J. Reimer

Brilliant story, brilliantly performed

Revisado: 01-29-25

I found the story compelling. Only my second Uris but he writes driving narrative. He pulls together so many seemingly tangential elements to weave a breath taking narrative. On top of that, the performer is unsurpassed! He does a range of accents effortlessly, making it sound like a community of actors! Superb!

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Great missionary story told with culturally rich descriptions

Revisado: 01-18-25

Well written story. Narrator pronounced foreign words articulately! Feels like you are there! This is classic of 20th century evangelical missionary stories.

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Worth reading!

Revisado: 08-20-24

This book was packed with data, revealing a human history more nuanced than your average sociology or history text. I found the argument compelling but the narrative needed a more explicit outline to help the reader track the reasoning.

Performance was strong, for an academic book, but needed to be read more dramatically for the same reason.

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Detailed trace of ideas and contributions

Revisado: 08-15-24

The performance was great! The development of ideas including the delightful narrative of Faraday's contributions was so well told. Everybody needs to know anout - and appreciate - Faraday and Maxwell!

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Finallly!

Revisado: 08-10-24

Beside "A River Runs Through It" there are few peers. Lots of descriptive narrative but falling far short. This approaches it. The writing is vivid and picturesque. The scenes are delicious.

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Unbelievably lyrical prose

Revisado: 07-22-23

this book has unbelievably lyricsl prose that sinks #4 barbed hooks into your heart and will possibly tear part of it out. Majestic, intimate, tragic, bitter-sweet.

no possible improvements could be made to the performance; magnificent.

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practical, clear, achievable!

Revisado: 04-23-23

This exceeded my expectations. No vague hints, rather specific actionable steps.

Glad I got it. I will listen again! and Again!!

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Basic boys adventure story.story is simplistic.

Revisado: 04-06-23

...Tory is simple. Reader does solid job but not much to work with in the narrative

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MUST read!

Revisado: 06-27-22

Bloom absolutely knows his subject and his audience. This is not a windbag polemic, this is an erudite and precision analysis of higher education in the US in 1980. 40 years later (now) you will recognize the sources of the carnage in college and public discourse proving Bloom was exactly right.

This is particularly valuable because we think our current problems the worst. we forget about public violence in the 70's and in colleges. This completely proves Bloom's principle assumption: humans always face the same problems and we should "learn" to address these fundamental issues through liberal education which, at least since 1980, we no longer have access too.

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Transforming ..!

Revisado: 05-01-22

This seemed academic at first; another viewpoint, another slant, another effort to retell "the gospel." However, as I reached the end of the narrative, it was as if my 50 year journey as a Christian crystallized and all the disparate, hard to fit elements fell into place with this lens.

I now am excited to share God's kingdom with others. "Getting saved" was not compelling, but God's work in my life and in the world to transform creation into His purpose is a vision both believer and unbeliever can share. What amazing common ground!

Tom, thank you for this gift!!

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