Jerry Stauffer

moving even as an adult

Revisado: 10-31-24

I'm a 44 year old man who just heard of this book last week. I have no sentimental attachment and I consider myself quite literate. This is a gripping story. It's appropriate for all ages and we need to give boys more like it.

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1835 was hard even for a company of armed men

Revisado: 10-25-24

I was always under the impression that 60 armed trappers could pretty much have their own way in the West, but I was mistaken. This is story from history that is not told now and I'm not sure it was ever. These are hard trapping, hard fighting men of a type we only see in the special forces today. Definitely worth a listen.

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How sick and tired everyone was

Revisado: 05-25-24

One thing the author did a good job bringing out is the men on both sides had to make historic decisions while recovering from the flu or dengue fever and often after having not slept for days

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Faster than the speed of science fiction

Revisado: 03-09-23

First the negative: the author follows the modern annoying trend of stressing how sexist and racist and sexist and imperialistic and sexist the world was in 1890. That doesn't add anything to the narrative and could have shortened the production by an hour.
The positive: these women are impressive by any standard. We have 2 women, one of whom is unaware of the other and the 2nd cajoled into going at the last second are racing around the world in opposite directions trying to beat the time of the mythical Englishman from the mind of Jules Verne (Jules Verne himself was a very enthusiastic supporter of Nellie Bly). In our age of jet travel and a world tailored to the tourist and business traveller we have a hard time comprehending the untamed nature of the world in that time. That a journey of this type could be done in 80 days, much less by a single woman who spoke only English, was highly doubtful. I came here after reading Nellie Bly's 72 days; much of which is referenced here. I am a bit annoyed at this author criticizing Bly for not spending enough time or effort pursuing social justice while doing the impossible. It's a good book. There is also a book of the combined writings of these 2 women to give a running chronology but I haven't seen it.

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It's another world and not the American century

Revisado: 02-27-23

Other reviews have commented on the mispronunciation of many words and while that is slightly annoying what really struck me was the ignorance of the world in general of the United States. One ship captain received mail addressed to "1st house in America". The average Brit, Frenchman or Spaniard wasn't sure if we were an island or what we were. Our flag was unknown as was our money. This is a world before the great white fleet, the Spanish American war or the first world war. Very interesting in all.

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a most satisfying ending

Revisado: 12-27-22

In this volume our hapless hero takes a plane of cows to Istanbul with less than expected results. We also meet a Labrador with pneumonia and a small holding made of bed frames and an old table. Tristan makes an appearance wielding an artificial vagina and an old friend watches a dehorning only to feel better about his own career in banking. We end in the garden with Sigfried where the story began years earlier.

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A tale of work, fire, war and politics

Revisado: 11-01-22

In 1917 an attempt to run an electric cable led to a fire that killed 163 men. That's only a small part of the story. It is hard for us to understand maze of tunnels that ran in all directions at different levels down to 2600 feet and the men who fought for life in the dark, heat and smoke of that underworld.
The story then turns to greed, corruption, WW1, unconstitutional laws, the new deal, strike breaking, labor unions, FDR and WW2. I'm not sure if these other items are needed to tell the story or if they detract from the heroism of building bulkheads to hide from gas during the fire as their air slowly ran out.

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Herriot goes to war!

Revisado: 10-04-22

Once again the actor from the 1978 All Creatures Great and Small series reads the book. James earns his wings in the RAF and looks back on life at the surgery. The stories are not in chronological order but remain moving and most will be familiar to fans of the show.

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Up to date and relevant

Revisado: 08-01-22

We tend to think ourselves very sophisticated and wise. A quick listen to this 350+ year old work will quickly inform you that not only has man not changed over time but these sins, problems, foibles and the solutions have been known since antiquity. If anything, he's more wise and sophisticated than our modern age.

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How a cat saved a quarter million.

Revisado: 07-24-22

The cat saves the ship and all aboard through his incessant yeowling, jumping and general unease.

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