Scott Bennett

Perfect companion to The Practicing Stoic

Revisado: 12-27-22

Farnsworth is a very clear summarizer of complex concepts. The Practicing Stoic is my default recommendation for anyone looking for an intro on the subject, and The Socratic Method is a worthy prequel, explaining how Socrates first drew out many of these ideas, and how we can use some of these same techniques in our own discussions.

Lescault is a perfect narrator for a book like this, I really appreciate his clarity and diction.

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Exceptionally good narration

Revisado: 02-03-18

First time listening to this, after having read it 25 years ago. The narrator is suberb, an absolutely perfect characterization of Alex. The novel is a classic, even if Burgess supposedly wasn’t that keen on it. He’s right in the introduction, the final chapter is what makes it a novel rather than allegory.

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Layered and gripping

Revisado: 08-08-16

This book leaves you with a lot to think about: the small steps in history that can open up doors to vastly different futures, the nature of freedom, our legacy of slavery and its continuing effects, what it means to be human, and how we find redemption. Tightly written, and relentlessly compelling. If you're in doubt, don't be. It's a great work.

It only helps that William DeMeritt's performance is just superb, one of the best I've ever heard. Having such a skilled actor voicing a first person narrator is like having the story mainlined into a vein.

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Brilliant and moving

Revisado: 11-30-15

A fantastically original premise backed up by an exceptionally well crafted story. I will listen to this again.

As always, Peter Kenny's narration adds so much to the story. By far my favorite narrator on Audible. Excellent use of accents, wide emotional range, everything. Such a pleasure to listen to.

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Clunky story, wooden narration

Revisado: 11-28-15

Didactic, fairly pointless time travel yarn which posits that "the patriarchy" is mostly caused by a future corporation monkeying with the past in a failed attempt to stave off environmental catastrophe. There may be a decent story idea in that premise, but this isn't it. The author simply ignores all the usual, well-known paradoxes that would result from time travel in a linear single universe. That approach works if you have an interesting story backing it up, but that isn't the case here. Very little of interest happens in any of the time settings.

The narration is fine during descriptive passages, but the dialog is really pretty dire. No range of characters, emotion, or accents. That would be fine- if a narrator doesn't act and just reads the text neutrally, that's OK. Instead she comes off sounding like a corny amateur actor, pushing her voice down in the register when playing men, sounding camp evil for all the antagonists, and giving the main character a bored slacker voice. Really odd and distracting.

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Thoughtful and Compelling

Revisado: 06-18-15

Banks is a master of literary, idea-driven science fiction. Transition jumps around between characters, times, and alternate universes, and still winds up being a straightforward story. Beautiful. And Peter Kenny is probably the best narrator I've come across in an audiobook. Flawless voice work and a perfect fit with the intelligent writing.

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Good, then great, then incredible, then not

Revisado: 05-09-15

Stephenson builds a rich, original, and engrossing world, fills it with interesting characters, sets them up along a fascinating story arc, and then runs the story completely off the rails in the last act. I can't recall the last book where my enthusiasm so quickly diminished during the reading.

Audio quality is poor, low resolution and heavily compressed, like listening to AM radio. Narration is superb though, full of character.

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