Margaret

If you sew you know

Revisado: 03-25-25

This scholarly celebration of needle arts, particularly embroidery, covers the globe. While centered in the author's home territory of Scotland she explores textile traditions from China and SouthEast Asia to Africa to Central and South America and the heartland of the United States.
The narrator's perfectly paced performance is easy listening.
The narration faded toward the end but that may have been my device.

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dead narrator, childishly written stories

Revisado: 09-06-24

A different narrator might have improved this audiobook but I doubt it. These stories used odd words choices that had me wondering if the author was ESL or AI. Maybe the author was trying to convey a sense of a different culture through their words choices, it didn't work. The stories felt like teenage work. The sort passed around among friends who loved it. I was clearly not the intended audience.

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Socio / techno thriller

Revisado: 06-02-16

Although sometimes I felt like the word count was being padded out by repetition and by technical descriptions I was still entranced by the story and its protagonist.

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Light but thoughtful chick-lit

Revisado: 04-12-16

A classic plot of troubles and transformation with a cast full of women of all ages and in all stages of life make this a fun read.

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So disappointed

Revisado: 04-12-16

Reviving dead characters has become as cliche as reworking old TV shows, remaking old movies and rebooting vintage media blockbusters. I was so disappointed. I've come to expect more from the Pendergast series.

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Loved it right up to the end

Revisado: 03-12-14

This re-envisioned telling of Sleeping Beauty satisfied both my need for depth in details and well done characters. Only the end, while the logical conclusion given the characters, felt like a let down. Perhaps it is just a matter of too much happy ending and not enough fulfillment of duty for my Puritanical soul.

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How could I be disappointed?

Revisado: 06-16-13

Sigh. This reading of the Return of the King is from the 1980's editions which have been altered from the 1960's editions that I'm familiar with. While I'm certain that the changes made to the story were well meant they are noticeable and irritating. I would appreciate it if , in the future, Audible would note the edition of the story that is being presented, especially when there are significant differences between the editions.

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Disappointed by this abbreviated version

Revisado: 10-02-12

What would have made The Cabinet of Curiosities better?

Music came in at odd moments and the first time it was almost loud enough to drown out the narrator. The abridging of the story was done well enough but I found I was unsatisfied as I had read the story in full 5 years ago.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

I look forward to this story being narrated in an unabridged version.

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