Richard Nielsen

reading mastery

Revisado: 11-10-16

What about Justine Eyre’s performance did you like?

Dear god, she is the best reader I have ever listened to. Her voice is like a mistress telling you what forbidden thing she wants you to do to her. Her voice is unbelievably sensual. I am going to actively look for other books she is recording.

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Rushed delivery

Revisado: 08-24-16

Is there anything you would change about this book?

I don't often complain about the readers, but I find myself getting tense listening to the rushed delivery of Kevin Collins. Mostly it is in the prose sections as he rushes from one sentence to another with desperate sounding gasps for breath as he barrels on to the next line. Augh. Makes me clench my jaws. I tried slowing it down to 75%, but that was painfully slow. Audible needs a variable scale speed controller on their App. I think if I could have made it 90% it wouldn't be so nerve wracking. Collins did slow down whenever he does the dialog, which was nice. It's going to be a tough decision on whether or not I continue with the series given the same reader.

So far (only half way through), the story is very good.

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Slow reader

Revisado: 07-07-16

Listened to the whole thing at 1.25 speed.
I didn't even notice that it was any different after awhile.

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Thinly veiled proselytizing.

Revisado: 06-13-16

Any additional comments?

Didn't care for it. She asks the questions and then circles back to her faith without drawing a logical conclusion.

I particularly liked this part: “I’m an evolutionist because I believe that the best way to reclaim the gospel in times of change is not to cling more tightly to our convictions but to hold them with an open hand. I’m an evolutionist because I believe that sometimes God uses changes in the environment to pry idols from our grip and teach us something new. But most of all, I’m an evolutionist because my own story is one of unlikely survival – If it hadn’t been for evolution, I must have lost my faith,”. Ummm....I don't think you know what evolution is then.

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There has got to be a better way !

Revisado: 06-17-14

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Yes, I would NOT read off 100 different web sites. I would have them all as links in a pdf that was issued as auxiliary material to the audiobook, and then just have them referenced in that pdf. Instead of: "Eych Tee Tee Pee colon foward slash, forward slash, stupid dot org, forward slash, annoying, forward slash, got underscore, to, underscore, be, underscore, a, underscore, better, underscore, way, underscore, dot Eych Tee, Em, El.",

Instead it would just be: "Web Link number 16 in your pdf" and the flow of the reading would not come to a screeching halt.

Any additional comments?

Good subject, and good recommendations. Buy it in another format. I bet the Kindle version has active links.

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The delivery of a professional stand-up comedian.

Revisado: 09-01-13

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I've never burst out laughing at an audiobook before this one. I've smiled before. Never burst out laughing.

Any additional comments?

Absolutely wonderful. Don't make it into a drinking game as suggested in the final section. Don't.

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But the horse wasn't white....it was black....

Revisado: 05-22-12

Couldn't finish it. This was one of the worst books that I have tried to read in a long time. She tells you something, and then tells you it again, and again, and then she has the character tell another character, and you hear it again....then that character tells someone one else and you hear it again. I've listened to 10 hours of this audiobook, and this is what I've learned....she is sick. It may be the plague, but she doesn't have any of the symptoms of the plague. She was on a white horse, but the man's horse is black so it couldn't have been white. She might have the plague, though. But she doesn't have any of the symptoms of the plague. She knows that from when she fell off the white horse. But there wasn't any white horse. Why isn't her translator working? She may have the plague. If she had the plague though, her fever would not have broken... and it did, so she must not have had the plague. But she may have had the plague when she was on the white horse. But there wasn't any white horse. And there is no swelling in her armpits, so she couldn't have the plague. But maybe she caught the plague. But no; she was inoculated against the plague so she couldn't have the plague. But she was so sick when she was on the white horse. But no; there wasn't a white horse because she was so feverish with the plague. And why wasn't her translator working; but it was working, cause it translated the Latin, but it wasn't working, because she couldn't understand them. But I understand them just fine, but they don't understand me. So the translator must be broken. But it wasn't broken, because the priest understood my Latin. But they are asking me yes and no questions, but all I can do is ask then questions in response. I don't want to nod my fricken head or shake my fricken head to let them know that I understand them. No. Instead I'm going to answer their questions with questions of my own, like "where is the man with the white horse?", but no. The horse was black.

There. I've summed up the first 10 hours of the book. Spend your credits somewhere else.

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Periods. Where there. Should. Not. Be. Periods.

Revisado: 01-18-12

I am going to write this review. Like the reader. Read. It. Throughout. He would start each sentence with a normal flow. And then. At the end. He. Would. Add. Pauses. This has the effect of making the sentences sound. Like. They had. Periods. Where there were. No. Periods. It would not have been so annoying. If. He only. Did. It. For. Emphasis. But instead, he did it on just about. Every. Single. Sentence.

I almost could. Not. Make it. Through. The. Book.

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no comment about content

Revisado: 07-24-11

The reader is ok, but his cadence gets to you after about 60 hrs of it. It is his short staccato delivery that grates on one's nerves. When.... he.... talks.... in.... short.... lit.... tle.... bursts.... emph..... a...... siz..... ing..... each..... in..... di..... vid..... u..... al..... syl..... a..... ble, all you can think of after 50 or 60 hrs is that you could have been done by now had it been read more smoothly. I don't think it is a computer, but just an older man. I wish I could post process the file and cut the space inbetween sounds in half. It would probably cut it from 87 hrs down to 50ish.

I have no comment on the content of the book.

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On writing brilliant characters…

Revisado: 03-19-06

As usual, reviews of Audible books are broken into two categories…the writing, and the narration. First the narration. Excellent. In my opinion, the best narrators are the ones that are so seamless that you don’t even notice them and can immerse yourself in the book, and Paul Michael is like that.

Now the book: Dan Brown makes, in my opinion, two large mistakes in this book (large enough where they break through the suspension of disbelief). First he writes a “brilliant” person, and then makes her the dumbest person in the room. She continually has to have things explained to her, often in a painstakingly step-by-step manner. I’m talking about things so simple and obvious that even this reader has figured them out.

The second big mistake is that if the government made some crypto device so wonderful as to be able to break any codes, the very first thing they would do is build another one….no matter how much it costs (oh, and he keeps referring to the 2 Billion dollar price take like it is some huge price tag).

That all being said, I think this book warrants at least a couple of stars. The romance portion of the book was well done. One extra star for the excellent narration.

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