Daniel R Barnes

substantial and well-delivered

Revisado: 02-08-24

The narrator manages to modulate gracefully between a wide variety of voices. James is maybe the best narrator I've experienced in any Audible-delivered work I've consumed. He is not just a storyteller, but an accomplished actor.
The book itself is hard to take, but worth it, if you're not feeling too delicate. I don't want to say too much, for fear of spoiling surprises, but I do feel it's a good idea to warn the shopper that this book is not a delightful romp through fields of butterflies and frolicking puppy dogs, so if you need a stress-reducing, after-work opiate, this book ain't it. It's as stressful as any Seinfeld episode for readers with compulsively immersive imaginations.

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This inspired Tolkein? Seriously?

Revisado: 09-08-19

The Kalevala has a lot of superfluous, repetitive verbosity that does nothing for the spoken narrative in English, but Maybe this work is more musical when spoken in its original Finnish. I dunno. I'm interested in mythology from just about anywhere around the globe, but the saga I've hear so far (I'm about 13 cantos in,) is pointless, nonsensical, arbitrary, and uninspiring, so I'm eagerly awaiting my next monthly credit so I can get something else to listen to. I really wanted to like the Kalevala, but it's just flat soda to me. Greek mythology is MUCH better. J. R. R. Tolkein is MUCH better. Being utterly fictional, and, therefore, without much overt practical value, mythology and fantasy are inherently worthless wheel-spinning, unless they (1) inspire one's courage to perform heroic deeds (like waking up in the morning when that infernal alarm clock goes off), (2) delight the palate due to their aesthetic magnificence, (3) reveal something interesting about the psyche of the culture from which the mythos sprang, (4) etc., but the Kalevala strikes me as accomplishing none of that. The narrator is good. He strikes me as a motivated storyteller who, with a better work to speak from, would surely spread his contagious enthusiasm for the work to his listener, but I'm just about done with this. I bet a nonfiction account of the Finnish resistance against the 1939 Soviet invasion would be far more heroically inspiring . . . search box, where are you? . . .

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fun listen

Revisado: 05-11-19

walrus dynamo encrustacean matrix with tiny flub neighbour dominance despite a plethora of the what was I am succeeding splendidly. K?

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