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In my top 5 sleep audios

Revisado: 11-25-23

Got this shortly after it appeared in fall of 21, my second one when starting to acquire “sleep stories”. It was over a year before I think I had heard all of the book but never fully from start to finish….which for me, qualified it as the very point of a go to sleep story.

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My go to

Revisado: 04-22-20

audible book for helping me fall into sleep if a bit too restless. All in all, I've probably listened to it 20x over the years since its been in my audible library. That said, I enjoyed the book immensely as it illuminated much about Baldwin and the UK in the 20's and 30's for its somewhat short length or "tautness". It touches on many of his contemporaries with fascinating anecdotes of their relation to Stanley. Always enjoy the narrator Gordon Griffin for softly acquiring my attention or easing into slumber.

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Well done

Revisado: 03-30-20

Version of Jutland that deftly pulls the time before and after, ships, admirals & controversy threads together for the reader. I've read Massie's chapters on the battle over many times and this book truly augmented Jutland appreciably more for me.

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Got my attention

Revisado: 03-08-19

The narration was spot on for this.

I purchased then forgot it was in library for quite a while. I started it one morning but listened whilst doing chores. It became apparent to me that I should give it my full attention. Been through it three times since.

As a “practicing” zen person, which is neither here nor there, I got a lot out of it

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Not bad....

Revisado: 03-02-19

I picked it up because it was cheap and saw no need to spend a credit on it. At first the narrator threw me off but as an experienced audible listener (and zen person for 10 yrs) I knew I could get used to it and focus on the story. Heck after while, I found it quite listenable. Nothing dramatic but good anecdotes and "lessons" of being an aspiring zen practitioner and being legally blind. I recommend it.

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Brydon fan

Revisado: 03-12-12

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Certainly, because I had the time to.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

The foundations of a successful comedian/actor's career....the hard work, persistence and luck involved.
I got a bit bogged down in some of the details prior to his breakthrough as I did not know many of the other persons he worked with as I live in North America.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

Brydon's delivery was...well, Brydon and being a relatively new fan of his work I enjoyed getting to know him better through him.

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Most enjoyable

Revisado: 08-27-11

I concur with all the glowing reviews of this audio book....the whole series.

Undoubtedly, Simon Vance's, always sterling several other audio books I have, is totally in the zone with this one.

The author's description of the mostly banal, prosaic events and interactions of the multitude of characters over the span of years, decades is quietly yet deeply fascinating.

Though weeks since finishing the final volume, I frequently listen again to various chapters. Powell puts highly descriptive words and phrases to elemental human events that I can so much identify but never the depth nor capacity of nuance to articulate.

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Get the Unabridged!

Revisado: 07-07-11

I've read all of Jan Morris' Pax Britannica's volumes. They are all good. I got this audible version since it's been a few years and I would enjoy hearing it read to me....but I did not realize I had picked the abridged version.
However, should the would-be reader not have been exposed to this series and is a bit of an anglophile, then by all means try it.

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Dense account of over-shawdowed tragedy

Revisado: 10-22-10

I read this in print shortly after it came out and have re-read it in print at least once since. When I saw it on Audible, I just had to give it a listen hands and eye free to soak it in again and follow along with topo maps of the positions and terrain.

Excellent narration - as I imagine Appleman would have approved.

I'd say this is strictly for those intensely interested in the subject as it is steeped in details and backstory. I feel Appleman objectively presents the issues well to more than allow the reader to interpret themselves what went wrong as a lot just is not known or may never be. But plenty of dots to connect.

If I went back in time, I would have told Faith and MacClean to occupy and hold hill 1221 (as the Marine Lt. they were replacing intimated) with firm connectivity between the schoolhouse to the south and the inlet, but no further north of the inlet until the reinforcements arrived....which of course, they never did.

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Wonderful

Revisado: 01-08-10

Superbly written memoir of combat and British army life in Burma and I do love this narrator's style that fits this so well. (he does a great narration of Orwell too)

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