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Thriller. Not Joe Talbert

Revisado: 03-27-25

This was pushed as book two in Joe Talbert series. Not Joe Talbert.
Very good detective mystery thriller with steady build up and interesting characters.
I'll probably read book three but if so I won't count on Audible's labeling of the series.

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Why do authors narrate their own books?

Revisado: 09-27-24

Interesting and subtle story. Got tired of narration early. Nice voice but pacing was inconsistent with too many pauses.

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Super Entertaining. Narration fixed.

Revisado: 10-05-23

Nearly scared off by negative reviews on narration, but spotted in the summary a note from audible that due to reader feedback the audio was changed. I don't know about earlier, but now it's excellent.
Interesting characters, credible (within fantasy genre) personal development, and imaginative powers and challenges. A bit too much young adult angst for me as an older reader, but well worth it for the 95% that made me want to keep listening.

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Not my thing but I loved it

Revisado: 01-29-23

I tend to mysteries, sci-fi, and nonfiction and don't know how I happened to try this book. What a find! Audible has opened me up to trying books I wouldn't pick up the old-fashioned way. With amazing narration and a heart-felt story, this book was a wonderful reward for going outside my comfort zone.

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Excellent process novel

Revisado: 01-02-23

Storytelling of the investigation was very engaging. The mystery and resolution weren’t 5 star level, but very solid. Terrific narration.

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Couldn’t listen to the start stop narration.

Revisado: 12-09-22

Sorry for this terrible rating. The story showed great promise but I had to stop listening because of the narration. Pauses every half dozen words reminded me of following someone on the freeway using their brakes too much. I hope to pick it up and read it for myself some day.

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Nice diversion from standard

Revisado: 07-08-22

I’ve liked Randy Rainbow as a Trump era fan. Nice hearing the often serious and usually funny memoir. Maybe just a little too much name-dropping but then fan girl fits who he is. I’m now a bigger fan for having listened to his story (so far).

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Inside a world I only imagined was that bad

Revisado: 06-10-22

With tons of examples we see the patriarchal and, to an outsider, misogynistic world view. It’s frightening but all too believable given support of Trump who embodies much of the worst of human nature but hits the patriarchal themes one by one. The decades long run-up is recounted with some amount of statistics. The book is most effective when it quotes evangelicals’ words and writings that would be unbelievable if not actual quotes.
Suggest listening to at as much faster than normal playback as you can tolerate both because of plodding uninspired narration and because the oft repeated themes go down better when going by faster.

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Unexpected

Revisado: 05-29-22

I expected a mystery with big action oriented solutions. Instead it was as rich with character development as I’ve read. Could well have a subtitle: people aren’t only the worst thing they’ve done. Despite it being different from what I expected it moved right along. I would have been happy with it being twice as long.

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If he’s talking to me, I don’t get it.

Revisado: 05-18-22

I read and got a lot out of White Fragility, How to be an Anti Racist, and Between the World and Me. I did not get any of the things out of those books that McWhorter seems to think I should have. I didn’t read that white people should hate themselves, that we should divide people into categories, or that we should lower standards to let less qualified people in because of their race. The casting these books as if they were treated by the Elect as a kind of scripture—then arguing against them based on an interpretation that didn’t match my experience with those books, left me discarding most of his arguments.
What I do agree with: Name-calling adds little to and can distract from the public discourse. I agree with his three suggestions as far as they go. But his suggestion that today’s anti-racism is worse than 1-6 insurrection because the latter was a one-off has certainly been proved wrong in the last 16 months. Fighting for voting rights surely is worth adding to a short list of priorities to address adverse outcomes of racism.
I recommend these books instead of Woke Racism: How the Word is Passed, The Hate You Give, and The Sum of Us.

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