Erick DuPree

Comical Fake Accents

Revisado: 11-18-23

So I loved the content- but the authors use of comical fake accents are distracting and do nothing to advance the story telling. I had planned to listen to the others- but it’s a hard pass now.

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Exquisite. Truly!

Revisado: 01-10-23

This is a great audio. It’s interesting to read some of the critical reviews - which seem to forget that Ivan Morris’ Pillow Book translation is of a time- and thus the language is dated. His use of British analogy for Japanese court is anachronistic- but it also is a clear way to communicate an imperial concept to western readers. This translation is better than the very abridged Waley translation but is not as refined as the more recent McKinney translation.

This audio lacks a lot of context and notes found in standard translation. However for me, it did not detract. I loved the narrator- who sounded of the time for the translation- a bit nostalgic on voice, with her use of Received Pronunciation.

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Painfully Boring

Revisado: 04-25-22

I was hoping to find a book about tea that delved into the rich and complex cultural history of tea along with the British/colonized information and tea lore- but no. Sadly this glazes over some history of tea in China and Japan, and is mostly Wikipedia facts about tea plants and tea recipes with anecdotes about the authored tea merchant business. The narrator was also painfully boring- it was like listening to the teacher in Charlie Brown.

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Exquisite

Revisado: 06-07-21

This book is amazing! So honest, and transparent- it’s easy to forget where Mariah has been, and how her music tells a story. Plus she sings 💖💖💖💖

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So Excellent

Revisado: 03-26-21

Much more than I expected. I was completely captivated by Wallis and her surroundings; her choices and the telling of her story.

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Fantastic

Revisado: 09-16-20

This was an excellent audio book. The narration was engaging and the storytelling superb! Very recommended.

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Missing the part that made him ’famous’ - the fashion!

Revisado: 05-28-20

I rarely write negative reviews, but wow! This book is a hard pass. I was so excited for this book, especially considering how amazing Grace Coddington’s book, ’Grace’ was.

The book is boring, bitter, and comes a cross deeply narcissistic.

Talley is condescending in his tone, and I am left not sure what his great contribution to Vogue or fashion was? There is very little ’fashion’ in this book, or his impact, (or even gossip) just his struggle being black and lecturing what he assumes is a white audience about his black experience with whiteness, classism and his sexuality. All of that would be fine, if he tied it back to fashion, but he doesn't.

He just meanders monotonously. I left the book thinking, wow, this book started with an analogy to Beyonce and impact, but Andre Leon Talley is definitely not the fashion industry's version of Beyonce.

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Amazing

Revisado: 04-21-20

This was spectacular!!! Best memoir I've listened to in a long long time. Recommended. Check it out

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Shockingly Bad

Revisado: 12-31-19

I've read everything by Stephen Greenblatt- but this book was abysmal. Firstly, all Shakespeare buffs already know the allegory between Richard Ii and Trump- this feels like a NYT OP Ed peicemealed into a book. It's appalling.

There is little about Lear, hardly nothing about Macbeth- and sadly this book fails to discuss anything about the tragedy of the tyrant. Which of course it can't, because he thesis is warning of the tyrant on the horizon (Trump) - but even Shakespeare's most horrible had compassion- but I guess that's what's miasing in humanity.

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Fascinating- Not sure it's fact, but wow.

Revisado: 12-31-19

So this is an amazing book, but you have to have read - really read, Jane Austen. Movies won't do. Don't even bother- because Helena Kelly presents theory in this way: "then Emma, in Emma wore the pink sash to the ball, and danced this way, what Jane was writing, at this moment in history was incitive of xy an z, which compared to the blue sash Fanny wore in Persuasion, blah blah blah- it's THAT nuanced.

Who knows if this is hyperbole, fact, circumstance, or a combination of it all. But what is fact is the history around Jane Austen, the women and they way they lived and the questions spoken and unspoken in Jane's writing.

It's an excellent read it listen.

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