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Roy McMillan made a good novel, amazing and wonderful!

Revisado: 06-18-23

One of my favorite narrators, McMillan should appreciated for what he adds to every read he performs.
Wonderful work!

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Great performance, dreadful book

Revisado: 06-16-23

The narrator, amazing! Congrats on this wonderful performance.

The story is good,

BUT..
Hugo, here, does what he’s always done to the extreme!
Between every event and the next, you’ll find a whole poem describing something incredibly simple.
Because the story is decent, I wanted to continue to the end, but countless times I would skip to the next chapter, or skip 10 minutes at a time because … someone is taking a stroll and the weather is nice… ok… I get it… then what happened?!!!…
Noooo he has to 5 pages about this and you have to hear it all!!
At one point, there was 14 minutes describing someone being surprised, at another, 22 minutes telling about someone taking few steps towards the other side of the [room] … come on!!!

Pros: i was somewhat amused to hear Hugo’s side of England’s history, and of Queen Anne in particular.


After reading Les Miserable I continue to be disappointed in every Hugo book
I don’t know if it is so, or it’s me setting my expectations so high.

I hope you enjoy it better than I

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Great book

Revisado: 05-23-23

Typically underrated classical novel
The idea of a novel by Claudius in itself is genius enough!
Narrator did a wonderful job

Downside, towards the end, the events related to Caligula dragged too long.

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Quick and great!!

Revisado: 03-26-23

The details are not very deep yet the coherence is very smooth
Of course, Jason Neville has done a wonderful job!!
If you’ve enjoyed any Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky, before, you’ll like this one.

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Couldn’t finish

Revisado: 03-09-23

Unfortunately, i had to stop with 8 hours left.
I lost my patience with the long parts of the novice’s thoughts and self-expression about everything that happens!!
The first time I decided to fast forward, i knew I lost my interest, but I kept going. Until 8 hours were left, i just couldn’t continue.

The narrator is absolutely amazing, he, in fact, was the reason I started this audiobook.
One of the most talented narrators!!

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Less than Crime and Punishment

Revisado: 01-25-23

I had high expectations of this one after having read as well as listened to Crime and Punishment, but had to skip chapters and chapters of nothingness.
Seriously, Epolitte lectures for well over a whole chapter!!! I was not going to listen to that!!!
Just try and be patient if you decide to go with this book, but i’d get it if it was available for free, I wouldn’t loose an Audible Credit on this one
Nonetheless, the writer remains in possession of my respect, and he is also remains next (again) on my list.
The narrator is one of my very favorite ones, just amazing performance!

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Here’s another great book!

Revisado: 01-19-23

Enjoyed this book
Don’t let the names confusion keep you From going
It’s a good book and worth the little trouble
I wish the narrator did better with differentiating the characters voices, i was surprised because he’s usually amazing!

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Very decent book

Revisado: 12-08-22

This is a great work in all aspects.
I say -maybe- you skip a couple of minutes because sometimes author lingers on some points repeating the same thing.
Other than that, it’s clean, decent, enjoyable read with so many intriguing characters.
Towards the end, there were even some funny scenes I laughed so much i had to rewind just to laugh again.
What with every other novel I’ve put it down being sick of the vulgarity, the sexual content and the cheap pornographic scenes … you will find this amazingly mature and valuable.
I hesitated a lot before I decided to buy this, but I hope you give it a chance right away. The time spent listening to both book and narrator performance was time very wisely spent and both get a five stars rating very well deserved.
It’s sad that we probably don’t have writers like this today.
Enjoy

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If you’re looking to top Mr. Slaughter…

Revisado: 07-26-22

Then you’re in for a disappointment. The Wolf’s Hour is very overrated. I kept telling myself “I’m sure it gets better..” just so I keep going. I had just finished Mr. Slaughter and expected a similar novelty, creativity, and quality. I was very disappointed.
I like McCammon’s books. The Queen of Bedlam is interesting, Mr. Slaughter is captivating.
This one however is, again, overrated.
The story is simply a number of small stories pieced together. There’s no core story, and that took away the attraction of the book.

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The book was exhausting to finish

Revisado: 07-06-21

The story is only OK.
Not too hard to follow. I was fine with the time periods and POVs going back and forth.
However, the rampant, descriptive, repetitive description and metaphors on every other sentence is just too much.
The exaggerated effort in the poetic theme backfired spectacularly!

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