Bob Winning

The narration ruined it for me

Revisado: 02-09-25

The story was okay, but the author routinely used 50 words to say what could be said in 10, dragging the story out. The narration was terrible, with mispronunciation of words so frequent that it became a distraction. Eventually I had to give up.

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Lasted only 5 minutes

Revisado: 04-15-21

This is not an audiobook; it is a radio play. Worse, it tries way too hard to be cute and funny, but only managed to make me cringe. I had to give up.

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Paint by numbers

Revisado: 05-11-11

I can't finish this book. The writing is ham-fisted, as if the author bought a book on "How to Write Romantic Thrillers" and followed it by rote. All of the characters are cliches, and the descriptions and dialogue are laughable. The narration doesn't help; as other reviewers have pointed out, the lead female protagonist is given a weak, simpering voice, and other characters don't fare much better. A lot of the narration is over the top; the narrator does the audiobook equivalent of scenery chewing. I lasted about two hours and had to give it up.

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Uninspiring

Revisado: 01-25-11

This book covers many of the same interesting themes as Gaiman's American Gods, but less successfully. I just found the book to be surprisingly unengaging. Characters speak in riddles, and the author has a writing style where sentences stretch on so long by the time you finish, you forget what the sentence was about. Moreover, the reader has a sing-song quality to his voice, that for me, made it hard to focus on what he was saying. I found I kept having to go back and relisten to the section of the book I just finished, because none of it registered in my brain. I've never had this problem with any other author or narrator. Despite these impediments to getting into the book, I was still able within the first couple of hours to know just how it was going to turn out. As a result, this book pulls off a rare feat, being impenetrable and predictable at the same time.

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