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Big great Manchester Book but A.I. narrator?

Revisado: 10-22-23

The writer, subject and book are excellent.

But the he narrator sounds like he/it might be either AI, a robot / or just contains portions which are badly edited in post.

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Lovely

Revisado: 10-08-23

A treat, read a few times. Highest recommendation. 7 more words required. 3 more words required. OK?

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Well written book on complex subject

Revisado: 08-17-23

This is a beautifully done book. The subject is complicated and the author has done a huge thing in successfully tackling it.

Well known narrator works hard at chewing every bit of scenery possible. His baseline tone here is a kind of quavering hysteria. Less would be more. But it's really the producer's job to reel that in and look out for the v.o. talent. The producer let him down in this case.

Overall, great book!

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Interesting insightful entertaining

Revisado: 08-11-23

This is the best kind of audiobook, an interesting story that's linked, via the terrific narrator Culp, to the subject in his own life. An extreme character such as SP requires nuance to describe properly and this writer and narrator do it just right. Definitely recommend, great stuff. Felt like I was hanging out with the writer and with Culp, so fun. Wished it were twice as long and hated to hear it end :)

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Is there ANY new material in this book at all?

Revisado: 06-20-23

This feels like a book report of several already published books about these events. I don't understand this kind of history book. Working off the backs of other historians to 'write' a 'new' book that's cribbed from pre-existing stuff is lazy, not good history, not good writing and not good work. Statements of a general nature of made and the usual factual examples to back those statement up are missing, aren't here. So those statements are basically opinions, barring anything to support them. Maybe I misunderstand, maybe this is a junior high school text book? Anyway, this writer's no Manchester, Shirer, McCullough. This book LOOKS like a history book but it's something else and I'm not sure what is it exactly.

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Very interesting!

Revisado: 06-16-23

Wonderful and interesting book. But the sound edits and changes in narration sessions from what are obviously various dates are just too much, this is not a finished audio book (repeated lines also exist/were left in), This version of this audiobook needs to be scrapped and just re-recorded wholesale (to be clear both the faults and the solutions are on the audiobook producer and not on the narrator who is obviously talented).

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Lovely!

Revisado: 11-22-22

This is done right! Beautiful words, music, images. Grateful this has been done. Thank you!

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Author/Son of CIA man doesn't fall far from tree?

Revisado: 07-24-22

This is an important book, despite its faults. Had high hopes but potentially involving study of history is repeatedly spoiled by the author's inserting his personal politics and what appear to be strong anti-democratic and pro OSS & CIA feelings (Max Boot was mostly able to steer clear of his own views in his Lansdale book). In this book, however, the world's problems seem to be caused by everyone EXCEPT the CIA--aside from Allen Dulles. Author's father was a CIA employee and so, understandably, maybe he's close to the subject and sometimes seems biased towards the rank and file company folks. Also, the research done seems to consist largely of chunks of other well-known history books. Having read enough in this area I could immediately tag the sources (book & author) of these sections as I read/heard them. That said, this book was an ambitious project and awfully hard to get right. He wrote the book and I didn't. Narrator's basso profundo can be grating but can also have a welcome authority (he seems to be attempting to soften it lately?). Recommended! Read it or listen to it (but, finally, the author might do more research on President Truman in the future, his views here read like a reflex/hand me down from the father).

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Amazing narration, tops...

Revisado: 06-01-22

...and the writer ain't nothing to sneeze at neitha'. This is a magnificent package of subject, writer and narrator. A treat!

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Dancing about architecture?

Revisado: 05-20-22

Overwrought. Doesn't work. Somehow this book manages to take the fun out of something wonderful. This might work better as a reference book kept for specific listening sessions but it's overlapping structure kind of rules that out in terms of usefulness. In shorter New Yorker bites this kind of thing works but this is a tough slog. God bless him for doing this huge project just the same. He got it done. Also, just know that it's concerned strictly with classical music and that general world which is impossible to tell when reading the description, not an accident likely. So... everything else is noise apparently.

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