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Entertaining but too predictable

Revisado: 04-04-21

After the first few chapters I was really afraid Rigby would have a formulaic climax and I’d get angry and return the book in disgust. While she unfortunately did as expected (what I wouldn’t have given for a Christie-like twist) the characters and writing almost made up for it. I will try the next book. And just a warning I almost never figure who done it before the end.

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Wanted a trial / investigation story, not this

Revisado: 02-11-21

For every page involving a really interesting murder you get at least 3 pages of the prosecutor's failed marriage, her husband's mistress, her feelings about her son, her mother's opinion on all of this -- basically the story line of a good chick flick. I'd like to find out what happens with the retrial but cannot wade through the garbage any more. Character development is one thing, a bit of romance can enhance a good story (as with Ellis Peters' Cadfael books) but this is just too much!

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Superficial and inaccurate

Revisado: 10-21-20

Inaccurate is really the problem I had. While entertaining exaggerating events to the point of misrepresentation for the shock value is a Trumpian way of distorting history. For shame!

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If only Nelson knew how to pronounce words

Revisado: 10-29-19

I would think a professional should find out how to pronounce words he's unfamiliar with. He does seem familiar with German and Russian pronunciations but...
The most grating thing is his pronouncing the final "s" in the pejorative "bosches" for Germans. His other errors are frequent enough to seriously distract from the story. I admit that in the later books someone has told him about some of his errors ("submariner" comes to mind) but he continues to mispronounce others.
It's a shame, his repertoire of voices makes it easy to recognize different characters, if only he didn't have this flaw...

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Paul Costanzo is the worst reader I've come across

Revisado: 12-14-18

George Guidall was the narrator of the first 11 books in this series and was generally pretty good. I was a bit peeved that he couldn't pronounce the name Lucullus correctly (he had a soft c rather than a hard c). But I wonder that Costanzo knows how to read -- he gets many common words and most classical Roman names wrong. Turtledove is brilliant in this alternative history and deciding that Confederate blacks only had one name so they named their children with classical Roman names was really clever. While Guidall had a small pronunciation error with this name Costanzo totally garbles it and is clearly too lazy to even take 2 seconds to Google how to pronounce names and other words in the English language. It cannot be listened to. At least I can read the last 4 books although I'd rather listen to them.

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Unbelievably boring

Revisado: 05-17-17

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How can a small group of people witnessing the end of the world and being moved to an alternative America be dull? But somehow Price managed it. The back stories on the few survivors are given in excruciating detail then one of them is apparently reliving his life over and over. CRAP! Boring. A third of the way into the book it had not really started and he throws in this junk. I was so bored I couldn't keep going. AWFUL!

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Apparent attempt to "prove" Hitler wasn't so bad

Revisado: 04-27-17

Would you try another book from Nathan Stoltzfus and/or Shaun Grindell?

No

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The author appears to have the thesis that if you weren't Jewish life under Hitler wasn't so bad. Of course he went after some Protestant leaders and didn't like Catholics but it was OK to oppose the Nazis -- you wouldn't have much trouble if you did. CRAP!

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A Travelog, not fiction

Revisado: 10-18-15

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

Someone interested in travelling mid-20th century Spain

What do you think your next listen will be?

Anything else.

Which character – as performed by Larry McKeever – was your favorite?

There were no characters

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

No, it is completely dated and useless unless you time travel

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What a reader!

Revisado: 03-21-15

What would have made Cluster better?

A different reader

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Basil Sands?

Anyone. A corpse. Someone who doesn't speak English. Anyone would have been better

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

I remember reading it and liking the story.

Any additional comments?

If you have trouble sleeping the narrator can take care of it immediately

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Impossible to follow

Revisado: 11-25-14

Would you try another book from Vonda N. McIntyre and/or Gayle Hendrix?

The reader, Gayle Hendrix, speaks in a monotone and you cannot differentiate characters by their voice (note: not voices, voice). The first chapter (I couldn't get any further) appears poorly written but that may be the fault of the narrator. AWFUL!

Has Starfarers turned you off from other books in this genre?

No

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Gayle Hendrix?

Anyone. A dead person. A mute. A spider.

What character would you cut from Starfarers?

Don't know, didn't get that far.

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