado: 09-14-18

This is the first book from Audible that I have truly disliked the narrator; like Christian Bale’s Batman drank a bottle of whiskey and smoked 10 packs of cigarettes. Especially since you know what Joe Biden and Barack Obama sound like, it was tough for me to listen to. Cute story with laugh out loud moments though.

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