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Mine Were of Trouble Audiobook By Peter Kemp cover art

The narration is just a text to speech program

Overall
1 out of 5 stars
Performance
1 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 08-16-21

What an absolute disappointing and lazy release this is. I didn't know you could download a PDF and just have a computer do text to speech, download the mp3, and throw it on here. The awkward pauses as either its trying to go to a new page or hit its character limit ruin the flow, the program can't pronounce anything (even common phrases) that are in a foreign language so when these words pop up it will mangle them, and the computerized voice destroys whatever tone the book was trying to create. It's a shame because the story is interesting and I was excited to listen to it, but the fact that the narration is so low effort and the price is so relatively high made me feel like I got scammed. Just save yourself the money and download a pdf version and do text to speech on your own computer.

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Interesting but depressing story

Overall
4 out of 5 stars
Performance
3 out of 5 stars
Story
5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-16-19

An controversial look at the Good War that we have romanticized for generations. It certainly has inspired me to do more research on the subject, but I feel that in his dissection of the events leading up to/during the war Hitchens largely ignores the story of King Edward VIII, only making brief mention of him as one of many stabs at the cultural image of Churchill in the West. I also cant recall any mention of Mosley, but his legacy is probably set in stone and not as important as some are lead to believe. My only complaint about the performance is that Hitchens (who reads the book himself) has a bad habit of occasionally loudly whistling through his teeth when saying words that start with “s.” This is jarring and annoying since his voice is appropriately low for most of the book and clashes with the mood. Still, a very good book in both content and performance, worth looking at if you are interested in a look at Britain’s actions by a cultured British author unsympathetic to preserving the myth of Churchill, but not approaching it from an almost strictly anti colonial perspective.

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