Chad Chisholm

Good story! Justice for Danny!

Revisado: 10-26-24

Good story! Justice for Danny! More people should get involved. We need to bring Wendi and Harvey to justice as well!

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Good read!

Revisado: 08-24-24

This was a very good story and the reading aloud was okay. It didn’t feel like the voice of the marsh. Still, overall good!

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Thanks!

Revisado: 07-12-24

Thanks for the author narration. Good story and good storytelling. Character a little flat at times. Bye now.

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Great listen!

Revisado: 12-19-23

Well-told story! Powerful language and narrative voice. I would listen to it again. Thanks!

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Great Story

Revisado: 12-01-23

Well read. Great story. Action and spy craft. Blackford Oakes does it again! Buckley is a great writer.

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Joss Ackland is the best narrator for CS Lewis!

Revisado: 11-28-20

John Cleese is a good performer, but Joss Ackland is a better reader. I prefer this audio version.

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The Song of the Strange Ascetic

Revisado: 02-18-18

Would you consider the audio edition of C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church to be better than the print version?

About the same.

What was one of the most memorable moments of C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church?

It is hard to choose, but I enjoyed the narration and discussion surrounding Lewis’s relationship with the Catholic poet Roy Campbell.

Which character – as performed by Kevin F. Spalding – was your favorite?

They were all non-fiction characters, but since the book focused on the life of C.S. Lewis, then...Lewis.

Any additional comments?

If I might invoke the spirit of William Carlos Williams here, “this is just to say” that I enjoyed this book. It is well-written, and Joseph Pearce illuminated me on a few aspects of Lewis’s life that I did not know.

I have often wondered if Lewis was considering membership in the Roman Catholic Church during the early years of his conversation, and then changed his mind. That might account for something of the ‘cooling off’ period that Lewis seems to have experienced in his friendship with Tolkien (at least for some time anyway).

I appreciate Pearce's clarification on G.K. Chesterton's ideas of 'distributionism' and how it differs from the view of many Christians who bow before the altar of the welfare state in the US and the UK. I remember someone in an online forum saying that Chesterton’s 'distributionist' philosophies were a Catholic-like theory in the same vein of the modern socialist dogmas of Bernie Sanders and his ilk.

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Well Read, Ralph Cosham

Revisado: 08-15-17

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

It is a powerful story with compelling characters. Once you get past it being "an animal story," it all seems so very natural.

What did you like best about this story?

The good catastrophe, sort of like what you get in Lord of the Rings, is all in this story. It is well done. The use of language is so original: "sad like leaves in November," and so forth.

Which scene was your favorite?

There are so many scenes in this novel that it is hard to choose. Maybe when Lucy realizes that Hazel needs to be freed and takes him near to Watership Down with Dr. Adams in a car. Then again, it is hard to choose.

If you could rename Watership Down, what would you call it?

Keep the name as it is. The novel is about home.

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Well done

Revisado: 08-09-17

The narrator did a good job, especially with all the characters. Also, the book reads like the work of a true human being, not a public official.

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The Lexicographer's Delight!

Revisado: 07-13-17

Would you listen to The Meaning of Everything again? Why?

I would listen/read Simon Winchester's book again because it is an excellent bit of storytelling about the life of our greatest Dictionary. I also teach a Media Comm class at the college-level, and I think every journalist-to-be should try to be something of a lexicographer. I want more journalists to take words, the 'daughters of the earth,' more seriously. Also, as Winchester's book illustrates, truth is out there: you just have to work very hard and sedulously to get it.

What did you like best about this story?

The amusing episodes about Frederick Furnivall, the ironies of his life, and the people he associated with, etc.

Which character – as performed by Simon Winchester – was your favorite?

The collective voice of the OED.

If you could give The Meaning of Everything a new subtitle, what would it be?

I like it's current subtitle well enough.

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