Renee A. Kaplowitz

OMG This was so good!!!

Revisado: 03-19-25

Okay, I usually don't like the dramatized productions because the acting is usually so bad. The acting here was seamless, the story is riveting, and the twist at the end just put it over the top. I really couldn't believe it but it made perfect sense. I highly recommend this production. It's so good. I wouldn't mind seeing this as a series. It's so good. Really!!!!

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Okay book, bad editing

Revisado: 06-13-24

I had to fight my way through the first 10 chapters because nothing happened! All of the information in the first ten chapters could have been condensed into the first 4 chapters. I HATE long expositions. The book starts at chapter 11. I believe Ms. Yoon sent the book to editors who said, "It's not long enough. Add a several more chapters at the beginning." Extremely annoying!
I have been black all of my life and have never heard people use this many swear words. Again, Ms. Yoon sent this book to white editors who said, "You need to have your characters curse a lot more or no one will believe they're really black."

I'm sorry but I laughed at the ending. Predictable and puerile. Really!!! Come on!!! I did like the reasons that King gave for doing what they did.

Ms. Yoon did very well at building suspense starting at chapter 11 although it was a bit predictable at times.

Edit the book one more time. Take out 6 of the first 10 chapters. Delete several of the gratuitous, unnecessary swear words and change the denouement.

I believe Ms. Yoon will be an excellent writer someday and this book was a good start. Good luck.

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OMG This Book Is So Good!!

Revisado: 06-09-24

I love twists and turns in a mystery and this book is full of them. I loved it. I especially LOVE how the last word of the book is another twist!! It's sooo good. I really loved this book. Great performances and really great story!!

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Fantastic but hard to listen to.

Revisado: 10-31-22

There is a fatal flaw with The Trump Tapes... Having to listen to Trump. It really is torture. He brags, meanders, and makes very little sense. He rarely actually answers a question. He just can't help it. He has never received an honest compliment in his life so he must have learned at age 3 or 4 to just lie and brag or no one would ever say anything nice about him.There IS nothing good to say about Trump. On some level he knows it. Will someone please tell Don that brilliant people NEVER call themselves genius? Will someone tell him that his uncle at MIT was there because he read, studied and did research. It is not in the blood. Trump learned anything he that he knows from television. . His uncle didn't pay anyone to take his entrance exam. The extent of Trump's unmitigated stupidity is incalculable.



Sorry. Look, Bob Woodward is only capable of excellence. This audio book is no exception. However, it should come with instructions to listen in small bits. There should also be a label warning that listening to Trump could make your head explode.

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Good story, Bad Reader, I still recommend

Revisado: 05-12-21

This book is very difficult to listen to because this reader often emphasizes phrases unnaturally. It sounds like she is reading cold, without rehearsal. It's very annoying. Her voice is nice, her voices are good enough, but the way she reads isn't the way people speak. Also, it's really obvious that there are words that she is unfamiliar with and has had to practice, but is still not used to saying. Those words jump out every time she reads them. I would advise reading the book not listening. The reader diminishes rather enhances the prose. UPDATE: I finished the book and it was good. I really liked one of the smaller twists at the end and the big twist was GREAT considering what we are going through right now. I, for the most part, got used to the reader. This book would be a much more enjoyable listen if the reader re-records the book. By the end her reading of previously unfamiliar words stop standing out and the reading become a bit more natural. Whether you read or listen, it's a good book!

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An Absolute MUST READ

Revisado: 09-20-20

I started this book the same day I finished Michael Cohen's book. "Disloyal" is useful as background and helped me better understand parts of "Rage." Woodward just confirms what we all already know about Donald Trump. Because Trump has the mind of an eight year-old, he holds nothing back. There are no secrets. Bob beautifully organizes and capsulizes it all for us. I didn't finish "Fear." It just seemed like a rehash of every other Trump book, but I don't have enough superlatives to adequately describe "Rage." It's very honest, well researched, fact checked, straight-forward, suspenseful, frightening. It reads like a thriller to me. I think I am about to start it again. It's that good. I do recommend reading Mary Trump's book, "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man", "Disloyal", then "Rage" in that order. Each of these three books is riveting and a great read on it's own, but reading them in the above order provides for deeper understanding of all three.

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Lame (review updated)

Revisado: 01-18-20

About 10% of this book is about Trump. It should be called "6 Degrees from Donald Trump". I could be in this book because I've seen him on television. Very disappointing! The slim sections that are about DT are very old news we all know about. Very lame! These writers may have won Pulitzers but certainly not for this. The reader is good.
UPDATE: Okay, I admit it. This book is not lame. It is extremely lame! Not only do they write about old news that everyone has known for months, years even, but they repeat the stories, Yes, that's right. They tell the same stories two, possibly three times. I really don't know how many times they repeat the same stories in this book because I finally got fed up and returned the it after the second or possibly third repetition of the Stormy Daniels story. The writers should be ashamed! Maybe the publishers told Palazzolo and Rothfeld that any book about Trump just makes money. I hope that most people who get this book, get it on Audible so that it can be returned.

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Reader annoying and book is badly written

Revisado: 12-31-19

Reader is really annoying. Her voice falls with every period. It reminds me way too much of listening to my children when they first learned to read. It is difficult to pay attention to the story. I'm going to try but I'm not sure how much I'll be able to stand. Okay, I gave it about 8 more minutes and returned it.

SO, I forgot to return it but now I'm stuck at home because of COVID-19 and tried to listen again. I tried to just get used to the reader and after a while it didn't bother me so much plus the story was starting get intriguing. Now, to preface my next statement I want to let you know that I am religious. I pray..a lot. The author starts inserting prayer a lot and badly, really badly. I have no problem with a novel organically mentioning prayer but this author just drops it in like a brick on a bowl of pudding. It was obvious within the first few lines of this book that this is a very, very bad writer and has never studied grammar. I was willing to let that go if the story was interesting and suspenseful but the combination of the bad grammar, annoying reader and dropping in "praying'" every few minutes made me literally scream and shut if off. I hope that I can just delete it so that I won't be tempted to listed again because i might have forgotten that this audio book is very, very bad in every possible way.

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You've Done It Again

Revisado: 04-15-19

You have again managed to produce an absolutely riveting program. I really loved it. The characters are vividly drawn. I was completely pulled into the dark, wet atmosphere of Victorian London. And more than that, the eternally relevant story is perfect for this moment in 2019.

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Horrible

Revisado: 04-08-19

This performance was truly, deeply horrible! The book was free but I resent waisting one of my free choices on this book.
The acting was so bad that I couldn't get past the first 20 minutes. I knew after the first minute that I was in for some really bad voice acting but, I hoped that the story would compensate. IT DIDN'T. Don't get this audio book...even for free!

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