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If you want to hear about Jesus...

Revisado: 04-23-25

A lot of good points, but I wish the description would have been a LOT more transparent about the author being a pastor, with endless biblical references and parables. Not what I came here for, and it got increasingly irritating. I have absolutely no problem with the book or it's content, but at least describe the content accurately so people can make an informed decision.

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Amazing Production and Cast

Revisado: 03-12-25

This was a really fun production to listen to. First rate script and performances with high-quality accompanying sound effects and music.

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Not his best

Revisado: 08-01-24

I'm a huge Stephen King fan, and love his collections of short stories. This tome was severely lacking. The stories were hard to get into, and once you got into them, they ended abruptly, without any sense of purpose or reason. I don't think that every ending needs to be tied up with a bow, but these endings were incredibly unsatisfying. I felt robbed of my time and attention with each and every one. and every story was completely unmemorable.

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A great historical overview of ideas

Revisado: 05-24-24

This book by one of the great American thinkers and researchers on the topic of terrorism is a useful book that should be read by anybody interested in terrorism and counterterrorism in the US. Hindsight is 20/20, but the last part of this book is lacking and suffers from political bias, especially a deathly aversion to the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Lacqueur goes off on the horrors of the political reality in 2018, would have dropped dead if he had seen the 2020 assault on the Capitol, but more seriously, could never have had the open-mindedness to consider the elimination of al-Baghdadi and the collapse of ISIS, the Abraham Accords, the disastrous Afghanistan pullout under another president or the current newfound admiration for Palestinian terrorists in Academia, reminiscent of the late 1960s-early 1970s. Like most researchers, his predictions for the "future of terrorism" are off and completely outdated, but most of the book offers, nevertheless, a solid analysis of different themes, myths and realities of terrorism, as seen through an American, Western liberal lens.

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Amazing cast, performance, and a great classic

Revisado: 06-22-23

This classic work chock-full of slang and creative expressions and expletives presents an hilarious and fascinating dive into the lives of working-class Parisians. The cast and voices are amazing. This is one of the best audio productions I have ever listened to on audiobook.

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Stephen' STOP!

Revisado: 09-06-22

One star lost for Stephen King reading his own stuff. He has a glottal "L" that is so distracting, it's maddening. Stephen, I ADORE you and your work, but if you insist on reading aloud, please see a speech pathologist and work ou those "L" sounds, because it sounds like you're swallowing your own tongue. Justin Long was awesome.

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Meh...

Revisado: 08-29-21

Why would you choose a narrator for The House on Maple Street with a massive distracting lisp and a wacky accent??? It's one of my favorite stories but was unlistenable due to her marble-mouthed delivery. Annoying. Also annoying is that it's not broken up into chapters by story, so you have to search for a story as if it's a cassette mixtape. I love this book, but what a lackluster attempt on the audiobook.

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good book, bad reader

Revisado: 04-10-09

This is a very interesting book, about a fascinating aspect of history. Having read James Michener's "Hawaii," I was familiar with the story of Molokaii. I feel grateful to the author for making Father Damien's story more known. The main drawback of this audiobook, was the incredibly annoying narration. Every character, whether German, French, Dutch, Hawaiian had the same nasal, inconsistent "Pepe Le Pew" accent- SO irritating! If a narrator can't do good accents, he should just leave well enough alone and read it straight.

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