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Interesting plot, mediocre execution.

Revisado: 11-24-23

As other reviewers put it, there is a lot of whiffle-waffling false-tension build-ups. Almost all of it was needlessly redundant.

More than once I found my self shouting to “just get on with it!”

The narrator’s choice to muffle his voice fit Sophia’s dialog or pinch their nose for Oswald’s made certain sections difficult to understand. Other reviewers have rightfully ding’d the way shouting is represented, and while more understandable that muffled or nasal mangling, it’s just as annoying.

Still, the story was interesting.

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Interesting plot, mediocre execution.

Revisado: 11-24-23

As other reviewers put it, there is a lot of whiffle-waffling false-tension build-ups. Almost all of it was needlessly redundant.

More than once I found my self shouting to “just get on with it!”

The narrator’s choice to muffle his voice fit Sophia’s dialog or pinch their nose for Oswald’s made certain sections difficult to understand. Other reviewers have rightfully ding’d the way shouting is represented, and while more understandable that muffled or nasal mangling, it’s just as annoying.

Still, the story was interesting.

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Better performed than the previous two

Revisado: 06-08-23

I’m glad the auroral attacks on the paying listeners were diminished in this title.

I say diminished, because there are many still. Can’t win them all.

The story itself is still entertaining and easier to consume with fewer audio-foibles like moistmouth, vomiting noises, and other turns of distortion.

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Better performed than the previous two

Revisado: 06-08-23

I’m glad the auroral attacks on the paying listeners were diminished in this title.

I say diminished, because there are many still. Can’t win them all.

The story itself is still entertaining and easier to consume with fewer audio-foibles like moistmouth, vomiting noises, and other turns of distortion.

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A review that’s painful to write

Revisado: 06-07-23

Matt, loved the story. I really hate that I have to one star you, but you didn’t veto my nemesis in listening to this title.

Jeff, your name appearing as the narrator has always been a value add in the past. You have damaged your reputation.

Soundbooth, you succeeded in making a good story gross-out theater. I find myself wanting a refund.

Just what inspired this? The sickup sounds injected into Morticai’s in-person dialog. It made me physically ill to hear, just like when your on a six hour flight and the drunk in the tow behind you yarks up in the first thirty minutes and half the flight ends up doing the technicolor yawn.

The sound effects, voice distortions, moistmouth, and shouting was bad enough, but I feel like the croakingvomit sounds were just listener torture.

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A review that’s painful to write

Revisado: 06-07-23

Matt, loved the story. I really hate that I have to one star you, but you didn’t veto my nemesis in listening to this title.

Jeff, your name appearing as the narrator has always been a value add in the past. You have damaged your reputation.

Soundbooth, you succeeded in making a good story gross-out theater. I find myself wanting a refund.

Just what inspired this? The sickup sounds injected into Morticai’s in-person dialog. It made me physically ill to hear, just like when your on a six hour flight and the drunk in the tow behind you yarks up in the first thirty minutes and half the flight ends up doing the technicolor yawn.

The sound effects, voice distortions, moistmouth, and shouting was bad enough, but I feel like the croakingvomit sounds were just listener torture.

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Tries so hard, it’s hard to listen to.

Revisado: 06-02-23

The story is sound, but the production group uses too many sound effects, shouted lines, and characters voiced with such distorted effects that it sounds like I’m listening to someone talking with a mouthful of food.

It turns an over wise interesting story into a painful listening experience. It’s a pity too, Jeff Hays usually does much better than this.

STOP VOICING MOISTMOUTH!!

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Tries so hard, it’s hard to listen to.

Revisado: 06-02-23

The story is sound, but the production group uses too many sound effects, shouted lines, and characters voiced with such distorted effects that it sounds like I’m listening to someone talking with a mouthful of food.

It turns an over wise interesting story into a painful listening experience. It’s a pity too, Jeff Hays usually does much better than this.

STOP VOICING MOISTMOUTH!!

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Like trying to survive a hot date with a toothache….

Revisado: 07-27-21

The addition of around 24 minutes of extras is not worth the abrasive grit of the way Weaton pronounces several common names. “Vin-Kat” chief among them. When compared to the Bray narrated version or the movie it’s jarring.

If Andy Weir wanted his readers and listened to know it was correct a note in the forward would have been nice.

For now it just seems like another title ruined by revisionism from a more famous name narrating.

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Time to say goodbye?

Revisado: 06-21-20

First and foremost, thank you for the narrator’s foreword. It’s often annoying which narrators change, but when you tell us why it takes some of the sting out. It’s clear that everyone on the crew misses William Dufris, as do those of us that enjoying listening to him.

The scope of this one runs all over the place, and leaves some details a little threadbare. While not un-enjoyable but there are places it kinda feels like Taylor was rushing to get the finished story into Williams hands for a last hurrah.

Don’t let that stop you. This one finishes the series, and even gives us V-G, V-D, and V-L days too.

P. J. Ochlan’s job of filling in those large shoes was mostly successful I think. I personally found the few times he tried a very high range falsetto it rendered the result outside where I could not understand it, and — sorry PJ — rendering the Titan of Death and Vengeance of Walker into sounding like Hank Hill. I wish I could un-hear that.

Hey, Taylor, here’s one fan that hopes you take us back to that world soon.

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