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From: [email protected] (Tim Skirvin)
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Frossie <[email protected]> writes:

>>         FYI, I liked that one.

> I'm talking myself into resolving to write reviews for the ones I
> finish. I encourage others to do the same :-)

       Which group?  .audiots?  (Adds groups, set followups.)

       This is what I've listened to so far this year:

   * Alexander and the Hellenistic Age - I'm listening to this right
     now.  The first four lectures were about Alexander in particular,
     and made me *ANGRY* by being facile and biased.  But once we got
     past that's it's improved because I'm actually learning things
     about the various cultures involved.  I'm about half way through
     right now, and learning about Greek Novels (which I did not know
     existed).  I'm happy now.

   * Legacies of Great Economists - I overall liked it, but Taylor's
     periodic lack of knowledge of history was *extremely* off-putting.

   * Masters of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers - the parts
     where actual grounded military strategic theory exists was pretty
     fun.  The parts where they're clearly making it up as they go along
     - air power, nuclear war - was scarier.

   * Utopia and Terror in the 20th Century - depressing and biased, but
     I learned some things so that's worth something.

   * Victorian Britain - Allitt makes the anglophile in me happy.  Fun,
     light, probably vaguely accurate.

   * Lost Worlds of South America - I really liked this one.  The narrator
     definitely had an agenda, but it was a *fun* agenda (pushing his
     theory of the Fanged God).  This is probably my Dad's favorite
     course ever; he's probably going to go back and get the video version.

   * Questions of Value - I find the philosophy courses appealing lately
     for some reason.  This felt fairly light, though.

   * Barbarians of the Steppes - I really like Kenneth Harl's course, but
     this seemed somewhat outside of his comfort zone.  I still learned
     a *lot*, but it didn't hold together as much as usual.

   * Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon - this was
     pretty much two courses.  The French Revolution side was clearly
     her specialty, and I learned a lot and felt that it was well put
     together.  The Napoleon parts were a bit too fast and simple; I'd
     like to have a whole course on that by somebody that specializes
     in this.

   * Philosophy of Religion - this was fascinating and I've spent a lot
     of time considering it since the start of the year.  In essence,
     this gave a lot of arguments for why we would believe in religion,
     and knocking them down - and the lecturer was still religious!  Whee!

                          - Tim Skirvin ([email protected])
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