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Originally Posted by twicefivemiles
but the sheer length of the book overwhelms me sometimes.
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I've been listening to the first volume of Shelby Foote's
Civl War during my drive and while I'm enjoying it, it also feels like a feat of endurance. I bumped the speed up to 1.5X on the SmarterPlayer app just so I could get through the 37+ hours in about a month. It'll be a while before I queue up volume II.
Caro's
The Power Broker isn't available as an ebook and I don't want to heft it, so when I saw it at Audible, I spent a credit on it. But 66 hours! I quail at the prospect. That's a lot of listening for one credit, though!
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
This book of short stories is enjoyable, yet there is an irritating element present in many of them, and that is the not-so-hidden sermons contained within. Many of the villains in these tales are atheists. I don't mind the idea of a main character who is faithful to his own religious ideals, but in a work of fiction I prefer not being hit over the head with an author's religious or political viewpoints.
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I suppose it goes with the territory of the proselytizing convert. It recalls to me how in
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh used a quote from one of the stories,
The Queer Feet to describe the effect of grace on the lapsed and susceptible.