Twelve Against the Gods
The Story of Adventure
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William Bolitho
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Twelve Against the Gods was an instant best seller when it first published in 1929. In his trademark journalist style, author William Bolitho details the lives of 12 great adventurers - Alexander the Great, Casanova, Christopher Columbus, Mahomet, Lola Montez, Cagliostro (and Seraphina), Charles XII of Sweden, Napoleon I, Lucius Sergius Catiline, Napoleon III, Isadora Duncan, and Woodrow Wilson. Bolitho shines light on both the struggles and successes that made these figures so iconic, and demonstrates how they all battled convention and conformity to achieve enduring fame and notoriety.
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- De Kennet en 12-27-07
De: Paul Johnson
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Dying Every Day
- Seneca at the Court of Nero
- De: James S. Romm
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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James Romm seamlessly weaves together the life and written words, the moral struggles, political intrigue, and bloody vengeance that enmeshed Seneca the Younger in the twisted imperial family and the perverse, paranoid regime of Emperor Nero, despot and madman.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De michael bobadilla en 05-04-23
De: James S. Romm
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Nero
- Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome
- De: Anthony Everitt, Roddy Ashworth
- Narrado por: Greg Patmore
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
The Roman emperor Nero’s name has long been a byword for cruelty, decadence, and despotism. As the stories go, he set fire to Rome and thrummed his lyre as it burned. He then cleared the charred ruins and built a vast palace. He committed incest with his mother, who had schemed and killed to place him on the throne, and later murdered her. But these stories, left behind by contemporary historians who hated him, are hardly the full picture, and in this nuanced biography, celebrated historian Anthony Everitt and investigative journalist Roddy Ashworth reveal the contradictions inherent in Nero
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing 360 degree portrait
- De Cooper A Day en 01-01-23
De: Anthony Everitt, y otros
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The Regency Years
- During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern
- De: Robert Morrison
- Narrado por: Chris MacDonnell
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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The Victorians are often credited with ushering in our current era, yet the seeds of change were planted in the years before. The Regency (1811-1820) began when the profligate Prince of Wales - the future King George IV - replaced his insane father, George III, as Britain's ruler. Around the regent surged a society steeped in contrasts: evangelicalism and hedonism, elegance and brutality, exuberance and despair. The arts flourished at this time with a showcase of extraordinary writers and painters such as Jane Austen, Lord Byron, the Shelleys, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner.
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3 out of 5 stars
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What a time!
- De BK en 06-18-19
De: Robert Morrison
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Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill
- A Brief Account of a Long Life
- De: Gretchen Rubin
- Narrado por: Gretchen Rubin
- Duración: 6 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry’s last great charge and inventor of the tank - Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war. Like no other portrait of its famous subject, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill is a dazzling display of facts more improbable than fiction, and an investigation of the contradictions and complexities that haunt biography.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Content
- De Sean P. Whiteley en 07-01-20
De: Gretchen Rubin
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The Bad Popes
- De: E.R. Chamberlin
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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The papal tiara has been worn by a number of infamous men through the course of its history. Some have been accused of murder, many have had mistresses, while others sold positions in the church to their followers or gave land and wealth to their illegitimate children. E. R. Chamberlin examines the lives of eight of the most controversial popes, from the reign of Pope Stephen VI, who had his predecessor exhumed, put on trial and thrown in the Tiber, in the ninth century, through to Pope Clement VII, whose failed international policy led to the Sack of Rome in 1527.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Complete trash.
- De George en 07-16-21
De: E.R. Chamberlin
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The Florentines
- From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that transformed the entire culture of Western civilization. Painting, sculpture, and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on what had taken place. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely new aspect. Sciences would be born - or emerge in an entirely new guise.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator ruins the narrative
- De amavita en 03-24-22
De: Paul Strathern
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea
- Why the Greeks Matter
- De: Thomas Cahill
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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Best selling history writer Thomas Cahill continues his series on the roots of Western civilization with this volume about the contributions of ancient Greece to the development of contemporary culture. Tracing the origin of Greek culture in the migrations of armed Indo-European horsemen into Attica and the Peloponnesian peninsula, he follows their progress into the creation of the Greek city-states, the refinement of their machinery of war, and the flowering of intellectual and artistic culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Super super
- De Richard en 12-28-03
De: Thomas Cahill
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The Education of Henry Adams
- De: Henry Adams
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 19 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 89
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As a journalist, historian, and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An immediate bestseller awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, The Education of Henry Adams recounts his own and the country's education from 1838, the year of his birth, to 1905, incorporating the Civil War, capitalist expansion, and the growth of the United States as a world power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book EVERYONE should read once.
