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Not depressing like A Fine Balance

Revisado: 12-12-23

Wonderful story about a Parsi family in Bombay. Beautifully read. the reader is a natural storyteller, as is the author. Very touching book.

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excellent history of 60s music

Revisado: 09-18-23

joe boyd produced some of my favorite albums, and it is awesome to hear hi. tell his story. gives a perspective I haven't heard before on some great moments in folk, jazz, and rock history.

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eerily atmospheric

Revisado: 09-01-23

The book is eerily atmospheric, and always hinting at a massive conspiracy. But it gets weirder and weirder, and the conclusion was not fully satisfying, at least not to me. The narration, by 2 separate narrators (different sections), is excellent and adds to the atmosphere.

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beautifully written, beautifully read

Revisado: 05-04-22

fascinating story of a quest for utopia. the reader's sensitivity to the text is the best I've experienced yet on Audible.

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comprehensive history

Revisado: 10-03-20

the book is long but comprehensive. I like that the author does not shy away from the difficult topics like the patriots' and settlers' treatment of Native Americans and Blacks. He also covers the years before and after the revolution as well as other parts of the world besides just what happened in the 13 colonies themselves.
The reader is good but, in differentiating quotations from the narrative text, he uses different voices and accents, which at time sound a little cheesy. My favorite is when he is speaking as a Native American. Overall, a tremendously informative book that will remove those myths of the Revolution that some of us learned in school, and replace them with facts and reality based on primary sources.

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Fascinating and fast-moving!

Revisado: 04-03-20

W. Dalrymple is the best historian of India. Sagar's reading is both clear and well-paced.

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The book is hard to listen to the reader

Revisado: 05-22-19

I know the author was the reader but she is very monotone. It makes for a difficult listen.

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one of the best historical books I've heard

Revisado: 11-09-18

Excellent narration of a wonderfully written book. important history and important to understand recent and even current struggles in Afghanistan.

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important points to be aware of

Revisado: 08-16-18

the narrator was a bit more dramatic than I would have preferred for the reading of an essay. But I got over it.

Good discussion of just how serious it is that Trump and his allies are destroying the concept of objective truth. I liked the discussion of the roots of this in postmodernism, although the author also distinguishes early postmodernism from the misuse of its frameworks by the politicians who use relativism to manipulate the population for their own ends.

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The reader takes a great book and makes it better!

Revisado: 07-06-15

This is an exciting and fascinating story of the British East India Company in India. It never loses its fast pace and there are surprising plot twists. The reader is so good, including his use of different voices and accents for the different characters, that I think I would have enjoyed it less had I read it in a print version.

I heartily recommend this great adventure story.

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