Oh Captain, My Captain

more?

Revisado: 12-30-23

I imagine it didn't take long, so if you have time to record more, I'd like to hear them!

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Amazing, simply stunning

Revisado: 11-16-23

I'm a 62-year-old American male, so I probably have no business reading the diary of a young girl. and yet, in 2023, as the father of three children, two of them being college-age girls, I find everything about this young woman is simply amazing. not only that she speaks three or four languages is busy learning another learning shorthand in three languages reading the classics, books history religion all this while being locked up in fear for her life and fear of being tortured and sent to the gas chamber at any day, all while going through an accelerated puberty, adolescence and adulthood, all in 2 year while being locked in a. large closet. Yet she's pushing herself to become a better person, to become the best she can be, to always be self-critical of herself and ask herself why she does what she does and how she could be better. that's just something that we all find very hard to do. I don't know that young people are able to do that now. most young people can barely learn a second language, or even learn the language of their host country, and yet here she is learning Dutch French Spanish English in addition to German but she was fluent in, Latin which she had missed was very difficult and then learning shorthand and three languages. and here it is my kids can barely do their homework in one language, with a full belly and a warm house and a hot meal. it's simply beyond belief, and yet it's all a heartbreakingly true story, word for word. if it was a work of fiction I would say that it was too well crafted, I would say nothing like this could actually have occurred, I would have said no reality is far different, and yet this is reality right here, staring us right in the face.
here I must say a word about the audio performance of Miss Selma Blair, which I can only say, if I had to sum it up in one word it would be perfection. her tone, timber, accent, emphasis, and hartsfield delivery, felt just like that of a young girl. it really added so much to the book knowing that she read it, I can only ask myself, I wonder how Selma Blair felt after she finished recording this audiobook. I would love to hear how it changed her. not only is this an audiobook that everyone must listen to but our children must listen to it. and not in the fifth grade, although that would help. they have to listen to this and study this in high school when they start to become more aware of what mass murder and genocide and torture and betrayal is all about.

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Moving, tender and spiritual.

Revisado: 08-10-23

I just finished it, and I'm a little bit too emotional right now to write a review.
I saw Sinead on her first tour in America, after her first album came out, her third show in the states in a little Club in Boston. it was breathtaking, even then she was a force of nature you could see it.

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I learned a lot, and I thought I knew a lot!

Revisado: 03-11-23

it goes without saying that a lot of material went into, Martin Popoff definitely worth a crush memorabilia and had access to unaccounted interviews and tapes and magazine artists that frankly it's a wonder survive. as a musician, who was once in a rush cover band, I really appreciate it all the behind the board information about engineering and about recording at about a particularities that went into producing, playing and recording each album. I wish I did it when I first started listening but eventually I just got my iPod listen to each song and then went back to the description to kind of hear a little bit more about what he's talking about particular riff.
as I said I learned an awful lot, but the biggest Revelation was how Alex built the solos for the songs. I'll just leave it at that, you can hear it for yourself, but I was pretty surprised!!
if your Rush fan this is a must if you're in a band, any band, you can really gain a lot by listening to this. in more ways than possibly imagine

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Excellent, such a great listen!

Revisado: 12-01-22

well first of all it was very well read, and very well researched. the author of course lived in that area and met Diana herself and many of the people in the book. I'm sure she actually knows far more than she put into the book, but in the end we got plenty! I learned a lot more about what made Diana tick, and unfortunately, a lot more of the inner machinations of the royal household. like many others, I felt it a little personal, as I felt a small connection with Diana, she's only 5 months older than me, and I remember watching her get engaged, and specifically watching her get married while at my girlfriend's house, who at the time was only a year or so younger and was the splitting image of Diana at the time! we even got engaged ourselves. there's a lot more to be said about all that, but I always thought about her, about them both.
I can't blame her for much, Charles deserves so much of the blame. I won't blame him for being spoiled and self-centered or for being a narcissist, it's hard to think it might be otherwise someone in his position, but he never really loved her, even close, not even a half so much of what she deserved. I think he waited too long to get married, but worse than that, he kept seeing Camilla on the side, and what bride would ever put up with that! but this book is rife with the commonplace adultery that goes on in the landed gentry of England. I had no idea it was that pervasive and worse, just so accepted and condoned from the queen all the way down. it's very bizarre given that they have a very pent-up view of divorce and of a lot of other social norms. and yet they think nothing of on going affairs. I know enough of History to know, that is centuries past, if the king wanted to sleep with your wife, it was considered an honor and you would of course escort her to the Royal bedchamber. but I had no idea that it, or things like that would exist today! thank God that Diana raised her son's differently, and William and Kate, Harry and Megan, all have a bit more of that modern sensibility.
I guess I was a fan of the monarchy, I was never really against them, but after this book, and putting it together with everything else, I really understand why some people might question their relevance. or at the very least, do they even fit in???
on a final note, and I don't want to spoil anything, but after you're done, do a little research on that white Fiat. I don't think that things ended quite the way the media or law enforcement would like us to believe. at least he got what he deserved

