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Best apologetic book I've read

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Reviewed: 04-29-25

This is a fantastic resource on apologetics. Alissa shares her personal story alongside her extensive apologetic research, making for an entertaining, compelling, and informative book. Audio read by thr author is excellent, one of the best nonfiction audiobooks I've listened to.

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Nice book, too much music on audio

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3 out of 5 stars
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Reviewed: 12-23-24

This was a cute story and my eight year old and I enjoyed it. However, I can't recommend the audio because of the overuse of music and sound effects. At the climax, there was dramatic music through in the background through whole chapters and it was so loud, it was hard to hear the reader. Music is okay in transitions or chapter titles, but through an entire chapter is obnoxious, and it's not trusting the children to be engaged with the book.

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Great story

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Reviewed: 11-07-24

Wasn't always a fan of the voices by this reader, but mostly it was a great narration of a great story.

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Excellent narration brings great story to life

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Reviewed: 09-24-24

This narration was excellent. There is so much more to this story than I recall from my first reading of it. The readers bring the story and characters to life, and added a lot to my enjoyment. Recommend reading with the Literary Life Podcast, which has an excellent discussion that sheds light on the deep meaning and symbolism.

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Fry's narration is a delight

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Reviewed: 06-08-24

Stephen Fry was such an excellent narrator for these. The Blandings stories are so delightful and fun, and I think they are some of Wodehouse's best stories and characters. A surprise joy in this collection are the golf stories strewn in the short story collections. Fry's introduction said these would win you over and I absolutely agree. The golf stories are definitely my favorite short stories by Wodehouse.

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Highly relevant, thoughtful book

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Reviewed: 03-29-24

Noble asks hard questions and avoids easy answers. I made so many connections with other ideas while reading this, and the book is definitely talking to books like Abolition of Man and the works of Charlotte Mason. This connects with so many seemingly disparate ideas, while avoiding any unnecessary tangents and being laser focused on the subtitle - belonging to God on an inhuman world.

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Hilarious

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Reviewed: 03-15-24

Strong set of stories from Mr Wodehouse! Laugh out funny, clever and delightful. Narration by Jonathan Cecilis is excellent.

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Great story

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Reviewed: 03-04-24

This was a great story, and some episodes in it particularly edifying and moving. Dialog isn't always strong, but other than that it is very well written. I do wish I'd read the print book, because I think the reader wasn't the best, especially when it came to the male chatacters' voices...I think the dialog would have come across better without the reader.

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Great Dickens story

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Reviewed: 02-24-24

I loved this book so much. It's less dark than some Dickens. reader was good but I did wish I'd paid to get the simon Vance.

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Great reader

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Reviewed: 12-24-23

Not sure why some reviews are so unhappy with thr narrator, because he is an excellent reader (and pretty well known at that). This was a delight, introductions from Tolkien were really interesting and I got so much more out of hearing this than I did when I read on the page...poetry should be heard, and Tolkien did such a wonderful job of translating while being true to the sound and feel of medieval poetry. To the complaints on the chapter divisions, it's clearly a book on CD quickly changed over to digital, and the choice is probably between this and having no digital version at all, so I'll take it quite happily.

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