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thoroughly enjoyable

Revisado: 10-24-20

...the interplay of every story is masterful and gave me cause to go back and re-read, which is not common for me.

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...stick with it!

Revisado: 12-18-18

The opening of this audiobook comes off as a fairly long winded advert for Base Camp. I am not here to say it *isn't* one, but that it abates and, after a little bit of contextualizing (and arguably, some proselytizing) the great advice starts to come to the fore. The performance is great, Eileen Stevens has a great voice and she makes the occasional "fuck that" which are found throughout the book resonate. I would like to give this book to my boss but actually think the "fuck that"s and "bullshit"s would be off-putting to them. Maybe we can get a censored version of the book (harhar)?

Overall it was insightful and has lead me to consider a lot about my work that I hadn't thought of in direct enough a fashion. And the advert at the front (and throughout the book) have kind of got me thinking I need to look into Base Camp too.

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It's good until it isn't; you'll prob' like it.

Revisado: 01-03-18

if you liked The Martian you'll probably like this. Weir isn't as adept at writing a main female lead and dips into some painfully tropic teenage fantasy stuff with Jasmine's character. the science is good--while I don't feel like I 100% understand the layout of Artemis as well as I would hope I understood the action and the pacing and the setup, so, no harm there. My only real issue is with character and in so far as there isn't anything heinously sexist about the characters I can't say you should stay away from the story for that reason. It tiptoes along the lines of what I want and what I expect from authors writing female characters and sometimes finds itself on the right side of pandering and other times on the wrong side of male-gaze crap.

Don't let me tell you what to think about it. Its worth a listen as it *I* basically entertaining.

Dawson's performance is also interesting and while a fan of much of her work I would not have imagined her doing an audiobook--I can't day I am 100% a fan of the performance but she got it down in some parts really well and I would listen to another of her performances to help better make my mind up.

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Bolaño gets another great treatment

Revisado: 07-08-17

Bolaño writes a modern classic and gets a perfectly suited reading from two readers who truly make it work better than one should or would expect. More readers could have made the middle section pop a bit more but at the same time that can be very jarring and very risky. In the end, I am more than glad they went the route they did and picked these two talents to bring this to audio format.

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A model ensemble performamce

Revisado: 09-13-16

Every character was played (and written, of course!) with such finesse. Amazing talent all the way around.

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Like a window into the soul of the bolaño-verse.

Revisado: 08-01-16

This elucidates so much of what is often unsaid in the narratives of 2666 and Savage Detectives. As its own piece, a rumination, we see into Bolaño's mind and it is glorious to see, as if happening contemporaneously with our reading this book is Bolaño's persistent formulation of these characters and themes.

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Everything is fine, except, you know, the subject.

Revisado: 07-02-16

Steve Martin is funny, yet, stalking has kind of run its course, in terms of being funny...

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hilariously executed. literally.

Revisado: 06-22-16

how could it get any better than Wallace reading his own words--and footnotes!--in his own voice, with all of its own intonation.

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A parable, and a winding symbolic one at that.

Revisado: 03-27-16

the performance was great and it made an often sporadic style clear, however, this is certainly best read. I enjoyed it most when I was reading along wit a copy of the book. I will think about this story for along time and surely it's value to literature at large can't be understated.

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exhilarating sci-fi goodness

Revisado: 01-08-16

The narration is spot on for the tone of the characters. If you love a bit of science, and you love characters being pushed to their limits while also showing how human and resilient they are: This one is for you.

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