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Dette var veldig vanskeleg å like.

Revisado: 09-23-17

Ein har jo høyrt og lese stream of consciousness før, men aldri så kjip og skravlete. Will Patton overspelar dessutan ganske grovt.

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Great introduction, horrible narration

Revisado: 11-02-16

Would you listen to Citizens again? Why?

The United States in the 1980s is probably sufficiently distant from France in the late 1700s to provide a balanced look at the important events of that time and place. This book provides a great overview and lots of context, and Schama never looks away from atrocities committed by either side. Citizens is also obviously a product of the late 1980s in its scepticism towards economic regulations.

What did you like best about this story?

The best part of Citizens is the wealth of context it provides in explaining what made the revolution happen and how French society was affected.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Frederick Davidson?

While Frederick Davidson's tendency to come across as smug and sarcastic is certainly a flaw, his complete inability to pronounce French names and terms is almost enough to be a dealbreaker. His awful pronunciation isn't even consistent. Marat's murderer's name was Charlotte Corday, but Davidson pronounces it Cordaille just as often as Corday. Now, her name is a familiar one, but the problem becomes real when the listener can't tell if Davidson is referring to a man alternately as Beaulieu and Boileau, or if they are indeed two different men.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Since reading (listening to) Hilary Mantel's A Place of Greater Safety, Danton's execution has never failed to get me.

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Unmanly

Revisado: 05-20-15

The matter-of-fact style of the prose is undercut by an unbecoming, and in the words of the book itself, unmanly tone of selv pity. The sound effects are more of a disturbance than an asset.

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