Karen

outstanding!

Revisado: 04-25-18

this book will be with me for a long time. stellar performance as well. a must read for anyone invoiced in anti racism work, especially white people

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good story and writing, dull narration

Revisado: 07-12-17

I love Louise Erdrich's writing and have listened to other books of hers. I often like it when authors read their own stories, but this would have benefited from a good voice actor to give more depth to the characters.

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disappointing

Revisado: 06-13-17

As I have loved all of Gaiman's novels, I had high expectations for this. To me, it lacks the creativity of his original work. he is still a wonderful reader, but I found it disappointing overall.

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classic Gaiman...but...

Revisado: 12-16-15

I like his novels better than his short stories. that said, his writing is gorgeous as always and he is an amazing reader.

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Not as good as RPO, but Enjoyable anyway

Revisado: 08-04-15

I've seen a lot of reviews trash this book - largely b/c it doesn't live up to the degree of creative innovation as the author's first book Ready Player One. I can't argue with that. I wasn't as great.

But for me, it was still good. First of all - hats off to Wil Wheaton, whose performance is marvelous. Once again (and perhaps even more than in RPO) he proves himself a very talented voice actor. And did anyone notice that there was a character whose voice sounded just like George Takei's? Extra points for that, Mr. Wheaton!

As for the writing - it was a little uneven and maybe rushed. There's so much technospeak in here - it's necessary to explain what's going on, but more careful writing would allow more of that to happen by inference rather than explanation. There are a LOT of references. I enjoyed most of them, but would agree with other reviewers that it was overkill. The book could have been plenty nostalgic with about half the number of references - listening, I started to feel like the guy was just showing off after a while.

It would have benefited from a few more drafts, imho. Some things just didn't make sense - like how most of the action supposedly happens in one day - how is that possible? And don't these people ever sleep? It wasn't necessary to set it that way, and made it less believable. The deus ex machina quality of the hacker friend - again - a little too pat. And too bad to reduce such a great character to a plot device.

I liked the story. I found it engaging and fun - very cinematic - in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if both of his books end up as movies. Not perfect... but good summer reading fun. There is some very entertaining dialogue in here, and have to mention again that I think Wil Wheaton deserves a heaping ton of credit for making the audiobook work. Without his talents, I think the flaws in the book would have been much more damaging.

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gorgeous

Revisado: 02-18-15

a stunning and intriguing story. magnificently performed. it has been a long time since I read Erdrich and I expect I'll be visiting other works of hers! beautiful storytelling

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Loved it - and hadn't expected to...

Revisado: 03-28-14

This was just a really FUN book - great story, likeable characters, very imaginative world. It was just a blast. As someone who has never been that much into video games, I was worried that too much of this would go over my head for me to really engage with the story. I was totally wrong. There were plenty of movie and TV and music and cultural references - and it turns out that I knew more about video games than I thought I did - or at least enough to "get it" enough that I felt thoroughly included. MANY laugh out loud moments. Wil Wheaton was THE perfect narrator for this and did an excellent job.

I usually most enjoy books that would be considered "literature" as I love beautiful language. That was not the strength of this book - but the story was so compelling and engaging! Thoroughly enjoyable.

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so so

Revisado: 01-30-14

This is my first experience with Alice Munro, which I chose b/c I figured someone who won the Nobel Prize is probably worth looking into. This collection did not knock my socks off. I'm encouraged by some comments here that suggest that there are other collections that do. I was also not thrilled with either narrator. I didn't feel their performances enhanced the stories, simply conveyed them.

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Good, not great

Revisado: 01-30-14

Cheryl Strayed is a capable writer with an interesting story to tell. I liked how she wove her personal life / transformations in with the story of the trail time itself. From that perspective, the story was neatly constructed. This was assigned by my book group, and it was enjoyable enough... but a little fluffy for my reading tastes in general.

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Engaging story beautifully read

Revisado: 01-30-14

I loved this book- Not all authors are good readers, but Ruth Ozeki does a marvelous job with this one. Interesting cultural and philosophical and generational contrasts. The story was very engaging in that I found myself glued to it wanting to know what would happen. I cared about the characters and how they fared. I appreciate the moments of magical realism, the mysteries that are left mysteries, the author's allowing the girl narrator to be both wise and shallow, as young people often are. The characters are more real for their flaws. The language is beautiful, the story well-constructed.

One word of caution - there is a lot of discussion of, and exploration of suicide in this book. At times it is uncomfortable - and I imagine that for someone with close experience or unprocessed hurt around this issue, it may be intolerably so. But it is integral to the book and the story, and involves Japanese history and perspectives on this issue. The tension of Japanese and American ways of understanding suicide is part of the story. That the author elicits this in (American) readers is also part of it. So choose accordingly.

For me it was well worth the read.

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