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Excellent profile

Revisado: 08-10-21

Overall, the book is a very strong profile of Klaus Fuchs. I would say that the meat of the book could have been edited down a bit (feels repetitive at times), and the author could have put more into the epilogue or final chapters that speculate Klaus' state of mind and motivations. Overall, great book for anyone interested in the history of the Manhattan Project, WWII, or the development of Atomic Weapons/Cold War arms race.

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Male narrator is probably a bad choice

Revisado: 02-26-20

Kind of weird to have a male narrator for this audiobook.
I know Gilman is supposed to be a fantastical 1st wave feminist writer, but I quite frankly could have lived my whole life without this story.

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Somme needs to be pronounced right

Revisado: 05-26-19

I really enjoyed the book, but it is deeply infuriating to listen to a book that talks a lot about the Battle of the Somme when "Somme" is pronounced incorrectly.
The text of the book is fantastic, a little more Jesus-y than I expected but still really good.

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Takes a weird turn

Revisado: 05-09-19

Generally it was a really good book and I liked it, but toward the end it went in a really weird way and I wasn't a fan of the direction and that made it hard to keep listening. it resolved interestingly though.

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Interesting but pompous

Revisado: 01-12-19

I thought the narrator was excellent, but I think Harari in the tone of his writing comes off as pompous. I think that it is counterproductive to assert that evolution is mutually exclusive with spiritual belief, and for someone that constantly talks about anthropology, he gets some of it wrong. Death rate and toll data given about slave labor in the Congo during the Free State years might need a fact check (fairly certain that scholars specializing in that part of history have the death rate at 50 not 30 as I believe Harari asserts, and totalling 8-10 million).
As someone who loves anthropology and has a degree in it, I had high hopes for this book, but it was kind of disappointing.

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Pretty Interesting

Revisado: 12-09-18

Not a total Twain maniac, and probably would not listen to the whole thing start to finish again, but it was an interesting read and I'm happy I chose it for a free original for November.

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Interesting, but a product of its time

Revisado: 12-08-18

The story is interesting, however the pompous colonial/imperial attitude of it doesn't age well at all.

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Excellent concept with a beautiful story

Revisado: 07-20-17

This book was phenomenally beautiful and the narration was excellent. I love that the author dedicated an entire novel to exploring the oft overlooked female perspective. Definitely cried throughout, and especially at the end. Hosseini uses words to paint exquisite, wonderful, and tragic pictures of Afghanistan, and Leoni always seems to convey these in perfect tone. Bravo to both.

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