Spencer

Disappointing

Revisado: 10-18-17

I was perhaps hoping too much for this novel. But in the end the storyline was self serving and the ending just nonsense.

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Far Better Than I Anticipated

Revisado: 03-30-15

It took a couple of hours to "get into" the series. I purchased a segment on "sale" that was later on in the series before realizing it was even a series. Frustrated I decided to wait and just purchase the first book in the series and see how that would go.

A good decision! Connie Willis provided an image of the 14th Century area around Cambridge that was colorful and characters that sometimes brought tears to my eyes as they went through their lives in this terrible time. Purchased the other books in the series and am looking forward to each.

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Why Not Just Stick to The Science

Revisado: 03-07-15

Shermer goes out of his way to fill in the spaces with his own rabid hatred for religion, especially Christianity. If Shermer wants to be a scientist then stick to science. This extraordinary and often childish perception of various religious notions is meaningless hyperbole and distracts from the science that Shermer is claiming to want to support.

Science is knowledge of the world as we are learning to understand it. Religion is a choice of beliefs that humans select for many reasons. The two shouldn't be spending any real time together in arguments. Shermer should stick to science and stop whining about religion, it's distracting and unnecessary.

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Great Story

Revisado: 02-23-15

John McCain, as much as I respect him and his service to this country, he shouldn't be reading anything for other people to listen to.....Sorry John.....

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The Most Painful Lecture I've Ever Heard

Revisado: 05-06-14

Just listening to this nonsense is painful. There is little or no basis for much of the dialog Garland mutters through. They should have hired someone else to try and give this information, but the fact is that there is little or no meaning in this course at all. It's all conjecture and opinion. (I've only completed listening to the first segment and I'm dreading the rest of it.)

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Interesting View of an American Scientist

Revisado: 10-05-11

The only disturbing thing about this book is that the audio quality changes every few minutes. As if they cut and pasted segments that were recorded with different settings. It's very distracting.

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A Very Interesting Story

Revisado: 05-31-11

While the story was very interesting, the reader, Mr. Emerson, was a distraction. Emphasis in the wrong places and odd pronunciation. Probably technically correct, but different than traditional.

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Interesting and Compelling Argument

Revisado: 05-31-11

The story is very interesting. The difficult issue is actually in the reader, Brian Emerson. Unfortunately, Mr. Emerson keeps adding emphasis at odd places almost as if he is not paying attention to the story. His pronunciation of some place names is also off, at least to my ear. Sadly, Mr. Emerson created an unnecessary distraction to this story.

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Biased to the Extreme of Propaganda

Revisado: 04-02-11

It's not difficult to vilify a dead politician. It's also not difficult to find faults in any public figure. But Perlstein's book is disturbingly biased to the point that one wonders if the bent on reality is intended to destroy instead of report. I doubt there is a politician since ancient Rome that is without personality traits that the average American of the 21st Century would not find disturbing.

For Perlstein to write such a grossly biased document is a greater sign of Perlstein's character than it is of Nixon's. Perlstein is obviously hateful and grossly dishonest in his focus of an American President as if none of the liberal presidents of American history were somehow products of a miracle godliness to which Nixon (and any conservative) is unworthy of.

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Outstanding Performances

Revisado: 01-06-11

I'm not sure about the first reader in this series, but if it's Craig Wasson reading "Inside Every Man ...." then he is doing a really strict impersonation of Tom Leykis. And that story is perfect for Tom Leykis to be reading, all things considered!

Craig Wasson and Jessica Hecht are outstanding readers also. All three of these short audiobooks are outstanding. The stories are very dark (well, it is Stephen King, after all!) and if Tom Leykis did read the first story, then it added to the performance to have him read that particular story.

Delighted with these stories and the performers.

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