David S.

Wonderful!

Revisado: 01-21-25

A wonderful new twist on Twain's classic. James tells not only the story of Jim and Huck, but the feeling of slavery.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

Jeff Daniels is so much more...

Revisado: 12-19-24

Jeff Daniels is so much more than I knew. Had not listened to the first season but now I have to. Highly recommended.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

esto le resultó útil a 1 persona

Steven Fry is the perfect host and reader

Revisado: 12-13-24

This comprehensive production of all the Sherlock Homes stories and novels is a masterpiece of an audio book. Highly recommended.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

Important New Book

Revisado: 09-28-24

Just read it. He opened my eyes. The histories he presents and their implications for our AI future are not available elsewhere.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

Everyone should listen to this book.

Revisado: 09-09-24

Kamala's has written and read her personal and professional story in compelling and simple prose. Do yourself a favor and listen to it.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

esto le resultó útil a 1 persona

Exceptional

Revisado: 02-03-23

The title of the review refers not just to the book, but the two protagonists, the two performers, and the lucidity of the prose as it covers the topics of mathematics, the nature of the mind, the role and purpose of music, the nature of love and lust, and whether life is worth living.

Cormac McCarthy has produced a speculation on the nature of our life, both physical and mental, that stands as a unique contribution to literature. The Passenger, which I listened to and loved in its own right, now appears to be simply a prologue to this much shorter but luminous work.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

White Meridien and a beautiful brilliant woman

Revisado: 01-16-23

Cormack McCarthy gets a deservingly brilliant reading by the narrators. Their ability to voice his different characters, displaying the author's subtle variance between those who are otherwise so similar, adds needed drama to this narrative of love and loss.

The Passenger like McCarthy's other books is long on philosophy and introspection and short on plot. In this case, even shorter on plot than the others I have read which is most of them. But plot is not the reason to read him. His language evokes a landscape of the world and mind like no other. At once teaching the reader the intimate details of marine salvage, airplanes, guns, car engines, and windmills, while contemplating the meaning of life and relationships, or the lack thereof.

Like a single malt scotch, McCarthy is probably an acquired taste. But once acquired, he cannot be but appreciated for the skill of his creation, and it's resonance with one's own thoughts and feelings.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

Disappointed

Revisado: 08-14-22

McGuire undercut his own credibility when lies about the solar geo-engineering experiments proposed by Harvard University Professor, David Keith, and instead describes the program as advocating for solar geo. That it explicitly does not do that is obvious to anyone visiting its web page so McGuire knew he was lying about it. Frankly it is shameful coming from a scientist of his caliber.

He also gives misleading descriptions of other programs that have been proposed to respond to global heating while the world economy moves away from dependence on hydrocarbons. That process will take decades as McGuire knows and in fact points out. But rather than look at those proposals to respond to the challenge, he simply stamps his feet and says we have to go faster, as if his doing so will make it happen.

Transition to a non-carbon centered energy production system, is not a matter of political will but of economics. Politics in fact has created idiotic so called solutions like ethanol mixing into gasoline and electric cars both of which raise the demand for fossil fuels at least in anything like the near term.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

esto le resultó útil a 1 persona

Everything you hope it would be.

Revisado: 05-27-22

A wonderfully written and performed travelogue by America's greatest reconteur. Twain's earliest days described with joy and his unique humorous take on people and places. His hostility to indigenous peoples, and Blacks, is on full display, but the reader will have to hear that for what it is - a 19th century person's views. Some readers will want to avoid this book, if they avoided other books by Twain like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, previously for that reason.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

Loved a book I hesitated to read.

Revisado: 07-29-21

Like many others I have believed Mia Farrow's accusations, I my case since listening to her own autobiography in the mid-1990's when it came out. I had shunned Woody Allen's movies afterwards and only began seeing them again with Midnight In Paris. By giving his whole story here, from descriptions of growing up with his parents, sister and friends, to his early career successes and his influencers, through his love life including marriages and other relationships, Mia's accusation can be seen for what it is: a lie plain and simple.

Perhaps I should followed the story more closely, but it was a revelation for men to learn that three of Mia's adopted children committed suicide, and the her own brother is convicted child molester, and that her brother may have molested she and her sister, and even her father may have. It was another revelation that Dory Previn years before had written a song in which a molestation takes place in an attic. As was learning that there was no train set in Mia's attic or anything else except an unfinished crawl space with nails sticking out everywhere.

I recommend everyone who ever liked a Woody Allen film, or book, or record of his stand up comedy, listen to this book. You will be glad you did.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

esto le resultó útil a 1 persona