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Hilarious

Revisado: 02-05-20

This is very subtly hilarious & the humor is dry as a desert. Highly recommended!

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Mostly great.

Revisado: 08-08-19

Mispronounced Ouachita, the name of a nearby college. Wrongly accented pronunciation of Texarkana. Proved my mother lied to me about k owing one of the victims! I believe he correctly identified the killer.

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Could be much better

Revisado: 04-26-17

I find the presentation to be very poor. I prefer to be spoken to, rather than laboriously read to. The reading was slow, pedantic, and boring, not to mention poorly edited. Everyone makes mistakes while speaking or reading, but surely the mistakes could be edited out, especially as the narrator went right back to his script. I found myself wondering who the presentation was written for, as surely university level students do not have to have the Cold War explained to them. I was hoping for more information on who the various tribes were/are, rather than having them presented as monolithic and with all beliefs and cultures mashed together as if there were no differences among them. More anthropology and less blaming would be welcome.

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A bit depressing

Revisado: 04-23-17

I reject the notion that all "great" literature must talk about depressing, sad stories. That all families merely wound us, that life is only about scars. I would fix this problem with these courses by removing some of the multiple lectures about various texts and suggest adding at least a couple, both by women. Where is Louisa May Alcott? Just because her books were written for women and girls doesn't make them not great literature. And if we must have Faulkner, we need the leavening and uplift of To Kill a Mockingbird, which is a more likely candidate for Great Southern Novel. Finally, I was hoping for some of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Perhaps not Eliot's most serious work, but still well written and fun. I realize these lectures are nearly 20 years old, but it's time to update them. The instructor is well spoken and reads well and is very insightful. I've graded this down for causing me to wonder why I ever read for enjoyment!

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Very interesting and entertaining!

Revisado: 11-27-16

Quite knowledgeable about the subject. I would like to introduce him to the pronunciation of the letter "g" at the end of the suffix "ing". To an American ear, it occasionally becomes confusing, as much as I generally appreciate a British accent. I was pleased to discover that I often anticipated the next topic of discussion from a general description. Two things I would have liked to be included: an unraveling of the plot of The Big Sleep, if one can be found, and something about the very popular books of J.D. Robb, which are a blend of police procedural, romance, and science fiction.

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Love the humor

Revisado: 08-24-16

Yes, I know it's not a funny topic, but the Professor's sense of humor helps lighten it a bit. I also appreciate the fact that she said that people of this time were not stupid. We may have more information than they did, but they were perfectly capable of putting two and two together and usually getting close to four. Highly recommended.

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Serious errors of fact

Revisado: 03-29-16

Robert E. Lee did own slaves and property in Virginia. Arlington plantation, in fact. Christopher Columbus did not discover a new world. There were people here before him, including some Europeans. Also, if I choose a history title, I do not want to be preached to about any religion. Not recommended.

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Not what I expected

Revisado: 03-15-16

I was hoping for a discussion of why some people are drawn to a religion when others are not. What I got was a discussion of why everyone is religious, which is not true. Aldo, the author is clearly biased towards Christianity, specifically Catholism. I'd hope a scientist could at least pretend to be objective. Also, he is boring repetitive towards the middle, which is as far as I could make it. Not recommended unless you already agree with his biases.

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Funny and informative

Revisado: 03-02-16

This book is simple enough for a bright but not scientific person to understand, but I'm recommending to a more scientifically trained friend. It's also frequently funny, which I enjoyed. Highly recommended!

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Don't read this if you like humanity.

Revisado: 02-29-16

Never met a bit of human progress he liked, except lowering the infant mortality rate, or any religion or other form of social organization he could stand, other than Buddhism. I'm willing to let him give up any form of civilization so he can become an illiterate hunter/gatherer, if I'm allowed to keep books, air conditioning, cooked food, and friends.

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