Randall D. Raymond

Her best yet!

Revisado: 10-14-16

I have listened to every Tana French novel that has come out in audio and loved them all, but for my taste, this is her best. It's a bit more realistic and less dependent on surprising plot twists than some of her other stories, but wonderfully entertaining nonetheless.

I notice that several reviewers have panned the narration of this audiobook. I strongly disagree. I found it at least as well narrated as any other Tana French book I've listened to. Ms. Fay reads in a fairly heavy Irish dialect, which is what you would expect in a story told from the point of view of a working class Dubliner. I found the reading perfectly comprehensible and authentic.

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Good Read, But not for Everyone

Revisado: 11-04-15

I enjoyed this book immensely. However, I have a pretty good background in organic chemistry and biochemistry. Without some background in pharmacology, organic chemistry, or biochemistry, quite a bit of this material will be incomprehensible to you. I think a reasonable minimum pre-requisite to get the most out of the book would be some fairly recent undergraduate course work in one or more of these subjects. Though the author explains many of the technical terms and concepts he introduces, he often explains them in ways that assume only slightly less knowledge than if he offered no explanation at all. I do think a reasonably well educated reader with an interest in the subject could get a lot out of the book without much pharmacological or chemical knowledge if she didn't let the technical details throw her.

I enjoyed the narrator very much, but then I always like to hear narration with a british accent.

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Entire Book Not Included

Revisado: 10-05-15

I downloaded this book on the recommendation of a column in Skeptic Magazine. I was favorably impressed until I got to the last chapter. In this chapter Dr. Levinovitz includes a section in which he introduces a "diet" which does all the things he criticized others for doing in the rest of the book. I was confused until I re-read the column that caused me to purchase the book and saw that it referred to annotations in this final chapter that were NOT included in the audio book. I was so confused that I bought the Kindle edition which included the annotations, and found that Dr. Levinovitz is using his last chapter"diet" to illustrate all the fallacies (i.e. lies) he points out in the rest of the book. Without these annotations the listener is left with a confusing and false idea of the entire purpose of the book. It would have been easy to include these annotations (I have listened to many Audible books where footnotes and annotations are read along with the text) as they are mostly very short and would have added much to the enjoyment of the book.

I would like to say that I gave the performance 1 star, not because I didn't like the narrator, he was, in fact, very good, but because the deletion of the annotations was, IMO part of the performance.

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Deserves at least a six star rating

Revisado: 12-13-14

This is undoubtedly the best course and possibly the best audible product I've ever listened to. Not only is the content fascinating, but Professor McWhorter is an absolute genius as a lecturer. He explains sometimes difficult concepts with crystal clarity and spices things up with funny illustrations, humorous asides and even an occasional song.

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One of King's Best

Revisado: 04-14-13

This is definitely NOT a typical Stephen King horror novel. It's fantasy in a fairytale like style. Still, it is beautifully written in King's compelling manner. Once you've started listening, it's hard to stop.
I don't know how the choosing of readers works at Audible, but King always seems to get the best readers for his books. This book is no exception. Mr. Pinchot is fabulous. I put him right up there with Jim Dale of the Harry Potter series.

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Her best yet!

Revisado: 09-27-12

Tana French is rapidly becoming my favorite writer of mystery thrillers. Quite possibly in my top 10 favorite writers in any genre. I loved In the Woods and Faithful Place and liked The Likeness very much. I would hardly have thought it possible, but this novel beats her others hands down, both as a whodunit and as an interesting set of psychological character studies. Not only is the novel itself wonderful, but Stephen Hogan's narration is the best in the series too. He does a wonderful job differentiating social classes by varying the Irish dialects they speak. All in all it is one of the best audiobooks I've ever listened to.

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An interesting book

Revisado: 07-23-12

Another really interesting book by Dan Ariely. One of the things I like about his books, including this one, is that he goes into great detail explaining how the experiments backing up his claims were conducted; thus allowing the reader/listener some basis for evaluating those claims.

I also really enjoy Simon Jones' posh British accent.

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Definitely not the best in the series

Revisado: 05-16-12

As usual with a King book, you can't put it down once you start. I've read the entire Dark Tower series and this is probably the weakest of the bunch. However, I always enjoy interesting plot devices and this has one of the most unusual King has ever used. I don't think it spoils anything to point it out, but if you want, you can skip to the next paragraph........The book actually tells three stories one inside of another inside of another.

I've gotten used to him, but I really don't care much for King as a narrator, especially since for many of his books he gets some of the best in the business. He has a flat voice and some mildly annoying speech mannerisms (e.g. he swallows his "L's").

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Good Job

Revisado: 05-16-12

Believe me, I am NOT and Apple Fanboi, but I really liked this book. As with his biography of Einstein, Isaacson does a good job of mixing his subject's work with his personal life. The narration is very good, though not outstanding.

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Polemical

Revisado: 05-16-12

I happen to agree with the politics of this book, but if you didn't, you wouldn't find this book very edifying. Short on facts. Long on opinion. This is an author narrated book, and though he does a better job than I would, it is definitely NOT professionally narrated.

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