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awesome

Revisado: 05-22-15

If you could sum up A Distant Mirror in three words, what would they be?

stunning, grand, poignant

What did you like best about this story?

ms tuchman does a spendid job of braiding together many diverse and complicated bits of history into a consice and very human narrative. the good, the bad, the accidentlly successful and failures, the purposefully succesful and failures of the period are presented in a very sane fashion. human behavior is human behavior. doesn't seem to matter which century one is born.

people great and small are still making the same decisions for the same reasons. change the names of individuals, nations, and causes and your are left with today's headlines.

this is a very enjoyable and sobering book.

What about Nadia May’s performance did you like?

the narration is very well done. no odd pauses. nice posh accent. one item that i found amusing. ms may pronounces the word "joust" "juiced". the first time i heard it i realized what the word was supposed to be and realized it was just a different pronounciation at the same time i was trying to figure out why the possible intoxication of the particpants was being mentioned. one might want to be "juiced" before participating in a tournament however.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

a panaramic epic ripped from today's headlines!

Any additional comments?

i have read other works by ms tuchman and this is by far the best. very good read. should be required in all high school lit classes

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good read

Revisado: 01-15-15

What did you love best about Icons of the Iron Age?

this book is a series of lectures. each section is self contained. lots of interesting information. there is an accompanying test section at a different web site.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

might be a little much in one sitting.

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