Joe Morton

Great for beginners

Revisado: 04-02-23

This is a great book to introduce you to real estate investment. It is organized, easy to follow, and provides great examples and explanations. Highly recommend this book if you are completely new to real estate and need beginner information to prepare yourself to be successful.

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Kilroy was here

Revisado: 01-14-22

If the topic interests you, the execution won’t disappoint. I’ve ignored all my podcasts since I pressed play on this one.

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Good Book, Great Narration

Revisado: 06-19-19

This book is darned good. It's moving, it's informative, it teaches -- it is exactly that to which the title suggests it aspires. I can't tell you what "the things they carried were/are," but Tim O'Brien certainly can.

Bryan Cranston absolutely nails the narration. There are emotional passages in this book which are acceptable in print, but should be a bit cring-y when read aloud -- except that, apparently, Cranston is the based-god of narrators. This is the best narrated nonfiction book I've encountered on Audible....even better than Ron Swanson as a Connecticut Yankee.

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Solid overview, but reads like Cliffs Notes

Revisado: 06-19-19

There's a wealth of information here, to be sure. This text follows the political life of OVB chronologically, tracing the events of his many years in power and his eventual fall from grace. This is a decent first text as an introduction to OVB, and is narrated quite well. However: for the number of events this book attempts to discuss, it is simply too short -- the events themselves are covered so quickly that it is hard to remember one from another after having finished the text, and there is little attention given to explaining the causes of events, or details/motivations behind OVB's actions. Taylor frequently asserts "facts" about Bismarck's motivations, outlook, and personality, and often digresses briefly to praise or criticize him, but offers little in the way of evidence or explanation for these views.

This text is just fine as historical nonfiction, but I can't recommend it. You'll be neither bored-by nor expert-in Bismarck by its conclusion. Were it 3x its current length, it would likely be brilliant -- but as is, it's a short book about a very long career.

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Another book about Greeks

Revisado: 03-16-18

What does Michael Page bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

I can't say the narrator provides something that reading could not. However, the dramatized tone of this book could have been disastrous in less capable hands. Page's reading makes the text dramatic, where it might otherwise come across as corny.

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Perhaps I did not adequately preview this book before purchase -- I was disappointed to discover that it is much more focused on a making-present of the Hellenistic "story" of the Persian threat than the Persian Empire itself. To that end, it is successful, so long as one is interested in the Greek narrative (as opposed to an anaylitical historical text -- there are a number of episodes recounted without aside which range from dubious to downright Greek fiction). I found value in this book, as it colorizes and synthesizes a number of (primarily Greek) sources elegantly. If you are unfamiliar with the details of the Greek resistance, this is an excellent place to start. The downside of this emphasis is that it has been done a number of times, and though this installment is a worthy telling of the Greek story, it is still, at root, a telling of the same, much-told story of Greek resistance.

This book is NOT an examination of the Persian Empire. Anyone desiring to learn more about Cyrus/Cambyses/Darius will likely be disappointed when, about an hour into the audiobook, Cyrus and Cambyses are already dead, and the book has turned to detailed considerations of Athenian and Spartan societies.

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