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Don’t spend the money or credit.

Revisado: 10-18-23

I love this book. This audiobook is not good. The performance is meh. The narrator can’t even pronounce things correctly. He’s not unskilled, but the director phoned it in. The production is terrible. The modern generation of Star Wars audiobooks put this to absolute shame. I don’t know why abridged audiobooks exist, but they should be way more clearly indicated than this.

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Weakest of a GREAT Series

Revisado: 01-20-22

Maybe the storytelling devices don’t translate to audio well, but the jumping around, flashbacks, flash-forwards, and and the frequent perspective shifts to people uninvolved with the actual story (people telling the legends of what happened) just made parts of the book drag on. A whole section of just jumping between universes with basically no plot or character development was awful.

When the book just told the story, it was as good as the rest of the series. The end was a letdown, but I don’t know if there’s a really satisfying way to end the story without being stereotypical.

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Inconsistent

Revisado: 10-09-20

Overall, this was a decent read. It suffers from inconsistent writing quality. Some of the sections were meandering and didn’t seem to maintain a narrative thread. Others were just fine. The narration was good, but nothing special.

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Fantastic

Revisado: 06-26-19

Good story covering the underdeveloped relationship between Qui Gon and Obi Wan. The performance by Davis was top notch. It was one of the first in a long time that didn’t make me cringe when he was reading lines from the opposite gender. Too many male narrators over do the female voices, turning them sound like whiners or other wise over-done, especially in other Star Wars books recently.

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Thoughtful, Thurough, and Analttical

Revisado: 12-21-18

Griesbach does as well as anybody can hope in setting aside his biases (which he is clear about) to recount how Making A Murder caused him to reevaluate his thought on the Halbach case, and how his decision to review the facts led him to discover how maipulative the series was. By refusing to draw any conclusion in anybody's favor without the evidence to back it up and clearly acknowledging the limits of what can be learned from the evidence, Griesbach asks the reader to engage in a thoughtful analysis of the case rather than reacting emotionally to what is, regardless of your view of the facts, a terrible tragedy.

Foster's narration is very good, but I couldn't help notice each time he mispronounced some of the Wisconsin locations just enough to make me cringe slightly (e.g. Manitowoc, Calumet and Bonduel). Unless you're familiar with the area, you won't notice that.

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My Least-Favorite Zahn Book

Revisado: 08-06-18

I don't like the dual-timeline storytelling device. I don't much care for Clone Wars era, so this book was never going to be me favorite. I was originally thinking that this story was complete throwing out Outbound Flight (Legends), but looking back I don't know that they're incompatible. Not that Disney cares... If you don't share those biases, you will probably see quality Zahn work. He's good, even when I don't necessarily like what he's writing.

I didn't care for the voices for Anakin or Padme. They both came across as whiney, which can be appropriate for Anakin, but not Padme. For the most part, Thompson's reading is very good, but when 2 of the 4 main characters are sometimes a chore to listen to, that was though for me, especially early on. I sympathize with the struggle though.

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Not Holland's best work

Revisado: 11-21-16

I really wanted to love this book. I'm a big fan of Tom Holland's work in written and audio format, but this book was difficult to follow. I could not tell what the presentation style was because it did not seem to follow a thematic progression and it certainly wasn't a narrative history. It just seemed to meander through time and place. While the minute to minute listening was classic Holland, I had no idea how anything fit with what I had heard previously or would hear subsequently.

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Delightful!

Revisado: 10-28-16

The book is very Anglo-centric as would be expected considering the authors. Don't let that stop you from giving this book a listen. It's a funny, entertaining and informative exploration of soccer/football culture, personalities, history and passion. I know some of the jokes are lost on me as an American, but that didn't stop the Ramble from being an awesome book.

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Disjointed performance

Revisado: 06-17-16

Some sections were narrated by the main narrator. Some sections had voice actors for individual roles. Both were good, but the lack of consistency threw me off.

Other than that, it was a solid and enjoyable listen.

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Solid book.

Revisado: 04-19-16

My biggest complaint about the book is the frequency with which French words and terms are used with the expectation that people will know what they mean. I don't know if there are footnotes or citations in the written version, but listening does not lend itself well to stopping to look up terms.

As with most history books, the audio version is sometimes hard to follow because of the number of names around. That's more of an issue with the genre, not this book in particular. Overall it was very enjoyable.

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