Rebecca

Full and monotones

Revisado: 12-09-22

This book is a great cure if you have trouble getting sleepy at night, I feel asleep at least twice during it

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Don’t waste 16 hours!

Revisado: 06-22-21

This book is so terrible. I honestly don’t know why so many ppl on good reads love it so much. The writing is bad, so ridiculously, pointlessly descriptive. The main character is so irritating, dramatic and then alternates between being illogically spiteful (and immature) to illogically lovestruck. Additionally all the other characters are so one dimensional and the narrator’s weird breathy voice only exasperates all of these other flaws. Don’t waste your time on this! It’s not even a good guilty pleasure read!

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Terrible narrator- get print book

Revisado: 08-14-20

I hated this narration. Kept trying to speed it up but that only helped slightly. She’s says words with a ridiculous weird emphasis and strange elongation or stresses. The book itself was okay in terms of exploring oak ridge but don’t expect it to go in depth into the lives of women there or the challenges they faced. It’s pretty surface coverage. Sexism and racism are slightly addressed but only very superficially and then they are quickly smoothed over.

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You need to read this!

Revisado: 04-13-20

This book was enlightening. Life changing! I’m like a broken record going on about it to all my friends and family but it’s just so important to esecantially EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE. So I won’t stop going on about and recommending it. Especially now during quarantine, you have so much more time to adjust your sleep habits to get more sleep. Also the narrator has a very pleasant voice

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Sci-fi for science lovers

Revisado: 04-13-20

This book was great. TONS of science. Definitely not for the faint of heart or light sci-fi readers. The audiobook was good but personally I was switching between the print copy and audio. The print has some helpful footnotes. I also had to switch to the print when it got into some theoretical physics of multiple dimension. Really heavy stuff and might be hard to understand just listening to it.

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Don’t listen to this!

Revisado: 04-13-20

I got this because I wanted to learn more about gravitational waves. Let me be clear: this book isn’t really about the science of gravitational waves or the theory or how they work or why they are significant to our understanding. It’s a super in depth look at the LIGO scientists’ very early backgrounds (like going back to what their grandparents did in the early 1900s kind of backgrounds). That might be what you are looking for but even if it is, still, don’t get this book. The order is terrible and nonsensical leading to confusion of the timeline. There are a million long rambling and unnecessary quotes that should just be paraphrased. The author is trying ridiculously hard to be poetic in her descriptions but it doesn’t work. And then there are random bits thrown in like how Stephen hawking makes bad bets. Why is that in there..?? Idk! The first half caused me to fall asleep twice and the second made me so mad because it desperately needed editing. The only reason I finished this was that I needed to for a book club. DONT WASTE YOUR CREDIT ON THIS

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A must listen!

Revisado: 03-14-20

This was fantastic! Everyone was originally so excited when this came out and I thought I’d never read it bc I wasn’t that interested. I picked it up just thinking it would be an easy listen and sped through it in 24 hrs! I found it addicting and the voice actors are amazing. It has points that made me smile or laugh out loud and other sad and poignant parts. This also made me, who is not a huge music lover/ never thought that much about bands or music recording, care and visualize what the author wrote. The people and the songs feel so real, I want to look up pictures and videos clips of these performances!

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Creepy and fast read

Revisado: 03-11-20

I’ve never read a book like this before. If you are in the mood for something creepy/scary it’s a good one. One of the creepiest thing is you find yourself weirdly empathizing with the stalker, getting nervous for him that he will get caught

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Interesting

Revisado: 01-27-20

It’s an enjoyable listen, very calming. I found that I learned a lot about Islam from this book, realizing how much more I should endeavor to find out. I was surprised that the authors views are generally quite liberal or at least liberal in comparison to what I expected or assumed, however that may say more about my own assumptions rather that Islam or the Muslim majority countries. This book did a lot to check my assumptions about Islam and it’s practice in general so for that reason I quite liked it. I will say that at points it feel repetitive.

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If you buy this listen to it on 1.25 speed

Revisado: 10-23-19

This book was so so. Everyone complained about how the audio cuts off some words and it’s true, that happens enough that it’s irritating. But I found just the narrators voice to be the most impactful to my feelings of the book. The voice is kinda boring and slow, speeding it up definitely helped liven it up, so that can help a bit. As for the story, this is my first Stephen King and I had high expectations. Then the book was a bit of a let down. I didn’t really get as attached to the characters as I probably should have, given what’s happening in the story. It was interesting to see the boys interact with each other throughout (sometimes friends and sometimes hating each other) but the world of the story isn’t explained and the reasons why these kids decided to participate in this stupid walk isn’t addressed or at least not enough to seem plausible. This book is also 40 years old and some aspects now seem dated, particularly the huge focus on sex expressed through chauvinism and homophobia. Even the language and insults have changed so much that I feel like they probably lost some of the impact they would have had on readers in 1979.

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