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Just delightful!

Revisado: 11-07-23

I am now caught up on this series and am at a loss for what to do next. Just really funny, heartwarming, yet exciting stories. With a side of raunchy humor and ahem, intimate parts that aren't my favorite, the whole series and stories make up for it. (Also, you can skip those parts for your delicate senses if need be). Already looking forward to the next!

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Loved this whole series!

Revisado: 10-18-23

What a delightful series! I've binged them all in like two weeks, and I have no regrets. Funny, touching, a little gross…just so great!

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Laughed so hard I cried!

Revisado: 10-05-23

I loved this book! The characters and the humor were hilariously inappropriate, and even being a straight woman, I really loved the story and how a lot of the characters were Queer, and it wasn't weird or taboo. Something about how gloriously awkward Sam was cute and endearing.

Warning: if you listen to this with other people in the house or while walking in the neighborhood, be prepared to laugh out loud and have people stare or your husband ask you if you're okay.

Only part I wasn't in love with was the very end, but probably because I'm a prude, lol. Not like his other books (cerulean, door, puppets), but still great if you you are into raunchy humor.

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Wonderful!

Revisado: 10-03-23

Love TJ Klune's books. Always so interesting, bringing to light humanity in fantastical situations. The narrator is also fantastic!

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Wonderful book!

Revisado: 06-16-23

I love Jeffrey, and their book was a lovely tribute to their stories and pain, and using those to help us readers. Thought provoking and kind, I highly recommend for everyone!

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Beautiful story about acceptance

Revisado: 05-16-23

Such a heartwarming book about acceptance, drawing parallels between issues in our world today. Sweet and well written, and the voicing for characters was excellent.

Someone mentioned fatphobia, and as someone who is anti-diet culture and working through my anti-fat biases, it is nothing you wouldn't encounter in daily life of a friend mentioning how they'd like to drop some weight. It would be nice for society as a whole to stop this practice, but the writing is not at all done maliciously, so I take that review with a grain of salt.

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Much prefer other adventure books

Revisado: 04-22-23

I listen to a lot of book by ultra runners and thru hikers, so I've heard a lot of adventure stories. This book is really slow to start, and though I understand with all the impressive things Marshall has done it would be hard to choose what to write about, his writing cuts out huge opportunities for stories. I mean, we just gloss over CLIMBING MT EVEREST?

But I understand that might not be the point of his book, so fair enough. And I want to feel bad for a guy who lost his wife so young, then he quickly mentions that he remarried a year after her death. He speaks of the time he wasted and didn't connect with his children multiple times, THEN CONTINUES RACING instead of like, rectifying the situation? He spends a lot of effort to drag down one other runner in particular—whose book I MUCH preferred to Marshall's—for what? I am sure there are many more jabs at Charlie I will miss because I am giving up on this book as he starts to cross america.

For someone who mentions his character repeatedly in the first few chapters, he does an awful lot of dragging one person down when, if he truly had character, he would have kept the story about HIM and not about how to make sure that everyone knows what a jerk Mr Engle is.

On top of the aforementioned, the writing is not engaging, which seems crazy given the engaging qualities of ultramarathons and endurance events. Not sure how he managed to make them boring, but he did.

So, maybe the book is okay and I just don't like Marshall as a person? At any rate, not a great book for adventure, and in my opinion, not a great book as an autobiography because he does not come off as a good guy.

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Liked the characters but not as good as the first

Revisado: 04-04-23

I loved the first book so of course I picked this one up. The story was interesting, though it lacked the "time travel" in the story telling that the first had. Entertaining but didn't quite capture the charm of the first. My biggest complaint was with the narration. The first book was read through, no character voices and I enjoyed that. The character voices in this version distracted from the story. Especially the Asian voices, which were really hard to understand. I don't understand why they chose a different style for the second book, but I think it actually made me enjoy the story less, and definitely did nothing to help it.

Anyway, if you liked the first audiobook, skip this one and read it instead.

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Fun and entertaining

Revisado: 03-23-23

I have been looking for fiction books that aren't too intense and this fun book did just that. A fun adventure from start to finish!

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