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Having just finished my second run-through, I think it's fitting that the History of Rome podcast peters out the way that it does, because I think it tonally simulates the decline of the empire. It really imparts a sense of melancholy sor something that had been so vigorous As a dude who has studied a lot Chinese history, I really didn't like "The Chinese History Podcast" (which I think people have been referring to as The History of China) . The host just irks me and I recall thinking that his scholarship wasn't up to snuff. And he's really into Communist era stuff, which I find to be the least interesting part. But that's just me, and I admittedly stopped early A Short History of Japan was really good but the dude hasn't updated in a year Anyway, I just downloaded "The History of China" and "History of Japan." Haven't listened to the former yet. The latter seems OK so far except that the host's way of speaking drives me kinda nuts \/Ok, yeah that's the one I just downloaded. The OP recommends a different one though, so it's hard to know what's what \/ WDIIA fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Jan 28, 2014 |
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Dan Carlin's voice and affect is the reason that I find Hardcore History to be completely unlistenable but then again I read and enjoy super dry academic history books (the more footnotes the better!), so I'm kinda weird
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Majorian posted:What about it don't you like, just out of curiosity? I can't really put my finger on it. But part of it is because of the high-pitched fast aggressive voice. And part of it is because he takes historical events that I would find completely interesting in a super bland lecture and tries to "up-sell" it with boxing analogies and dramatic pauses and whatever. The end result is that to me, he almost sounds like a stereotypical used car salesman with a gold fake Rolex Like, I totally get why a ton of people love it but it's just not for me 
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Of course these posts pop up when I'm trying to stave off the urge to listen through the History of Rome for a 3rd time
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Terrible Opinions posted:There appears to be a podcast called the History of China podcast as opposed to the thread recommended China History podcast. Is this similarly named but distinct podcast any good? As someone who studied Chinese history very seriously at one point, I find the History of China to be much much better Its your standard History of Rome knockoff that is based on primary sources, but the author lives in China, so he is well acquainted with the culture and nails the small things like name pronunciation Meanwhile, while I only listened to like tge first 7 episodes 5 years ago, the Chinese History Podcast is some dude who lives in San Fran and declared himself an expert after reading a bunch of books, some of them with dodgy standing as I recall WDIIA fucked around with this message at 11:54 on Mar 24, 2017 |
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