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Meh

Revisado: 12-12-24

I guess if you’re looking for a brainless tromp for a few hours, it’s ok. Not sure how to even really evaluate it, given A) it’s what’s on the tin and B) not really worth dissecting.

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Not worth it

Revisado: 12-10-24

This may be a good book for someone who has no idea what they are doing at any time. Prepare for such brain busting suggestions as “pack extra clothes” and “get a vaccine when traveling to places with malaria”

For those of us who have actually lived in the world for longer than 5 minutes, this is just a laundry list of basic things, which is fine, but the title suggests much more than you actually get here.

Like others I couldn’t get through the hour long chapter 3. Just not worth the time.

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I tried, I really really tried.

Revisado: 09-30-24

I’m sure this is some people’s cup of tea but I’m a whisky guy. I just could not get past the narration and dramatic style. I both wanted to fall asleep from boredom with the narration and also couldn’t fall asleep because of the ridiculously loud and annoying sound effects. Just couldn’t hang in there long enough to get into, or even understand the story line, which I gave a respectable 3 stars on that account alone.

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Love listening… but

Revisado: 09-08-24

Ok yes, it’s true, some of the performances are a bit hokey or over acted. That said, overall this is a very entertaining way to listen to the Bible. Granted you’ll never remember any of the drier parts, such as name lists and all of that from this version alone as if you’re anything like me your mind drifts off. But overall it’s a great way to hear the Bible several times per year as an add on to actually reading it.

Others have said they didn’t put book names and chapters, that seems to have been corrected which is good.

Here comes the “but”: one major flaw exists. At the end of Zechariah, the audio and chapters get misaligned to the point that by the time you get to Matthew 1, the entire New Testament is misaligned by 3 and a half verses which makes it hard to follow along in your own reading, if you are stopping the play back at the end of chapters. Kind of frustrating to be honest.

Otherwise great to listen to, especially since, unlike the Word of Promise app, you can set Siri Shortcuts and Automations to start playing and pause the Bible on a schedule without having to stop what your doing to fumble around and hit play and pause and all that. Just wish they’d fix the alignment of the chapters.

Update: I removed the book from my device and downloaded a clean copy. Looks like they’ve fixed the chapter alignment issue I had. Yay!!

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Interesting concept

Revisado: 09-06-21

I found the story to be unique and the narrator to be excellent. Listened to it in a single day as I kept wanting to know what happened next. However, if you are the type who needs to know what is real and what isn’t in your stories, you won’t find that here. But it’s well worth the listen otherwise.

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Worth the credit

Revisado: 11-14-19

As a long time Palahnuik fan, I enjoyed this story. It wasn’t Fight Club, Diary, Lullaby or even Invisible Monster, but it was solidly Chuck doing what Chuck does best. The narrator is very good, reading the text with a pleasurable amount of emotionless sarcasm which is appropriate and necessary for the protagonist.

Lots of Fight Club easter eggs in this one, so if you’re paying attention you’ll hear the obligatory “corn flower blue” among many other Palahnuik catch phrases.

I’ve read the book and now listened to it and quite enjoyed the audio version. If you have a credit burning a hole in your pocket and want a fun romp through cults, service industry, televangelism, and good ol fashioned glory holes and men’s restroom stall poetry (“Here I sit broken hearted, I tried to shit but only farted”) this one might just be for you.

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Terrible

Revisado: 10-15-17

This audiobook is terrible. The performance is enough to just bore you to tears. The overall authorship is nonsensical and the ideas he presents are just ridiculous. Steer clear.

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Great refresher

Revisado: 01-23-17

While many of the concepts are things I already knew, I can't recommend this book highly enough as a fresh take on the topic.

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Cool, I paid for the same material I got for free

Revisado: 05-24-16

A lot of this book is already available for free on the JapanesePod101 podcast, so I feel kind of bummed that I paid for this audiobook, given that I've already listened to many sections of it. Buyer beware, the material is being offered for free by Innovative Language free elsewhere.

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