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I would die for Rocky

Revisado: 03-04-23

this review requires 15 words but all of the words that I need to say were in the title

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The narrator sounds like a robot

Revisado: 11-16-22

this book was even worse than the first book, I have no interest in reading the third book in the series. this was particularly painful because they switched narrators and the new narrator was mispronouncing names and had no idea how to give speech the correct emotional inflection, he sounded like a robot, he emphasized the wrong words it was terrible

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terrible and borderline racist

Revisado: 10-24-22

complete with black best friend character who does nothing but sound black and magical Hindu grandma giving magical Hindu advice about time travel. yikes

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Great book ruined by Ax Norman's terrible reading

Revisado: 09-17-21

I was listening to an old audio version of this book read by John Polk. I believe the recording with originally done for audio cassette and the copy I had was experiencing a lot of audio issues including skipping and some missing pieces including the ending, but in general John Polk did a good job narrating. I figured I would get the audible version so that I would have cleaner audio and no missing sections. To my extreme disappointment I found that there was a different narrator for the audible version of this audiobook and he was absolutely terrible. I'm not sure what is worse, The fact that not only does he mispronounce most of the character names but that he miss pronounces him inconsistently, or the fact that he has absolutely no emotional range or inflection in any of the voices even when the writing explicitly says that a character is speaking with a certain emotion. Ax Norman not only makes it clear that this job is nothing more than a paycheck for him, but that it probably isn't a very large paycheck because he simply does not care and that comes through in his performance. I went back to my John Polk version for the third book in this series because even with all of the audio quality issues it's still a better listen than this guy. I don't know what legal issues prevented them from simply using the John Polk version of the audio that already existed, but what Ax Norman did to this book is a travesty.

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Seemed like a less focused podcast episode

Revisado: 11-08-19

I love Dan Carlin and I am a religious listener to his podcast and spin-off podcast. I was excited to buy this audiobook because I figured it would be like a super even more amazing version of the podcast but honestly it kind of seems like a step down from some of his better podcast episodes. it seemed somehow less focused than his podcast episodes and went off on a lot of tangents that didn't really have much to do with the main theme of the book. Even left out some of the more interesting stories that I think would have been thematically appropriate, like the Russian officer who refused to make an retaliatory strike when their sensors malfunction erroneously told them that the Americans had launched their first strike. in the end I'm not unhappy with my purchase, Dan Carlin has more than earned my money and I will probably continue to buy anything he puts out in future. this wasn't a bad book by any means, it's just that he puts out a ton of very high-quality free content that this book is competing with.

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Great material, terrible audiobook

Revisado: 06-23-19

The information in this book is worth it for any Trekkie, however I think you'd be much better off with the print version. This book is simply not written in a way that works in the audiobook format. 99% of it is told in the form of presenting someone's name and then a quote that is more or less relevant to the content. Unfortunately a lot of the time after the quote is over you may want to recontextualize it by checking the name again or even looking up who that person was, easy in print, pain in the ass in audio format. There is almost no narration outside the string of quotes.

The quotes are voiced by several different readers and some of them were absolutely dreadful and clearly had no familiarity with Trek, no motivation to check the pronunciation of unfamiliar words, and whoever edited the audio didn't care to correct them. Some of the mispronounced words that jumped out at me:

Qo'noS - que-no-es instead of KRO-nos
Kazon - Kah-zon instead of Kay-zon
Marquis - Mark-ee instead of Mah-key
T'Pol - Tee-Pol instead of Tuh'Pol
Locutis - low-cut-us instead of lo-ku-tus
Ensign - in-sign instead of en-sin

That last one isn't even a made up Trek word, it's just a normal English one. The funny thing is a lot of the book focuses on the bad tendancy to have people involved with Trek who didn't know our care about Trek, but it made the same mistake with the voice cast for this book.

Again, lots of great information here, the author did a fantastic job, it's just the audio version that is lacking.

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just weird

Revisado: 05-14-19

These weren't really funny, they were just kind of weird and off-putting. The narration was fine, and the in between bits by Offerman were good, but I think I disliked every single story.

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a little slow at first but picks up well

Revisado: 05-06-19

Lots of interesting characters, twists, intrigue. Great performance by the voice actors. good word building for a short story

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really good story, terrible choice for reader

Revisado: 03-24-19

the Sci-Fi premise was very good and kept me interested the entire time. there was some supernatural elements that I didn't think work that well and the story would have been just as good if not better without them but that's not a huge Mark against it. the biggest problem I had was that the voices all sounded exactly the same, it was hard to tell who was talking, and the reading felt really inappropriate most of the time. I kept on thinking to myself why do all the characters soundboard and kind of gay? until I realized it was John Waters who is doing the reading. now don't get me wrong John Waters is a fine comedian but his sort of sarcastic sense of humor and tone really didn't fit the story. I honestly can't imagine a worse narrator for the story, except for maybe Gilbert Gottfried

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too weird for me

Revisado: 03-16-19

The characters were just bizarre and stupid and terrible. I guess it was an interesting look into human behavior but it wasn't enjoyable

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