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not advised

Revisado: 07-04-24

There are way too many names introduced in the first ¼ of the book. Impossible to keep all these characters and the currents straight. You have to be really motivated to keep listening. Also, the reader speaks much too rapidly. Maybe the book gets better later on, but I was not motivated to suffer any longer and so quit at the ¼ point.

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superb writer

Revisado: 05-11-24

this author is writing literature. I am beginning to think he is one of the best writers of our age.

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too much irrelevant

Revisado: 04-11-24

There are 2 problems with this book for me. First, I found the reader to be irritating. His southern accent was unconvincing. His voice for female characters was grating and also unconvincing. Second, there is way too much about the protagonist’s youth in the book. I understand he wanted to provide information on his early life as it informed his later character. But it seems like many other books that appear to reflect the author’s desire to put in any and all details he was able to discover about the character’s childhood. Boring. I could plow through some of that, but there’s way too much and I didn’t want to waste any more time getting to the meat of the story. Is this style of writing necessary or even beneficial? I had no trouble grasping Raskolnikov or Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary without any childhood background material.

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poor writing; poor reading

Revisado: 03-27-24

This is not a good book It is hard to imagine this author wrote Pietro Houdini, which was an excellent book. On the other hand, this is just poor writing. He would have done better writing an essay. He has ideas about weak Jews refusing to be weak. The ideas he puts into Abe’s head are so unconvincing for a teenager: make him as precocious as you wish, it is just unconvincing. Same with Sheldon. These characters are so poorly drawn. The reader makes it worse. He reads teenager dialogue as if they were Gen Z types with the silly-sounding endings to words. It grates. I’m not wasting anymore time on this book just to be able to write a review of a finished book. I’m 30% finished and I’m moving on to better material.

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the reader

Revisado: 02-04-24

I enjoyed the plot, setting, and character development, but what I enjoyed the most was the reading of David Oakes. My subsequent search showed that this was his only reading on Audible. There should be many more.

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boring

Revisado: 10-04-23

I quit at ~ 20% of this book. Much too much detail about various Atlanta churches and related personalities from the time of MLK's childhood and before. This writer feels that if he uncovers any details about the background of the story he wants to throw it in. Some setting of the scene is appropriate, but I listened to this to hear about "the King years 1954-63, and it's too much of a slog to get to those years. If you are a listener/reader who can just skip the boring stuff and get to the heart of the matter, this may be for you.

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boring

Revisado: 07-13-23

This book had far too much detail for me, irrelevant to the story of this man’s accomplishments. If the author found any previously unreported details of Chase’s life, no matter how distantly related to Chase, the author added them, seemingly to score points among his professional historian peers. Just not worth slogging through.

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boring

Revisado: 04-03-23

Nothing much happens in this book. The story has been told many times. As long as there are gullible people to be duped, there will arise those to do it. His previous stories had more of an arc to them and kept you reading, but not this one.

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boring

Revisado: 10-02-21

This book is mostly a collection of Coolidge's political philosophies. There is almost no discussion of the issues that came before him during his presidency, dilemmas over decisions, competing views among his advisors. The reader makes the story more boring still. Coolidge's early life history takes up too much of the book, and is only marginally relevant if you're interested in his presidency.

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poor reader

Revisado: 05-04-21

This is a good story. Despite the reader, it is an enjoyable listen. But the reader is poor. Obviously, it is her book, and there are some sections that are particularly emotional for her, and in those parts her reading is satisfactory. But for large sections of the book, her style of reading is bullet speech, just a rapid monotone recitation of a list of words. A professional reader would add much to this book.

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