Gary

Meh

Revisado: 09-06-24

I wasn't enjoying the stories enough to finish them. I'm glad it was free. Also, one story ran into another without warning.

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Romance novel pretending to be a Fantasy story

Revisado: 01-24-24

Good fantasy story diminished
by too much romance. The performance helped save my overall score. I’m sure some like that mix, but it wasn’t for me.

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Good story, but it needed a science editor

Revisado: 04-13-22

Great premise for a Sci-fi story. Great performance. But the writing could have used a good editor. The dialog was unnecessarily wordy for my taste. Science teams would have been much more to the point. The dialog here seems to have been stretched out to fill out 3 books when 2 could have been the sweet spot for this story. To me the greatest error was in the context of science and technology terms. A high school science nerd could have improved the accurate usage of the science and technology jargon in this book. It was cringeworthy at times. That said, I bought all 3 books because it was an interesting story. Had the book been edited by a person with a science background, it could have been a 5 star story too.
The performance was virtually flawless. The only nit-picking I could do was 2 or 3 mispronounced words. The characters were easy to distinguish and it was easy to forget it was one person doing the reading. For my next book, I'll search out something by this actor.

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Good story, but could have used a science editor.

Revisado: 04-13-22

Great premise for a Sci-fi story. Great performance. But the writing could have used a good editor. The dialog was unnecessarily wordy for my taste. Science teams would have been much more to the point. The dialog here seems to have been stretched out to fill out 3 books when 2 could have been the sweet spot for this story. To me the greatest error was in the context of science and technology terms. A high school science nerd could have improved the accurate usage of the science and technology jargon in this book. It was cringeworthy at times. That said, I bought all 3 books because it was an interesting story. Had the book been edited by a person with a science background, it could have been a 5 star story too.
The performance was virtually flawless. The only nit-picking I could do was 2 or 3 mispronounced words. The characters were easy to distinguish and it was easy to forget it was one person doing the reading. For my next book, I'll search out something by this actor.

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Good story, but really needs an editor.

Revisado: 04-13-22

Great premise for a Sci-fi story. Great performance. But the writing could have used a good editor. The dialog was unnecessarily wordy for my taste. Science teams would have been much more to the point. The dialog here seems to have been stretched out to fill out 3 books when 2 could have been the sweet spot for this story. To me the greatest error was in the context of science and technology terms. A high school science nerd could have improved the accurate usage of the science and technology jargon in this book. It was cringeworthy at times. That said, I bought all 3 books because it was an interesting story. Had the book been edited by a person with a science background, it could have been a 5 star story too.
The performance was virtually flawless. The only nit-picking I could do was 2 or 3 mispronounced words. The characters were easy to distinguish and it was easy to forget it was one person doing the reading. For my next book, I'll search out something by this actor.

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Light sci-fi.

Revisado: 04-16-21

Would have been better without the soft core porn. Needs to be classified as a romance novel.

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Could be better

Revisado: 02-11-20

It is a good story with the exception of a rushed ending that leaves you hanging. The main characters elicit strong feelings in the reader. Just as it should be. My biggest complaint with this book was the audio quality. Emily Woo Zeller has a beautiful voice when doing the narrative. However, her vocal characterizations of male characters are terrible. Some are mildly believable and others are oafish charicatures of humans. But, by far, the greatest flaw in this recording is the audio levels. The narrarive is beautifully done, but barely a whisper. If you turn it up to hear that clearly, most dialog is a relative shouting match, even when not justified by the story. As in, so loud it hurts, sending you to the volume control. This book could be made much better by remastering the original recording with much more audio level compression.

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I cannot finish this book.

Revisado: 12-13-19

Thoroughly depressing story. For what it's worth, Richard Poe has a great Clark Gable voice.

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A difficult book to listen to.

Revisado: 11-09-19

It’s an old book, well worth listening to. But you really have to work for it. The phrasing is nonstandard by today’s language. I have no problem with that because I listen to a lot of oldies. The biggest problem is the narrator. Imagine listening to Captain Kirk or Christopher Walken reading for you. Very difficult to complete listening to the performance. Elocution is also a bit muddled at times.

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I had hoped for more

Revisado: 06-21-17

What would have made Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition better?

The great minds reduced to a spreadsheet. Examples and categorizations are given for these people and the subjects they wrote about. No mention is made of why they thought like they did or why it was a great idea. Finally, this series of courses seems to be viewed from a theocentric Christian standpoint. I got two thirds of the way through it and had to give up. It just wasn't worth listening to anymore. The only reason I did not request a refund was that the early chapters were OK.

Has Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition turned you off from other books in this genre?

Somewhat

What didn’t you like about the narrators’s performance?

I found myself allergic to Alan Charles Kors' voice and cadence. I had to turn the playback speed up to 1.25x just to continue. The rest of the narrators performances were fine.

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

It provided a list of philosophers from which to pursue further study

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