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An engaging story and a superb performance

Revisado: 10-11-23

I really enjoyed this book. The pacing is good and the character development is great - you really do want to keep listening just to find out how they are. How Tyr society is structured is well explained and I didn't ever feel lost. RC Bray is excellent as always but I think we've come to expect that by now.

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Good start but pretty poor ending

Revisado: 08-29-23

The narrator was great here and that really helped. The story starts well and there is a growing sense of something big about to happen but then it goes a little wierd with people being launched into deep space with little or no training. I'm trying not to drop spoilers but the ending is too abrupt - right at the 'oh my god' moment, the story skips rapidly forward with no satisfactory ending. It was worth listening to but don't get your hopes up too much. I will not be listening to any more from the author.

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Well written but dull.

Revisado: 07-01-23

I don't often write reviews of audio books but I had to write this just to warn people about the 5 star reviews which this book does not deserve. A few reviewers have compared it to Stephen King's The Stand and Justin Cronin's The Passage - but in those books the reader feels a full range of emotions and gets swept along by the action and the pacing. In this book some events happen one after the other with little to no sense of drama. About 2/3rds of the way through I'd had enough. I could see where the plot was headed and knew that it would unfold in the same monotonous way as everything before. Just save yourself a credit and get something else - maybe Stephen King's The Stand or Justin Cronin's The Passage for example.

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Avoid.

Revisado: 01-09-22

Parts of this are brilliant but wading through the story to find those he EMS just isn't worth it. Good performance though by Ben, that was part of what kept me going to the end.

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Oddly unsatisfying

Revisado: 12-06-21

This is a very well written story, with good pacing and read by a great narrator. It just isn't that interesting though. The characters are all interesting and the backdrop has lots of potential yet by the end I couldn't really say that it delivered a wow moment. I'm normally a fan of Stephenson (I even quite liked Reamde) but this one fell a little flat. Maybe it's the start of a series and if so then I'll be happy to follow along.

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No real story here but the voice acting is great

Revisado: 04-08-18

I would struggle to explain to anyone what the story was about. It wandered along at a reasonable pace but wasn't really going anywhere. The voice acting is top notch but wasted on this story.

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Starts well but gets increasingly daft

Revisado: 02-23-18

The audio performance is fine and the story starts off well but by book two it's just plain daft. Example, the HIV virus was actually created by an ancient race of humans and it causes patients with it to mutate into zombies in the presence of a coronal mass ejection. That's not even the craziest idea in the book. I stopped listening about half way short because life is too short to waste.

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The biggest disappointment I've had with Audible

Revisado: 07-20-15

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

The first book in the series is pretty good, the second is poor and the third I just gave up on. Perhaps a young listener might enjoy the plot but I doubt it

What could David Simpson have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

The plot lines in the second and third book weren't as consistent e.g. main characters wife dies, he almost immediately falls in love with another then later his first wife comes back to life (don't ask) only for him to go back to her as if nothing happened.

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

It was easy to stick at it. Ray kept me going through some pretty crappy plot. Thanks to him I wasted more time on this third-rate story

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Post-Human Omnibus?

Books two and three definitely. I stopped after that though so maybe it got better.

Any additional comments?

Keep moving, there's nothing worth seeing here ...

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A great story which is well read

Revisado: 03-18-13

Where does I'm Feeling Lucky rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This was my first audiobook and, unfortunately for subsequent books, sets a pretty high standard. The story is engaging, there's an inevitability to the outcome (no I don't mean Google getting big) but the story unwinds at a good pace. You don't really need to know anything about Google to enjoy this book - it possibly helps if you know very little.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Doug is obviously the main character but Marissa Mayer comes across in a very interesting light - no spoilers here but you do get a great insight into her personality

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No, this is one to enjoy over a period of time.

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