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The Grammar of God
- A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
- By: Aviya Kushner
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
In this eye-opening chronicle, Kushner tells the story of her vibrant relationship to the Bible and along the way illustrates how the differences in translation affect our understanding of our culture's most important written work.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a sobering read
- By Amazon Customer on 03-28-17
- The Grammar of God
- A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
- By: Aviya Kushner
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Thrilled about topic. Conflicted about narration.
Reviewed: 09-21-23
Definitely hits the mark with what it sets out to do and was exactly what I had been looking for. The information presented is endlessly fascinating and the reader is pleasant to listen to - BUT, but…unfortunately here’s the massive conflict. It is so jarring to listen to a book that is essentially about the deep love for Hebrew, read by someone with a dreadfully wooden ear for the music and pronunciation of the language. The pleasure of taking in all this wonderful information is marred by the inevitable and automatic flinch brought about by the dreadful mangling of Hebrew words, names and phrases.
Unfortunately that’s something I’ve noticed in other Audible narrations - readers often don’t seem to care very much about pronunciation of snippets in other languages. In this day and age that’s disappointing and could be easily remedied.
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The Slaughterman's Daughter
- A Novel
- By: Yaniv Iczkovits
- Narrated by: Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
With her reputation as a vilde chaya (wild animal), Fanny Keismann isn’t like the other women in her shtetl in the Pale of Settlement - certainly not her obedient and anxiety-ridden sister, Mende, whose “philosopher” of a husband has run off to Minsk, abandoning her and their two children. As a young girl, Fanny felt an inexorable pull toward her father’s profession of ritual slaughterer and, under his reluctant guidance, became a master with a knife. And though she long ago gave up that unsuitable profession, Fanny still keeps the knife tied to her right leg.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The narration - why?????
- By agarista on 07-20-21
- The Slaughterman's Daughter
- A Novel
- By: Yaniv Iczkovits
- Narrated by: Tovah Feldshuh
The narration - why?????
Reviewed: 07-20-21
Finally returned this book because I could no longer stand to listen to the narrator using heavily accented English for all characters throughout. Russian, Polish and Yiddish accents were incredibly distracting and terribly grating. I made it halfway through because the story seems very compelling. The writing is evocative and draws you in - or it would have if it hadn’t been for the narration. I regret not having returned it much sooner, since that would have made it easier to just go to the book in print.
After this experience I would really welcome an ‘accent warning’ so I could stay clear of a book’s narrated version.
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D DAY Through German Eyes
- The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944
- By: Holger Eckhertz
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,467
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,133
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,132
Almost all accounts of D-Day are told from the Allied perspective, with the emphasis on how German resistance was overcome on June 6, 1944. But what was it like to be a German soldier in the bunkers and gun emplacements of the Normandy coast, facing the onslaught of the mightiest seaborne invasion in history? What motivated the German defenders, what were their thought processes - and how did they fight from one strong point to another, among the dunes and fields, on that first cataclysmic day?
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1 out of 5 stars
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A work of fiction
- By John Lindsey on 05-22-16
- D DAY Through German Eyes
- The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944
- By: Holger Eckhertz
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
Ludicrous accent
Reviewed: 11-01-16
I would rather listen to the German version of this book, if it is to be found on Audible. I can't even begin to understand why it was thought useful to have the interviewee speak with such a contrived German accent. Absolutely ludicrous, especially since many German words were not pronounced accurately. Painful to listen to. I don't think I'll be able to continue listening past the first interview.
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