Christopher Grenier

Pure garbage and nonsense

Revisado: 03-05-25

Though the reader was pleasant the content was terrible. This is NOT because I disagreed with the author, but because the author didn’t make sense. This was a pseudo-intellectual essay on sin with a few random quotes and fewer Bible references. It was ful of meaningless sentences like, “both the believer and non-believer acknowledge sin has been around since before civilization.” He makes assumptions, doesn’t define terms, and goes off on tangents. Not even worth it for free!

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Very disappointed by a famous voice actor.

Revisado: 10-18-23

Though Andy Sirius is famous and does many great charecters he ruins this great book! Many times I couldn’t tel

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Divergence

Revisado: 08-14-22

I really want to like this book but it’s got some major problems. Mainly editing problems. Charecter change there names, and appearance. Some charecters are introduced with lots of description and personality then never used. And the comedic tangents that fit so well in Skippy and Joes perspectives just seem out of place and rambling in this book. Speaking of that, he even uses the phrase “break it down Barney style.” I’ll
probably read the sequel to see if it improves, but I was very disapointed.

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Epic audio for an epic tale!

Revisado: 11-16-21

There is plenty out there reviewing the story of Dune, but this audiobook is truly unique. It is neither a straight reading nor a dramatisation, but a wonderful mix of both. Sometimes the dialogue is read with the narrators different voices, and sometimes other actors speak there parts in a fantastically atmospheric soundscape. Sometimes music and desert sounds are mixed in to the narration. All of this combines to create a mystic and sometimes disorienting feeling that reflects the tone of the story.
Wonderful, unique and highly recommended!

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Wish it were better, and where’s the ending?

Revisado: 11-14-21

As advertised, this is a book about Jon Ronson’s experiences with different extremists, racists, conspiracy theorists, and crackpots. It’s obvious he put a lot of time and effort developing relationships and getting a material for this book ,but maybe not so much time and effort writing it. For a “humorist,” this book isn’t very funny. tt doesn’t read like Zany Adventures with Wackos in the Woods. On the other hand, it’s not very informative. There are no detailed biographies of conspiracy leaders, histories of secret societies. Or alternative theories to counter the conspiracy narrative and accompany Bronson’s narrative. For example, why were they followed by a guy in sunglasses?
Finally, the book ends rather abruptly, without a conclusion. Just Branson saying, “I shut my computer off. I’m tired…”
What!?

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400th Anniversary edition and still God Awful!!!

Revisado: 10-30-21

I read this book as a modern companion to Herman Selderhuis' wonderful biography of Luther. Since this is advertised as a book about Luther’s Legacy published for the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation, I assumed it was a modern perspective on how Luther has affected the world and been perceived by the world in the last 500 years after all that is what "legacy" means! This is NOT a modern book! It was written over a hundred years ago. And it is primarily NOT about Luther’s legacy but a biography.
Even to call it a biography is giving this book too much credit. It is a fawning propaganda piece for the conservative Lutheran Church. It is as if Luther was the first person in a thousand years to read the Bible and say, "Hey I just realized Christianity should be about Jesus!" Luther's life, thought, and works are described with a sickening amount of praise and exaggeration. According to the author Luther is the first modern man, a genius in philosophy, science, art, and music. A family man, mystic, scholar, and preacher. Luther's enlightened understanding is contrasted with the superstitious, despotic, and money-grubbing Catholic religion of the "Dark Ages," which the author refers to as the "Romanist religion."
The author even claims Luther is the father of religious liberty and tolerance in an intolerant age. Though his understanding of religious tolerance seems to be that Luther doesn't think people should be forced to convert to the one true faith. Much worse the author claims that Luther "protested in stinging rebuke against the persecution of the Jews." Even though he literally wrote a pamphlet called, "On the Jews and their lies." Here is a quote: Therefore, be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them."
The author shows a surprising lack of historical accuracy, even for a book written 100 years ago. He blends myths and facts, exaggerates Luther’s talents, and omits whole episodes of Luther’s life; like his decision to become a monk in a lightning storm and his stance against the German Peasant’s Revolt.
Finally, the author backs up his praise of Luther by using far too many out of context quotes from his contemporaries. In one 10-minute section he quotes Rev. Philips brooks, Isaak Dorner, Coleridge, Arthur McGiffert, Fredrick Schlegel, Sigmund Freud, a Nobel winner in physics, and an unnamed "great thinker."
In conclusion this book is falsely advertised as modern and completely worthless as a factual history. Ironically, it reads more like an old fashion Catholic Life of the Saints!
Even though it was cheap I still am going to ask for my money back!

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Good, except for the Racism!

Revisado: 06-10-21

One expects some hints of racism in most books written before 1950, but Seabury Quinn makes H.P. Lovecraft look like a civil rights advocate. His villains are almost always foreigners from “strange dark parts.” Even his good guys are stereotypical characters of Irish, French, etc.
In one story the hero gleefully commits genocide by massacring an entire village of Islanders with a mounted Lewis Gun.
Other than that the stories are fun, and the narrator is Excellent!

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Dreadful horror at its mehst

Revisado: 06-10-21

If you’ve read any of the other stories by Seabury Quinn, then you know what your in for. 1930s Pulp fiction at its best and worst. Scantily clothes helpless women. Scary paranormal and exotic monsters. And a French investigator who is quick to shoot and torture, and who is always drinking at the end of the day.
O and the Racism! Just about every villain is a foreigner of some sort. For example, what is referred to here as “The Devils Rosary,” is in actuality prayer beads of the Tibetan Dali-Lama. Enough said.
Good stories from a certain perspective, but it is best to know what you are getting into period

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Boring and Offensive

Revisado: 05-07-21

If you’ve read any of the other volumes in this series then you don’t need to read this one. With the possible exception of “The bloody mummy”.the plots are similar and formulaic. Helpless white girl endangered sinister, satanic, foreigner.
If you haven’t read any of S. Quinn’s stories BE WARNED, they are exceedingly racist.
This is not an exaggeration! Even Irish, and French could be offended by this book. I have learned new racial slurs from this book!
That being said, it is an article of it’s time, and I might over look such horrific racism, if the storytelling was original or compelling, I. e. Lovecraft. However, often his racism is at the center of the plot and the colored person or foreigner is inherently evil.

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A dnew disc world for the GoT generation!

Revisado: 10-14-20

The authors style and humor are very similar to Terry Pratchettthough he lacks some of the poetic polish of the Master. Sometimes it felt like a bad D&D adventure which the group encountering one bady after another. But it’s a great first book and I am excited to see the world and characters expand! The characters were diverse and interesting. There was a good mix of real and fantastic issues. The humor was sarcastic and witty. And the reader was AWSOME!!

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