Mike

Great fictional characters illuminate historical Japan and European interactions.

Revisado: 04-15-25

Loved the characters and the multiple voices of each. I enjoyed how the main character perseveres and survives. The final chapters, however, speed up and skip so much that could be told. i guess i’ll look for the author to write another book about those intervening years.

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AI reader isn’t good

Revisado: 11-06-24

The artificial intelligence reader made several grammatical errors and was just off. The script was cursory. No depth. I got what I paid for … not much.

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Feel good story

Revisado: 03-10-24

Entertaining family drama that quickly pulled me in and kept me engaged. Almost made me cry too!

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Good story, great read.

Revisado: 10-14-23

The story is interesting and has great characters. The reader’s performance brought each to life perfectly. This will be a good movie someday.

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Good speech

Revisado: 10-29-18

This is a short speech by one of my favorite authors discussing the value of history. With listening to a couple of times.

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Every American should read or listen to this book

Revisado: 09-16-18

I read this book in High School and it helped shaped my perspective on how to live a valuable life. I just listened to it again, 35 years later, and it reaffirmed that perspective. This is a great book with an important message; a message that is uniquely American. Find your own path, open your own doors. The story is dated, but still compelling. The message is still important and the audible performance is well done.

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More interesting than I expected

Revisado: 06-30-18

I wasn't sure what to expect, but I love all of David McCullough's other books so I trusted this would be worth the time. It was. I learned about great americans that I had never heard of before. I also learned more appreciation for the French people and Paris. In fact, I now want to go visit.

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Good, not great

Revisado: 12-02-17

A good addition to the series, but not quite as captivating as the first two books. I found myself glad it was ending so that I could get back to the main characters in book 3. Still well worth the listen though! Note: the first hour or so of this book is one of the interludes (the one about Lift) from Stormlight 2.

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Great read!

Revisado: 11-10-17

This book is great! One of the better stories I’ve listened to in a while, and on top of the good story telling there are interesting discussions about leadership, honor, and religion behind it all that really make you think. (Religion as a concept, not any specific real-world religion.)

The performance is good, but not earth shatteringly so. For the most part the voices are well done and distinct enough to easily identify main characters. Having chapters that follow a woman’s point of view voiced by a woman (and conversely male chapters voiced by a man) is a nice touch. However, the beginning of chapter 69 absolutely destroyed the performance for me. It’s told from the perspective of the king’s mother, and so it read by Kate Reading. However the character who are in the scene are typically seen from the perspective of the king’s uncle or other male members of the cast, and so are typically voiced by Michael Kramer. While Kate’s performance is still good, she pronounces some names differently (especially Sadius’) and gives drastically different voices to otherwise familiar characters. It’s very distracting at a crucial point in the story, and I feel it drags the performance down as a whole, hence the 2 star rating. Without this one colossal mistake (especially so near the end of the book), I would have rated the performance as 4 out of 5.

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