James Joyce

Overall, a poor effort

Revisado: 05-03-25

Easily the worst book I ever had from Audible,. The narration was amateurish was constantly mispronouncing words that showed the narrator had no knowledge of the subject at all. This is more common than you would think. Like BAR(browning automatic rifle) consistently pronounced as “bar” or the IRA (Irish Republican Army) consistently pronounced as Ira. Overall, a pretty poor effort.

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There were lots of breaks in the audio. Blanking out picking up in the middle of a sentence.

Revisado: 11-20-24

Poor audio. Difficult to understand the readers accent. This was disappointing. Lawrence is one of my favorite historical characters and I was looking forward to hearing his own writing. .

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TMI

Revisado: 01-09-24

The book was boring and I literally don’t worry about that because I use the audiobooks to help me sleep. But I couldn’t wait to finish this one. 

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Heavy Accent

Revisado: 11-12-23

was hard to understand at times. His attempts at voicing characters at times even more difficult to make out

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Serious doubt

Revisado: 05-22-23

Whether the effusive flowery language used by, the author were really Herman Lehmann‘s own words. His story yes. His words doubtful.

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Truly, one of the worst books of the genre I have ever read.

Revisado: 03-18-23

I’m not even going to bother describing it. If you really like this sort of thing (and I do)maybe you’ll enjoy it. For me, it was not worth the time not worth the time.

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Very disappointing

Revisado: 03-15-23

I felt like I had been conned into reading this. Urban yuppie types who have never even heard of three of the foods and couldn’t be bothered to actually find the real thing for their faux banquet. If Mark Twain was still around he would have skewered this bunch (and especially the chef!) for the elitist city slickers they truly are. Roasted them. A lame attempt to cover their witty, tableside discussions of Clemens consisting of numerous little factoids most people already know, and they could’ve picked up on their way over. The chefs attitude was insulting-too squeamish to even touch these basic American staples. 1 1/2 stars for him.

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Finest primary first person account of the times I have read

Revisado: 03-03-23

Wonderfully written, beautifully narrated riveting account of his experiences in the Pacific theater. I would like to say he is a fine writer but such would hardly do him justice. The sort of insightful prose one might expect from the editor of the Columbia law review. Biting, irascible, sarcastic- wonderful.

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This is a wonderful book.

Revisado: 12-31-21

I am told there was a time when every school in the United States contained at least two books. The Bible and Slocum. Having read the book some years ago I found the language again delightful and the reader a pleasure to listen to. I could recommend this to anyone. Having no knowledge of much of the nautical terminology I was constantly checking my dictionary. This was no hardship only adding to the fascinating story.

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Harlequin romance goes to the moon

Revisado: 04-21-21

Or “Rocky’s Space Adventure”
It had been a while since I listened to a sci-fi book. This was definitely more in the romance genre.
Wordy. Predictable plot line and ending. Or if you like the romance books you’ll probably like this one.

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