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Great book but horrendous narration

Revisado: 06-10-24

Such a shame that such a great book is narrates by someone who is so terrible. Please re-record it with someone who is an actual professional. I’m switching from to a paper book, it’s torture listening to this. Norma Miller must be rolling in her grave.

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Can’t even pronounce Medici correctly

Revisado: 09-25-23

How can you narrate a book on Italian history and keep mispronouncing Medici? Seriously, the narrator should be ashamed of himself. Of course many other Italian names and places are butchered too, but Medici? Come on!

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Great fun way to get into learning Italian

Revisado: 10-25-22

I started listening to this podcast about a month ago and I have learned so much. I love how this podcast is structured - it’s so easy to follow for beginners. I listen to it whenever I’m driving, going for walks or just doing stuff around the house. Mark and Francesca make it so much fun to learn the language.

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Not much history and full of wrong info

Revisado: 01-10-22

Wow, I wish they would take the word “history” oury of their titles. There isn’t much history. You can get more out of a Google search by spending 5 min reading. Not only that but these girls really don’t know much about anything. In thisnepisode for example they both talk about Angora goats - they admit that they have heard of Angora rabbits but have never heard of Angora goats. Seriously??? How long have you been knitting? Where do you think mohair comes from? At least bother to do a Google search before you release your podcast! When they talk about goats used for Orenburg shawls they sometimes refer to them as goats and sometimes as sheep. Then one of them says that in Russian they call knitting needles “knitting pins”. Where did she get that info - it doesn’t even make any sense! They call it спицы. It’s one word, has nothing to do with pins. Whether knitting or otherwise. I gave up after listening to 2 of these. I think the main purpose of this podcast is to push their knitting patterns - and there’s nothing wrong with that. But come on, at least Google the stuff you’re taking about.

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Can’t decide which is worse-the story or narration

Revisado: 08-29-21

I made it through first chapter and started the second one but was really tempted to give up many times. I am an artist and know quite a bit of art history and used to live in NYC for 12 years so you would think I would find this book interesting. No. Everything got on my nerves - the story, the characters, the narration. Then fortunately I decided to read some reviews. What a relief - I’m not the only one who gave up on this book. I’m just glad I didn’t waste any more time on it. Life’s too short.

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Not bad but could be much better

Revisado: 05-13-21

This book was quite informative but definitely too much focus on UK. As if other countries don’t exist. So many lost opportunities. Narration was not great - whenever she’s quoting anything she changed her voice and is very annoying and completely unnecessary.

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Mixed feelings about this book

Revisado: 05-08-21

Narration is pretty terrible - she sounds like she’s going to burst into tears any minute. As far as the book itself - some chapters were interesting and others go into too much detail about completely irrelevant things - this book is about textiles - do I really want to hear very long descriptions about astronauts eating, urinating and defecating. Chapter about Everest climbers could have been shorter. I’m sure there are a lot of textile related material was completely omitted from the book.

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Disappointing - superficial and boring

Revisado: 04-11-21

I really liked Grace in “September Issue” and was really looking forward to this book. But was so disappointed. It is so empty, superficial and just plain boring. You learn absolutely nothing from it. I stopped after about 3 hours. Her narration is pretty bad too.

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