Maggie G

Excellent Narration

Revisado: 09-24-21

Nicola Barber and Graeme Malcolm, excellent narrators really brought these eccentric characters to life and had me laughing.

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A Woman’s Story Read by a Man

Revisado: 09-17-21

This is a woman’s story and this will be a 4-5 star review with the next audiobook version read by a woman. This is my second Mark Sullivan, I read the first one (Scarlet Sky). In Scarlet Sky, I was peeved by the contemporary, modern conversation and dialogue throughout. I couldn’t vision the historical scene with the modern dialogue. It happened again in this story. I tried to keep an open mind. I hope by the next book, he develops his historical (non) fiction place setting including language and dialogue. It’s difficult to imagine a historical scene when I keep seeing modern actors playing the role. I don’t get the full immersion. My opinions…

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Extensively Researched, Perfectly Presented

Revisado: 05-27-21

This is THE book of the Kent State shootings and it is very well read by Alan Sklar. Howard Means has my deepest respect for his in-depth research of all documents, eyewitness accounts, photographs, and records, right down to the basketball game on TV at the college bars during riots. Each little detail provided a lasting image of the events leading up to the event and the aftermath. I was fascinated to learn of the grammatical error in the president’s sympathy letters, for example. I grew up in Akron/Canton area after the incident and I’d describe my knowledge of the events more of a “History Channel” version. I mean to say a flashy account condensed into a segment meant to capture a limited attention span. However, this book made me realize how little I knew and I feel that I have come away with a much richer and deeper understanding from multiple perspectives. One part that nearly made me cry was the response of the public to the death of the students and the seething misinformation spread immediately after the incident. Also, I had no idea what weapons were used beforehand and I have been on Kent campus and it is not a remote and expansive shooting range, it is a moderate-size campus with buildings snuggly spaced throughout. I cannot even imagine how it would feel to see a 30-06 bullet going into the wall while you stand in the dorm room hallway waiting for an elevator. I could go on and on in this review. One last thing that struck me was the clear inconsistency in the guardsmen’s accounts that is definitely not corroborated in any of the photographs. I cannot begin to think how social media and smart phones would have impacted the aftermath. It’s amazing that a few photos were snapped showing the students at a distance from the guardsmen and that at least one student in a dorm window thought to audio record the incident. I just cannot stop thinking about Allison Krause. Whew, I’m so thankful that I picked this book and my complete gratitude for the author for sifting through the minutia to offer us this lasting account with multiple perspectives from the cafeteria waitress all the way up to Nixon.

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