Jim

Rubbish. Predictable. Waste of time.

Revisado: 11-02-16

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

I feel sorry for the narrator, who actually did a decent job narrating in the face of utterly awful material. (In that self-loathing way) The best thing about this "book" was that it was a free download.

Would you ever listen to anything by John Scalzi again?

Never.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

The narration was the best thing about the book.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from FREE: The Dispatcher?

I would have a story that had real edge around its core mystery and not be centered on the benign self-indulgence of an old man and the perils of an anonymous character (the missing Dispatcher), with heavies who turn out to be reborn choir boys.

Further, if one is to buy into the preposterous concept that there really is a process to "dispatch" dead people back into life, there has to be a whole lot more specificity and substance about how this miracle happens. Really, we're to believe that dispatching back to life is happening using an "app on a mobile phone" administered by certified state employees...and that's about the breadth of it! C'mon!

Any additional comments?

Don't waste 2+ hours of your life listening to this garbage.

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Easily Top-10 all time book

Revisado: 11-02-16

What made the experience of listening to The Power of Habit the most enjoyable?

In baseball parlance, this is a 5-tool book. Very well written, very relevant, useful, practical and engaging. Duhigg is masterly. If all books were this good, Youtube would be on the decline.

What other book might you compare The Power of Habit to and why?

Duhigg's newer book Smarter, Faster, Better is an offspring of this book, however, although good, it does not compare in impact nor fluency of writing. The closest book that I can think of in terms of impact and lasting powers is "a whole new mind" by Dan Pink.

Which character – as performed by Mike Chamberlain – was your favorite?

Excellent performance by Chamberlain, perfect companion to Duhigg's content.

What’s an idea from the book that you will remember?

The idea of the cue to initiate the habit. It's straight forward and very mechanical, however, it requires real deliberation to be effective. If done correctly, the cue can make succeeding in the other steps in habit-making trivial.

Any additional comments?

Read it. Make your children read it.

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Utter waste of credit

Revisado: 06-18-15

Any additional comments?

This was a book written in the style of a pompous, self-absorbed, redundant and scatter-brain author...ghost writing as himself for his namesake...supposedly exposing the underbelly of the tech industry... Apparently the real-life author playing the ghost writer has written prior readable material--there was little evidence of that here. The monotone, lifeless narration made the book practically unlistenable (I will puke if I hear cafe vs. caffe one more time), but was sadly in keeping with the quality of the actual book. Mr. Cohen may have had a story worth enduring for, but I for one could not get past the garbage posing as writing to get to it.

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Perfunctory, tired and disappointing

Revisado: 11-11-14

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To me, this book felt much like sunbathing indoors. After a while, what kept me going was purely the fascination to prove to myself that the exercise was utterly pointless.

As with other reviewers, I have generally enjoyed Grisham's books and was very much looking forward to this one. Unfortunately, I saw very little of Grisham's normal draws and gripping story telling. The main characters were underdeveloped and not particularly interesting. The whole book felt like a laboriously stretched out preamble to another, "real" story.

Overall, I felt this book was some type of business or contractual obligation to publish--a perfunctory effort to check one off the list. Very disappointing.

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