Euryleia

It’s not about the Gorillas

Revisado: 08-03-24

The gorillas are there, and the forest is there, but this is about the people. It takes a place, a people, and a culture that is so distant as to be just a vague concept to many of us and makes it connect to us on a more personal level. As far as the technicalities, the narration is good and very helpful for all of the unfamiliar names, the writing is clear and the narrative flows smoothly.

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Engaging, funny, and satisfying

Revisado: 07-11-24

The character limit is too small for me to fully describe how much I enjoyed this, and I don’t want to spoil anything. My favorite parts were the Farm and the Library. The narration was great. The ending was satisfying. And this is a much more enjoyable classic hero’s journey type story than the ones I had to read for school.

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Great

Revisado: 06-25-21

Engaging story, great narration and production though, YES, it is different than R.C. Bray’s narration style. I greatly enjoyed this version even though I did prefer Bray’s non-Watney chapters to Wheaton’s.

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Glaring mistakes made everything unreliable.

Revisado: 10-29-20

The narrator speaks as though she's targeting the eleven and under crowd, which was annoying but I could have powered through. What I couldn't overlook was the glaring, factual error in the second chapter- something that would have been caught with more than the most cursory research and which made me doubt everything else the professor presented as fact. I can't recommend this title.

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Terrible performance

Revisado: 12-17-19

The content itself could have been interesting, and it may have been an accurate translation (I can not vouch for that), but the delivery was abysmal. The narration drones on and on and on in an inflectionless monotone. This is one of those instances where the author should never have been allowed to record the material, which surprised the heck out of me because Dr. Crawford's videos on the subject are actually very good.

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Excellent!

Revisado: 12-16-19

Adrian Goldsworthy appears to deserve all of the accolades he has received if his other works are all this good. His writing is clear, his research is deep and his interpretations are interesting without being fanciful or melodramatic. Most impressively, he manages to keep the sections where where were multiple concurrent emperors with similar names from being a confusing mess! The narrator was great as well, with a pleasant vocal tone and cadence, and clear diction.

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Interesting and, mostly, engaging

Revisado: 12-16-19

This is a solid, well presented Intro level course. It's not fluffy entertainment, but it isn't intended to be. This is great for people with a love of how languages work and change over time, but if you aren't already interested in the subject this is not the course that will spark your lifelong passion. The professor does not shy away from the technical jargon, but it's clearly explained when used and the listener does not need a detailed background in linguistics to follow along. There were segments that were dry, but that was because they were laying technical groundwork that would be needed to understand the following segments, and there were many segments that were truly engaging.

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Juvenile, Condescending and Shallow

Revisado: 12-15-19

This lecture series sounds like it was written and preformed by a High School student for Junior High and Elementary School kids. There is is a point in one lecture where he actually asks the audience what they think happened next- the only thing missing was "So, boys and girls...". His delivery is too casual for an academic audience, even one that is new to the subject, and filled with "so then", "hey!", "well", "right?", and "so, like". The material itself is superficial and unsatisfying. If this had been my only experience with anthropology I would never touch anything on the subject again.

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Weak narration

Revisado: 12-11-19

The content may have been interesting, but the narrator's voice was so thin and the copious amounts of French were so painfully rendered that it was not pleasant to listen to.

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Inconceivable

Revisado: 10-31-19

It boggles the mind how a production using source material and voice talent of this caliber (they got really, really amazing voice talent to work on this!) can be this bad. The Harker segments (both Johnathan and Mina) are well done, and the newspaper clipping segments are inoffensive... and everything else is just... bad.

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