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James Evan Dickinson

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not truly unabridged

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-20-23

I bought the audible versions hoping to complete my previously incomplete experience with this series...and in the last seconds I was very disappointed...this claims to be unabridged but it misses about 3 minutes where the author discusses how they came about this story...the changes they made and why...without that little aside the book feels lacking.

the older version I had used Edmund Dehn as the narrator and...while his female voices always seemed like hags...his pronouncing of characters locations and items seemed so much better...

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fun alternative history

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-16-23

Pretty fun, pretty funny.

Personally I'm over good/bad/mediocre impressions of Nixon and Kennedy...those were the single worst parts of the audiobook/podcast/radio play...

The premise was fun, never for a second took itself too seriously and it was better for it. Very self aware...and sometimes worse for it.

Great cast...except for the aforementioned lame impressions.

At 5 hours and some change...it doesn't over stay it's welcome...but I doubt I need a follow up series.

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Kinda The Matrix by way of the occult

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-12-23

A fine indie book. Kinda The Matrix by way of the occult. To be honest I thought it would be more about the actual magic system...instead it's one of those stories where our protagonist is already a master at portal magic right off the bat, once the secret society finally finds him. I definitely expected a different kind of "11th hour character reveal"...the one we got was like getting a complimentary slice of untoasted white bread with your meal...I didn't want it, but here it is, and it really didn't add to or detract from the whole...


The book is kinda horny...it's fine...if I weren't listening to the book I would have just skipped over the pages...that's just a personal thing.



The narrator of the audiobook had unique voices for every character and did a fantastic job...even if some of the accents were a little annoying when they had long bits of dialog.



I'm being too judgy...it's a fine book, it tells the story it wants to tell in a clear and sometimes cinematic way.



The villain's name is Sha-moan (not sure of the exact spelling...cause audiobook), and EVERY TIME the narrator said the antagonists name my ADHD brain repeated it like one of michael jackson's filler sounds...every time.

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a best of album

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 10-09-22

fantastic collection of Gaiman short stories. nothing new in here... but I don't mind. I only wish this came with his blurb about the short stories

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I was hoping for a better book

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 09-21-22

The first 10 hours, I was on cloud 9...I had a big honkin King book and plenty of time to enjoy the hell out of it... then something happens in the narrative and the next 10 hours just hit a wall...it took forever to get through because I didn't care at all about what was happening...it probably could have taken up a third of the time, of structured differently.

one thing that annoyed me about the book...with all it's talk about love for the Art of Storytelling and the Origins of the Old Stories...this book should have been much more clever. From the hands of STEPHEN KING, a connoisseur of literature, a GOD among writers, King who reinvented horror, who redefined characters...the most adapted living/modern author...I thought this was gonna be a mega layered exploration of Fairy Tales and Fantasy tropes, a story with a meta story threaded within and without the story of Charlie.

it's stupid to criticize someone's art for not being what YOU wanted it to be, I'm guilty of it. I just thought it would be more clever than it ended up being.


at the end of it all...it's (modern) King...and I'll still read anything he puts out. there are far worse ways to spend 20~ hours, and worse ways to spend money.

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cool premise

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 09-12-22

felt like mid-tier Stephen King.

cool purgatory imagery.

I thought this book was much older...finding it came out in 2016 was kind of a shock..m

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Movie was better

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-31-22

I was excited to read this book, as I have fond memories of the movie…Last year I read Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, I really enjoyed the movie years ago when i saw it, and still managed to enjoy the book! The Prestige on the other hand didn’t deliver an experience comparable to the movie.

A quick note about the audiobooks narrator, Simon Vance, I've enjoyed him in plenty of other books, and he does a fine job here... except his females just don't work...was this done early in his career? i know i've heard him do a better job in more recent books...

Prestige’s structure is 80% unnaturally written journal entries. If I were an average joe existing in the world this book presents, and I came upon one, or both of the main characters journals my thought wouldn’t be “AVAST, what a mysterious and haunting tome of inner demons and struggles I hold in my hand!! Surely the authors of such a tormented volume would wish to hold their books forthwith”. Rather I'd read the first page and think “is their life a story? Because these aren’t how anyone writes in a journal, they are plot points being told…how boring”

The book lamely withholds details so they can be revealed later on when the plot demands we re contextualize something or need to be told of a reveal… maybe this was intentional…I believe the intent was to set up the whole book like a magic trick and have the end reveal BE the prestige of the meta magic trick. But there was zero showmanship by the characters, the “misdirection” is withheld details that are “but what you didn't know”’d to the readers further down the line. It’s almost as if this book was on rails… like a disney ride, just watching things lifelessly motioned out before you.

Whatever. Clearly this book was lightning in a bottle at the time it came out…and with my hindsight glasses on I’m not seeing what the big deal is…but this book came out in 1995 a year that gave us Lost World, Rose Madder, Wicked… TEN notable fantasy series released their first installments in that year (Golden Compass, Warlord Chronicles, Farseer Trilogy, Abhorsen…) HOW DID THIS BOOK STAND OUT?? It's the 82nd most popular book that year.

The greatest magic trick in The Prestige is how a mediocre book was turned into a movie 20~ years after being published, being directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale (3 years before The Dark Knight demolished box office records)... not to mention an amazing supporting cast (Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, David Bowie, Scarlett Johansson…)

I’m always baffled when I have so much to say for something I didn’t enjoy, especially since it’s entirely subjective…

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more of the same

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-02-22

very similar to the first book, pretty identical pros and cons.

one thing this genre seems to suffer from is the ridiculous over powered character(s)...Luke is insanely OP...but that seems to be the prevailing flavor of Lit-RPG.

I feel confident that I'll be checking out all future installments of this series...

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a better take on the Many Lives Lived genre

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-27-22

I started this book a few months back but i wasn't quite ready for it, so i waited. started it again mid-July... i still wasn't quite ready for it but I decided now was when i was gonna read it.

I was gonna be content if this book was just a series of short stories about 2 people fallin in or out of love with different seasonings each time... that woulda been pretty cool... just a bunch of un-connected ways these two meet or fall apart. Fortunately this book does have a plot that intends to make each story relevant.

this is a fun book with an interesting premise...and one that was executed well!

at the very end...the author seemed to do a lot of {this is how it was...BUT ACTUALLY this is how it is...but now we see THIS is how it is..and actually THIS is how it's over}. suffice to say I felt a bit whiplashed by the end and would have enjoyed a more solid ending where things didn't need to be surprised into place.

the audiobook narrator did a fantastic job!

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good book poor audiobook

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-27-22

well researched, with a pacing more interesting than a textbook.

sadly this is mostly just a textbook without the pictures. (is there a PDF? I haven't looked). a book like this is interesting and invaluable...but as an audiobook it would only serve to assist the reading of the physical book.

I would use a book like this to just read quick chapters here or there...it was very hard to just get lost in the narrative! LOL.

I appreciated the neutral stance towards recreational drugs!

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