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nope

Revisado: 03-28-17

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

someone with a stronger stomach.

What could Jack Ketchum have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

less torture, more story.

Any additional comments?

Slow moving. got halfway through then they started tying up little girs in the basement, stripping them down for whippings. that's about when l turned it off.
I'd have liked to know how it ends, but humiliation is not my thing.

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Dean, you disappoint me.

Revisado: 10-01-16

What would have made Life Expectancy better?

I don't think this one could have been salvaged. The very premise was ridiculous.
The characters were shallow, the romantic sub plot was intrusive, the exchanges between characters were too smooth-sarcastic to be credible.

Any additional comments?

I believe this was the work of a ghost writer. I think John Saul wrote this one for Dean.
While there were some typical dean Koontz peculiarities, like the use of the word ­''gentle'' as a verb, a lumber jacket becomes a ''Lumberman's jacket'' engineer boots become ''engineering boots''. I still believe these litte tics were inserted into the text to divert us from the fact that the book was the work of a worse hack than Dean.

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very aptly titled.

Revisado: 10-01-16

Would you be willing to try another book from David Wong? Why or why not?

yes, he's funny, and entertaining.

What aspect of Christy Romano’s performance would you have changed?

nothing, she did a fine job. I tend to go with male narrators when I have a choice, but Romano did all the voices very well.

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less is more

Revisado: 11-14-15

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There were so many horrible things going on at once, it totally lost its impact after the first half of the book. I just wanted it to wrap up at the end.
It had some good writing, and a lot of good ideas, but how many times can you describe a body being turned Inside out before it gets boring?...

Would have made a great Hellraiser movie though.

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snatzenfratzer

Revisado: 09-27-15

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The female narrator was the only part of this listen that I did not like.

She tends to be just a wee bit too emotional. For example, telling of how she made peanutbutter sandwiches, and sounding as if she is about to fall into a swoon. Also, her australian accent wound up sounding like a Dutchman, who learned to speak English in Ireland, and is pretending a Cockney accent.

I'm always a bit apprehensive whe I read a book by an author with whom I am unfamiliar. But the story was surprisingly good. Uncomplicated action packed thriller, good for an easy listen.

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Terrible

Revisado: 08-25-15

Would you try another book from Mary Kubica and/or the narrators?

Not a chance.

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Is there such a unerversal absence of talent in the modern literary world that we have taken to scrounging homework assignments from creative writing classes at the local community college?

Lord Thundering Jeebus! I might just write a book, just to see if I can get published. No talent required.

Listen to a sample, the ridiculous cartoon-like characters contradict themselves, change thier minds, say things that make no sense, and speak like barflys at 3 in the morning. They have all the depth of a sheet of paper. E for effort Ms. Kubica.

Do not waste your time.

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very, very disappointed

Revisado: 06-07-15

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I can scarcely believe thet this is the same author who wrote no country for old men.
This guy gets so lost in detail, he seems to forget he's telling a story. so while he's busy waxing lyrical on the shape of a puff of road dust, or a faraway raven's lonely call, the reader wonders just when someting is going to FINALLY HAPPEN!?
the entire story could have been summed up in about half the time it took to slog through this horrible book. The first paragraph sets the tone and the pace. It sounds like that through the whole book. Listen to the sample. If you can stand it for five minutes, maybe you'll like it.

What little story was included in this depressing seven hour poem was not worth the time.
Also it ends badly, sorry but i hated it.

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bloody awful

Revisado: 11-02-14

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

conspiracy theorists with a dull sense of humour.

What could Jon Ronson have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

not narrate his own book.

What didn’t you like about Jon Ronson’s performance?

mincing, slow, not emotive.
the kind of narration I would expect from a bored English hairdresser

Any additional comments?

I have to admit I did not listen to half this book. it seemed to have no real direction, chock full of the banal daily doings of a "terrorist" apparently devoid of ambition.
the narrator had a voice like a tickly feather in my ear, I wanted to dig it out with a screwdriver.

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harry potter and the chronicles of the rings.

Revisado: 09-01-14

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A fantasy chunky soup! Surprisingly well written. I went in expecting nothing, and was pleasantly surprised to find an interesting story about kids who go to school to learn magic, grow up and have to deal with life. Same as everyone else.
Full of very adult situations and adult language, so don't give this to your tween niece as a gift.
It started off a bit slow, but it was absolutely worth it. So many writers in this genre use English so clumsily, I hesitate to try new books in the fantasy category.
Lev Grossman evidently, was not educated at some community college in Slapcrotch North Wisconsin. This guy really knows his way around the English language, and without being long winded.
Give 'er a whirl, I think you'll like it.

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i hate that i liked it.

Revisado: 07-21-14

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Poor writing, worse narration. Silly doesn't begin to describe it.
It was often vulgar, sometimes downright gross.
This writer really like s to gild the lilly, superfluous redundancies are abundantly plentiful.

Narration was terrible, there was a passage where some poor guy's LAR-NYX gets crushed.
I was able to deduce from the resulting inconveniences of that particular injury, that a LAR-NYX is located in the throat and serves in a capacity similar to that of the larynx. whatever.

I am ashamed of myself for actually having enjoyed this, think 1980s B horror flick.
fun, just don't tell anyone I said that.

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