William Sessions

Practical advice to communicate

Revisado: 08-15-24

Nuts and bolts approach to relationship issues of communication was presented concisely, clearly, and with compassion. The examples were to the point and appropriate for the issue. Well done Nic!

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Characters

Revisado: 01-09-24

Thanks for another Sharp story, please Mr Cornwall, more! Hopefully another adventure with Teresa before her murder

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Great

Revisado: 10-25-23

Rachel nails it, the Nazis of the thirties and forties are born again in the maga cult

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Truly superlative

Revisado: 06-27-23

A great listen, I was drawn in and enthralled. A seemingly obvious plot but told by a master story teller so I didn’t expect the numbing horror of the denouement. A dozen stars

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A compelling version of the hero's journey

Revisado: 10-30-21

The classic retelling of the Buddha legend as a parallel life that I get is a truth of the search for wisdom through experience. It reveals, no reaffirms the lesson I learned from a study of religion: some find wisdom from others, from teachers and books. others need to make a mess out of their lives to realize they always had the answer.

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Gifted Narration of an old novel

Revisado: 08-01-21

This is really early Dickens, for good and ill. Good in that it's not as serious as say Bleak House, ill in that it isn't as tightly edited as say A Christmas Carol. There are far too many chapters that are not plot related as so the story seems overly burdened and overlong. It is long at 32 hours. That said, the narration, by Rory Kinnear of much fame on the stage(Hamlet), and film ( Bill Tanner in Craig's James Bond, Frankenstein's Monster John Claire in Penny Dreadful (the reason I selected this on Audible.) Kinnear gives a better life and voice to the multitude of characters male and female than the other version of Pickwick on Audible. The classic tale is what it is, I don't feel qualified to criticize Dickens save to say he's not my cup of Yorkshire Gold!

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Insight into a major blunder of history

Revisado: 07-01-21

I was in the USAF when these events happened. What was revealed to me in this book appalls me. That we threw away a real chance for detente in order to escalate the arms race is criminal. The result was MAD (mutually assured destruction.) Oh well, I was reading Catch-22 at the time, and realized the buffoons that run things are only interested in making money. Anyway, it's a well told story. The narrator kept my interest from the start. His accents were right on, American, British, Russian, and German, one of the best narrators on Audible. I guess the dialogue in the movie came from another source but I appreciate the research and presentation of the story.

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A 20th Century Gullliver's Travels

Revisado: 06-29-21

Not much has changed in an insane and corrupt world since Swift wrote his classic satire of life in the 18th C . Heller's postmodern satire reaches the conclusion that maybe we are the crazies, and those that own, govern, and treat us like suckers, are sane ones is as valid today as at any time in the past. All any of us can do to survive is go along, knuckle under, or try to run away. Protest is futile prolonging the inevitable. Death is the only escape unless you can live without ethics, morality, and shame; amassing wealth and position, a member of the "In Crowd," "The Club." There is quite a bit of repetitious dialogue in the story, and a little borrowing from Kafka, losing a star for the story in my opinion. The narrator is a little too baritone for my taste but makes fewer mistakes than would I.

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Stories about art and nature.

Revisado: 06-24-21

A River Runs Through It is a great work, a wonderful creation of characters and fishing in Montana between the two World Wars. The narrator's story of his brother 's brilliant art of fly fishing and tragically fatal gambling addiction illustrates that a man can approach perfection, in art and life, but as we are flawed human beings, falls short, and is often broken. I loved it and ended in tears.

The other stories are anticlimactic attempts by the author to explore the same theme of a protagonist the narrator admires and hopes to emulate, but without the tragedy.

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Like a first person account

Revisado: 06-15-21

After an interesting summary of the events in Germany and the Soviet Union from 1918 through 1942, this story explodes with an "edge of the seat" narrative of the battle of Kursk in July 1943. I've heard and read a lot of war histories and found this one to stand out in sustaining my interest and understanding. A detailed map helped my comprehension some, but it is the intensity and intimacy of the personal stories and the art of tying it all together that rate the five stars. Davis Barker's narration is sublime and faultless.

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