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Pronunciation is key

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4 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 01-05-23

While the content of the book was interesting, and I learned from it's content, the narrator should have taken the few minutes necessary to learn how to pronounce Indigenous names. It was incredibly disappointing to continually hear Indigenous names completely mispronounced when there are easily available pronunciation guides and many names are not difficult, especially given how easily the narrator pronounced scientific names with no issue.

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Good, but two hours shorter than it seems

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 11-12-21

Two hours of addendums, timelines, definitions, and appendices was a little much. The story and performance were good.

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Too Western Based

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3 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 09-04-21

Parts are quite interesting, however the Bible is not an academic source and shouldn't be used as one.

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Good Info, Terrible Chinese Pronunciation

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-12-20

The lecturer is engaging and knows his material, however his pronunciation of Chinese cities, places, and people is horrible. I would have thought that having studied the Mongols as extensively as he has, he would have learned how to read Pinyin or at least learned the proper way to say these names.

To call the deliberate rape and holding of concubines as political hostages as one man (Chinggis Khan) being very sexually active seems incredibly disingenuous and takes away from the Mongol story and historical impact.

The further I get in this history, the more disappointed I am with the narrator and the information presented. The same points are presented many times over in slightly different words. The impacts of Mongol policy on the folks living under them is almost ignored and seems to take a lot of liberty looking at the motivations and thoughts of the Mongols. The author says very little in many words.

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Terrible Narration

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3 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-10-20

The book and argument are well researched and presented. The narrator is robotic and I eventually had to stop listening due to his narration.

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Not up to par

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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
Story
3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-31-15

The performance was fantastic, the story was mediocre. I started these books for the romance aspect and accepted the little bits of drama, now it's doing what the Black Dagger Brotherhood did and becoming all about the battle and not about the couples. I'll give the next book a shot but if it's like this, it will be my last, unfortunately.

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