F. Scott Humphrey

packed with good information

Revisado: 10-12-22

I found this book to be packed with good information. I'll definitely purchase the hard copy to go back and tabulate. This is my second book by this author.

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valuable and easy to follow

Revisado: 09-17-22

hoping to be a future non-profit executive director, I found the advice and explanations in this book to be especially valuable. I set the reading speed to 1.1X, and it was perfect. The performance, the reader, could not have been more articulate and well spoken.

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a cacophony of mispronunciations

Revisado: 03-11-22

This is an amazing collection of interesting scientific facts and opinions. But I have never heard a larger collection of mispronounced proper nouns in my life. At first I thought it was me, and maybe I've always missed out on the academic/intellectual pronunciation of certain words. But this reader absolutely slaughters the pronunciation of everything from epocs to the names of Hawaiian volcanoes. Most of the time the gross mispronunciations are just comical, but occasionally one must stop and rewind the book and listen again just to figure out what the heck the reader is talking about.

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amazing explanation

Revisado: 07-27-21

I'm a geology enthusiast, not a geologist. I love this audiobook. while bits and pieces of the chemistry were far over My intellectual head, most of the book made perfectly good sense. and who could imagine a book about carbon would be interesting? it's very interesting.

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"vituperative" really?

Revisado: 06-08-21

The only thing more annoying than a book that includes the word "vituperative" is listening to Simon Winchester read the word vituperative.

This entire book could have been delivered much more effectively and excitingly in a 10-minute YouTube of the video.

It contains a lot about useless trivia and a little about how Smith created the map that changed the world.

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informative, repetitive, echo

Revisado: 09-13-20

The narrative was informative. But the book overall seemed like a compilation of dozens I've short manuscripts. The author repeated the reason for the name Spanish flu no fewer than 25 times. this was the case for many of the facts highlighted in the book.

most of the repetitive narrative was consistent, but a few times it wasn't. for example the number of affected by the flu varied as much as 250%, depending on chapter.

the audio quality and the spoken word was terrible. the sound quality was as if the reader did the entire dialogue from a public bathroom stall. There was a significant echo, that often sounded like the reader was speaking into a glass jar.

the reader mispronounced words, but to his credit repeated the sentence correctly pronouncing the word. I've never heard an audio book where the reader makes errors and corrects them in the recorded material.

overall I did learn from this audiobook. The repetitiveness of the commentary actually helped drill some of the facts into my head.

and I appreciate the author pursuing an audio release of a low budget buck quickly, especially since we're in the midst of a global pandemic in September 2020.

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freaking amazing.

Revisado: 06-21-20

No one has ever made geology more understandable and interesting. this was indeed a semester of geology learning.

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hours of mindless babbling

Revisado: 03-03-19

for, literally, hours the author rambles on and on about people, every conceivable detail about these people. building characters, and putting people who were involved in a disaster in a human context, is understandable. but in this book, the author spends almost seven chapters describing the history of people who were not really that important.

then there's his repeated misuse of the word tidal wave. A tidal wave and a tsunami are totally different things. This author repeatedly uses the word tidal wave when he should be using the word tsunami. tsunamis killed people after the 1964 Alaska earthquake, not tidal waves.

I'm muscle through this boring audiobook this far, so I think I'm going to stick it out to the end.

God bless traffic jams in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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