Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
The Practicing Stoic
Ward Farnsworth · 2018
🎙 Narrated by John Lescault (Blackstone Audio)
85/100
👍 Worth It
This is the real deal for anyone curious about Stoicism - twelve well-organized lessons pulling straight from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Montaigne, with Farnsworth's own commentary tying it together and even taking on the common 'Stoics are cold' critique head-on. It reads more like a reference you dip into than a single continuous story, which is worth knowing going in. Narrator John Lescault is genuinely praised for how well his pacing matches the material, so the audiobook is a strong way to take this one in.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: excellent Listeners specifically praise narrator John Lescault's pacing and emphasis as being 'in harmony' with the material.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety95
Substance / usefulness90
Craft & writing88
Originality75
Evidence & accuracy88
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit85
Human-eye read70
Penny’s verdict85
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