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have always been a big fan of and an avid reader of Dr. James
Dobson’s books, but I was so glad when I go done with
this audio-book. Your Legacy sounded more like a
memoir that Dr. Dobson wanted to give his family a self-help
and guide for parents on leaving a legacy for their child/children.
When I first received the audio-book I was really excited
to get started, but once I opened it up and started listening
I became bored before I even got to the 2nd disc. This audio-book
I thought was supposed to be about how parents can help their
children with their faith and to help them become closer to
God as well as how to leave their own legacy behind for their
children, but I didn’t feel like it was.
The first
few chapters had Dr. Dobson’s son Ryan, who narrates
it, reading about their family through the generations and
then it keeps going and Dr. Dobson wrote about people he had
met throughout the years; both through his profession and
his personal life. I understand Dr. Dobson felt the need to
start the audio-book that way in order to show the readers
what a legacy is, but it was still quite boring and I thought
this would have been a great audio-book to fall asleep to.
Once I got through those chapters then it started with how
parents can help their child/children get to know and come
closer to God and it also gave some stories that parents could
read to their children. There are 6 discs in this audio-book
and I thought that was too many; I feel like 3 discs should
have been plenty to tell his legacy and to give parents some
advice.
As I
previously mentioned Ryan Dobson is the narrator of this audio
book and also Dr. Dobson’s son. Mr. Dobson and his father
cohost a radio show and he is also the VP of Family Talk as
well as being an author. I felt like because he was the author’s
son that he sounded a little too proud while reading this
audio-book and I think it would have been better had the author
had someone unbiased reading this because then the reader
would know where more interesting parts of the book were;
with Mr. Dobson narrating, it all sounded like it was supposed
to be interesting.
I just
didn’t really care for this audio-book! I still find
Dr. Dobson a wonderful teacher and author and I still plan
to read his other books, but I just didn’t think he
did very well on Your Legacy like he has on other published
books. I give Your Legacy a “4” and Dr. Dobson
a “7”; I also give Ryan Dobson as narrator a “7.”
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