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Genocide, clearly genocide

Revisado: 01-13-24

The author relates the known facts of the British government’s plan to remove as many of the Irish people from Ireland either by death by starvation or packed into coffin ships.

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I’d forgotten

Revisado: 06-30-22

I first read A Tree grows in Brooklyn sometime around 1968. Someone had left a copy on a bunk as they were leaving the barracks. I only knew the title as a kind of punchline for a gag in a Saturday morning cartoon.
I started reading at breakfast and finished right after 8PM. I was swept away by the story, the characters and even the music. I don’t remember if I noticed the anti-Semitic jibes during that first reading. Part of brutish New York, I guess.

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Tear back the curtains

Revisado: 03-22-21

If you can take the shocks to your system this book provides you are stronger than me. Here before you the real deep State, the masters of deceit.

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Fun and Interesting

Revisado: 02-12-19

Lynn Murphy’s at times serious, at times humorous look at the language I thought I knew kept me wanting to learn more.
This, thankfully, is not an academic treatise, but a wry full body scan of our sames and differences.

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Masterful History Great Presentation

Revisado: 12-01-18

This book remains as one of the essential histories one must have read in order to understand this present world.
The reading by Nadia May is so well done, just enough accents, just enough deliberate slowly through some of Tuchman more complicated moments, I have praise and will now for any other work of hers.

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Like flipping a switch

Revisado: 04-12-18

Got in bed on a Sunday morning with a hangover, listened from start to finish, decided that day would be my last day of drinking.
Haven’t had one now in 45 days, the longest I’ve gone without alcohol in years.
But, get this, NO twinges, no temptations, no bargaining, just no desire to drink motor oil in moderation.
Listen to the book, that will make sense.
Good luck to you.

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Incredible Narration

Revisado: 04-06-18

I liked this book very much, it had a wonderful flow from scene to scene and interesting, complete characters , but what made listening to the story most enjoyable was Degas’ ability to create real separate voices for each character.
I’ve listened to many, many books now, but this narration was the best of all of them. J

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Most Boring Book Ever Written or Read Aloud

Revisado: 06-03-12

What disappointed you about The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge?

There must be some other way to present "The Mysteries" besides the verbatim reading out of every knock and question/answer ritual.

Would you ever listen to anything by William Morgan again?

Nope

Would you listen to another book narrated by Ken Maxon?

Yep. He did a good job with terrible material.

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

meh

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