Jordan Jones

Something’s wrong with this title. The audio skips.

Reviewed: 12-31-24

Tobias Wolff is a great spinner of yarns, and the performance is excellent. However the title is simply unlistenable because ever 30 seconds or so 5 seconds of the audio drops out.

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Sapolsky is Compelling

Reviewed: 11-25-23

Not all researchers at the level of Robert Sapolsky can write engagingly about their subject. Sapolsky summarizes the research on stress and provides guidance and recommendations about this common, sometimes enabling? and often disabling experience. Well worth your time.

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The memoir of an incredibly self centered man.

Reviewed: 06-13-22

Whether you know him as Albrecht or Henry or Jack, the man at the center of this story is unable to imagine a world in which his view is not the one that should prevail.

No explanation is ever given as to how he was able to legally “marry” his second and third wives when there was no divorce from the first.

While I am disinclined to take Jack at his word on most things, the story does offer insight into how spying is done, and I found that to be of interest.

His late life conversion to Christianity after dating a workplace subordinate was less interesting.

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Takes a while to get going …

Reviewed: 09-28-21

Natasha Soudek does a serviceable job of performing the book. But she should have gotten some notes on pronunciation. Who doesn’t know how to pronounce “monsieur” and “St. Vitus”? Ms. Soudek. She does a reasonable job with the French “r”, but it can be disorienting to hear French treated so cavalierly. Her German sounds better, though I’m not a good judge of that myself.

The book takes a while to get going and has a fair amount of “I was in Paris with Hemingway when he punched Gertrude Stein in the nose” flair to it. But it eventually gets going when it leaves Paris and chases the German Army back across France, Belgium, and Luxembourg into Germany. One gets a real sense of what the war probably felt like to rather low level soldiers, and there’s some understanding of how women could get out of the limitations imposed on them by society of the day. And there’s a discussion, though little real depiction, of the black units, and how the Army continued segregation even during the chaos of the war.

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Someone else reading Andreas’s talks

Reviewed: 01-14-18

I am sure that Stephanie Murphy is more crisp and clean than Mr. Antonopoulos, though his English is fine, but it feels a little bit strange to hear someone else read corrected transcripts of these lectures. That being said, this is a good non-technical summary of Bitcoin and its continued failure to fail on cue.

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Amusing, but ...

Reviewed: 10-09-16

The story is dated as is the description of women as "bimbos" and conquests. Be prepared for James Bond mores in a story set in Florida.

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A tremendous account

Reviewed: 06-20-15

This is a tremendous account of the lives of two of the most influential people of the 20th century.

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The saga of the statue

Reviewed: 01-11-15

With so many obstacles in its way, it is amazing that the Statue of Liberty was ever completed and erected in New York harbor.

Andi Ackerman delivers a delightful and engaging performance reading the Audible book.

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An instant classic - which holds up

Reviewed: 05-06-12

What made the experience of listening to Roseanna the most enjoyable?

It's a compelling story, with some interesting twists, humor, and pathos of believable, sad, true characters, such as the protagonist, Martin Beck, a dispeptic, talented, but not all-knowing detective.

What about Tom Weiner’s performance did you like?

While some listeners seems to feel the narrator, Tom Weiner, is a pedestrian reader, I find him engaging, and able to provide a series of distinguishable characterizations.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I could have, but wanted to savor it.

Any additional comments?

If you think of mystery stories as too focused on police procedure, quick and easy tricks, and not enough real drama built out of the characters, you will enjoy Sjowall and Wahloo, whose writing is literary in the best of the word.

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