Chidwick

Man Proposes, God Disposes

Reviewed: 08-17-20

A beautiful biography of an underrated man. Chernow’s best book and it’s not even close. I’m at a loss to even describe how good this experience was listening to Grant.

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Another Home Run

Reviewed: 03-03-20

Peter Zeihan has capped off his trilogy with a fantastic volume in Disunited Nations. From the emotional prologue describing his ultimately transformative friendship with Matt to his on point descriptions of world history and current geopolitics, you'll be hooked. In addition, Roy Worley is fantastic with his narration providing a lively and engrossing candor to what many would consider dry fact and analysis. Worley, with all due respect to the Author, is the best narrator in Zeihan's trilogy.

A can't miss volume for all armchair historians, touching on the new players to come in the disorder predicted by Zeihan with the best narration in the trilogy. Disunited Nations is fantastic and I'm already looking forward to listening to it a second time

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Lots of names, too little story

Reviewed: 03-02-20

Turin Turambar is my favorite story in the Silmarillion, and Children of Hurin is the longwinded version of that story. It feels like most of what is in this book is just names of people that are somehow kind of related to the overarching story. It may work as a physical book but I didn't enjoy listening to it, though Christopher Lee was amazing as can be expected.

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Tribute to the Ole' Public Functionary himself

Reviewed: 02-26-20

Prepare to be thoroughly entertained by the bumbling escapades of James Buchanan. The man with an impressive political resume, that was just so bad at being a president. He made every misstep he could, one starts to wonder if he was intentionally being terrible,

Robert Strauss has delivered a masterpiece, the only book you should read on James Buchanan, and Tom Perkins really brings it with his narration.

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Star Trek by people who don't get Star Trek

Reviewed: 02-11-20

This is an odd book. It feels like an episode of Picard dragged out into a 12 hour audiobook. There are baffling choices made by the characters, and science presented that make no sense with what has come before in the universe. This book will not satisfy hardcore fans, and isn't exciting enough to entice casual fans. Robert Petkoff gives a master performance, but the content provided for him isn't great.

For some reason, the Romulan Star Empire is completely incapable of managing their own affairs and require the Federation to rescue them, begrudgingly. The only people that seem interested in the rescue are Picard and his small group of confidants, the Federation doesn't want to help and the Romulan's would rather blow up... Seems illogical, and like it should have been better planned out by the story planners.

When this book isn't blundering through it's out of touch depiction of the characters, species, and Star Trek universe built over decades of tv and movies, it's trying to shove contemporary political opinions down your throat. Star Trek has always been political to an extent, but this book is so ham-fisted in it's approach it completely pulls you from the story. You'll be gleaning some enjoyment out of the meager story presented and then suddenly someone wearing a PETA shirt bursts out of a closet and decks you in the face, yelling "animals have feelings too!" as they run off, only to return the next time you start getting into the story and throw an uppercut into your jaw.

This book is completely unnecessary, save your time and money and read a plot synopsis or spoiler filled review online.

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Lesser Known Tale from the Old West

Reviewed: 02-10-20

This book is not for those prone to clutching their pearls over descriptions of old west violence by and against indigenous people. Liver-Eatin' Johnson's story is one of vengeance and cold hearted retribution waged upon the tribe who took everything from him. This book attempts to unwravel the origin of the nickname given to this hard, tough mountain man. It succeeds in giving us an entertaining look at a lesser known frontier in the American West, from the view of the forgotten heroes of the day, the Mountain Man.

This book is definitely worth a listen, I thoroughly enjoyed the performance by Roy Worley and DJ Herda's writing. It's a fun, shorter, biography meant for Old West historical junkies.

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Mens Fashion 101

Reviewed: 11-19-19

The Appearance of Power is a great introduction to masculine fashion concepts for men of all different types. Don't expect a prescribed list of what you can and can't wear, coupled with a personality assessment. Tanner Guzy introduces you to theories, tactics, and strategies behind selecting your wardrobe to suit you. It's an enjoyable listen, but owning a physical copy would be more practical to refer back to the different ideas presented here.

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Absolute Garbage

Reviewed: 11-08-19

There are not words to describe how abysmally terrible this overall story is. The performance is good, the universe is awesome, but this author took 10 hours to get to any sort of plot. There are minor details that may mean something in The Rise of Skywalker but this is as much a tie in to the overall story as character descriptions on the packaging of the new toys.

Don't waste your time or money. You may as well just go read the plot synopsis or discussions of the plot on Reddit. This is a forgettable addition to the overall canon of Star Wars, and Disney and Ms. Roanhorse should be embarrassed to have their names attached to this literary trash.

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Incredible

Reviewed: 10-30-19

This book presents a holistic view of the forces influencing the town of Salem leading up to the witch trials in 1692, as well as an exhaustive look at the trials themselves. In addition, the author also gives us a clear look at the impact the trials had on the national conscience and our society today. Seriously, this is an incredible book and Marc Vietor does a masterful job bringing the words to life.

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Hard Pass

Reviewed: 10-14-19

Just couldn't get into this book. The main character is whiny and scared over nothing for the first half of the book. He really rubbed me the wrong way the entire time with his annoying scaredy-cat demeanor. Nothing about this book is even remotely scary. Save your money/credits and move on to the next item on your list, Something Wicked This Way Comes is boring and tedious.

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