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So much better than I was expecting!

Review from Super Volcanoes →

So, I’m not entirely sure just what I was expecting from such a book. I guess I was thinking that, with a title such as Super Volcanoes, I was expecting a lot of talk about the few volcanoes identified, at current time, as super volcanoes. What I wasn’t expecting was a story-line that would lead..

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Elton John’s touring career

Review from Farewell Yellow Brick Road →

This audiobook is about Elton John’s final tour and also looks back on his entire touring career. Narrator Richard Armitage reads EJ’s side of the story and makes him sound very warm and likeable and I believe EJ has these qualities, but this is the most annoyingly self-congratulatory book I’ve read in many years, so..

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Great overview of the Spartans

Review from Sparta →

These guys were the og Badasses. Saw the movie 300 years ago and it’s cool to see how close to real life that was. A few strong men stood against the invading Persians. Narrator mispronounced some names tho…

An Interesting People

Review from Sparta →

The Spartans are one of the most fascinating of ancient peoples. Their transformation of their society into a “perfect” military state was so extreme that it intrigues people even today. And yet this relatively small state created a military machine which held off the Persian Empire at Thermopylae and dominated much of Greece in its..

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