Andrew

Good writing, bad production

Revisado: 09-13-24

I’ve read three books by this author, this one doesn’t quite live up to The Plot, but she’s a good stylist with a great eye for detail. The narrator isn’t bad aside for some mispronunciation here and there, but the editing of the audio is awful, there are multiple repeated sentences and false starts that are a big distraction. Whoever was supposed to catch those things should be looking for a different job.

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Great scholarship, poor reader

Revisado: 01-12-18

If you could sum up Hitler’s Monsters in three words, what would they be?

Scholarly, balanced, well-researched

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Grover Gardner?

I wish that the production company had chosen *any* reader who is capable of pronouncing German words correctly. Ignorance of foreign languages is a widespread problem in audiobooks. Since I study German literature, I am always pleased to find audiobooks relating to my interests, but I have rarely, if ever, found a reader who actually knows how to pronounce German words in a way that doesn't make me cringe. If the book is about German subject matter, and uses a large number of German words and names, pick a reader who knows at least the basic rules of German pronunciation!

Any additional comments?

Excellent scholarly treatment of the issues surrounding the supernatural and border science in the Third Reich. I am a professor of German literature, and have done some research on occultism, parapsychology, and related phenomena, so I was eager to read this book, and pleased to find it in audiobook format (despite my dissatisfaction with the reader). Kurlander offers a well-researched account of the topic that draws deeply on primary sources, as well as addressing theoretical and historical work on related topics by other leading scholars. I would love to see more audiobooks of scholarly works like this, as opposed to the popular histories that are more common in audio format.

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Didn't work for me

Revisado: 01-08-13

What disappointed you about Get Better Sleep with Hypnosis?

This audiobook is supposed to help you get to sleep, but it certainly didn't work for me. One thing that makes no sense at all -- at the end of the recording the author/reader counts down to the time to "wake up from your trance." Well, I wasn't in a trance to begin with, but even if I had been, the point of this recording is to help you SLEEP, not wake up.

Any additional comments?

One additional tip, though -- readers can safely ignore catherine's review. There's not a problem with the recording, the voices are SUPPOSED to overlap, that's part of the hypnotic technique that's supposed to target your "subconscious mind." I'm not saying that the technique works, but you should at least understand what it's trying to do before you complain about it.

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