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How to make Terry Pratchett boring

Revisado: 08-14-23

I wouldn't have thought it possible, but this narration makes Terry Pratchett boring; and his stories are anything but. If you've listened to Nigel Planer or any other decent narration of the Discworld, you're going to hate this. *sigh*

Otherwise this is a great book like all of the rest.

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can't wait for the sequel

Revisado: 03-24-23

This was just the book I was looking for. It's a good story, interesting characters, well read, and leaves you wanting more. I really enjoyed it and hope there will be a second.

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Get the regular audio (not dramatized)

Revisado: 01-18-23

I have listened and re-listened to all of the Space Team books. So, I thought I would give the dramatized version a chance because I really like this series. However, Phil Thron's original narration is so much better than this flat performance. Phil Thron makes the whole story come to life and really brings out the hilarity of the characters and situations. I feel like this dramatized book loses the series' personality. IMHO it just doesn't hold a candle to the original audio books.

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fun

Revisado: 01-18-23

So much fun!

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The narrator doesn't work for me

Revisado: 09-19-22

I listened to the first 2 books in this series and the stories were pretty good. But the narrator is not easy for me to follow. She doesn't have a range of voices for different characters. So far as I can tell she has 2 male character voices and 2 female. This makes it very difficult to follow the story. She's also very monotone in her narration. Instead of a performance this is very much just someone reading a book. Since the first two books had a limited number of introductory characters, I was able to follow the story despite the narration. But this book has several introductory characters with similar names and I can't tell one from the other. I just couldn't follow the story or get into it at all so I gave up...

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don't bother

Revisado: 07-23-20

they should have started a new series with a different title since they basically just ditched all of the previous books. I'm sad Lee Goldberg was "too busy with other projects" to work on this. Especially after doing his research on using Australia as the next local. I wonder what really happened. probably more likely some undesirable nepotism caused Goldberg to bail out. So sad since it's we the readers who suffer.

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wonderful series

Revisado: 06-26-20

I enjoyed this series of books so much that I finished it in days. I usually spend weeks on my books but I could not stop listening. So much fun, great characters, fabulous narration... just the whole package. do yourself a favor and download this series and enjoy.

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Loved it

Revisado: 05-12-18

I am so tired of the dystopian stories but this was a breath of fresh air and kept me wanting more.

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Surprisingly Awful

Revisado: 03-18-18

Would you try another book from the authors and/or David Timson?

I have and would listen to other books by some of these authors but this book was just a mess.

Any additional comments?

The premise (which is explained in the preface) of this book was for several authors of this genre to write a book together in a sort of chain. Where they each add to the story and follow some basic rules and no one knows how it will turn out. .. sounds like a fun idea but the end product left much to be desired.

There was almost no character development and very little actual story. Each chapter was written by a different author and it was completely obvious. Instead of a smoothly developing and interesting plot, it felt like each author kept rehashing what the first two or three chapters/authors created and added a very few minor details just so the book wouldn’t end. It ended up dragging and utterly uninteresting to me. I did not finish this book after being at or close to halfway through.

It’s ashame this didn’t work for me as I was excited about all these fabulous authors collaborating. But as a friend of mine likes to say “a jackass is a horse designed by a committee.” This book felt like that.

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Interesting

Revisado: 03-10-15

Somewhat hard to follow if you are neither a history buff nor a mathematician or physicist. But still very interesting. Makes me want to go back to school so that I can understand the story better. It also would have been easier to follow if the narrator could do more than two voices.

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