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John W. Aldis

jwaldis

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  • For Whom the Bell Tolls | [Ernest Hemingway]
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
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    For Whom the Bell Tolls

    • UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 23 mins)
    • By Ernest Hemingway
    • Narrated By Campbell Scott
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (1059)
    Performance
    (385)
    Story
    (390)

    In 1937, Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight", For Whom the Bell Tolls.

    A User says: "The Mountains of Spain"
    "Don't "Clean Up" Hemingway"
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    Editing out the rough language from this book was annoying and unnecessary. I don't even undertand how it was legal!
    Selling me this edited audiobook without first telling me that somebody had "cleaned up" Hemingway's lively and realistic language was also unfair to me, your customer.

    81 of 93 people found this review helpful
  • The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability | [Lierre Keith]
    The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
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    The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 1 min)
    • By Lierre Keith
    • Narrated By Joyce Bean
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (36)
    Performance
    (34)
    Story
    (33)

    We’ve been told that a vegetarian diet can feed the hungry, honor the animals, and save the planet. Lierre Keith believed in that plant-based diet and spent twenty years as a vegan. But in The Vegetarian Myth, she argues that we’ve been led astray - not by our longings for a just and sustainable world, but by our ignorance. e truth is that agriculture is a relentless assault against the planet, and more of the same won’t save us. In service to annual grains, humans have devastated prairies and forests, driven countless species extinct, altered the climate, and destroyed the topsoil - the basis of life itself....

    J. S. White says: "Interesting take on sustainability"
    "Anger at food"
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    What would have made The Vegetarian Myth better?

    The author appears anxious to blame all her medical problems on her vegetarian diet since the life-long problems started six weeks after she started the diet. Her medical opinion makes no sense.


    Has The Vegetarian Myth turned you off from other books in this genre?

    Yes. I'll be a LOT more careful choosing books like this.


    How did the narrator detract from the book?

    Too much anger boiling out of the text.


    What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

    Disappointment and annoyance that I had wasted my time/money on the book.


    Any additional comments?

    Seriously, don't buy this book.

    15 of 26 people found this review helpful
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | [Betty Smith]
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    • UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 2 mins)
    • By Betty Smith
    • Narrated By Kate Burton
    Overall
    (934)
    Performance
    (381)
    Story
    (378)

    A moving coming-of-age story set in the 1900s, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn follows the lives of 11-year-old Francie Nolan, her younger brother Neely, and their parents, Irish immigrants who have settled in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Johnny Nolan is as loving and fanciful as they come, but he is also often drunk and out of work, unable to find his place in the land of opportunity.

    Nancy says: "Leaves you wondering what happened next -"
    "This is a "chick flick" book."
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    Would you try another book from Betty Smith and/or Kate Burton?

    Don't know.


    Would you ever listen to anything by Betty Smith again?

    I doubt it.


    Did Kate Burton do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

    Yeah, she did a good job.


    What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

    Disappointment.


    Any additional comments?

    It is probably terribly culturally important, etc., etc., but it remains a chick flick book.

    0 of 1 people found this review helpful

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