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His Heart’s in Music

Revisado: 12-31-24

I’ve never met Tom Morris but have lived in Cleveland since 1958 and am a longtime subscriber to the Cleveland Orchestra. Thus I am not an impartial absorber of Tom’s book. It is wonderfully detailed about so many things that are vital to me, including advice that the music world needs to pay attention to, for its health.

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Good but there’s one serious fault

Revisado: 05-08-24

I liked the subject but deplored the pronunciation of French names. Amazing! A book completely about France, read in English, yet the reader isn’t required to know how to pronounce correctly the many French names! How is the listener supposed to know what the reader is talking about? I did a lot of guessing or drawing a blank.

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Great book, so detailed

Revisado: 11-29-23

The people come alive through all these details. Lots of viewpoints are expressed and reactions to them. Prevalent viewpoints keep changing — it’s all fascinating. I love France, their history, their language. The reader/performer seems to love all these too. One pronunciation I don’t understand: why pronounce the S on the end of Camus?

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Food for Thought

Revisado: 11-19-23

David Runciman is supportive, intelligent, ethical — I know this through his podcasts and through an interaction with a particular grad student. It’s true in this book too on a timely important topic, the future of humanity and our world. It’s a hard topic. We need him to be supportive. We also need to face this subject with our eyes wide open.

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Good, important material

Revisado: 08-01-23

Frankly, I was appalled at all the brainwashing through so many years and we are probably not done yet. I graduated from high school in 1954 so reached deep into my memories. Also I’m a Tennessean who has lived in Cleveland Ohio since 1958, so I compare North and South with knowledge of both. Thanks for recording. That made it more palatable to endure: sorry example after sorry example. Listeners and readers have pictured here a travesty of living together respectfully. We have to do better.

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Rewarding tale!

Revisado: 12-12-22

This book was fascinating! I lived in Shaker Heights 1959-2017 and now live only a couple of miles away, in Cleveland. Shaker Heights has the Shaker Historical Society, of which I am a longtime member. My heart is still in Shaker Heights, so I can say we are proud of our Shaker heritage, presented so graphically in a Florida setting by author Russell Banks. Shakers had virtues and vices, including shunning, according to Mr. Banks. I never heard of our North Union Shakers doing shunning, but maybe the record is suppressed. Shaker Heights is very different from the Shakers. They wouldn’t approve of us. I also know Florida, but not the way I know local Shaker history, and I’ve never been tempted to visit Disney’s Florida establishment. Mr. Banks, thank you for this book!

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Audible Excellence Made Visible

Revisado: 08-01-21

I loved all the detail. I loved the author’s care for historical exactitude and for his subject, Thomas Cromwell. I love the book’s dedication to GR Elton, a Cambridge historian I greatly admire. Listening has been a great experience. I’ve been in the England of 500 years ago. Now back to the present now, perhaps with some enlightenment.

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The free world not as free as we thought?

Revisado: 07-23-21

I listened twice! It’s a long book, and parts I’m not interested in at all, even second time through. Many other parts are enlightening, like Black Mountain College, the New Criticism, “I Take My Stand,” Kenyon and Sewanee, Black writers, many more. Mr. Menand has a great mind, a broad mind, an expansive mind; and exploring this book was very much worth doing. I also bought a hard copy to refer to because I HATE murdered French pronunciation. That’s my criticism of the performer: his French.

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Excellent book and performance

Revisado: 04-26-21

I’m trying to give it five stars in all categories but phone not cooperating. I got this book because of review in The Economist. Otherwise never would have touched it. Dislike his ideas and his effect on US and our history. But he’s a complex man. And the reading was good too, straightforward, fitting to the subject and my tastes.

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Mildly interesting but for me, worth skipping

Revisado: 04-26-21

I knew about Jefferson Bible already and thought Jefferson was misguided to create it. I got this book because of a review. The review didn’t mislead but gave me something to check out. I have done so. Performance: I didn’t care for different voices and accents used for different writers through the years. Too fussy an approach, too precious (do you understand that word here?). You’ll never print this.

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