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A review by hylian_pirate
Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire by Kenneth W. Harl
2.0
This is a course in an audiobook format but I will review it as an audiobook because it's Goodreads but that might be unfair so take care.
I had many problems with this audiobook. For one, it's boring like an actual university course. He rushes through the topics and I feel some sequences deserve more details. Each chapter is 30 minutes long (like a lecture) so he can't spend too long on one topic.
He doesn't explain the events like a story as much as I like. For example, he doesn't care about spoilers. He can introduce a character in the beginning then say that this guy will betray Alexander later. It makes sense from an academic sense but not from a storytelling one.
The story is still fun during Philip and Alexander's parts. I kinda got bored during the end after Alexander's death. I got all those characters mixed up because he just throws a name and you're supposed to remember them without spending too much time on their personality. Speaking of personality, this course focuses more on the battles and not on the personalities.
All in all, this still made me really excited to read novels or historical fiction about Alexander the Great.
I had many problems with this audiobook. For one, it's boring like an actual university course. He rushes through the topics and I feel some sequences deserve more details. Each chapter is 30 minutes long (like a lecture) so he can't spend too long on one topic.
He doesn't explain the events like a story as much as I like. For example, he doesn't care about spoilers. He can introduce a character in the beginning then say that this guy will betray Alexander later. It makes sense from an academic sense but not from a storytelling one.
The story is still fun during Philip and Alexander's parts. I kinda got bored during the end after Alexander's death. I got all those characters mixed up because he just throws a name and you're supposed to remember them without spending too much time on their personality. Speaking of personality, this course focuses more on the battles and not on the personalities.
All in all, this still made me really excited to read novels or historical fiction about Alexander the Great.