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reviewer spoilers on Nameless' last chapter

Revisado: 08-02-21

I know better. Forgot my own rules for avoiding spoilers especially in book reviews. Did it to myself. When I realized where the story was going...I stopped listening. Loved the concept despite Koontz' s reworking of semi old ideas. Edoardo Ballerini's rendition of Nameless' road of trials is spot on as usual. Might look up one of his narrations in a book by another author and run with it. Cheers.

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this will please a great number of Murderbot fans.

Revisado: 06-08-20

Dear Martha Wells...I love your first four installments of the one and only homicidal android. This one was not for me. Did not take me long before I started counting how many times he was asked 'Are you alright' and 'you okay' and how do you feel?. Started fast forwarding whenever a human would tentatively approach him or begin a conversation with him. Ms. Wells...please understand...if that family comes back again or ART's family or any other family insists on coming with him on away missions where he is better off on solitary duty...I am going to fast forward. I cannot grade your story for there are great many chunks that I missed. And I won't be returning to this book. This male robot without a phallus and called it... is one thing. The endless chatter from the humans, their need to impose themselves in his life on and off missions...and second guess him at every turn is another. Thank you for introducing me to Murderbot. I am forever grateful. I'll just line up the first four books for a mass listening binge as I await the next installment...if any..of the slave that freed himself. Kevin...as usual...your voiceover narration was pitch perfect. Love those non verbal grunts and exclamations. Cheers!

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Please sir I want some more...

Revisado: 03-27-19

Any child of the secret knows through Senor Vachss that behaviour is truth. Not what people say...but what they do. Vachss' latest entry is of a man whose stock in trade is the extraction of that truth from the unwilling or unknowing. This story is only a small part of a larger story to come. Sign me up. If you are a fan...you'll need no words from me to partake. If you are new to the world of Andrew Vachss...and you don't mind short story as shape of things to come...welcome to his world. If you are lucky...like me...what lies before will anger you enough to do something about the reality behind true crime. And the author wouldn't have it any other way. Cheers!

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Deja Vu

Revisado: 10-10-12

Would you try another book from Orson Scott Card and/or Stefan Rudnicki?

Yes as long as there are no blacks figuring prominently in it as a race or clan.. As an African of the diaspora I have run into Card's black savage/slave motif before. Tossing in a Hitler and Himmler( or was I dreaming?) into the mix before the character is well on his way to exile just had me stop the audiobook in its tracks. I think I will stick with his Enderverse and the parallel books of Bean and Petra's adventures.

What was most disappointing about Orson Scott Card’s story?

The beginning. See above.

Have you listened to any of Stefan Rudnicki’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Stefan delivers...always. I will be sad to miss his performance here.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Annoyance. As I read the beginning I had a flashback of another Scott Card book with blacks swinging through the trees defecating while in mid flight and I just can't shake the image. I really don't care how good the book will get or how he does the blacks 'justice' in his depiction of them....any more than I am eager to stumble over the latest Scott Card faux pas and get ejected from the narrative and back into the real world. I enjoy being transported...not ejected . Lost my taste for continuing this book. As I get older I tolerate this nonsense less and less.. I no longer make justifications for why authors write a certain way just so I can finish a book. Something annoys me...I stop the book in its tracks as I did with this one. Permanently. When I qualify for exchanging it...for another audiobook...I will. I am too old for this stuff.

Any additional comments?

I have been reading sci fi-fantasy since 1966...and it still is my preferred form of fiction. But I am in my fifties now and intend to be very, very selective from now on.

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Interesting...

Revisado: 08-05-12

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Some friends, yes. But those who really rely on my suggestions, I would not be able to do so. Any book offering Linda McKinney as a character in it...I will skip. Sometimes a character just gets under my skin as totally implausible, ineffective and unnecessary. Normally I can find my way around him/her. Not this time. On top of that I did not really care about any of the characters. Found myself rooting for her to get waxed. Like the character Bert in JA Konrath's 'The List' or Colony Executive Sevgi Eretkin in Richard K Morgan's 'Thirteen'...sometimes characters just stick in my craw...and finishing the book stops being an adventure and becomes a chore.
Cool subject matter. The narrator is spot on. Loved Daemon and Freedom. The author knows his craft as far as his ability to spin a yarn. Just that one character spoiled the experience for me. Found myself fast forwarding, something I consider a definitive no no.
And so it goes.

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

Pretty much. I kept going till I finished the book. The topic of drones is fascinating since they are now deployed over our not so friendly skies. The delivery of the subject matter has me thinking...and I like things that make me think...after I close the book cover.

Which scene was your favorite?

The part about the ravens and why they have such huge brains. Delicious. I will be finding out all I can about ravens now. I like writers who can spark my imagination.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

If the part of the Linda McKinney is rewritten...yes.

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