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awful narrator

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Reviewed: 04-29-23

Heather is always well researched, courageous, stat driven and diverse in her interests and passions

Whoever hired this narrator doesn't know what they're doing

This narrator sounds as tho she is in a race to get thru this book

Her inhale breath is so massive that it's reminiscent of an olympic swimmer at the end of a race. It takes place at the end of every sentence. It's torture to listen to. It's distracting too

This narrator's cadence is horrible

This narrator's inflection is nonexistent

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Didn’t think it’s possible to ruin Seneca

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Reviewed: 03-28-23

Narration is hurried and a type of monotone that wouldn’t work with any type of content. Sometimes monotone can work. This guys monotone, poor cadence and rushed pace is all bad

The “translator” has basically made a list of quotes and inserted modern terminology where it’s not necessary or desired by the reader

I think the “translator”/author, like the narrator rushed thru his creative process and was content just to be done with it

(Said author seems to spend more time and energy on his Twitter feed than on his art form)

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Unbelievable

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Reviewed: 03-26-23

Hard to believe

Amazing what humans can endure

Amazing what pain humans can inflict

This book reads like fiction

I enjoyed the narration

I spent most of the book being frustrated on the protagonists behalf. I spent most of the book wanting to throw the towel in on the protagonists situation
(If it had been me)…

What an insight into a state gone mad. Out of control
(Isn’t all of it) bureaucracy. How easy it is to fool people en masses, yet so impossible to make them believe they have been fooled.

If his accounts are true and authentic by even 15%, what a man Victor Herman was

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I was never a dead head…

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Reviewed: 02-24-23

I enjoyed this
It was a bit long but it managed to remain interesting

I became a fan of The Dead after Skeleton’s From The Closet:The Best Of The Dead found it’s way into my collection. So I’m no die hard or big fan. When I was a kid I loved Touch of Grey but didn’t really know why because it sounded like old people music to me

I like the players less after listening to this book. They all seem really disappointing even if genius and super talented

Not sure why all the reviews crap on the narrator, I thought he was great

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Monumental and Iconic Life

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Reviewed: 12-17-22

I realized how dumb smart people can be during covid

I realized how passive, impassioned people can be during covid

I realized how people will sacrifice freedom for promised “safety” during covid

Listening to this book I realized how naive Dr.Einstein was regarding his politics regardless of his genius. Although I highly admire that he put blood, sweat and tears into his political convictions… There were also a couple of glimpses of sage wisdom when he adjusted some of his naive political ideas

I also admire him for being so ahead of his time in how he lived his life. He wasn’t only advanced in his scientific theory

He seems to have been the most laid back high energy man ever

The fact he was such a ladies man grew tiresome instead of titillating or interesting but god bless him he lived the fullest of lives

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Meh

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Reviewed: 12-09-22

I’ve enjoyed almost every Woody movie I’ve watched. I’ve only caught from the mid nineties on. I have never gone back in his catalogue to the early movie years. Referring to late seventies thru early nineties.

He has great energy at 84 performing this narration for audible. I had no idea his thick Brooklyn/Jewish Brooklyn accent would drive me totally nuts by the halfway mark. It’s also mixed with mouth full of saliva sounds that old people tend to exhibit thru no fault of their own

Woody is so accomplished and has so many interesting stories. Almost all of them about long ago celebrities and stars.at that most revolve around NYC talent sprinkled with behind the scenes L.A. talent
I enjoy anything NYC and most things movie related, so I appreciated a lot of this book

Unfortunately his incessant need to qualify every woman he has ever spoken to in terms of their looks
“Beautiful” , “hot”, “more than a 10” gets annoying. He compliments their talent also but it’s more than just coming from a different generation. It’s an aging male trying to stay relevant with the boys/fellas. Like he is trying to prove how much testosterone he had Thru his life or how well he capitalized on his fame and fortune

The other annoying aspect of how much commentary on his live life is the fact he has the absolute worst taste in women. Everywoman he spent more than one date with was totally certifiable

Now I too am going to be disrespectful to woman with my next comment. You look up some of these woman he drools all over in this book and you find they were better suited for radio than the movies after googling them. It’s all subjective I know but he spends so much time talking about how “hot” this one was and how “beautiful” that one was

I wish his self deprecation extended to his physical looks. He needs to know he was stuck with homely psychos because he caught them with fame, power and money. Those are very relevant attributes when chasing females. He seems to think he caught his fish with determination and humor.

I’m so far out out of line with my commentary here but I just finished this marathon of woody writing about every woman he ever dated or slept with. His taste in woman is so horrible it was torture to hear about

Godbless him, He had his fair share of trial and tribulation. He is also the American ideal of ambition, hard work, fortitude and perseverance. He is an extremely accomplished creative in multiple mediums and is arguably one of the most accomplished not only of his generation but of the 20th century

Unfortunately, I like him less not more after this book

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Blah

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Reviewed: 11-27-22

Sing songy narration by a poof makes this a tough listen. Speeding up slowing down. Inflection of his voice changing sentence to sentence. I think he lost track that this is a book and not a Broadway play

It doesn’t help that every other paragraph is jumping from century to century

Even the authors ‘humor’ is grating and annoying

The content in theory should be interesting for me as I’m interested in how our world has come to this moment in time. I’m also a fan of reading history. This jumps around too much

I also have this feeling all thru out that the author has an unjustified sense of self importance that makes him come off as a confidence man

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A nice way to put the pieces together…

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Reviewed: 11-24-22

Michael isn’t my favorite on the Daily Wire but his entertaining summary here, goes a long way to changing that

I loved the circle back to connect the dots thru Western history. While also exposing the roots of nonsense language in communist and socialist history

Great narration

Quickly got Thru this as it was indeed entertaining

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Blah

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Reviewed: 11-21-22

Meh

Nothing new

Alternating narrators is kind of useless. One guy speaks too fast. Humor and attempts at comedy thru put-on accents and mocking voices kinda falls flat

Looked up the authors on line. Couldn’t find anything on any of them other than their podcast and a previous show “how it’s made”…

Basically 3 young guys who seem to have that new age I hate my country stance

Check author Noel Brown’s chosen media picture online. His hair, neck beard and facial expression pretty much emotes how I feel about his book

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What an amazing summary, of our worst humans

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Reviewed: 11-09-22

It’s obvious Mr.Kennedy should be listened to, just by how hard they try to shut him up and the lengths they’ll go to- to vilify him. He should be listened to based on his relevant life experience not to mention his unique insight as a Kennedy into power brokers. He should be listened to because he cites his sources and names the studies he refers to. He is willing to risk his life speaking truth to power… He deserves a listen

This book really lets us know how perverse the people looking out for us are

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