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Best one yet.

Revisado: 12-21-24

I liked the other two and were impressed with them, but this one is my favorite so far.

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Beautiful.

Revisado: 01-12-24

Fascinating book. I consume a fair number of books and audiobooks in this genre and still I found this one uniquely captivating and thought-provoking. It is also a rather beautiful homage to Steven.

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Rare Moment Narration Forces Me to Quit

Revisado: 08-11-23

This novel is highly regarded amongst people I know and it certainly has to be for a reason. Unfortunately I was unable to get into the story. I’m not quite sure why. I imagine if someone made an outline of the story and handed it to me, I’d find it interesting and would want to read/listen. Maybe the prose? Not sure. I’ve seen reviewers elsewhere state that it drags on. I did not finish beyond the halfway point.

I rarely DNF audiobooks. In this case, the narration was particularly bad. Every single character has a near identical voice that, at least I, could not differentiate and this made the story unnecessarily difficult to follow. On top of this, the voice used sounds like a cartoonishly greasy villain. It’s vaguely “eastern.” Not quite Eastern European. Not not quite Middle Eastern. I haven’t seen Aladdin since I was a young child, but it makes me think of the villain in that movie for some reason. I could be misremembering the accent used, but it seems the author goes for something vaguely sinister and exotic and it sounds like a caricature of something from the orient.

The choices strike me as bizarre. In short, the story was hard to get into and the accent used is suffused with an ambient level of cringe that made sticking to it too costly to justify not moving to the next item on my list.

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Extraordinary

Revisado: 07-26-23

Beautiful story. Not my usual genre, but I loved this immensely. This book and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin will likely occupy my top two spots for fiction this year.

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Extraordinary

Revisado: 01-29-22

Like many I came across this novel as a fan of Cixin Liu’s The Three Body Problem trilogy. Loved the story. Great narrator too.

Only thing that annoyed me is that supposedly all dinosaur species were intelligent and lived amongst each other. That’s as realistic as having an Earth civilization where there are kangaroos and horses working as engineers and administrators.

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Boring.

Revisado: 12-06-21

This was just a boring novel. I don’t see why it has received generally good reviews.

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First hour is excruciating. Worth doing anyway.

Revisado: 02-04-21

The first hour or so made me furious. The main protagonist’s voice was absurdly annoying. It gets better over time and the story is compelling. The themes are worth exploring. I’ll leave it at that.

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Extraordinary

Revisado: 10-04-20

I was transfixed. Often gave me goosebumps. Wow.

Note: If you dislike the narration, try speeding it up.

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Fascinating read

Revisado: 01-26-20

It had always puzzled me why women and girls run through best friends like toilet paper, this makes a lot of sense of just how unique men’s and women’s social dynamics are. Also explains my hobbies as interests when I was a boy. I thought my childhood obsession with big explosions and throwing rocks made me odd. Turns out that’s normal.

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Best of Crichton

Revisado: 01-19-20

No, this isn’t another story about genetically cloned dinosaurs coming to life. But in some ways it’s equal to Jurassic Park and vastly better than The Lost World. Crichton has generally been the sort of writer who evokes suspense and excitement. But here he engages with a far great panoply of emotions. Crichton’s novels have always been more that thrillers in how meticulously he blends the science with the fiction. In Dragon Teeth he goes forward far deeper into personal enmities and the sense of righteous indignation. Beautifully written and beautifully read.

P.S. To those who think this doesn’t sound like Crichton, he’s shown he experiments with his writing style as in The Great Train Robbery.

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