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Sure.. Baseball… but so much more!

Revisado: 08-25-24

This book was an absolute delight to surrender to. A sweeping history of not just baseball in NY through WWII, but of the city and its people. LJ Ganser’s narration captured the sense of the times perfectly… he passed my test of listening at 1.0 speed and maintaining the proper tempo. A must listen for baseball fans and for those of us who hanker for simpler times!

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Something for everyone…

Revisado: 07-26-23

It’s all here… history, obsession, emptiness, and beauty. The truth, though stranger than fiction, holds everything in its grasp throughout. Finkel never lets it out of his sight, and tells this gripping story skillfully. Ballerini treats the work with the same reverence that Breitwieser did with his loot. We get to live inside his head for a spell, without having to endure the wreckage that resulted from his twisted existence.

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A story for our time!

Revisado: 04-28-23

Jonathan Healey gifts us a sweeping history of 17th Century England, Scotland and Ireland in the context of the broader European political climate that is at once bracing and informative. The more things have changed in the ensuing 300+ years, the immutability of human nature holds dominion over all. Except for the fact that we have concocted more efficient ways of killing each other, one will find eerily similar human motivations between the various factions and interests during the reign of the Stuarts and the Protectorate, and today. Oliver Hembrough’s narration does take a bit of getting used to, but he skillfully turns the drama of the age into an entertaining and enlightening journey for the listener. Yes, someone with a more thorough knowledge of the history of the era may get impatient with his pace, but if the listener remains committed, s/he will be amply rewarded.

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A glimmer of hope

Revisado: 04-14-23

This is a masterfully written history of humanist thought and the humans who developed it from the Greeks to the present day. Antonia Beamish narrates the text with subtle grandeur, with measures of awe and splendor that will leave you feeling that there definitely IS a better way to live than how we’re doing it now!

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Good story, but…

Revisado: 03-29-23

Give the author his due- a well researched story well told, but not well narrated. This is as much on the publisher as it is on the narrator. He was miscast in this work, and either poorly directed or not directed at all.

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Fascinating and entertaining

Revisado: 01-06-23

Hay gives us a unique view into the political, intellectual and social milieu of late 18th c. Britain through the lens of its iconoclasts and dissenters. Atherton gives the text a confident and considered treatment, drawing the listener into Johnson’s relationships with a luminous array of historical and literary figures. Well worth your time.

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Mesmerizing and masterful

Revisado: 12-22-22

An edge of your seat account of a true-enough tale that will bring seventeenth century New England and London alive with suspense and emotion. Harris’s writing is spell-binding and McInnerny’s treatment is magisterial.

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Worth the time, but…

Revisado: 09-05-22

The writing brings Gould to life, and paints a vivid picture of the Gilded Age. The pace and energy of the text, however, is stunted by a wooden and hobbled narration, for which the producers, not the narrator, bear most of the blame. If allowed to flow in a more conversational tone, the project would be much better enjoyed by the listener.

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Achingly beautiful…

Revisado: 07-25-22

Spiritual without condescension or pretense. Ms. Church brings full life to the characters, who, like time itself, we want to embrace forever but know we must let go of.

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