Leah

The female narrator was pretty awful

Revisado: 04-17-24

For no clear reason, the narration of this book was done by a man for certain chapters and a woman by other chapters. This was not done for dialogue, but just for different chapters. The man was good, but the woman was pretty awful. Parts of her narration involved French pronunciations she had no ability to do. Other parts of her narration required an English accent, but she could not do that either. Instead, she substituted an American southern accent for an English accent. The producers should have just stuck with the male narrator. The story itself was very good and the writing was excellent.

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Interesting story and characters, terrible narration

Revisado: 12-26-23

I thought the characters were interesting and novel. But the narration by the author was terrible. She has a speech impediment, dropping her “r’s” and sounding like a British Barbara Walters on speed. I had to buy the book because I couldn’t understand some of the narration.

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Infantile writing and performance

Revisado: 12-04-23

I would say this book might be suited for a high school freshman. The narration was also poor, with the voices and accents all wrong.

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Narration overly dramatic

Revisado: 11-05-23

Erik Larsen is a master historical raconteur and this book is no exception, but the narration was not very good. Every sentence was read with great drama and foreboding, as if he were a camp counselor telling horror stories at a children’s camp.

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A biographical masterpiece

Revisado: 08-13-23

This. Biography has won many well-deserved awards, including the Pulitzer. It is the work of many years of research by two scholars. I found it to be a masterpiece of scholarly research. Be prepared to slog through many pages of technical science, which left me clueless but is probably necessary for a biography of a renown physicist. One criticism I have is the failure of the book to point out the inconsistencies of Oppenheimer’s thinking and opinions from one year to the next, He was opposed to making an A Bomb, but he led in making one. He thought the A Bomb could ethically be used on Germany, but Germany surrendered before the bomb was complete. He was opposed to using it on Japan, then he was in favor or it, then he was opposed because he believed Japan was near surrender anyway, then he was for it. He was opposed to making the Hydrogen super bomb, then seemed to change his position. The book was dominated by discussion of Oppenheimer’s communist sensibilities: was he or wasn’t he a communist? It is clear that he and his family were systematically harassed by the FBI and others during the creation of the bomb and then for the rest of his life. This book is the story of a very brilliant and complex man, a true philosopher scientist.

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Boring and self conscious

Revisado: 06-25-23

I see I am in the minority here but I found the stream of consciousness boring and tiresome.The story itself is unbearably dreadful and depressing, but with all of the pointless meandering, by the time the mystery was revealed (late in the book) I had lost interest.

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Very childish and sophomoric

Revisado: 01-13-23

This audible book, read by the author, sounds like a high school student reading a report. The book seems to assume that the reader has no knowledge of Jim Crow, racial injustice, lynching etc. Most of this book describes systemic racism at the time Malcolm X, King and Baldwin were born and raised. The book is simplistic and idealizes the three men and their mothers, leaving out or soft-peddling any rough edges.

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The WORST

Revisado: 09-21-22

This is without a doubt the worst thing I’ve ever listened to on Audible. I had purchased the first volume of the trilogy and listened on Audible, It was brilliant. The second two volumes were not available on Audible so I purchased this “reenactment.” It was really terrible. Huge sections and story lines were left out. The characters were not true to the books. If I could have given it zero stars I would have.

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Pretentious, offensive and overwritten

Revisado: 09-04-20

This is the love story of a 32 year old British war hero, an upper class highly educated man of the world
, and a 16/17 year old girl he meets in Japan whom he refers to with friends as “the changeling.” One never really is given to understand the basis of the attraction on his part, except for lust. On her part she’s a young, inexperienced child wanting to get away from her cruel parents. There are reasons that sex with underage people is illegal, but this factor never seems to be acknowledged in the book. If you don’t find this offensive, you might like this book. That is, if you can get past the ridiculously pretentious, oh so literate writing style. The reader is average, and apparently unwilling or unable to approximate the Australian and American accents called for. Occasionally one doesn’t know who is talking. I did finish the book, but its overwrought style had me chuckling in various places that weren’t supposed to be funny.

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