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Informative

Revisado: 07-02-21

A little dry at times, but worth the effort. Made me think, and that's good

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too many glitches

Revisado: 04-21-21

the content was excellent, but the recording cut out on meet more than any other audible release.

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a delight

Revisado: 01-02-20

A great book. Weigel is a remarkable mind. Very well performed. highly recommend this book to any Catholic.

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Give it time

Revisado: 08-24-16

Not as gripping as her previous works. Sick with it... The are some gems in there.

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Tough listen

Revisado: 12-04-15

Any additional comments?

Story was very good and engaging. Narrator does the worst accents I've heard in a long time . Germans sound more English, Italians sound Russian. Very distracting for me

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I expected more

Revisado: 10-01-15

Where does The Martian rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Top 30

Who was your favorite character and why?

Mark - after all it is about him

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of R. C. Bray?

Not familiar with different readers - don't think about them much unless I don't like them.

Any additional comments?

Didn't care for the narrator. He seemed to have only three speech modes - sarcastic and overly sarcastic. The other was to read it like some dime detective story. Kept waiting to here about the 'dame with the long gams that came into his office.' He was what made the book hard to listen to, at least for me.

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Better than it started out to be

Revisado: 12-11-14

If you could sum up Confessions of a D-List Supervillain in three words, what would they be?

Fun, reasonably predictable with a couple of surprises here and there

Would you recommend Confessions of a D-List Supervillain to your friends? Why or why not?

Yes. Entertaining

Would you listen to another book narrated by Jeffrey Kafer and Talmadge Ragan ?

Maybe

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

A Campy Superhero Romp

Any additional comments?

I should say I don't listen to much fiction.

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Disappointed

Revisado: 04-23-14

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

People who like to hear political agenda specific rants

What was most disappointing about Thomas Sowell’s story?

There was no story - and even though I am a political conservative, I don't care to hear conservative rants that are not well backed up... or interesting

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

Disliked most everything about it.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Intellectuals and Society?

Everything after the first three chapters

Any additional comments?

mind numbing - simply the worst!

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Wow! VERY disappointed. Was hoping for better

Revisado: 03-28-14

Would you try another book from The Great Courses and/or Professor Bart D. Ehrman?

Yes to the great courses - in fact, I have listened to several and have several more in my wishlist. My reviews of them have been favorable.

No to Ehrman. He is too subjective and far and away too repetitive. His theological, ideological and historical perspectives could have been stated in about half the time, which would make the actual material only take 1/4 of the time recorded.

In other words, he is awfully wrapped up in his own views and his (almost arrogant) take on history the early church and Christianity.

I understand that the church and Christianity was a theological and spiritual evolutionary process. There are certain paths taken that could have gone another direction - so state it once and move on. Not everyone is an impressionable, malleable college freshman who needs to be convinced that Prof. Ehrman's understanding is the only correct one.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

Please, Modern scholar - stop this man before he teaches again!

What three words best describe Professor Bart D. Ehrman’s voice?

understandable, tolerable and average

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

No - it would make a lousy movie - but the biased take is just fanciful enough to make it as a History Channel 'documentary'

Any additional comments?

Honestly - I cannot recommend this book to Christians, agnostics or atheists. It is so biased toward his 'Historical Jesus' claims that the authority or genuineness of any writings from the Church Fathers cannot come through untarnished.

Overall, I thought this was one of the worst Modern Scholar lectures I have ever listened to and I have listened to a lot from them.

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Really Enjoyed This

Revisado: 03-28-14

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Absolutely. The investigation and lecture was not entirely subjective, but Prof. Schiffman is a well known Jewish scholar and he handled the subject well.

If you’ve listened to books by Lawrence H. Schiffman before, how does this one compare?

Yes. This one is to par with his others that I am familiar with.

What does the narrator bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Added authority and vocal emphasis on what matters and what is conjecture and what is not at all important

Could you see The Modern Scholar being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

No. It's a lecture.

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