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Ok plot uneven writing

Revisado: 04-18-23

I found the main character unintegrated and more a type than a rich character. Also uneven writing with occasional jarring similes.

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Fabulous series

Revisado: 02-26-23

I love the distinct and wonderful characters, their evolution and the unfolding of their past lives through the series. And great plot twists.

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Even better than the first

Revisado: 02-16-23

I love this series. Humane, wise, sophisticated, poignant, and hilarious. Best mystery series I’ve listened to in years.

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Could not finish--awful narrator

Revisado: 09-29-18

This powerful story is totally ruined by a histrionic narrator who overemphasizes every word, even chapter numbers. Exhausted me trying to listen and I gave up. Returning and reading it instead.

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Better than I expected

Revisado: 05-20-18

Honest, compelling, and funny, a book that exceeded my expectations for a celebrity memoir. I have followed the history of SA apartheid since the early 1970s when I visited Capetown in college, and I've visited post-apartheid, including Soweto and Johannesburg. Still, I learned a lot about that history as it was lived by someone who lived in the interstices of all those color categories as marginal to all of them. And the portrait of his mother is nuanced, complicated, and loving.

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Paradigm Shifting Work

Revisado: 04-08-18

Would you consider the audio edition of Lost Connections to be better than the print version?

Haven't read it.

What other book might you compare Lost Connections to and why?

Chasing the ScreamHerman's Trauma and Recoveryvan der Kolk;s The Body Keeps the Score

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

Person voice enhances his own journey through depression as he explores the research and what it reveals about the roots of depression.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Destroyed by Loneliness

Any additional comments?

As paradigm shifting as his earlier work, Chasing the Scream.

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Wanted to listen again

Revisado: 09-22-16

The main characters are fully wrought, believable, and truly likeable. The plotting was intricate and unpredictable. I was so sorry it ended that I wanted to start again because I so enjoyed the company of Robin and Strike.

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Good Story--Overwritten Descriptions

Revisado: 06-07-15

The main characters are vivid if a bit two dimensional--either mostly gross, pathetic or like-able. The depictions of horror get repetitious and numbing. Instead of precision and clarity, the writing goes for repetition which got a little boring. However, the plot kept me hanging in as dilemmas and complications mounted. Great ending.

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Extraordinary

Revisado: 05-03-15

Beautifully written, poignant, heartening. I listened while visiting Normandy for a week. Listening as I stood at the DDay beaches was a powerful experience. It moves first at a slow pace so you can be immersed in the mood and feel of WW II Europe and get used to the names and languages.

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Lingusitic inaccuracies and a bad reader.

Revisado: 08-24-14

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

A narrator who can pronounce the foreign words (and some English ones) correctly, or at least close to correct. And an author who checks basic facts. He claimed a major character could understand the jist of a Farsi conversation because he spoke Arabic, which is similar. Wrong. Farsi (the language of Iran and Afghanistan, i.e. Persian) is Indoeuropean, like Sanskrit, German, Greek, and Latin. Arabic is in a completely different language family and is a Semitic language like Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac.

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

I thought it drug on a bit, milking the suspense.

Would you be willing to try another one of Jay Snyder’s performances?

No.

Any additional comments?

The first book by this author I listened to was OK. He's a mediocre writer with shallow, stock characters, but offers decent suspense. This one started to feel repetitive and did not sustain my interest as much as the first one.

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