- De Darwin8u en 04-17-12
De: Henry Adams
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Notes from the Underground (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrado por: Pete Simonelli
- Duración: 4 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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Isolated from society in a tenement basement in St. Petersburg, a malicious former civil servant vents his resentments. In the rambling notes that follow, we are exposed to the inner turmoil of the Underground Man, who represents the voice of his generation. An emotional, paranoid knot of contradictions, the spiteful narrator is also desperate to join a society he loathes, if only to prove his superiority to it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Bryan en 02-19-19
De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, y otros
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The Secret History
- De: Procopius
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 46
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The Secret History, written by the sixth-century Byzantine historian Procopius, is one of the most extraordinary and scandalous documents to have survived from the early Byzantine period. Procopius, the leading official historian of his time, lived during the testing and indulgent time of Emperor Justinian the Great and wrote the official records of the successful wars and the grand building projects of his ruler. These were words of aggrandisement. But covertly, Procopius kept a very different record....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Bit Hyperbolic
- De HalfWit en 10-13-19
De: Procopius
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Self Reliance
- De: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrado por: Alana Munro
- Duración: 1 h y 20 m
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The most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." This essay is a considered a watershed moment in which transcendentalism became a major cultural movement. An American classic.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't buy this
- De Leah L en 07-31-16
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The Outline of History
- Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind
- De: H. G. Wells
- Narrado por: Bernard Mayes
- Duración: 44 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war," H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world order and remember lessons from the past, the author of science-fiction classics set out to write about history. Wells hoped to remind mankind of its common past, provide it with a basis for international patriotism, and guide it to renounce war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it
- De Eric en 05-07-15
De: H. G. Wells
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Isak Dinesen
- The Life of a Storyteller
- De: Judith Thurman
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 21 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
Isak Dinesen earned international fame for Seven Gothic Tales and Out of Africa, and other stories that skillfully combine elements of fable, social conflict, and psychological drama. She was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. Yet the story of her life - her travels, affairs, and friendships - remains the greatest story of all.
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3 out of 5 stars
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over-written
- De Jacqui Good en 10-19-18
De: Judith Thurman
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Lives of the Twelve Caesars
- De: Suetonius
- Narrado por: Derek Jacobi
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Suetonius wrote his Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around 70AD. He chronicled the extraordinary careers of Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasian, and Domitian and the rest in technicolour terms. They presented some high and low times at the heart of the Roman Empire. The accounts provide us with perspicacious insights into the men as much as their reigns.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Translation doubts
- De Elizabeth en 05-20-07
De: Suetonius
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Prince Albert
- The Man Who Saved the Monarchy
- De: A. N. Wilson
- Narrado por: Gareth Armstrong
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
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Drawn from the Royal archives, including Prince Albert’s voluminous correspondence, this brilliant and ambitious book offers fascinating never-before-known details about the man and his time. A superb match of biographer and subject, Prince Albert, at last, gives this important historical figure the reverence and recognition that is long overdue.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Bio!
- De Nancy en 04-24-24
De: A. N. Wilson
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Virtually all Americans above a certain age hold strong opinions about Douglas MacArthur. They either worship him or despise him. Now, in this superb book, one of our most outstanding writers, after a meticulous three-year examination of the record, presents his startling insights about the man. The narrative is gripping, because the general's life was fascinating. It is moving, because he was a man of vision. It ends, finally, in tragedy, because his character, though majestic, was tragically flawed.
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An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and the public for half a century. Originally published in 1944 - when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program - The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production.
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Hayek's case for individualism over collectivism
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5 out of 5 stars
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A brilliant panorama of the ancient world
- De Palisade en 03-20-19
De: Phillip Campbell
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The Iliad
- Penguin Classics
- De: Homer, E. V. Rieu, D. C. H. Rieu, y otros
- Narrado por: Steve John Shepherd
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader, Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles' close friend Patroclus, he storms back into battle to take revenge - although knowing this will ensure his own early death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Slow Start, Strong Finish
- De joshua en 08-09-23
De: Homer, y otros
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Against the Gods
- The Remarkable Story of Risk
- De: Peter L. Bernstein
- Narrado por: Mike Fraser
- Duración: 14 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 267
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 215
In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glad it finally got here
- De bda31175 en 10-16-21
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The Odyssey
- Penguin Classics
- De: Homer, E. V. Rieu, D. C. H. Rieu, y otros
- Narrado por: George Blagden
- Duración: 13 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
The epic tale of Odysseus and his 10-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must use his wit and native cunning if he is to reach his homeland safely and overcome the obstacles that, even there, await him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good read
- De Tad Davis en 10-15-19
De: Homer, y otros
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Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood
- The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
- De: Anthony Kaldellis
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 15 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. Yet this imperial project came to a crashing collapse fifty years later, when political disunity, fiscal mismanagement, and defeat at the hands of the Seljuks and the Normans brought an end to Byzantine hegemony. By 1081, Byzantium's very existence was threatened.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Detailed but Tedious
- De Amazon Customer en 09-06-24
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Twelve Against the Gods
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución4 out of 5 stars
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Historia3 out of 5 stars
- Mary Arnold
- 12-26-24
Hit or miss
Featured “adventurers” are hit or miss. Some great stories mixed in with a few odd ones. Ending on Woodrow Wilson for example left much to be desired.
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Total2 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución2 out of 5 stars
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Historia2 out of 5 stars
- Justin Miller
- 07-25-22
Disappointed
Bought it since I heard Elon Musk liked it. Kind of boring and couldn’t keep my attention but I finished it.
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