A. Barlow

Illuminating

Revisado: 12-26-24

I have read all of Flannery's stories and novels, but often had trouble figuring out what the point of the story was. These lectures give me the tools to go back and reread and now see what Flannery is doing. O'Connor is an impressive author as it is, but after listening to these lectures I will appreciate her even more.

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Minority Report

Revisado: 08-29-24

I guess I'm in the minority, in that I did not love this book. Stylistically it just doesn't work for me . The Quasi-biblical phraseology combined with colloquialisms oftenn grates, and with a lot of the characters, I just want them to stop talking. I did not find most of the characters actually likeable. I would definitely not read this to children, as it can be very intense and gory, and the evil forces are strong. Nevertheless, the book is an interesting treatment of some biblical themes.

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insightful book marred by a bad narrator

Revisado: 08-19-24

This book provides a lot of background that you won't get simply by reading Nietzsche's works. it's quite insightful, though I found myself occasionally disagreeing with the author's interpretations. The book, however, is marred by a narrator with a good voice who nevertheless has a tin ear for English, no real sense of what he's reading, and no knowledge of the German language. Considering that German phrases and titles appear regularly in this book, it's rather maddening if you do speak German to listen to his manglings.

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Worthwhile

Revisado: 06-18-24

Insightful, dismaying, encouraging. As an Evangelical myself, this helped me think through the tragedy of what Evangelicalism has become and led me to some insights about how I can think about things in this contentious political year. The only reason I didn't give this five stars is that I think sometimes there's so much in this book that the thread of the story occasionally got a bit lost. But I will definitely be recommended this to others.

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important Message

Revisado: 06-06-24

I've been going through the video series by the same name and decided to go ahead and listen to the book. The content is good, but the narrator is really bad. He has little sense for the material, and mispronounces Emmaus in at least two different ways, which leaves me thinking he is not of the faith and doesn't understand the content. I'm surprised a better narrator wasn't found. Not sure why Curtis, Russell, Nancy, and David couldn't have just read their own sections.

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Compelling

Revisado: 05-10-24

Reads like a novel at times, and I had to keep reminding myself that it was in fact nonfiction. A compelling story.

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Huh?

Revisado: 04-21-24

Plodding text, plodding narrator who has little understanding of what actual conversation sounds like. This book is interesting only as an artifact of the 1920s.

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Tedious

Revisado: 11-19-23

Starts out okay, but after a couple hours becomes tedious. Occasionally rises above that but then sinks back into the tedium. I have nothing against the idea of an epistolary novel, but in this case, I was eager for "Augustus" to be over. Fortunately, he died before I did.

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Decent Book, Off-putting Narrator

Revisado: 01-16-23

I like Coupland's quirky humor and occasional flashes of insight and profundity, but I don't consider this one of his best books. It's decent, and the last 30 minutes or so are powerful and touching.

But the whole thing is ruined by the narrator, who is so off-putting that I had to force myself to keep listening (after about 8 hours, I got used to him). The voice is wrong, the cadences are wrong, and unfortunately, he didn't bother to learn the correct pronunciation of the places he refers to in the Pacific Northwest and California. Whoever chose him for the role (I hope it wasn't Coupland!) ought to be looking for a different career.

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Narration

Revisado: 12-25-22

The four narrators are exceptional. They turn a good book into a profound and
memorable one.

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