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impossible audio reference

Revisado: 01-10-25

I'm pretty amazed there are any positive reviews to this being an ideal audio selection. It's literally a glossary index of hundreds of IT terms. If you need a reference book, this might suit a curious looking up of something if you're trying to distinguish two closely related things. However, obviously it's impossible to search for the term you're looking for, and if you were going to listen to terms being defined you would need to constantly pause and rewind for clarity.
As an interesting read through of networking concepts, there is nothing here short of cramming for a test by listening to term-definition, term-definition. Plausible reference book to have on your desk, completely useless as an audiobook or teaching guide.

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necessarily dense, a little number heavy

Revisado: 03-06-24

I'm gonna suggest this guy had the perfect voice for this particular diegesis of American conflicted relationship with growth. I can't imagine it sticking well for anybody the first time through, but it captures such a wide swath of history and implies such a depth of culpability it isn't challenging to look forward to going back through. His voice is just monotone enough to sound like he's reading a line item inventory which a quarter of the time is what the book boils down to. When he pivots into the storytelling he does manage to animate his voice to the purpose of the writing. I lost the thread a few times as to the milestones on the downward slide, but was surprised to learn how longstanding the countryside has been corporatized.

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First person shooter

Revisado: 11-19-22

I mean... Orwell is such a more captivating complement to Hemingway. The ruggedness in his prose both cordially carries along the reader and aloofly asserts the need for his perspective. He's so easy to absorb and addictively reckless. Could not recommend enough, great ground-level history lesson. The narrator is strikingly effete-sounding, but it feels wrong to judge him on that alone. Actually interesting to hear such a tony voice plead the case for Anarchism.

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just does not translate to audio

Revisado: 09-23-21

i love this story so much. bulgakov is a masterful writer and has a way of creating madness while going nowhere but in this audiobook it all just comes off as interminably repetitive.
it isn't the fault of the narrator though the British class accents are a little jarring to hear in a Russian story but not ridiculous.
it is read maybe a little too matter-of-factly but the character reactions also are more believable than when i read it myself.
i imagine them in more of a trance and hysterical tortured voices. characters also take some time to come back which involves flipping back and remembering who's who for me, a nonoption with the audio. and i just don't usually get this distracted with audiobooks which i think is just the manic nature of the story.
the randomness of the details and the briefness of much of the scenes makes it a strictly paper read for me. i wouldn't recommend the audio to others. i think it does the impossible and makes the fantastic boring. there's no reward in processing the madness cuz it just continues on like normal scenes would which is unnatural to the story. it needs to steep throughout.

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distractingly tonedeaf narrator but great content

Revisado: 03-25-21

Riveting history of how the internet came to be and the bloodbath that followed. The narrator chuckles along at wry humor and punctuates subtlety with perky optimism that seems to alter the intended tone of the book and meanings of certain phrases.

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A lot going on

Revisado: 12-02-20

Hard time bringing together several tangents per episode. The performances were a welcome delight and helped bring alive the discovery of the various secret lives. But there was so much circumnavigating and brief introductions of critical callbacks, I expect a re-listening would be favorable but at twelve hours there's just as much i expect would insist on ambivalence.

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no surprise

Revisado: 08-26-20

no surprise it was written by Steve Martin. great extra content for first listen. wonder what it must be like to be that guy. hm

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Vowell's acute approach

Revisado: 05-14-20

Became faithful devotee of Vowell. Gets fathoms out of 10 years yet concisely maintains perspective. Ever-passionate/compassionate toward observing the fun house mirrors of saints and sinners. Always left wanting more but trust she knows the parameters of her target.

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Stunning and inspired

Revisado: 05-07-20

Ya know... I think it bears special mention here that a book will tend to have a certain primacy aloof from its being rendered in audio, because ermagerd, Armitage puts you in the painting that Dickens creates. It really can't be understated how much this is Dickens creation and the delicate care that goes into character development and weaving, but the narrator here, Richard Armitage, really goes through an exquisite flexibility, in fact, doing justice to the range and inventiveness of characterization that Dickens intended. It is so long to be understandable to think the book too intimidating, but for real, you will love the audiobook version but don't underestimate the power within the pages of the book that is all but entirely crystallized in this wonderful performance.

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So rare for me not to get it but care about it

Revisado: 01-19-12

Without a doubt, the historical aspect is absolutely lost on me without being able to better reference the names by looking at them. That being said it is so easy to lose yourself as a passenger in the hangover of audiobook life and listen to the swashbuckling half-lives, as it were, toward the end. Mean to better reference the names by way of Wikipedia or some such internet, but holding off listening to it a few more times to see if there isn't any interpretive static I can't lick off some futuristic headache in trying.
Listening about the devil's free time can be like that.

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