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More than what you might expect

Revisado: 11-04-22

Yes, it's about drug addiction, but it's also about so much more. It could have been titled "Never Enough" or something like that because as Matthew Perry relates the journey to and back from the depths of all his struggles, he learns that the desire to entertain and to keep us laughing is more to hide that all too familiar sense of insecurity that so many of us have, the common belief that we are just not enough. I'm only a few years older than Matt, and while not at all an addict, never having taken a pill to get high in my life and normally having no sympathy for extremely wealthy people wasting their lives chasing drugs, I nonetheless can relate to having a less than firm control over some aspects of my life. and i understand how one can have an addictive personality that takes over your common sense.
But Matthew Perry goes far beyond just talking about how he fell and struggled with a terrible disease that was more than a simple lack of willpower. Matt shares with us what took him many years to learn: that he is simply human and shares many of the same cracks and flaws that so many of us inherited from our genetics or learned in childhood and still carry with us, hidden from plain view but quietly waiting until it's time to step on our life and derail any potential successes we might have.
Matt is more brave in telling his story than one might see at first glance. I listened to Matthew McConaughey read his recent book,. and while I really liked the way he read it,. I thought Red Lights, Green Lights was a more ego driven book, a voice talking down to my from the Olympus that is McConaughey's life. In any event, Lights left few memories nor did it help me reevaluate anything in my life.
What Matthew Perry has given us is a voice from the quiet corner of the room, coming out of the blackness, late into the darkest night of the soul. He's been there, he knows what's waiting. He knows that's it's a Big, Terrible Thing and that yes, it can kill you. Our rooms are all different, no two are the same, and in the end Matty does lead us to a window and shows us that it does open from the inside and yes, we can get out and there will be light again.
But it's not all about drugs. Not if you really listen. There is something there for you as well.

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pretty good, had some nuggets

Revisado: 03-25-22

It was read by the author, and I think maybe he could have splurged for somebody that read the book a little bit better. (apologies to the author he did write it)
there's more than a few times when I thought holy cow that's exactly what I do! so it was really good and if I had the book I would have been taking notes. so there is that, and it's a very good way to look at things and it's not something that a lot of other couples counseling or books of this sort would cover, after all who doesn't want a guy to be nice? well it turns out most women don't! they think they do but in reality they don't. quite sad.
the only thing that I really don't like that he does say, is that it almost seems like the only way to have a successful relationship is not to care about the relationship that much. he actually comes out and says you have to be prepared to leave and walk out, and start over. and that's what it's going to get good? I've heard people talk about that when it comes to playing golf, but it's pretty hard to imagine two people getting married both sayings to each other: "you know I really don't care if this works out and I'm prepared to leave at any time" I mean that might work when you're dating, but how does that work when you're in a committed relationship when you're married with children? I don't know. maybe I'll listen to it again at some point I'll figure it out a little better. although a woman may leave her marriage, and take off with some guy who's a bum with a motorcycle, I don't know if a good tactic for getting your wife to stay is to become a bum and take off on your motorcycle.
and I can tell you from experience that threatening your wife with that, definitely doesn't work, despite what the book may tell you! there was a time when I told my wife that I was tired of being kicked around and tired of being talked down to and tired of being walked on, and I felt I deserved to better behavior than that, and then if I didn't get it I was going to leave. well in the real world that scares the s*** out of people, and she ended up leaving me. and now I wish we had found some way to talk it out because it's not really what I wanted.
so be careful what you wish for, as well as what you say.

