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I'm enthralled listening! This is the first audiobook that's really working for me.

It took me so long to start this book, but my son was right. It's a wonderful read and oddly almost soothing rather than completely depressing as I had been expecting. Having a hard time making time to finish it though.

This is a fascinating and heartbreaking book but the organization makes it harder to absorb certain details and since it's 45 years old I'm really curious to read something more updated. I'm realizing how little I know about Latin america.

Although I have not been bored at all, I can't recommend this book unless like me you are reading in Korean to practice increasing your reading speed. The second story, although entertaining, was disturbing and I can't find any redeeming intellectual or spiritual value here.

A reasonably engaging light read that's getting more fun as it goes along. Nothing profound so far but pleasant enough.

The introduction discussing the bombing of Pearl Harbor and all the other US territories bombed on that day was fascinating. The first chapter was good but having just read The End of the Myth I know that the founders had more diverse opinions on the frontier than this book presents. And as politicians often they said one or several things and did another. Thus a few quotes from Jefferson or Madison doesn't prove...

Halfway! The author speaks with a bombastic certainty rivaling G*d himself, writes with a structure that's often unperceivable, and produces many very lovely sentences if you don't have a deep need for the things you read to be true. I'm often asking myself is this insightful or just silly? And what's the point of categorizing and defining everything to death?

I read the title story 푸른수염의 첫번째 아내 in 74 minutes and while I enjoyed it, I anticipated what was happening quite early in the story and was not much surprised by anything that happened afterwards. Perhaps the situation would be more shocking and surprising to a Korean person living at the time the story was written but for me it was a bit predictable! Nonetheless I will keep reading. The stories are reasonable length

Although not a long or difficult read per, I need to stop, review, and make notes if I hope to remember anything. Ch.1 looks at the aftermath of the 7 Years War which left Britain in a bind, in debt to both colonist and Indigenous group who served as allies both of whom wanted take/keep land in the "frontier" (a word which doesn't even appear in early American dictionaries. King George issued a proclamation in 1763

Hmmm. So far not a single sentence of this book has pulled me in, and I fell asleep again trying to read it. This is the worst start I've ever made to any book read in the original Korean. Many of the sentences are so random I don't understand how they relate to the context around them and so far I don't find anything beautiful or poetic or interesting. I will soldier on a few more days and then maybe give up?

I read the first two of 67 sections, and surprisingly it took under 15 minutes which gives me hope I might actually read this book. On the other hand, I fell asleep a page or two before the end of the second chapter and I retain only a vague memory of what I might have read. It definitely hasn't pulled me in so far but it seems like I could easily read it in a month if I spend 10 or 15 minutes in the evening.

This book was published in 2006 but there are some benefits to it being an older book as it is not written in reaction to Trump and his administration or even to the Tea Party and the Obama administration. I feel this book is going to tell the story of the background of my childhood, growing up as I did homeschooled and surrounded by Fundamentalist characters with political views I didn't understand at the time.

Not too dense, not too light. Good balance of relevant detail and concise analysis.

A surprisingly fast read especially after slogging through a few other Korean books recently!