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Excellent Book

Revisado: 04-16-25

Simon Schama’s extensive work on the French Revolution is fascinating, exhaustively researched, well-written, and vastly enthralling. I wish he had been the narrator of the audiobook, though, since his personable and witty style would have made the book so much more enjoyable. Instead, the narrator manages to sound imperious throughout, and he makes all quotations sound like poor imitations of Winston Churchill.

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What Incredible Resilience!

Revisado: 04-04-25

The diary of a German woman living in Berlin at the end of World War II and the beginning of the Russian occupation, this is an account of survival and resilience in unimaginable circumstances, when hunger was rife, rape was common, clean water was a luxury, and none knew what would happen next.

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Fascinating

Revisado: 03-21-25

What a delightful book—interesting, well-researched, and lively. The author/narrator has provided a riveting account of the evolution of the high street through the past several centuries, including types of retailers and services, as well as specific retailers both extant and long gone. As a historian of the 18th and 19th centuries, I had not expected to find the changes of the 20th and 21st centuries as fascinating as Annie Gray makes them. Really excellent!

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An Excellent Book!

Revisado: 02-21-25

Everything about this book was absolutely fascinating, and the narrator was the perfect choice for the material. The highs and lows of British and American spycraft during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is a riveting tale.

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Fabulous Narrator

Revisado: 11-05-24

While the story is entertaining enough, it is the talented narrator, Katherine Kellgren, who makes this worth the listen. I will certainly look for other books narrated by Ms Kellgren, who produces amazing accents and voices, sings, and provides the most delightful characterizations.

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Excellent Book

Revisado: 09-14-24

Renton has written an excellent, well-researched book, which goes well beyond the biographies, narratives, and memoirs contemporary to the lives of her subjects in answering questions about the relationships of the Charteris, Tennant, and Wyndham families during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The only flaw in the audiobook is the exaggerated RP accent of the narrator, who must have been exhausted at the effort by the end of the project.

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Exasperating Narration

Revisado: 08-06-24

These stories are entertaining enough, but the narration is heavy-handed. It’s frequently overly dramatic and often enunciated too precisely, especially the dialogue.

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Truly Enjoyable

Revisado: 07-30-24

Lascelles was an excellent writer, and these diaries and letters are delightful reading, as well as being historically interesting. The narration of the audio book is very well done, as well. Highly recommended.

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A Fabulous Book!

Revisado: 05-30-24

With an excellent narrator who brings the account to life, this book is the best I have seen or heard on the story of Anne Boleyn’s rise and fall and the contemporary foreign policy context of Henry VIII’s “Great Matter.” Altogether richly-researched and well-written, it should appeal to anyone with a professional or well-informed amateur interest in Tudor England.

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Painfully Slow

Revisado: 04-14-23

Glacial pacing. Not really worth such a long listen. Too much interior dialogue without adding anything to character development.

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