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You need to read thee first book!

Revisado: 09-15-21

I read the first book a couple years ago, and I decided to listen to the second book. I really can understand how this book would be very hard for someone to follow, if it was their first introduction to the series. there are a lot of names of people and places and things and it would be incredibly difficult to remember. it was hard for me, so I can understand why some people either really like it or not
it's definitely more complicated than the Lord of the rings books, and I've read the silmarillion and all of them, and that's a pretty big world. but if you stick with it it's pretty good. at the very end there's a little piece where Robert Jordan talks about some of the ideas behind riding the book, and actually after listening to him it made so much more sense. because well reading or listening to the books I couldn't help but think that a lot of the names and a lot of the things are taken from other books, including the Arthurian Legends, and stuff like that. but then I realize that he did it all on purpose, to create a world that's, influenced by ours, a part of ours, and just exists on a different part of The wheel of Time.

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Totally Tina!

Revisado: 05-19-21

It was great, if it was read by anybody else I don't know that I would have listened to it, but I knew that Tina would be awesome and of course she was! it was personal without being agonizingly confessional, it was funny in a way that only Tina, Amy and a few others can be! Quick jabs, sidebars and inside jokes, riddled with self deprecating humored.
(to the ones that wrote bad reviews:)
Is it Politically correct for the tender, bleeding heart liberals of 2021¿ Nope.
But Tina and i would both tell you to go F U, it's going on with or without you.
Which is odd, because you whiners couldn't stop laughing at her and SNL for years when they made fun of Trump and everyone else that was not like you! Now she swears and doesn't kiss your BLM ass and you're all upset???

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This book should win an award!! A MUST-HEAR!!

Revisado: 03-12-21

I can't write this review fast enough! While I never read the book as a kid, I did see the move and watched it with and without my own kids more than a few times. While I am sure that many other reviews can tell you so much about the audiobook, let me say that Mr. Elwes does a supurd job not only reading the book, but voicing so many of the characters! Simply wonderful! This audiobook just zoomed right along and it was very hard to turn off and get back to work.
You will not only be treated to hearing the stories and recollections from so many of the cast members, but you will hear them in their own words, in their own voices. From Ms. Wrights gentle, kind voice to the familiar Rob Reiner and so many others. Prepare to learn so much that you did not know, and I don't mean just a few stories and behind the scenes anecdotes, although they are there. William Goldman put so much into writing this book, and I for one did not understand the extent of his talent and abilities. If for a moment you think that The Princess Bride was just a cute movie and "got lucky" in its popularity, this book will tell you the truth of the matter.
It will also give you an excellent story of teamwork and camaraderie hearing about how the cast and crew joined to create such a story. CEO's and Political "Leaders" (so called) could learn a great many things from Rob Reiner about how to build and inspire a team, how to maintain dedication and teamwork through adversity. Really, they can.
Lastly, in case it was not noted well by other reviewers, prepare to be fascinated by hearing about André René Roussimoff, known by his stage name, Andre the Giant. I had grown up seeing him wrestle a bit and knew "of" him, and at some point i did hear that he was a very nice, and kind man, but Mr Elwes, Ms Wright and the rest of the case put Andre shine a light on someone that was surely unique in so many ways. Hearin story after story of his humility, his kindness, his gentle nature was very awe-inspiring. In a time when so many people are so loud about injustice and treatment that they feel was unfair, even to go so far as to take upon themselves the martyrdom of people dead for hundreds of years Andre was the model of a type of kindness, humility and understanding of his fellow humans that belie understanding. If you think you were not treated as an equal, or treated fairly, how would you behave is children came up to meet you and started screaming and could not stop? Or for that matter, the Fair Maiden upon seeing you? Andre was looked upon in a way that very few people in the world can conceive, and yet he shrugged it off and said, "well, sometimes they run away, and sometimes they don't"
When I got to the end, the memory of Andre's kindness and total lack of any type of anger at any of the ways that people might have looked at, or treated him differently left me speechless and quite near tears. I hope that I remember the way he handled himself whenever I start to feel sorry for my lot in life, whenever I feel that I have not been treated fairly or that I have not been given my fair share. This book is a tribute to a great movie, cast, writer, director and a creation that worked to create something magical, but in no small way, it also speaks of a great human being named Andre

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