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Elijah did a great job. But nothing could save this story once Tom Sawyer got involved with freeing the slave Jim.

Revisado: 12-28-23

Probably the best reading I’ve ever heard on Audible. The story maybe a classic, but they didn’t let us read it. By the time Tom Sawyer got involved with planning a prisoner escape of slave, the story just went down hill and became insufferable. How could any writer construct such a stupid character? I won’t be listening Tom Sawyer books. But Huck was at least believable in his stupidity.

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Bias inflections is unbearable to listen to.

Revisado: 05-14-23

I don’t know why so many readers of history books put so much contemptuous inflections into the story.

One minute he’s decrying how outrageous it was for European explorers to assum the locals could not have built their architecture alone. The very next minute he’s describing how the Indians imposed their culture on the locals with the Brahman class system. As well has how the Indians brought their building and agricultural techniques to the islands.

He repeatedly goes on condemning the European assumptions about the that actually would later to be proven true. It’s very confusing because he acts like they’re wrong, when they were right.

On top of that he assumes all other cultural input that didn’t come from India must have come from China. He never postulates the input or even the possibly of explorers and traders from Sumerians, Achaemenids, Achaeans or specifically the Danuna, Danoi, Denyen AKA Tribe of Dan. I’ve been there and there is evidence all over the place of the presence of the Danuna. Most obvious in place names.

This book glosses over the history of Indonesia in the most superficial way while hiding or obscuring the truth about how civilization arrived on the island and using pompous contempt to drive a narrative that has become all to familiar in the study of history.

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I think his most concise talk

Revisado: 03-05-23

Probably the most direct and concise talk I’ve heard him give. He’s rather funny in his examples.

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Another History book about what isn’t rather than what is.

Revisado: 03-03-23

The author may or may not be an expert in DNA, but he is not an expert in indo-European history. Nor does he seem to be an expert in British, Celtic, Saxon etc… history. He seems to just pick up trending tendencies in academia to dispel myths, dispel theories, dispel archeological evidence but doesn’t actually tie together any historical narrative. Certainly not before the time of Rome which in my opinion is relatively recent history.

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Demystifying the mysteries of the Ancient Worlds through a common source

Revisado: 02-10-23

It’s really hard to find writings about who the Scythians were and the impact they had on civilization. As opposed to most books and articles that try to limit the truth by describing what the Scythians were not.

I appreciate how the author connects the dots without over reaching into over speculation as is the norm with history.

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The History book I’ve heard so far

Revisado: 10-18-22

Although this book is not completely linear, it most is which helps to keep context. Often history books seem to be hiding something the way they jump around mixing millennia, century and decades almost interchangeably.

This book also helps the listener to follow the directions of movement, migration and invasion although not pointing them out explicitly.

It’s also narrated very well without her interjecting her impression and emotions into the story.

My only disappointment is that he did not sufficiently cover the spread of technologies deep into Asia. I have been able to trace the bow, bronze, iron and steels progress to Japan.
As well as architecture, and written language. Instead it supposed that only in Asia did they all developed independently of the rest of the world but in the same exact pattern.
Where did the Sumerians go after Akkad defeated them? Where did the lost tribes of Israel go after they were exiled? These things are know but left out along with many important mile stones in early development of Korea, Japan, eastern China, Vietnam, Tibet, India and Indonesia which all have very clear connections to essence of this book. I can understand why Africa was left out for a list of reasons. Far East Asia has a direct connection to the Scythians, The Xion tribes from Israel and the Overthrown Sumerians on the steppe.

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This is a promo for religion over science, with little information

Revisado: 06-15-22

There is no history here and nothing secret. This book is a vague discrimination of why religion is great, but no information on the origins of concepts. It’s really just a rambling of very obvious insights. If you’ve spent anytime actually researching ancient history this book will only frustrate you.

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This is not the books. This is someone’s opinion about the books.

Revisado: 05-26-22

This book is all perception and does not include the books text.

The interpretations is not even insightful.

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It’s all rhetorical what ifs? Very little the actual story

Revisado: 05-26-22

How can one possibly get a clear picture of the reality if you throw in 8 false narratives, mix them up and then vaguely allude to the storyline. Jumping back and forth between centuries like they were week. Jumping around from city to city on Mediterranean but never addressing the collapse in China around the same time or in India or the Steppe.

This book’s goal seems to be to confuse people about what happened in 1500BC-1000BC.

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A a Lazy description of what Druidism is not, instead of what they were.

Revisado: 04-19-22

It’s really hard to listen to arrogant narrators shoot down all theories without including any theories for who they were. This is one of the laziest books I’ve listed to.

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