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Excellent Narrator!

Revisado: 03-13-25

This was an incredible story about humanity, both good and bad. The story is told from the perspective of death. He is fascinated by humans and has a dry sense of humor. The narrator truly makes this book come to life.

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comprehensive & balanced

Revisado: 03-07-23

This is a great biography, probably one of my favorites. Well written, researched, and balanced.

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Excellent!

Revisado: 09-06-22

These books are absolutely incredible! The characters are complex and interesting. The plots are realistic as if they are torn from the headlines. Most importantly the fight scenes, tactics, and trade craft feel so real it just creates an amazing story and book.

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The Absolute BEST H.P. Lovecraft Audible Book

Revisado: 09-01-21

This is a fantastic book! I am a fan of H.P. Lovecraft, but to hear the stories by these two narrators is incredible. The readers bring such passion and life to each and every story. This very well might be my favorite Audible book I have listened to. I was so impressed by HPLS (H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society) that I started purchasing their radio theatre Audible books, which you can get right off Audible as well. Those are individual "radio drama" shows of each of the stories in this book. I highly recommend both. You will not be disappointed.

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Flawed Premise & Confusing Argument

Revisado: 08-05-21

I had high hopes for this book as I enjoy books that bring economics and social theory together, but this book fell short. The author has created a new class called the "Aspirational Class," which in some ways mixes upper class, upper-middle-class, and even poor together. She argues this class isn't about economics because artists that are economically poor, but share the right attitudes and groupthink as the rest of this class can be admitted into this exclusive club. She also simultaneously argues that this group has high incomes and uses that income to buy education, healthcare, retirement, and cultural awareness that cements their place in society while locking everyone else out. I am not sure how you have it both ways. How someone can be rich or not and still be part of the same social class that keeps others out. What exactly are you keeping people out of if personal economics doesn't matter?

Most of this class appear to be urbanites, liberal, art-centered, environmentalists, that exercise a lot at gyms. They dress a certain way, think a certain way, and apparently all buy organic foods. This group seems to share the same opinions on practically everything, while claiming to be individualistic, which certainly wasn't the case since they all had a serious case of groupthink. I couldn't tell if she was praising this group and considered herself part of them or if she was criticizing them. At times she seemed to take both sides of the argument.

If you read descriptions of upper-middle-class as defined by most economists you find they have some common traits that are not strictly economic in nature, such as careers with a lot of autonomy and tend to have post-graduate degrees, but the defining factors are economic. Economists assign them to this class based on income and other financial resources. If you surveyed people in this group as defined by economists you would find they have a variety of beliefs on politics, society, culture, family dynamics, etc. In her aspirational class that isn't the case. Instead, everyone shares the same beliefs on most things and their financial resources run the range of low to high. That isn't a socio-economic class. It is a group that shares a like-minded set of beliefs. That is what I found so flawed in the book.

I found the narrator good, but the content of the book disappointing and certainly not about class or economics as much as a personal opinion of one author about a made-up social class that isn't part of the definitions used by economists.

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Excellent!

Revisado: 03-11-21

This is a very sad but beautiful book with an inspiring message of hope. It is sad because of the horror people in North Korea are forced to live under and the extraordinary things they must do to survive and for some to escape. It is a beautiful story about one man's journey from tyranny to freedom and the long hard road he traveled to achieve it. This should be mandatory reading for every person born in a free country anywhere on earth to show they should never take such freedoms for granted and should do everything possible to fight to preserve them. I highly recommend the book!

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Excellent!

Revisado: 02-19-21

One of the best early American history books ever written! To see the story of our country's early birth and struggles in such detail should be required reading by every American.

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Excellent!

Revisado: 12-20-18

If you have ever dreamed of the open road and exploring it then you must read this book

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Excellent! Historically Important & Significant!

Revisado: 09-06-18

Everyone who cares about history and making sure it never repeats itself with the catastrophic consequences portrayed in this excellent book should read it. This should be a mandatory read in every high school and college world history class.

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