Jonathan Garland

Addictive story once you give it a chance

Revisado: 10-07-20

I’ve tried to listen to this audiobook for four years, and gave up many times. This past month I purchased the actual book and used online lit-chart chapter summaries to digest the book (I had a similar issue with War and Peace, and I had corrected it that way three months ago). While it’s a long book, I plan on re-listening to it in the future. Once you can comprehend many of the subplots and how they interweave with the main action, it’s way more interesting.

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Camus can really dissect an epidemic over it’s various emotions

Revisado: 04-05-20

I’m listening to this one again while my current town (Seattle) is shut down due to coronavirus. Many of these similarities of the plague dreamt up in theory by Camus helps make sense of the times that we are currently living through right now. Epidemics deal will so much tragedy, yet Camus points out no matter how dismal it may seem, there is always more to admire in humans rather than despise.

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A wealth of information on the film industry throughout the years from the editor’s angle

Revisado: 03-31-20

Paul Hirsch dives directly into his work as a film editor over the years, featuring stories from when editing early Brian De Palma projects with Robert De Nero during the New Hollywood Renaissance of independent filmmaking back in early 70’s New York, to stories about working on Star Wars ranging from the Lucas Ranch in Marin County California, to working on set in London to breaking onto working on Hollywood sets as well. Hirsch fairly looks at the ups and downs which his success has given him. He remembers the flops just as much as his successful projects. He also explains the importance of a good director/editor relationship. This is an ever-changing industry, and Paul Hirsch does a real good job at putting a continuity to life as an editor which jumps form working on Steinbeck editing tables to Avid computer software. He has a great respect for the editing craft. I highly recommend this book for folks interested in filmmaking or film history.

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Nice, passionate overview of Whitman and his work

Revisado: 09-10-19

I loved this lecture. The lecturer talks passionately about Whitman, the breaks down several poems of his.

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Narrator from British "House of Cards" adds depth

Revisado: 09-16-15

I enjoys this audiobook version of Machiavelli's "The Prince" more than the others because Ian Richardson gives it the proper depth and emotion you would expect from a classic philosophical work from the Renaissance about power and how to keep it.

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Very nice collection of letters/essays of J Swift

Revisado: 04-27-15

The audiobook give you a very good collection of Jonathan Swift's sermons, short essays, letters, and pranks over his years. If you are looking to explore his writings more, this collection should point you in the right way.

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Love this book

Revisado: 01-16-15

I received the book as a graduation present 16 years ago and I've re-read it again and again over the years. Glad to find an audiobook of it. The reader does a good job reading the book as well. I wish someone would make an audiobook of the Fall in English some time in the future.

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