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The White Pill
- A Tale of Good and Evil
- By: Michael Malice
- Narrated by: Michael Malice
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 906
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 823
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Story5 out of 5 stars 820
The Bolsheviks promised that they were building a new society, a workers’ paradise that would change the nature of mankind itself. What they ended up constructing was the largest prison the world had ever seen: a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that spanned half the globe.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Do not buy the audio version.
- By Todd on 02-20-23
- The White Pill
- A Tale of Good and Evil
- By: Michael Malice
- Narrated by: Michael Malice
Terrible audiobook
Reviewed: 01-24-24
I like Michael Malice. But. It was a huge mistake for him to narrate this himself. I’m sure I’ve listened to many hundreds of audiobooks by now. This performance is the worst I’ve ever heard. Read this book. Don’t listen to it.
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A Distant Mirror
- The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
- By: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 28 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,405
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,729
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,742
The 14th century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and the exquisitely decorated Books of Hours; and on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.
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5 out of 5 stars
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And you thought the twentieth century was rough...
- By Rob on 03-23-06
- A Distant Mirror
- The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
- By: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Simply Incredible
Reviewed: 12-08-12
Would you listen to A Distant Mirror again? Why?
I've listened to this book 4 or 5 times. It is that engrossing.
What did you like best about this story?
Where to begin? Seemingly every sentence contains a novel facts and the sentences woven into a beautiful tapestry.
What about Nadia May’s performance did you like?
Nadia May is terrific. She speaks with the author's authority.
Any additional comments?
This is a must have for anyone. Even if you have no interest whatsoever in medieval history, this book still a must have.
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The Hundred Years War, Volume 1
- By: Alfred H. Burne
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 124
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 70
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Story4 out of 5 stars 71
The bitter conflict between England and France we call The Hundred Years War, and lasting 116 years between 1337 and 1453, was fought over claims by the English kings to the French throne. By the end of this titanic struggle, it can fairly be said that the Middle Ages had come to an end.
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5 out of 5 stars
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100 Year War
- By M. on 03-31-08
- The Hundred Years War, Volume 1
- By: Alfred H. Burne
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
Better off reading this one
Reviewed: 12-08-12
Any additional comments?
Some history works come off well in audiobook format, some don't. This one does not. The dense accounts of campaigns and battles are hard to follow in audiobook format and more than few times I wished I could consult a map to get my bearings. The book also suffers from its age, Written several decades ago it lacks the personal narrative style of histories written today. This makes reading or listening more of a labor than a pleasure.
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The Swerve
- How the World Became Modern
- By: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,507
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,037
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,028
Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late 30s took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic by Lucretius—a beautiful poem containing the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very compelling history, a less compelling thesis
- By A reader on 05-01-12
- The Swerve
- How the World Became Modern
- By: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Overhyped, but solid
Reviewed: 12-06-12
What did you like best about The Swerve? What did you like least?
It's an interesting history of the discovery of a Roman poem and it's discoverer. As most history works do it tours setting, Renaissance Europe, but that tour is barely adequate. The main narrative is I suspect as strong as the evidence allows and is as I said interesting and worth reading. However the thesis of the author that this roman poem played an important role in 'making the world modern' is thinly supported at best.
Overall an average book, good for someone already predisposed to liking historical works, not likely to appeal to general reader and definitely not worthy of the awards it has recieved.
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
The narrator neither adds not detracts from the text, and with a nonfiction book, that is usually all the narrator can do,
Could you see The Swerve being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
No
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