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Wish the world knew sugar is worse than fat!

Revisado: 07-04-23

Wish the world knew sugar is worse than fat! Eye-opening explanation of just how lethal sugar is to your health and how prior generations who ate a lot of sugar have made it hard for subsequent generations to overcome.

No wonder we are all getting fat.

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Water sounds like city water

Revisado: 12-17-21

The water sounds like water draining off a street into a storm drain. The rain falling sounds like rain hitting a city street. The ocean wave lengths are way too short like they’ve been chopped.

The chapters are introduced by a voice. Very distracting.

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Helpful to learn details of the Herriot veterinary practice

Revisado: 05-01-21

I wish the details about the move from Kirkgate to Skeldale had been described earlier in the story. I kept getting confused by the Skeldale name since it was used in the James Herriot books as a fictitious location. Apparently when they moved out of the original location where all the stories are based in the Herriot books, they built a new practice and they named it Skeldale after the stories.

Christopher Timothy does a great job as usual. The only reason I didn’t give it a five star rating across-the-board was because of one chapter devoted to the TV awards ceremony for The Yorkshire Vet TV program. It just went on and on and on and was full of celebrity name-dropping and it bored me to tears. The rest of it was great.

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The music is distracting and unnecessary

Revisado: 02-28-21

I love these books in the series. But I don’t understand why the producer feels the necessity to add musical interludes. Often these musical interludes seem quite out-of-place and inappropriate for the tenor of the material. And often these musical interludes can be found in the middle of a chapter. It’s very distracting and very unnecessary. I wish they would just present the story without the music. And it’s not that the music was bad. It was just strange.

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Chapter 6 very repetitive

Revisado: 01-22-21

I had a hard time getting into the book and then it sailed along quite nicely and then in chapter 6 when he came to the topic that is his career, it just felt like he said the same thing over and over and gave the same examples over and over and it got really tiresome.

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Frustratingly detailed in places that don't matter

Revisado: 06-13-20

It took 6 hours of listening to even get to a point where you felt like something was actually going on. I fell asleep every 15 minutes (and I NEVER do that reading). Sped it up to 1.25 and fell asleep every 30 minutes. Up to that point I could've summarized the story in 4 sentences. Despite the fact that I already have 12 hours invested in this 18-19 hr saga (because it is our bookclub book), I give up. Despite liking the story and finding the subject and characters interesting, it is just too long and too slow. It is too detailed in places that aren't important, yet skipping details in the very spots where you'd her to explain more. She spends a lot of time giving you backgrounds of people you meet once and who have no bearing in the story at all which makes it even more frustrating. You think you need to pay attention and hours later realize you're never going to need that information that you carefully stored in your head. I have other things I'd prefer to read than spend another 6 hours finding out how it ends.

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Short chapters a bit frustrating

Revisado: 04-21-20

The narrator did a fabulous job. The story seems rather disjointed for the first third. There are extremely short paragraphs where you just get interested and they stop. It is sort of unsettling when you're listening to it (because of the pauses) ; you would skim over if you were just reading it. I'm glad the author included enough of his true story such as the fact that he liked to paint. I actually saw Ivan in his home in Tacoma Washington years ago.

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admired his persistent struggle to greatness

Revisado: 02-18-20

What I liked most about this book were the banjo interludes between sections and normally I REALLY hate audio books that use music and especially sound effects. I love that he sang little ditties and talked of how he slowly and painfully built his repertoire, reminded us of his jokes, and how he seemed completely willing (no, more purposefully intent) to mention all of the bad reviews he got over the years. It is an amazing story of persistence. I didn't realize it was such a struggle. I also like that he didn't get into the details of girlfriends and marriages, etc., which are none of our business. Good for you.

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Way too many sound effects; overdone; hurts your ears

Revisado: 02-06-20

I liked the idea of the story although the ending left me a little disappointed.

But the sound effects were overdone. They should've just stuck to doing the music. We didn't need the smoke alarm, the bikes being thrown into the truck, the footsteps everywhere (including the wrong sound for footsteps on one of the surfaces). When you are listening to the story with headphones and there are things like sirens and alarms, it is disturbing and makes you take your headphones off to see if something is going on around you. Those should just never be included in books. If someone were reading the book to me, they wouldn't be making the sounds. But having the music, since that was the point of the story, was appropriate. And the female voice was just a little too strident for me but probably appropriate for a teenage girl.

Story wise, I thought attempts at suspense were a little drawn out. But it was fun how the whole thing progressed. Very interesting story idea.

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A good, mainstream history of Queen Elizabeth II

Revisado: 02-04-20

For anyone who knows the history, there's nothing new. But it is a well-done summary.

There are too many sound effects which are really unnecessary in an audio book. Highly distracting and made the book take longer.

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