A. Hawley

A high quality reading

Revisado: 07-24-24

While I thought the narrative of this book was good although slightly too complicated by half, the narrator was absolutely phenomenal. Absolutely made it worth the price of admission. An interesting examination of marriage and what makes it work or fail.

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Book Good, Narrator Not So Much

Revisado: 01-10-24

This is a thoroughly researched account of Madonna and her art. While there are some insights into her as a person, the greater focus of the book is on the art. I think that the author did a great job on this front. The grand problem I had with this book was with the narrator. She was slow and kept butchering names. When I bumped it up to 1.5, she went by at a normal speed and it was much more tolerable. Still, it was not a good reading on her part. This book deserved more, I think.

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This series is phenomenal

Revisado: 08-18-23

The man has done a massive service to those who have suffered under the thumb of the zealous leaders of the USSR. While one can complain about the historical rigor, that is not the purpose of this work. Its point is to tell the tale of those who lived this experience. The narrator on this book is amazing. If there is a tragedy aside from the system itself, it's the recording quality. It's so bad. Put that aside and listen to this whole project.

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A Little Too Cool for Me

Revisado: 08-02-23

I thought that this was OK. I found the voice to be a little too distant for my taste. It didn't help that I didn't particularly care for either of the mains.

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Master of the Art

Revisado: 06-06-23

When we think of great tellers of history, there are some immediate people who come to mind: Branch, Caro, Kearns Goodwin. Perlstein should be in that conversation. A phenomenal history of one of our most important and pettiest presidents. A story that should be infuriating is told with elan and verve. Just a great book, read well by Mr. Thorpe.

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Essential Listen

Revisado: 04-27-23

This book should be required listening for everyone. Even though so much has changed on the civil rights front since the original version of this book, the argument here is still as relevant, unfortunately so. Given that this is a free listen at the time I'm writing this review, there's no excuse.

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No Audible Guy, I Did Not Enjoy This

Revisado: 04-19-23

It has things going for it. Top level cast? Yes. Good sound design? Yes. However, it's missing the one thing that a comedy program should have: laughs. I generally find Ms. McKinnon to be very funny, but this fell really flat for me. Maybe I was spoiled by Space 1969, but the weirdly detached comedy verging on anti-comedy just did not work. This is coming from someone who loves that awkward, uncomfortable style. If she tries again, I'll probably listen if she's not writing it.

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Slightly Dated But Very Strong

Revisado: 03-23-23

This is a modern classic for a reason. Doctorow is able to weave numerous stories into one kaleidoscopic vision of these United States at a pivotal time in the country's history. While there were some descriptions of sexual content that lingered for longer than they need to, one has to remember that this is a book written by a white man in the 70s. It's about par for the course. As well, they don't fully take away from the strength of the narrative.

The weakest part of this whole enterprise is honestly Mr. Doctorow himself. For some reason, his narration reminded me of F. Murray Abraham's character from Galaxy Quest. It felt thrown off and uninspiring. This book deserved better than him reading it.

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Way too long

Revisado: 03-21-23

While I will give credit to Ms. Reading for her work on this book, this was not good. I found the end of this book to be wildly frustrating. As well, I was expecting this book to be sexy and scary, and honestly it was neither. I'll not be listening to another book from Ms. Rice.

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Delightful

Revisado: 02-02-23

This was quite fun. Mr. Oakley wrote a phenomenal script, and the voice cast, with Ms. Lyonne in particular, really selling the whole enterprise. If you are familiar with the shows he has worked on, you should know what to expect here and it is delivered in spades. If you don't subscribe to plus, maybe do it so you can listen to things like this.

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