Art Hansen

Relatability

Revisado: 02-28-25

She seemed forthright. She was forthright. She is forthright. She gave details descriptions if how her experiences felr. forthright. She seemed forthright.

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Incisive

Revisado: 10-23-24

I appreciate being rid of many common misconceptions such as Japan was always isolated until 1890s

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Achh! Those sissies. I’ll show them,,,

Revisado: 07-19-23

…how to squander my last day of life.

I loved this story in High School. After I read it I built fires away from trees. I imagine the interior of the pine branches was mostly empty space, a veritable chimney, and the fire heat rise to the top where the upper layer of snow softened and slumped down to the next layer then the next. In October 2001, the word became “pancaking “.

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Epiphany to the rescue

Revisado: 07-15-23

One of my all time favorite stories. While his crew-mates succumbed to madness as their situation grew worser and again, the survivor succumbed to fascination from distraction, wanting to experience the majesty of his final minutes. His observations presented him a release in an Epiphany letting go while his brother clung tighter and tighter for dear life as he disappeared.

I have seen the Moskoe Ström in documentaries. It is a magnificent beast to be admired and respected.

Poe is a master of finding profound beauty in horror.

I am stunned by how well this story stands the test of time. I bought a volume of all of Poe’s works at the end of the last century, when we visited the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia.


This story serves no doubt a metaphor for many different circumstances. It reminds me of the deepest moments of grief, me clinging to all I could imagine could save me, only to let go in a flash of clarity formed by distraction.

That which I clung to would have taken me down with it when it hurtled over the edge, and only then did I realize that it was grief itself I clung to.

It is also a metaphor for the ADD experience, of the outsider perceiving through distraction that which the mainström cannot fathom.

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Hidden in plain site.

Revisado: 06-02-22

I have read much of the content in other books. This was a great collection of themes and stories. About half was new to me. The first I heard any of this content was in college. I was very fortunate to be able to attend college. What about those who can’t or choose different paths? Might they never learn any of the facts in this book, and others? I can see why antiCRT folk are up in arms. Could they have something to hide from their school children?

I was eight years old on a Sunday morning in the catechism when I was told about prejudice, and how it was bad. And how we should judge others by their deeds, not their skin.

This book taught me how the lies and misbehavior toward descendants of Africa is so persistent and pervasive. It is like an ugly blood stain on a wall. We paint over it, and it bleeds through, paint over it again it bleeds through again, over and over and over.

It also showed me how Africans are held back, how they ARE treated differently to this day, and treated more toughly by the law than their white neighbors.

Loved it, Great work!

I liked the mix of dates, facts, events and trends with stories about and or from slaves and their descendants.


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Ending a little disappointing

Revisado: 10-21-21

After listening to hours of build up to the climax and conclusions, after struggling to understand the intracacies of relations in the Russian aristocracy, how a certain posture or accent of a word could lead to an hour of examination of intent………, I feel the same as I did after devoting six seasons of my time to LOST, the journey was fascinating, but the conclusion was, oh so lacking, nowhere near to being equal to the buildup. I am no expert of Russian literature. No doubt someone will remark that I failed to appreciate the intricacies of the intertwined relations, navel gazing, the realities of life in the Russian Aristocracy in the pre-Lenin days, and discard my comments as those of a newbie. I did enjoy the Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina.

Exactly like LOST, the Idiot had such a build up of unanswered questions one hoped the conclusion would answer them. Both failed on that mark. Maybe I am supposed to say, oh how brilliant of Dostoyevsky to come up with an unsatisfying ending. I can’t. As a hayseed country boy, I was left wondering if the author was in a hurry to complete the work and just threw together a quick semi-satisfactory.

Sorry Dostoyevsky. I know you are dead and all, and I am supposed to respect you as a literary genius, but something is lost in the translation of your work in language and after 130 years.

I still rate the story fairly high. I just think it could have been better.

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Marvelous

Revisado: 08-03-21

What could be a very dull and drab topic is brought to vigorous life through the Professor’s humorous, serious, and entertaining presentation skills. His willingness to try to pronounce words and sounds he knows he may fail in the ears of native speakers reveals his love for the topic and desire to make it meaningful to listeners.

I thoroughly enjoyed this audiobook.

AF Hansen

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A penninsula

Revisado: 05-11-21

I am so happy to listen to a book written by an author who characterizes Europe correctly as a peninsula of the larger Eurasian continent, not a continent unto itself. That alone boosted my interest in the volumes.

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Disappointing

Revisado: 07-28-19

I join the chorus of others who grieve that there were no introductions. Halfway through I had no idea the titles or authors, other than four were listed on the title page. I came to assume those read by Meryl Streep were Emily Dickinson’s. The poems themselves were excellent and I knew enough about the American Transcendental movement of the 19th Century. However, it was a tragic miscalculation on the producer’ s part not to identify the author of the poem before its start. Many of the first poems I didn’t even realize that the first phrase was actually the title. I caught on to that halfway through. Still it would have been better to know the author of each poem. This organizational flaw forced me to score it 1 and 2 stars. That is in sharp contrast to 95% of audible titles I gladly rank 4 and 5 stars.

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