William Rodriguez

Timeles Fantasy Delivered Masterfully by Inglis

Revisado: 08-20-19

The story is fantastically entertaining with Inglis doing the reading (performing), however definitely intended for a younger perhaps more nieve audience.

I could not get over how deeply unprepared the dwarves seemed for their intended mission. Despite Inglis performance which lent great age to Thorin's character, you would think the dwarf 12 years old for all the planning that was done or rather not done.

However the story as told by Inglis is greatly entertaining and compelling and I could not help but listen through the entirety of the work in a week.

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3.8 Star Story Performed Brilliantly; Bang 4 Buck

Revisado: 08-14-19

Would have never been able to get through this much fiction as a read (I tried a few times and never got into double digit chapters), but Grover Gardner delivers an incredibly entertaining performance which made it addictive to listen too over 45+ hours.

It's funny to listen to something from the early 80's with ears that have come from the same time but have been trained to live in 2019. Sometimes this would lend a chuckle to my listen.. While some other times my eyes practically rolled out of my head. It's the later that would really bring into focus for me some of the issues I had forgotten or just plain didn't notice back then. Specifically how King writes the women characters will likely turn off some listeners.

Story wise, it's bit of a mixed bag. On the positive side it wrestles with a compelling and interesting hypothetical post apocalyptic world which honestly caused me to fantasize. Thanks in large part to Gardner, many of the male characters are absolutely endearing and charming; which unfortunately also highlights how poorly conceived the female characters are. Despite some short comings, the Stand, especially as performed by Gardner, delivers an entertaining story that falls just a little short in the later chapters.

This version of the book is an elongated "director's cut" err "author's cut" which may have been more than was needed for an already loooong tale. But I worked a hemp farm over a summer while listening and it gave me a whole lot of listening entertainment value that helped the days of mindless labor pass by quickly.

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Crichtoningly Entertaining, Phoned-in.. 3.89 Stars

Revisado: 07-14-19

If your a fan of the Chrichton's technically encrusted suspense, you'll recognize classic traits of the author you love. However he must've written this one from the beach house while something more interesting pilfered his time.

It's almost all there; an edifying page turning story featuring an engineering/scientifically gilded plot filled with nuggets of info, an informed view into the milieu of an industry, and an endearing protagonist.. oh wait, that's what's missing. Casey Singleton is no Jack Forman (protagonist from Prey), and feels a bit flat on character flavoring causing her to get lost among similarly bland supporting characters at times.

Also the book leans too heavily on having the reader view documents within the story to push plot points along. This comes off as a short cut device used a bit too often especially at the end which feels rather truncated and may be more "made for video" than I care for.

Cassidy does a great job reading it and surely helps make this work very well as an audiobook you can enjoy while doing something mindless. She has a great comfortably pitched reading voice and cadence, which she transforms masterfully while acting out the characters without overdoing it. Only minor complaint about her performance is that the men all pretty much spound the same and are not always differentiatingly identifiable when multiple are in a given scene. Hardly a serious complaint given how difficult that is to pull off while voicing characters of the opposite gender.

Overall this was a fun listen that I enjoyed while working a farm, it made the time pass by faster and was pretty entertaining. It's not Crichton's best, but it was still enjoyable and enlightening. Would have rated 3.89 stars if possible.

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