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Wimpy character

Revisado: 06-20-23

We expected a strong independent female lead. Instead, she is a passive, submissive complainer. Not a good role model, not an interesting character, not a good story.

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A scientist reviewer

Revisado: 02-15-23

Superbly done with a vision we need. Marcus gives the human perspective on the most human of endeavors: helping one another. Her science is spot on, her compassion is the driving force. Read it.

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Bad narration

Revisado: 07-16-22

Great story, as always, but incredibly difficult to listen to, especially after the superb narrations for the previous work. The current narrator was “nails on a blackboard”. Almost painful.

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Poor reader

Revisado: 05-13-20

Great material, but the narrator reads it as though he has no idea what he’s reading or even finds it not worth reading. Perhaps that’s why he rushes through it and leaves the listener unsatisfied. Find another, more sympathetic and understanding narrator who actually admires Seneca.

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Poor performance

Revisado: 04-12-15

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

The professor is affected, shallow, and jejune. It was painful to listen to this. Seriously, it was hard to decide whether to keep listening or delete it and this was true of every single session. The material is superb, the overall organization excellent, but the lecturer is silly and acts as though he were a teen ager who has no idea why any of this matters. He emotes rather than interacting with the listener. What a waste of an incredible topic.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Operas of Mozart?

The Mozart itself: wonderful!

How could the performance have been better?

Find a different lecturer who doesn't try to act like a teen ager.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Deep disappointment.

Any additional comments?

Almost anyone would have had a better delivery. The lecturer should have written his script and then had someone else deliver it.

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Classic Sayers

Revisado: 01-18-11

Well done, Magistra. If any of you have ever enjoyed Lord Peter and Harriet Vane, you will enjoy Walsh's addition to the genre. We are once more back (albeit post WWII) in the world of Lord and Lady Peter, with their two sons and a world that is progressing (if it is progressing) into the mid-20th century. Yet the author also brings us backwards, evoking tales of Peter's shell-shocked youth as he solves his first case, a case that now echoes -- through multiple murders -- into the present, along with recurrent emeralds, old friends, and new villains. And despite it all, Jill Paton Walsh manages to bring us back in contact with the characters we cherish: Peter, Harriet, and Bunter are unchanged from the Sayers originals. Magisterial, Magistra!

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Excellent - including the narrator

Revisado: 12-04-10

This is a superb Steve Berry title, and Paul Michael, the narrator, does an equally superb job with accents and pacing. This author/narrator combination is strikingly different from the abysmal narration of another (otherwise equally superb) Steve Berry book, the Alexandria Link, narrated by Scott Brick. In the future, I will buy anything with Steve Berry and Paul Michael, but will never waste money on any Steve Berry book if narrated by Scott Brick.

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Narrator

Revisado: 12-04-10

The story is excellent, but almost destroyed by a narrator who is a ham, continually emoting and sounding more like the background voice to Disney's Haunted House than a narrator of a modern adventure novel. He tries to put excitement and emotion into simple declaratory sentences, e.g., "I'M GOING TO DO SOMETHING!!!". This sort of silliness is painful to listen to. I'll buy a Steve Berry book anytime, but will never buy one narrated by Scott Brick.

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