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Powerful and Beautiful

Revisado: 04-26-18

When I first heard about this book it was in passing as another author was trying to sell their own book. While I’m sure the other author’s book is well written and tells an amazing story, it was the same as so many others that line the shelves of book stores everywhere. A boy child learns of a magical world and his whole world changes. It’s been done, and it’s been done, and it’s been done again.

So when they mentioned that there was another author who they met on tour who wrote a book with an all African cast and taking place in an African setting, I had to get my hands on it.

After listening to this recording I can’t emphasize how important this book is. It’s well written, amazingly narrated, and the story is so fantastically told. There are no bad parts in this book, and the author notes in the end cap it in a meaningful and impactful way.

You will not be disappointed in this book if you decide to take a listen.

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Ok

Revisado: 08-18-15

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I've listened to a few self help books from Audible, and truth be told this wasn't one my favorites. It was interesting and the overall message was good, but you might need the physical book to get it to work for some parts.

I listened to the whole thing, so it's not like it wasn't worth my time. It's just some of the exercises I don't think translated all that well and made me want to buy the physical book to get it done and see if it helped.
I didn't buy the physical book as I bought the audible one, and don't believe in paying for something twice. So I don't really know if the physical book would have helped, it just felt that way.

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Disney Lied

Revisado: 08-18-15

Just want to make clear one thing. Disney Lied to us.
To say that Frozen was inspired by this book is a fat out lie. In the beginning of discussing whether or not to make this book into a animated movie; Disney might have been thinking of keeping more to the book, and thus can get away with saying that Frozen was inspired by this book. When you actually get into it though, you can instantly see that the book and the movie are nothing the same.

That's not to say the book is bad. Not at all. If Disney actually did a movie on this book it would be amazing. It would be a risk, sure, but seeing as Disney seems to be getting way to comfortable dishing out sub-par material lately this risk would have been worth it. Frozen was a good movie for what it is, but this story is just as interesting if not more so. It has a strong female protagonist saving her boy friend from the evil clutches of an evil witch. That's amazing!

Overall this book is well worth a read, if nothing else than to show how badly Disney screwed up a perfectly great story and brushed it off by saying they were "inspired" by it. In actuality Disney made their own story and the original could be argued as being much better.

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Interesting

Revisado: 04-13-15

Has nice music in the background, which was nice. The content was good as well, very informative for a few minutes.

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Really liked

Revisado: 04-13-15

It's a short listen with a lot of information. The narrative was nice to listen to, didn't make it hard to pay attention. And a lot of the information was really interesting. Makes me want to learn a bit more about Vikings coming into America.

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This Book was Writen in 1720-1778

Revisado: 04-13-15

The first thing I feel people should know is that this book was written in about 1720-1778 by Mariano Veytia, it was translated in 2000 by Donald W. Hemingway and W. David Hemingway. This threw me off greatly when I first started listening cause audible says it was released in 11-27-06, thus stupid me thought this would be a relatively recent understanding of the Ancient Americas, but it's not.

This reading is supper religious as you would probably expect from a religious historian in the 1700's. The beginning is dedicated to the breadth of his research and why people should listen and believe what he says, and what he writes about is based on a multitude of resources and understandings that he has gathered. This takes up a significant portion of the book, about 45 min. Yet again this is not out of the norm for a book written in the 1700's.

While all these are normal there was no initial understanding when listening to this book that this was actually written in the 1700s and not 2006 when I was first listening to it, thus I personally was very confused until I did a bit of digging to figure out why someone in 2006 would want to write as if they are from before the 1900s, and that's when I found the true date of this book.

As this is more a historical look of what people thought about the Americas in the 1700s you should expect information that is no longer true, such as the extent in which America is depicted as being in land mass, and you might find it interesting that there are small insights that were floating in the 1700s that people now take for granted, such as the idea that the Irish made it to the Americas before Columbus (change Irish to Vikings and you got some modern history there). The rest is a lot of religious gobildy-gook so take that for what it is.

My Favorite Quote:
“… Francisco Lope de Gomara [an ancient historian] … discusses the customs, laws and rites that the Indians observed at the time of the arrival of the Spanish, … with respect to his ancient history he writes very succinctly and superficially, but with much judgment, as can be seen in that work … It is not lacking in errors, for there is rarely a history without errors, except in sacred history.”

Overall an interesting listen, If you are into this kind of thing.

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A bit dry, but overall interesting

Revisado: 04-13-15

The narrator was a bit dull, very factual little emotion. But the story more then made up for it. As a person who knows very little about celts, I found it very informative and it made me question some other aspects of history I took as fact. There is a lot about the history between Rome and the celts and I found that the most interesting. There was also a good bit about the women in Celtic history as well which I found fascinating. Defiantly worth a listen, if you ask me.

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Superstition and Scripture used as Fact

Revisado: 03-09-15

First off, if you believe in the Hebrew text, in the word of God, as fact and believe that the ancient humans, who "haven't yet even created the wheel," could never in a million years build the pyramids, then this is the book for you.
If you honestly believe in such things you may enjoy what Patrick Heron has to say. He points to the Hebrew text over and over again to exemplify what he is saying. If you know your bible and want to know an interesting theory on those that really built the Pyramids, and other ancient monuments, when you truly believe they could never have been made by human kind, you might enjoy this and find it insightful.

On the other hand, if you do not, you might not want to waste a credit on this. When I can buy a book worth (+)$20 on audible for the same credit I would go for the (+)$20 book that has some actual fact to back it up, or for a piece of fiction that doesn’t try to portray itself as fact. Granted, if you have $5 to spend and want to laugh at a theory that is only backed up by the scripture and untrue history, it might almost be worth it.
Patrick Heron uses a plethora of scripture to back up what he has to say. Based on no real historic fact, superstition and speculation runs rampant within this book. He points out “facts” such as, angels coming down to have relations with human women which created giants, whom were ultimately all killed off, starting with the slain of Goliath by David.
If you can see this as fact, then you will love the rest of his “facts” as they only get more detailed and more brazen from there. He jumps from one speculation to another, with no real methodology at first. One moment he is talking about the flood, the next he is talking about Adam and Eve. I have not yet reached the end of this interesting tale, but I sure can’t wait for it. It has already been strongly suggested that he believes to some degree that God, or some supernatural entity, has made the pyramids and other “unexplainable” monuments for a greater purpose. I can’t wait to hear the conclusion.

Overall, unless you feel scripture and speculation is historic fact, then the only thing this book is good for is a good laugh. Honestly, as a sane human being all you can do is laugh, for if you think that some people might actually believe what Patrick Heron is saying, you may just cry.

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Good listen

Revisado: 09-15-14

Basic and informative. Liked it a lot. I could go for a more in depth understanding, but for what it is, it's well done.

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Monotone Intrest

Revisado: 09-15-14

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

This book is told in the most monotone voice I have ever heard. I like to listen to these audiobook in the car on my way to work, but I could not do that with this book, I was afraid I would fall asleep.If you can get past that you might like this book. The book is good to get a very novice idea about the history of Philosophy. The author starts out with Plato and Aristotle and briefly explains their ideas. He then quickly goes through history and explains how these philosophers have influenced the history of human nature since their death. Very interesting, but will put you to sleep if your not careful.

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