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Reader is perfect for Percy

Revisado: 02-05-24

The story gallops along and the performer is perfect as Percy Jackson. A total delight!

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Thoughtful but a tad repetitive

Revisado: 03-09-23

With such a large scope of world building established in the first two books, it makes sense that the last book in the Children trilogy would need to become more meta than its predecessors. And although the payoff is worth it, the journey is slightly too repetitive for me to give the book five stars.

The concepts explored in this book aren’t the easiest to grasp, and the structure is challenging, but even so I didn’t need quite so many repeated explanations to get it.

It is still a solid entry into the wonderful Children trilogy, and fans will find a lot to love.

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Narration excellent, book engrossing

Revisado: 03-07-23

This book captured my attention, even though it is fairly bleak. It’s not a masterpiece like Children of Time is, but then what is? However it is a solid entry, with strong characterization of the main character, and themes that resonate with both current and recurring issues of human life.

This book is more of a man’s world than his other books, with several female characters being viewed through fairly narrow lenses. However, unlike many authors, this is actually done intentionally, and even explicitly called out several times.

Overall, this was another strong book and I’m thrilled to have found this prolific and talented author.

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Ethics as a Schur thing

Revisado: 02-16-22

Schur’s amiable but deeply caring overview of Western moral philosophy is as perfect as possible. It’s funny and heartfelt, and its occasional forays into too much navel gazing are forgivable, as Schur is conscious of his own limitations. Overall, its greatest accomplishment is making ethical philosophy both understandable and engaging.

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Didn’t add anything to Wool IMO

Revisado: 11-21-21

Didn’t add anything important to Wool; plotting of the bad guys was impenetrable; Donald, Anna, and Sherman were all reprehensible but in boring ways; Jimmy acted too young to be 16 initially; no good female characters—Helen was incredibly bland and Anna was not developed. I liked Mission and the Crow but [spoilers]. Even though motivations and the technology were obsessed about for much of book, they are both opaque IMO.
Frustrated by this read.

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Too campy for the retrospective novel format...should have been the movie it was originally intended to be

Revisado: 09-06-20

Too campy for the retrospective novel format...should have been the movie it was originally intended to be. Also, the yoga instructor started off as truly scary (her brand of sly sunshine-filled domination was terrifying!) but did not live up to the threat she should have been. The book would have been scarier as a face off between three female alphas.

Nonetheless, I loved Mostar to pieces and I thought Jane Goodall’s description of the chimps was one of the scariest things I’d ever heard. The fight scenes were delightfully chilling; rocks and thwocks—yikes!

Finally, the device of contrasting the mistrustful and stoic true survivors (Palomino and Mostar) against the eco-techno-intellectuals with their tender but clueless attitudes was excellent, and provided the true heart of the novel.

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A surprise delight!

Revisado: 09-06-20

The performance the reader gave was incredible! He brought out the humor and the pathos perfectly. I wanted to listen to the cat chapters on repeat.

Re: the story: The themes were often a little too on the nose and I didn’t think we needed every villain we got...BUT the incredible prose, the delightful main characters, and hilarious insults all kept me charmed throughout. I adored S.T., Big Jim, and Dennis so much!

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Incredible

Revisado: 12-20-17

Made the alien worlds of past spring to life and the dusty, incremental work of paleontologists and geologists seems as epic and exciting as superheroes. But most impressively, it explained concepts like deep time and geological kill mechanisms in lush prose filled with insight and humor.

The reading was fantastic: I could listen at 1.25x and easily catch the full nuance of tone. I could tell when breaks in the text were occurring but never thought “hurry up!”

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