Robert J. Goodsell

Not good for listening in the car

Revisado: 03-22-16

I have just about finished this course, listening to it in my car. Of course this is never ideal, since it is impossible to pay full attention to the lecture, and you can't easily look up something you don't understand or look at a map. Nevertheless, I feel that I have learned quite a lot from other lectures, but I'm coming away from this one with only the most basic improvement in my understanding of Byzantium.

One really annoying verbal trait of this professor: He pronounces the word "European" in three syllables as "Europeen". Every time he does this (and it's a lot) it interrupts my attention and I forget what he's talking about.

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Background sounds are very annoying

Revisado: 10-13-15

I haven't finished this book yet, and I'm not sure if I will. My main complaint is with the backgrounds sounds (not worthy of being called music) that are used to make the scary parts scarier (I guess). These go on a long time, and are particularly annoying when I'm driving. The sounds are pretty much in the background, and they slowly ramp up in the tense parts of the narrative. When I first hear them, I'm not sure if there is something wrong with my car or if an emergency vehicle is approaching. Stephen King's books are scary enough. This noise is totally unnecessary and seriously detracts from my enjoyment of the book.

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A young, overworked lawyer leaves a big firm

Revisado: 11-19-14

How many books has Grisham written about young lawyers leaving their high-pressure jobs with big firms to go find themselves doing something more meaningful? Well, one more with this one. This time she's a woman. I think Grisham ran into a deadline or is setting us up for a sequel, because the ending wasn't very satisfying.

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Stephen King w/o the supernatural is superb!

Revisado: 11-19-14

Of the many Stephen King books that I have read or listened to, I think this is the only one that didn't involve some bizarre supernatural something screwing around with the very believable characters. The time machine (or tunnel or whatever) was obviously necessary in "11-22-63", and that's my other favorite King book. But I think that the 20 or so pages of attempts to explain some supernatural cause only make "Under the Dome", "The Stand", "It" and other King books more confusing and less enjoyable (if that's the right word...). In "Mr. Mercedes" there is no supernatural explanation. The bad guy is a very bad guy, and that's it. It's a great story, and very well read.

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Too short!

Revisado: 04-15-13

What did you love best about The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency?

Unlike many detective novels, the cases here seem very real. Rather than uncovering huge organized crime syndicates and such, our #1 lady detective deals with a series of interesting yet mostly simple cases, relying on her knowledge of human nature instead of forensics. It is charming and funny, and a great listen while driving.

Bad news--it was too short. Good news--it's the first of a series!

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Narrator has never been near Detroit

Revisado: 06-23-12

What three words best describe William Hughes’s performance?

Doesn't know Detroit

Any additional comments?

The reader's mispronunciation of several Detroit area names is very distracting if you are familiar with the area: "Gratiot" should be pronounced "GRASH-ut", not "GRATHio". And it's "E-corse", not "e-CORSE", and "maCOMB" county, not "MAYcom". He also often puts emphasis in the wrong places in sentences.

The book itself often diverges into huge amounts of largely irrelevant detail, especially distracting when listening.

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