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Amazing and informative

Revisado: 01-10-23

It's amazing that the ground work for almost everything humanity has accomplished can be summarized so succinctly. How embarrassing for us to have taken so long to figure it all out

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Great overview of the problems facing the river.

Revisado: 12-29-22

The author does a good job balancing the pros and cons of water use and mitigation along the Colorado River while staying impartial. This is a good snapshot of the basics along the river while quoting more in depth articles and research.

The narration was okay with the narrator pronouncing Spanish words quite well, but then said "salt-on" during the chapter on the Salton Sea. The narrator was also a bit quiet and airy which made it easy to mind wander at times.

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High level history with a below average narration.

Revisado: 10-19-22

Richard White has done a great job summarizing the reconstruction and guilded age. The huge bibliography at the end is a testament to how much research went into this book. I thought the themes told a nice story of nation building after the Civil War and showed how this Era really laid a lot of the framework for how we live our lives today.

I did not like the narration. It sounded almost computerized to me. I found it difficult to keep my attention on the book, so I'm sure I didn't get everything the writer intended to portray.

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A nice tour of the California Central Valley

Revisado: 07-15-22

I really enjoyed this story. It's a great agricultural focused history of the Central Valley. Written as part biography, part history, and part editorial Mr. Arax kept me engaged. I also really appreciated that he read the book for the Audible. It really made his personal accounts and personal history mean that much more.

He gets just deep enough into ag and water policy that you can appreciate its complexity, but definitely leaves a lot out. I can tell the Author put a huge amount of effort into researching the history of the Central Valley and I'm sure so much didn't make it to the page. I would love to have this book be twice as long and really provide a detailed history of the water wars in California.

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General history mixed with biography.

Revisado: 05-21-22

Great story. The author did a really good job providing a biography of the Boswel family (as good as they could) while also providing a brief history of the Califoria San Joaquin Valley and the cotton industry. It was a brief but thorough account of the growth of large scale cotton farming. The narrator did a really good job keeping me engaged.

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Well written and entertaining

Revisado: 11-11-21

While mostly a political history, which can be laborious to get through, I was thoroughly engaged the whole time. The author does a great job keeping the story mostly chronological and easy to follow.

The narration was easy to listen to and I didn't have any trouble following along to the detailed Roman History presented even though I knew mostly nothing about the period leading up to Cesar.

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Eye Opening

Revisado: 07-17-21

Anne Applebaum has done an incredible job planting the reader into difficult lives of the Polish, Hungarians, and Eastern Germans in the aftermath of world War 2. It's a great summary of the period and really helps put a lot of other things that happened during the period into context.

The narration is a bit dry making it easy to wander off, but the story is engaging and easy to follow so you can get back on track.

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Great follow up to the original.

Revisado: 01-03-21

At first was hesitant to get this book because I liked the first so much. I thought the first ended well and didn't really leave a hole to exploit.

After getting a few recommendations from readers I trust, I took the plunge...and I'm really glad I did!

The story goes in a completely different direction than the first and even though it has a different puzzle challenge, it feels different than the first.

It's a great story and paced really well. Narration was great, you can really tell Will Wheaton likes this book too.

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Born on the bayou!

Revisado: 12-27-20

Loved the story. It takes a little patience to get into because there is a lot of focus on her childhood, but once it gets going it has a great To Kill a Mockingbird vibe.

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Thorough history of a complex subject

Revisado: 08-05-20

The story is very well presented, but quite an advanced read/listen. Because the history covers a long period, it doesn't offer too much in the way of short biographies so there are lot of supporting historical characters that make cameos and then disappear back into the annals of time. This makes the story a little hard to follow.

I enjoyed the book very much, but will look for a more comprehensive history of the reconstruction to fill in some gaps.

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