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Dreadfully fabulous

Revisado: 10-22-16

I will never ride a train again, watching the Friday commuters drinking a G&T again without thinking of this dreadful story.
Walking around the London suburbs I feel the utter realism portrayed. Going to the pub seeing men and women smashed beyond belief drives it home even more.

In short a brilliant piece of fiction and a definite recommendation. Though it should not be read at a time of relationship difficulty or with a clouded mood.

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Absolutely Frightful

Revisado: 10-09-16

This book left me stunned at both the frightfulness of the society one gets to glimpse at and the eerie similarities to our own.

If you intend to sleep soundly or feel at peace ever again, then stay far away. If however you value an incitement to compassion and empathy this book will give you that in spades.

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Inane, shallow and jawn-inducing

Revisado: 02-25-16

I'm a passionate medievalist, yet this book left me disappointed. Badly written and monotonously read.

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Overly dramatic reading destroys a book

Revisado: 03-02-15

What did you like best about Behold! Here Is the Head of a Traitor? What did you like least?

The story/content is actually not uninteresting, though nothing special.

Would you be willing to try another book from Jodi Alcock? Why or why not?

N/A

Would you be willing to try another one of Roy Wells’s performances?

Definitely not. While the man has a nice and sonorous voice, he is incapable of reading a text without sounding so dramatic on every word that he is impossible to listen to even for an hour.

Did Behold! Here Is the Head of a Traitor inspire you to do anything?

It inspired me to write this review as a warning. Listen to the full preview. And yes the reading stays this over emphasised.

Any additional comments?

Possibly a good book, though destroyed by the narration.

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Stay away! The audio quality is horrid!

Revisado: 03-23-14

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

I absolutely love Terry Pratchett and was excited to hear this book. I can't judge it really other than to say I could not listen for more than 5 minutes.

The audio quality is so incredibly bad (worse than anything I have ever experienced on audible) that I could not continue to listen.

So if you value your ears, stay away!

Who was your favorite character and why?

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What didn’t you like about Celia Imrie’s performance?

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If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Equal Rites?

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Any additional comments?

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A lovely story hillariously told

Revisado: 12-18-12

This was the last of Molly Harpers Vampire related books I have read. Like the ones before it left me wanting more. Sadly the supply of fresh tales by Harper is limited.

Here some tips:

* Do NOT consume beverages while listening. You and your environment will end up wearing them.
* Do NOT drive or operate machinery while listening. Tears of laughter do no enhance vision.

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Painful attempt at a novel.

Revisado: 12-04-12

What would have made 666 Park Avenue better?

The story is extremely slow paced, yet it moves you along expecting there to be an actual ending. Well or at least a story to be told.

What was most disappointing about Gabriella Pierce’s story?

The better question would be what did not disappoint. You listen to the story and it keeps you with it expecting something to happen. Anything really. But nothing ever does. There is no ending to the story, no highlights, nothing.It's like a wet dream just after waking up in the morning. You know there is potential in the story and you can imagine an infinite number of twists and turns that would make the experience a pleasurable one. Yet once you are fully awake, it is simply deeply unsatisfying.The story leaves you hanging with tantalizing possibilities without ever resolving to anything. Even if this is just one installment in a series, this story is so badly ended, that you should avoid it at any cost unless you are a deeply masochistic person.

What does Ilyana Kadushin bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The narration is what kept me listening. It is pleasantly melodious and tantalizing. It takes a horrid attempt at writing a story and imbues it with at least some character.The only reason the narration only gets 4 stars is that it is blatantly dishonest. A bland and uninspired reading of a bland and uninspired story would have been more fitting.My deepest respects to the narrator. She managed to turn this audiobook from water, if not into wine, at least into artificial grape-juice.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from 666 Park Avenue?

About half the novel is fluff and could be cut, but only if it were replaced with something of actual substance, like an actual story line.

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An amazing book

Revisado: 07-28-08

This was an amazing book. But as others have remarked: What else would you expect from Hornby?
As a "young" father, albeit double the age of the protagonist, I could so easily relate to this story.
For teenagers this is a "must read". And for anyone out of their teens this is a "have to read".

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If you like Peters stay away

Revisado: 05-25-07

I you have read/heard other books by E.Peters you will be sorely disappointed.
While the book itsself is entertaining and maybe even a fun listen, it in now way lives up to the expectations placed upon it by the authors name. For most authors this would be a laudable book; for Peters it's at best an embarassment.

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