Marsha
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God's Crucible
- Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215
- De: David Levering Lewis
- Narrado por: Richard Allen
- Duración: 18 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:2.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 14
At the beginning of the eighth century, the Arabs brought a momentous revolution in power, religion, and culture to Dark Ages Europe. David Levering Lewis' masterful history begins with the fall of the Persian and Roman Empires, followed by the rise of the prophet Muhammad and the creation of Muslim Spain.
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1 out of 5 stars
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What a train wreck
- De George en 12-10-08
- God's Crucible
- Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215
- De: David Levering Lewis
- Narrado por: Richard Allen
I ignored the other reviews, I was wrong!
Revisado: 12-02-08
The reader has a fine voice, but this book needed another, more educated reader. He seemed to read the words, but didn't seem to always understand sentence meaning. There are a lot of Arabic, European, Latin, and complex sentences of English words (well used in historical works, but not always used in common speech) used in this book that he just masticated. Common European place names and the names of peoples were worst!
I found myself angrily, out loud, correcting the words and pronunciations, just so I could comprehend what I was listening to. This is an interesting book that I slogged with through to the end, but I shouldn't have! This needed another reader like George Guidell, who read "The Basque History of the World" which covered some of the same events in Iberian history.
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L.A. Rex
- A Novel
- De: Will Beall
- Narrado por: Dan Oreskes
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
As far as everyone in the squad room knows, Ben Halloran is completely fresh to the streets of the 77th Division - just a soft kid from the West Side who's decided to become a cop and happened to draw the hardest neighborhood in LA. But demons from Ben's complicated past catch up with him and his tough, oddly principled Daryl Gates-era partner, Miguel Marquez, all too quickly. From the moment Ben and Marquez hit the streets together, they're pulled into a web of ultra-violent corruption and retribution.
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1 out of 5 stars
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THIS IS VERY GRUESOME!
- De Marsha en 03-11-07
- L.A. Rex
- A Novel
- De: Will Beall
- Narrado por: Dan Oreskes
THIS IS VERY GRUESOME!
Revisado: 03-11-07
I enjoy stories about Los Angeles, like Michael Connelly and Joseph Wambaugh, BUT this needs a much stronger warning label for the gruesome violence involved. I didn't enjoy this.
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