a. mcnaught

improbably entertaining

Revisado: 06-28-23

immensely silly and all tied up with a bow- even the psycho killer gets a happy ending and the beagle is immortal

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go anni!

Revisado: 04-11-23

terse dialog and an adroit building of (increasingly improbable) plot twists- plus a strong narration

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a generation too late is better than never...

Revisado: 04-02-23

essential reading- we face a profoundly immoral, vicious and cunning adversary or, to use the correct term, enemy.
Unfortunately we long ago sold our birthright out for baubles and the United States now survives entirely at the whim of the cpc.
However, there is virtue in going down fighting. Do not fear war- fear slavery!!!

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impeccable characterization and plotting

Revisado: 02-21-23

well, as close to impeccable as this world gets… taut writing with real humor and complex emotions

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Unbelievably inane betrayal of this epic conflict

Revisado: 12-11-22

Where to begin... first, I suppose with the mysterious 4.8 review average? I have no explanation for this. Childers can barely write; in fact, he can barely read his own notes without losing his place and, frequently, inserting a complete non sequitur to fill the gap. (I lost count of the number of times he ends a lengthy pause with ...'and so on".) He can neither narrate nor lecture coherently. His voice is weak, his vocal emphases illogical and there are no flashes of insight or elegance to compensate for his failures of structure and delivery. Those are my main complaints about his presentation. As far as the substance of his story goes, he has made a series of absurd choices about what to include and what to leave out. These choices are not, as is increasingly the case, the result of any intentional historical revisionism or a desire to slant his subject. They are just lame and misleading and they reveal a continuous paucity of imagination. It is scary to know this person has taught such an important subject and to see his work well reviewed. This is, by far, the worst of the 'Great Courses' that I have attempted- which is, in itself, quite a remarkable accomplishment. If you love history's drama, delivered with insight and eloquence, try the 3rd volume of Manchester's magisterial biography of Churchill. It is an inspired- and inspirational- history of this conflict.

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well-paced, well-plotted, intelligently read

Revisado: 11-24-22

At first, I found Laura Jennings' reading style a bit breathless and overly intense- and almost gave up on the book. Now that the story has quickened- which did not take long- book and narrator feel perfectly matched. I checked to see what else she's read, sampling her take on a Sylvia Plath bio as well as a few other thriller/mysteries. She definitely has a good ear for dialog and nuancing her characters - as well as a good eye for a story. I hope to hear more of her.

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ruined by a miserable narration

Revisado: 07-11-22

it’s like being harangued by an angry street person, every other word is unduly emphasized. I pity his students.

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manages to make this complex subject simple while avoiding simplistic

Revisado: 12-17-21

Whitfield writes well and I found him particularly balanced and incisive when navigating the thorny period of abstraction through post-modernism. He maps that minefield with a judicious eye and refreshingly unpretentious social awareness. Sebastian Comberti’s reading was also a model of clarity.

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her best yet!! (i fear for dervla!)

Revisado: 09-04-21

how can she consistently build such character-driven drama around such tightly-plotted stories without demonic assistance…

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rumbelino and glissando in one sandwich

Revisado: 06-12-21

first i say, because it's so unusual, that the reader allows her words to breathe as only an author can hear them breathe; this intuitive synergy of text and voice is a rare treat (second, for me, only to Hootkin's glorious reading of Moby Dick - and that only because Melville's work is of an entirely different order). Great timing, phrasing and inflection - and the author's rapid-fire sentence structure is perfect for her remorseless whimsy and the deliriously dark asides that mask a childlike longing for profundity. As the book progresses, she frequently allows the last syllable of each sentence to extend which can lend her staccato structure a rhythmic, almost incantatory, quality. This work is unlike anything else I have heard and for me, in this world, that is saying a lot.

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