Felix K

Excellent antidote to biblical fantasies

Revisado: 09-11-22

This is a very illuminating and well-researched history of the land of Palestine. While it is scholarly and contains extensive citations, it is still easy to listen to. A great antidote to ahistoric biblical narratives propagated by Western Christians and Zionists.

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Jane Austen is really very dull

Revisado: 08-05-22

This is my first Austen novel. The Heroin is an air headed young woman. Her concerns are silly and trivial. Nothing ever happens in the story. Why does Henry fall in love with her and she with him? What do they see in each other? I don’t think I can finish this book.

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The narrator’s voice

Revisado: 04-27-22

The narrator is just awful, really high pitch grating voice, couldn’t get past it to listen to the story (didn’t intend to give a rating to the story, but I didn’t have an option)

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So much copaganda

Revisado: 04-27-22

Engaging story but the level of copaganda is cringe-worthy. The thin blue line, police code of silence stuff are presented as cute and innocuous. Oh, also the line about "the KGB used to hand out kalashnikovs to foment terrorism"?? It would be a lot more historically accurate to say US-UK et al gave out free weapons to death squads and Muslim fanatics. Anyways why feel the need to insert cold war propaganda into a completely unrelated story? So much cringe.
Another annoying thing: Why did the narrator decide to read Ingeborg with an accent? She is English. Her last name is Smith. Even without the ridiculous accent, she is a sufficiently unrelatable character.

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Boring and propagandistic

Revisado: 04-05-22

I am mostly a Miss Marple fan, but there are only so many of those, so I read other Agatha Christie works as consolation. This is the first time I found one of her books so boring I couldn’t get through it. Was she an MI6 asset? Each and every enemy of the British empire, the Bolsheviks, Sinn Feinn, make an appearance in this book. Needless to say, they are all cartoon villains. At some point labour unrest is discussed in passing and wouldn’t you know, it is the Bolsheviks behind it. Propaganda is boring.

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English people were this racist, I suppose?

Revisado: 03-22-22

The stories are not really that entertaining, I have gotten through about 80% of it, mostly half listening. I take the casual racism of British mystery novels of a certain period for granted, but gaaawd, Chesterton’s descriptions of black peoples are disturbing. I got halfway through the story of “N-word Ned” and just couldn’t continue. Yuck.

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