Margaret

It's a little too personal

Revisado: 06-17-24

I think the author did not need to confide QUITE so many personal details about her own body and periods and motherhood etc. Her tech story is excellent--the personal insights were kind of unwelcome. She could have made vivid discriptions and still kept her distance. A good reporter reports on what happens in the world, not on what they themselves felt and did.

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A book to read and reread

Revisado: 05-14-24

The more you learn about the history of WWII and its characters and issues and places, the richer this book gets. It's really good.

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Positive aspects of death

Revisado: 05-30-23

This is a comforting, humane, and completely original book. Hayley Campbell has looked at facets that most people have not thought about While the humor is gentle, she does not play people for laughs but truly tries to see things through their eyes. A wonderful book.

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Formulaic story, odd narrator

Revisado: 03-08-22

Other Tom Clancy stories have better narrators; I'm afraid this one sounds sanctimonious instead of energized. Clancy's ambivalence to women is kind of noticeable here too. Sometimes he's precious and arch about the fact one of his female characters is doing a man's job.

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Like a thriller

Revisado: 01-28-21

This book is a first-rate cliff-hanger, with suspense, action, last-minute saves, all with now- familiar characters in a little-known episode that still resonates today. It would make a great movie. Don't miss this. It was a hair-raising era, full of problems we thought we could solve in a decade; this will throw light on why we are still struggling with them today. You will enjoy this.

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Promises tech progress, delivers war slaughter

Revisado: 06-23-18

The summary made me too optimistic; I had hoped for more analysis of the influence of technical progress on how this war was fought, and some ideas about the Mediterranean arena, with insights that would help make sense of today's news, but the author seems to zero in and dwell on all the savagery and revenge and mindless killing. It's a little too much like a comic-book based movie; punches and slams and stabbings and blowing up. Maybe that IS the key to the Mideast! No big picture, just reprisals.

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Basically an introduction to Western Civ

Revisado: 08-04-17

Would you consider the audio edition of Food: A Cultural Culinary History to be better than the print version?

I would like pictures. And maybe the print edition could hep by avoiding the rather annoying tone of voice.

Would you ever listen to anything by The Great Courses again?

Maybe. More real info at books by Michael Pollan and Charles Mann.

Would you be willing to try another one of Professor Ken Albala’s performances?

No. He sounds smug and he giggles.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

No

Any additional comments?

This was not really a great course. More like the level of a Freshman survey courses. He does not cite sources for many of his statements; so many start out with the qualifier "obviously" that I didn't feel I came away with enough real information.

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Narrator used inexplicable accents

Revisado: 07-09-16

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I had to keep fighting against the fake accents; southern drawls for people who live on Beacon Hill?! Please.

What did you like best about this story?

Louisa May Alcott is the master.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Anne Johnstonbrown?

It may not be ther fault; as a narrator she's fine. The accents must be someone else's dumb idea.

Do you think An Old-Fashioned Girl needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

I strongly think it should be re-done. This version is a disservice to a lovely classic.

Any additional comments?

Listening to this is like reading a book with terrible illustrations.

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Patrick Tull is the only narrator to choose

Revisado: 10-05-08

Patrick Tull reads the Aubrey/Maturin novels far better than anyone else. Buy the whole series with his voices, to bring alive each character with subtlety and vigor.

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