Virgil Tracy

Scalzi and Wheaton never disappoint

Revisado: 09-26-23

I never hesitate to spend a credit on an audiobook by Scalzi and Wheaton, and this is another great collaboration between these two… they always provide a fun listen.

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But the narration…

Revisado: 09-10-23

If you’re going to break up the narration duties, why not ensure that there’s a pronunciation guide to ensure some continuity? Every narrator has a different take on significant names (like Herodotus) and it’s distracting and annoying.

Also, while I appreciate the ideology behind using more authentic voices on the narration, some narrators don’t seem like professional voice artists. This is problematic.

I’m persisting because it’s a great book, but sometimes I feel like giving up.

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Excellent!

Revisado: 06-03-23

Not at all a conspiracy theory (which was my fear). It made an Oxfordian out of me!

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Aging has never been so funny

Revisado: 01-24-23

Listen as these two Australian idiots take on the tropes of aging! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you might even learn something! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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These guys are great!

Revisado: 01-01-23

Fun and entertaining, CJ and Scott make being being over 50 sounds fun. Thanks guys!

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Sick of ‘jag-wires’

Revisado: 07-27-21

Poorly written. Poorly narrated. This entire series is a must-avoid. While the information *may* be vaguely reliable, this audiobook features shocking grammar and bewildering pronunciation (eg: jag-wire for Jaguar consistently throughout) that it is unlistenable. Don’t waste your credit.

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It’s no Martian, but…

Revisado: 05-19-21

The Martian was a high bar. This book is thoroughly enjoyable, but not quite as good. Still worth the credit though. Ray Porter did a great job, but for me, his voice is too closely associated to the Bobiverse books, and it ffelt like another in that series.

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Great. But...

Revisado: 05-01-21

This book was incredibly well written. Except that Mr FitzSimons hasn't met a rhyme, alliterative passage or homophone he didn't want to belabour in a terrible, tiresome and tedious fashion. Seriously, I'd be listening with great enjoyment, when I'd be taken out of the moment by Fitz shoehorning a clanging, banging, haranguing rhyme into the text.

Fitz: It may read fine on paper, but LISTEN to someone read one of your books aloud and then you'll hear!

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Oh my god, the narration!

Revisado: 08-23-20

What a terrible narrator! From her overacting and annoying voice to her super-annoying mispronunciations, it was just dreadful, I have no idea if this is a good story or not because I simply cannot listen to it. I chose this book because I have read Joanna Penn's non-fiction, which I find helpful and well-narrated, and I have listened to her podcast (which is also excellent), so I decided to give her fiction a go. Well Joanna, if you're reading this, never hire Ms Giguere again!

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Fantastic background for the show

Revisado: 02-22-20

The book will significantly add to your enjoyment of Star Trek: Picard. Sure, you don't need it, but I found that it already enhanced my understanding of Episode 5. Well worth reading in my humble opinion.

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