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Wonderful Storyteller

Revisado: 03-07-24

Brendan O’Carroll is a gifted writer and storyteller and he has an amazing story to tell. It is a warm and kindhearted autobiography. Recommend.

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Pleasant voice and practical tips

Revisado: 07-15-23

Very interesting book, well narrated in a calm voice, Great examples, and actionable tips. I was much better able to understand the role of dopamine in addiction, cravings, and reward after listening to this.

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Wonderful Overview for All Ages

Revisado: 08-28-22

Despite its brevity, this audio presentation delivers a great package of American history, and it is American history, via beautiful and direct narration by an elder female relative to her young African American family member.

African Americans can be deeply proud of their huge impact on this nation and European and other Americans Like my self benefit from the stitching together of multiple critical milestones in this nation’s history and in African-Americans journey toward freedom and respect due. I thoroughly enjoyed this and I’m amazed at how much clearer I am now on the experience of African Americans beyond just enslavement.

Can definitely be listened to by children but perhaps children under 10 might especially benefit from family discussion along the way. Depends on the kid, of course!

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Spectacular Narration, Spectacular Story!

Revisado: 02-21-22

The compelling writing combine the spectacular reading by Paul Michael make this worth your time… If you have listened to Team of Rivals or Ron Chernow audiobooks and loved the experience, you will also likely have the same with this.

Narration: extremely pleasant low male voice, wonderful ability to change voice for characters, accents, pronounce Portuguese words helped me to inhabit the points of view of each of the men who kept journals of this incredibly difficult journey.

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Park & Quintal - A Great Team!

Revisado: 12-21-08

My little 4-year-old daughter and I heard the first story (stupid smelly schoolbus) from a free CD from Wendy's. We have laughed our heads off for two years now. Now she is 6, and still always asks to hear the series. We've listened to 1 through 10 so far, having purchased the 2-10 from audible.com. My daughter gets a kick out of Junie's mispronunciations and grammar snafus--no hazard that your child will learn from Junie--they really do know Junie's not perfect. Lana Quintal's voicing of all the characters is wonderful. Her comic timing, the different voices... I love to read and normally would prefer the written word, but I do believe that Quintal fully vivifies Park's wonderfully funny writing. Junie is wonderfully and sweetly feisty, and has given great satisfaction to my little one. The books can be very touching and moral, too, in the most down-to-earth way. Thanks, Wendy's, for the free first book. And thanks to Audible for having the rest of them. They have been a treasure on our commute for 2 years now.

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I am inspired to re-learn American History!

Revisado: 01-25-05

I now fully understand why Benjamin Franklin was presented as an important figure from early school years onward. Previously, I had only the typical jumble of images: Poor Richard's truisms, a key and a kite on a stormy night, the bifocals, the stove, and so on. Professor Brands has pulled all of these together, and so much more, to give us a wonderfully human picture of a marvelous human. (As another reviewer wrote, the flaws do add rather than subtract from the man.) And he makes clear just WHY the key and kite are special, and why Ben Franklin does not equal the frugal, self-righteous Poor Richard, among other revelations.

What I've found especially compelling, though, is Brand's explanation of, and placement of, the major events leading up to the American Revolution; from both the British and American points of view. I never fully understood the Stamp Act (why enacted), the Intolerable Acts, the dumping of tea. I just thought Britain was mean and greedy, and that also perhaps we Americans were a little nuts. Somehow, it'd escaped me that:
- Britain was deep in debt from its French and Indian War, and sought a way to pay that.
- That Parliament saw American colonists as having benefited from the years of protection at the frontier line from Indians by the British army, and that they ought to help pay for the debt caused by that.
- That the citizens in England and Scotland, in fact, paid much higher taxes than the Americans (who actually paid very little).
- and many more wonderful "ah-hah" moments.

Also, the times themselves in which Franklin lived, the conditions, the hardships and technology available, are explained in lively detail.

This lecture series might just inflame you as it did me. I have loved the many "ah hahs" Professor Brand has given me in the 7 hours.

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