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Excellent

Revisado: 07-06-16

Loved it. Superb story, excellent performance too.
One of the best legal mystery stories of all time.

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Fascinating

Revisado: 03-08-15

Absolutely loved it.
What a fascinating story. well read, too.
Chandler is the writer I would like to become some day. Clean, scorched, brutal prose. a surety of touch. An absolute lack of hesitation. Fascinating.

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Wow!

Revisado: 04-15-14

Gone Girl
Author : Gillian Flynn

Genre: Thriller, Mystery

Source - Audiobook

Rating - 5

April 14

Shudder. A delicious, twisted, evil, satan of a book. Unreliable, lying, attractive, detestable, addictive narrators; the most realistic take on a crumbled marriage I've read in recent times; twists and double twists and triple twists and then --- just as we were slowly moving towards some kind of an expected conclusion, a whoosh-what-the-f**k-was-that howitzer of an ending. I hated, HATED the ending. Perfect ending. Hated it. Loved it.

PS: Great performances by both of the narrators too.

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Read-It-Now

Revisado: 08-19-13

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Author – Bill Bryson
Genre – Science, Popular Science, Non-fiction, Humour, History, Physics, Geology, Paleontology, Anthropology
Source - Audiobook
Rating - 5
August 2013
I have been having great luck with books in recent times. Or maybe I am easy to please. But really, this book here is a definite read-this-now. The dexterity is not in the physics, the geology and paleontology and anthropology, a fair bit of which (gloat gloat) I was in the know of, but in the presentation. Bryson is an awesome storyteller, and he weaves these superb, fun, and exceedingly funny stories around the mysteries of nature and creation and the men and women who solved these mysteries for us – this is the perfect book to read beforehand if you are planning to babysit a particularly inquisitive nephew or niece.

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Great job!Let's have a Cormoran Strike series now!

Revisado: 08-06-13

I am a fanboy, so let me get done with the gushing first. JKR is such a legend! Love her!
Ok, let's talk about the book now. Ms. Rowling has an incredible ability of putting word after word, and making you look forward to the next word. A natural-born story-teller to compare with the very best. Even while reading the Potter novels, I had always thought that mystery would be her natural habitat, she is so brilliant and ingenuous at plot and storytelling. And this here is a proof. Does it hurtle through like, say, a Lee Child novel? Nope, the story builds up gradually -- this is a classic detection novel, the thrill is secondary to the detection -- but it is still effective, you can still not put the book down. I couldn't.

Characters: Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott are both such interesting characters! I'd very much like this book to be Cormoran Strike #1, a part of a long series.

Writing: there's craft here. The characters are almost uniformly well-developed (as you have come to expect from JKR), the sexual tension between characters is brought out really well (without being explicit -- this is JKR, folks. She is a children's writer, remember?), and it is well-researched, again another JKR trait.

And okay then, let's have the acid test for all private-eye books --- Could I guess the killer? Nope. Not till the very end I couldn't.

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Excellent! This is how a message novel should be

Revisado: 07-17-13

Would you consider the audio edition of Un Lun Dun to be better than the print version?

I don't know. didn't read the print version.

What did you like best about this story?

Like the best of message fiction, the messages come in to the reader subconsciously, never becoming even a slight bit preachy; and never interfering with the story.
Pollution. Using economically-lower countries as dumping ground for waste. The experience of a subcontinental-origin person in London. And the biggest hit for me was the sublime turnaround of the sidekick. The Neville Longbottoms of the world rise up to take their rightful position in this book, and how!

Have you listened to any of Karen Cass’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No. And she is brilliant.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Small touches of the oh-yes-that's-right.
When Deeba tries to convince herself, during her first return to London, that she does not need to return, because everything will be fine. --- and then, at the back of her mind -- and anyway, she would not know even if they aren't.
So true. "how many times can a man turn his head / pretending he just doesn't see"...

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Excellent. Very Funny.

Revisado: 06-04-13

If you could sum up FREE BONUS DOWNLOAD: The Family Portrait: Four Short Stories about Domestic Life in three words, what would they be?

Everyday. Funny. Endearing.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Jon himself.

Which character – as performed by Jon Ronson – was your favorite?

Jon himself.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Yes. The soup incident totally made me laugh out loud.

Any additional comments?

More such free snippets please

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Nice. Not magical, but nice. Worth a listen.

Revisado: 05-10-13

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, if they are interested in magic in an urban setting kind of stories. The audiobook is worth the price for Nicola Barber's reading alone. She's awesome! Not that the stories are bad, or even anything less than very good...

Who was your favorite character and why?

Granny Thompson, of course! I like Ella Mae (or is it Ella May?).

What about Nicola Barber’s performance did you like?

She is amazing! She does different voices so brilliantly, and really has the knack of telling a story. Maybe falters a bit with the Texan drawl, but you cannot expect everything...

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It made me smile quite often.

Any additional comments?

Fine, fun short stories. Sixties witch, a bit of a wild child, is this Anita. But good. Breezy read.

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Highly recommended

Revisado: 04-05-13

Any additional comments?

I am lucky in that I have read quite a few extraordinary books this year. This is certainly one of them. A masterpiece of the genre. Miéville is the superstar of the genre, and I was intrigued to find out why. Now I know. His acclaim is well deserved - This is top notch social commentary, a breakneck, hurtling detective story, and the best sci-fi novel I have read in a long, long time.

The voice artiste does a great job too.


Please listen. Highly recommended.

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Loved it!

Revisado: 03-18-13

What made the experience of listening to Netherland the most enjoyable?

The accents. Through David Thorpe's performance, Hans Chuck, and all these other wonderful, wonderful characters that inhabit this delightful book, come alive.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Netherland?

Just one? There were so many!
The one with Hans and his mother, where his mother finds him on her bike, next to the river, and they just ride together, side by side on their bikes... wonderful.
I think all the scenes with Hans' mother, and all the ones with his son, are exceptional.
And of course Chuck's ramblings. They are the heart of this novel.

What does David Thorpe bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The accents!

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Not really. Some parts need a bit of introspection, maybe even a second listen.

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