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Pretty good book, ok narrator

Revisado: 04-11-25

I’m maybe a little too anti-Reagan to love this book, but it was overall a strong (if occasionally surface-level) book. I found the reading hard to follow at times, but generally pretty good.

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Killer story, killer narrator

Revisado: 01-13-25

I’m a bit biased because I know CCJ in real life, but she is a consummate storyteller and her passion and brilliance come through beautifully in this memoir

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Great story, odd performance

Revisado: 03-13-24

It’s a great book, but for some reason the reader has made very odd choices—a very flat affect, bad accents/impersonations, a pace slow enough to lull you into not paying full attention to a book that moves through info very quickly.

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Good book, bad recording

Revisado: 08-01-23

The book itself is great and insightful, but it seems that the narrator Jeff Cummings had a somewhat flexible recording set-up as the quality & tenor of the audio can and will shift rapidly multiple times per chapter, sometimes mid-sentence, and sometimes in quick succession, a la that one Simpsons clip of homer being taken out of context on a talk show. It was very distracting for me at least, so I thought I should mention it so people would know going forward

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Good book, bad reader

Revisado: 01-13-23

The book is pretty good. The writing is pretty turgid and condescending at points, but it’s well researched and very informative.
That being said, the reader is pretty bad—weird pauses and intonations, funny “official” voices, and mispronunciations abound.

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Issues have been fixed!

Revisado: 12-08-22

A lot of the issues people discuss in the other reviews—including chapters being repeated and frequent notices to flip the tape—have all been fixed! Whatever the issues may have been, there are none now in this impeccable report of LBJ’s Senate years.

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It’s camp

Revisado: 10-19-22

Marisa Tomei gives such a bizarre performance full of overacting and weird choices that the whole thing becomes basically pure camp. It sounds like she did the recording in a single take after being spending three hours in a traffic jam on the way to the studio, just pure anger as the base emotion. Also, as other have noted, yes the voices she uses for the characters are silly. I want to give five stars but I know that all the times I burst out laughing were unintentional

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