Sergio Remon

Great book, Horrible narrator

Revisado: 07-01-21

As usual, for Ross King, great book. It’s well written and rigorously researched. However, this audiobook is marred by horrendous narration. The narration became somewhat tolerable when sped up, but not enough, what with the narrator’s strange modulations and inflections, to render this audiobook as listenable .

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Great autobiography by Dominican/American Classicist

Revisado: 02-25-21

This was a great bio by a brilliant classicist on his childhood and the educational voyage while also remaining an undocumented immigrant. I have not always agree with Mr Peralta’s statements on the Classics, especially his recent ones, but his life story is indeed “compelling” and worth reading, as is his scholarship.

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Great lectures but a little outdated

Revisado: 11-18-19

This lecture, by Jeremy McInerney, is clear and concise. He is a well organized lecturer and the subject matter was interesting. The only quibble I have, and here I am nitpicking, is that the lecture is old. Bill Clinton is referenced in the present tense.

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horrible reading

Revisado: 03-28-19

I guess there are probably people who like this type of reading. But the reading is so stylized, it is almost impossible to actually listen to the book, which is actually excellent. So, again, great book, wretched. reading.

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Interesting Subject, poor readin

Revisado: 01-11-18

The subject matter itself is quite interesting and the addition of Pascaline's expertise makes this a worthwhile read. However, the performance is wretched. The reading is quite robotic and she struggles with many of the foreign words and even some not so foreign. This is especially egregious with the grape name Syrah, (its Sy-RAH, not syruw) the region Willamette (rhymes with dammit, dammit) and anything in Italian. I get it, the reader is American, but wine is international, with many regions and grapes all of which should be pronounced correctly.

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Wonderful story, questionable reading

Revisado: 04-06-16

I don't think I really need to mentioned why Tales of the Alhambra is a wonderful read. It's a classic of travel...what?...Fiction? The real issue here is the reading. Now in general, I would not say that Kevin Foley is not a good reader. He speaks in a clear if somewhat stilted manner (which could be partly because of the source material.) My real issue with his reading is the insistence of using what is some sort of, I don't know what... Mexican?...Accent. I find the use of this accent insulting as it makes the character (or persons) speaking it sound like dimwitted fools. This is an overall unfortunate situation. As many of the writers who visited Spain from the 1800's to the mid 1950's (Hemingway, Pritchett, Welles, and Michener) have a habit of portraying the inhabitants as ignorant, illiterate peasant fools. this greatly diminishes their writings on the subject. All of this is made worse when the audio book reader, like Kevin Foley does here, give the speakers a ridiculous and wholly inaccurate accent.

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Great overview of WWI

Revisado: 06-12-15

There is very little to quibble with here, a lecture on WWI, from just before the beginning (illustrating flash points and political events before the war witch lead to tensions with the combatants) to after the war (conditions of which would lead to WWII.) and everything in between such as trench warfare, the battles of verdun, the battle of a he Somme, the war in east Europe, the US involvement, the August madness, and the shock of the new (tanks, planes, poison gas, trench warfare.) excellent

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Roger Sterling kills it

Revisado: 04-29-15

One of the greatest American novels gets a five star treatment from actor John Slattery. I read the novel a couple of times and wanted to get a different perspective by listening to an audio book. Well worth it as the performance hits all the right notes

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