Jen, RN

disregard the weirdness of the monotone voice

Revisado: 09-09-24

This is golden. I visualized the space inside atoms, the space in the darkness of space and three specific consecutive futures in chronological order. I laugh-cried at the completion. Gratitude and thankfulness.

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Ms. Due's Love for the People

Revisado: 09-01-24

...really lays the foundation for her extremely capable work. I feel improved and inspired by her. I got to Book 4 of the African Immortals and found out this is the standalone beforehand that is required reading for My Soul to Keep.
I trust this author with my family, my friends, my heart. The ways the characters develop and move are so dynamic and engrossing. I was crying quite a bit at beautiful tender things as well as at devastating things. Lying in bed for hours this Saturday morning listening and watching the sun traverse my window. So romantic and tragic and well-executed.
Look, the narrator reminds me of Pam Grier's and my mom's generation/era, and she is clear as a bell on her acting, her characterizations, and the way she uses her voice. She's a new fave (George Guidall is my established favorite).
I'm going to read Book 4 now and come back to this for a second listen afterwards. Be inspired to do something after this lady's books. You may be forced to start a revolution.

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Perfect narrator for this book

Revisado: 07-08-24

It's a history book! When the lion decides to write the story of interactions with hunter. Phenomenal personal connection to the material and in depth enough to be surprising and educational. I had to double check the narrator and author weren't same person. Persuasively read.

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Louis L'Amour by Willie Nelson the East Texan

Revisado: 05-18-24

Easy to listen to this selection multiple times. Enjoyed the dramatization as well as the narration with Willie Nelson's short guitar expressions of time passing, anxiety, action, triumph, and musings. His voice is suited for the subject and he's got that natural sense of humor in his voice. I've sent this to my granddad who read Louis L'Amour paperbacks in Korea. He loves Willie Nelson westerns. If you like the Highwaymen, you'll love the first story with Kris Kristofferson in the lead.

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couldn't get through ch12

Revisado: 09-08-23

I was looking for a Josh Lucas narration after enjoying his subtle Oklahoma accent reading Louis L'Amour western short stories and I love Hemingway, but Lucas should have followed William Hootkins's lead and studied, just for 5 minutes, a Swahili language tape. This would have prevented him sounding like a caveman every time an African speaks. It's a very precise and pleasant sounding language and he's made it rather insultingly full of grunts and squeals, with a bad and uninformed accent. The letter M at the beginning of a word doesn't get a free American vowel, it's pronounced as a hum.

Good, true story told by the esteemed author. Couldn't finish it via audio. Will head to the library for the last hour's worth.

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Drove me up the wall

Revisado: 08-27-23

1st, Everett 'said something' to Virgil about Allie multiple times! 2nd, Virgil doesn't govern by committee. 3rd, where is the editor? The guy specifically said he didn't call the authorities. Several continuity errors and repetitive sentences happen because the book was not edited. 4th, this writer made the characters stupid, foolish, inexperienced. 5th, if you're going to hire someone to continue the legacy of a man who wrote 68 novels, don't hire the guy who has never written a novel in his life and can't remember the name of Pony's wife. 6th, I don't believe Virgil Cole is discussing his feelings for Allie in the middle of some action based on what he stood for in book one, Appaloosa. 7th, even Titus Welliver couldn't muster his enthusiasm for this reading. He reads as if he would rather have been the editor.

The factoids about telegraphing and telegraphers were interesting, The women were not believable. i fell asleep at one point and woke up to the same action being described as slowly and minutely as possible without missing any insight. Too many were shot, governor had no backstory, and Hitch was separated too long from his 8-gauge. And Everett Hitch used the wrong words in conversation and narration several times!

Too much of the action to come was discussed by characters as though they indeed had not been doing this for a long time. A lot more hesitant and in need of reassance than they have proven to be in the past.

I don't believe Virgil would go back to Appaloosa for that telegram or to fight that one man and I don't believe that man would put himself in a position to have to fight Virgil over that situation. The characters grew already. A lot of unbelievable, uncharacteristic things are suggested. I listened to the end despite chapter after chapter ending at the start of many a conversation. Tphe bad outweighed the good qualities of the story.

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