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Redundancia y crueldad gráfica y excesiva.

Revisado: 12-09-23

El único momento que se respeta al lector es al final con la mirada y sonrisa de Ester y Olivia.

Demasiado largo pues el desarrollo del tema principal (el comportamiento del canalla) es lento y redundante con exceso en la descripción gráfica de su crueldad.

No se respeta al lector. Lo ideal para un lector es que el relato que escribe el autor sea configurado de tal manera que la imaginación del lector le permita dar más colorido al relato.

Es necesario dejar al lector en suspenso con las diferentes posibilidades que pueden surgir, pero esta novela es más bien una cronología de las vida del canalla. No se estimula la curiosidad del lector para que busque avanzar de página. Es evidente que la cronología seguirá y no hay sorpresas o descubrimientos en el relato que muevan las emociones del lector.

Esta novela es una mediocre y pobre pérdida de tiempo.

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Very good presentation.

Revisado: 06-08-23

Some parts are just discussed in a superficial way, but this is understandable considering the complexity of such a vast subject. The depth of parts of the presentation will need to be listened to again. I will listen to this again, but now taking notes and a review of the PDF documents.

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Excellent review! Quite well researched and presented.

Revisado: 05-20-23

This was a excellent review with good supportive references to formal studies from the biochemical/hormonal level to then support the behavioral studies and observations of people falling in love through those couples in relationships lasting decades and also presenting date of those relationships that end in failure. She even includes good data on the topic of domestic violence.
The narrator gets 4.5 stars, but this is irrelevant to the fact that the author’s skill to deliver her knowledge and expertise in 5 star book.
Very highly recommended.

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Excellent. Well structured and without excessive medical jargon. Just enough to understand.

Revisado: 12-08-22

She did a great in presenting this topic to the lay reader and still kept it a level that medical students will appreciate.
Also, good narrative voice.

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Excellent. Well organized and constructed lectures.

Revisado: 12-07-22

This is a high quality lecture providing high level teaching in an easy to understand fashion and vocabulary suited for everyone.

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Misleading title & terribly distracting background music / weird sounds

Revisado: 11-21-19

The book title is misleading.

This is a hodgepodge of partial narratives of some crimes, of pedofilia, of depression and suicide, of terrorist interrogations, of police interventions,etc.
These narratives are not even in the form of short stories.

The author tries to interpret (or invent) a common element from the cases he describes: talking to the people (strangers) in these narratives. The cases are so different from each other that, at best, there may be a weak trace of a line connecting a couple of the cases, like police violence.

When I finished the audiobook my wife asked if I was angry for some reason. I realized that while listening to the audiobook I was working hard to focus on the narrative because there were odd pauses, some background music and strange sounds. The effort to avoid distractions caused a buildup of unnecessary tension. The volume of music and sounds was, at times, so low that I thought it was a sound coming from somewhere else. I had my ear buds in place, and removing the earbuds confirmed these sounds and musical tones were part of the audiobook.

It is obvious that the narrator is a well prepared professional, so why do the audiobook editors ruin the performance by adding backgrounds music and odd sounds?

Think about this: when we are in a conversation with someone, we usually try to avoid distracting background sounds, voices & music. It’s not common for there to be background music during the dialog of a theatrical play, a movie or even a newscast.

On the other hand, a musical play needs the music for the songs, but when there are snippets of dialog in the musical... the music stops.

The editors forget that the most important part of the audiobook is the performance. Please do not ruin a good professional performance of an audiobook by adding background music or other sounds.

A poor narrative performance can ruin an excellent story and a mediocre story is improved by a good performance.

An “enhanced” audiobook should only be enhanced by having more voice actors playing the different characters of the story and some music when it is appropriate for the story.

What choice of music would be appropriate for this book: none. No music. No background sounds.

Other books by Mr. Gladwell are much better than this one.

I do not recommend this book.

William Zinser

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Excellent!

Revisado: 10-09-19

Well written.

Excellent layout of the parts of a novel.

Easy read (no theoretical physics and very few German words).

The focus of the book is well maintained throughout: a story based on the correspondence between Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Maric and other factual information from their lives.

The author notes clarify the sections where her creativity was used to facilitate a smooth flow of the story.

The narrator voice is excellent for this novel. It is evident that she has a professionally trained voice. Her oral grammar is quite good and she avoids excessive modulation and emotional overtones. This allows the reader to keep a focus on the characters, not on the voice.

I truly enjoyed this audiobook. It will now go on my list of “second reads.”

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Se supone que es una novela de crimen, pero...

Revisado: 10-03-19

El desarrollo de la novela es pobre en cuanto a generar un nivel apropiado de tensión e intriga como sería requerido en una novela de crimen.

Con frecuencia parece ser un reporte adecuado para un periódico y no una novela. Como lector, perdí el interés cuando parecía ser crónica de los hechos.

También hubo algunos errores en la descripción de las escenas. Un ejemplo claro es al final de libro cuando describe las heridas que Atila infligió en el cuello del criminal; la yugular es una vena y la sangre de una vena desgarrada no sale a borbotones. Si hubiera desgarrado la arteria carótida, ciertamente que la sangre saldría a borbotones, en sincronía con los últimos latidos del corazón. Este error, por pequeño que pudiera parecer, es una distracción que interrumpe en la lectura de la escena dramática del ataque del perro.

La voz de la narradora es demasiado blanda, sin seguir el ritmo de las escenas, sobretodo cuando la voz debe inducir al lector-oyente a un estado de tensa anticipación apropiado para la escena que narra. Puede ser que el problema es la deficiencia del escrito.

En conjunto, tanto el desarrollo y el estilo usado por la autora, así como la voz blanda y lenta de la narradora semejan más la lectura de una crónica noticiosa que una novela cautivante.

El tema, así como la descripción de los asesinatos, no es novedoso ni realmente original. Este no es de las primeras novelas de asesinos en serie. Nuevamente, el asesino tiene problemas psiquiátricos, una niñez terrible, conflictos de identidad, etc.

No existe ni un solo elemento nuevo y original en la novela. Muchos clichés, a veces innecesarios, resultan superfluos y son otra distracción más.

Pido disculpas si mi crítica es demasiado dura.

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Heavy with anecdotal material and the voice performance varied from quasi-emotional tones to a dull slow down.

Revisado: 07-01-18

Overall, the book was dull and the voice performance did not help.

The title suggests that at some point there will be some reasonable evidence that supports the reason why Buddhism is True. This was not clearly presented. The author appears to be aware of the deficiencies and attempts to justify the title in the last section.

The book is heavy loaded with personal anecdotes, many of which are not related to the title.

The voice performance was mediocre. In addition to what I mentioned in the title of this review. MY MOM mind wandered off because of the slow reading.

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Excellent! Fascinating!

Revisado: 03-06-18

Quite well written and narrated.
This book expands our understanding of brain function by describing “classic” cases of neurologic disorders from the historic perspective with a good enough dose of scientific medical data narrated in simple & straight forward language for all.
Highly recommended.

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