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What a horrible narrator

Revisado: 08-12-23

I don’t think they could have chosen a worse narrator. His inflection and tone ruin the book.

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Basically a pro-abortion tirade

Revisado: 08-23-22

This book is basically a pro abortion tirade. I was overall liking the story lines ok and putting up with the VI liberal bigoted comment.s. I guess the author gets to create the character any way she wants but it feels in this that she is try to preach her views. Hopefully the books dont continue this way. I will listen to another before I give up on the series,

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Missing chapters

Revisado: 07-09-22

The story skipped from King Richard hearing a minstrel in his camp to a concluding banquet with Conrad dead. Something is missing.

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The best book

Revisado: 06-11-22

This is a great story. We need chivalry today in society. This such a great contrast between good and evil

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Horrible narration

Revisado: 04-16-22

This is the worse narration I have heard on any book. Glenn Beck needs to leave it to professionals.

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Chernow's bias is unacceptable and ruins the book

Revisado: 10-06-18

Up till now Chernow has been one of my favorite authors, but now i have to look at all his books through a different perspective. His historical review of Rockefeller is so tainted by his obvious hatred of religion and particularly fundamental Baptist that he constantly disparages Rockefeller and everything he does. Its laughable that Chernow puts modern morals against antitrust while Rockefeller existed and operated in a different cultural social time. There is nothing inherently evil about monopolies, except that now we believe or enforce (sometimes) anti monopoly practices, i suppose except for apple and google. Chernow is puzzled by Rockefeller attending the same church, not going to lavish social events, not getting drunk and staying with his plain spiritual wife. He doesnt understand why when Rockefeller becomes rich he doesnt join a "social church" like the Presbyterian which would help his career. There was good cultural context in the book and Chernow does do a good job as he normally does on putting the the parallel events into context. Probably the last Chernow book i will buy.

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Really boring

Revisado: 06-13-17

It goes on and I repeating itself over and over. It seems to be written by a 12 year old

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Very elementary view of Baysian

Revisado: 10-18-16

The entire book is like reading the internet sensational headlines about some stars colossal event but it never explains any of the actual math or development of the theory or use of the theory. A waste of time to read.

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Another really good Brandon Sanderson book

Revisado: 08-16-14

Sanderson keeps coming up with unique worlds and environments and adaption of science and reality. I am continually amazed at how broad of a thinker he is. Once again the reality the book is framed by is the thought or idea of forgery. Sanderson weaves the story in a fantasy setting while at the same time writing about art, motivation for creativity, morality of forgery versus uniqueness, while at the same time discussing how people change over their life, beaten down by choices and failing to achieve dreams. This is an really good book, although with only 3 hours of play time. I am looking forward to a next book in the series if there ever is one, (much the same as all the different series he has started).

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Indepth look at World War 1 in the Middle East

Revisado: 05-04-14

This book greatly enhance my learning about the history of the middle east. My knowledge of World War 1 evidently was a lot poorer than I imagined. The author does a great job of setting the stage and following intersecting paths that impact the outcome and future of the Middle East all the way to current times. At the same time he gives a vivid description of the senseless stupidity of all sides of the war and the wasted deaths that entailed. The Arabs, British, Turks, Germans, Jews, Americans and worst of all probably Standard Oil, all vying for their piece of the pie. From our modern vantage point it seems so pathetic. The narrator was superb. The hardest part for me listening to the book as I drove was understanding where the action was taking place. I had to pull up Wikipedia to learn more about the geography.

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