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narrator’s mindless, repetitive inflection ruins an otherwise good collection of stories

Revisado: 06-02-24

The stories are good, but the narrator repeatedly puts emphasis on the wrong parts of sentences making it clear she’s inflecting out of habit and not paying any attention to what she’s reading. In many cases the emphasis is so far off that it’s hard to decipher what she’s trying to say and she often does it so repetitively, inflecting every sentence the exact same way without regard for the sentence structure or meaning, that it has the same affect as someone annoyingly drumming their fingers on the table next to you when you’re trying to concentrate. She made it un-listenable for me.

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If you’re narrating a book called “…Conan the Cimmerian” just maybe your ahould lookup how to pronounce “Cimmerian”

Revisado: 05-18-24

I love the Conan stories but, while the narrator has a great voice and has a good presence, the constant mispronunciations of words like “dais” are distracting and the incessant mispronunciation of “Cimmerian” and “Cimmaria”, two words that are scattered throughout every story, is painful to the point I just can’t complete this audiobook. The narrator seriously needs to learn how to use a search engine or a dictionary.

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Ruined by the narrator

Revisado: 08-22-23

The stories are good, but the narrator is painfully bad in places.

He's the. Type of. Narrator that constantly. Inserts random. Passes In the middle. Of sentences.
Which is distracting enough, but he tries to differentiate characters by giving each one a different accent and they often drift into the silly or annoying sounding. In at least one story he reads a character with an absolutely horrible caricature of an Italian accent that sounds like Mario from the Nintendo games. I kept half expecting the character to say, "Hey, it's-a me! Mario!" Or something like, "That's-a one-a spicy-a meatball!" I couldn't finish that story and gave up on the book as a whole not too long after that.

It's a shame, the narrator's voice has a nice timber and would be good to listen to if he would actually rehearse the reads and/or pay attention to what he's reading. And if he would stop with the silly accents. He's far from the worst narrator I've heard, but did a bad enough job in this case, that I couldn't finish listening to the book.

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Great collection of classic stories often ruined by poor narration

Revisado: 07-18-21

In many cases it's clear the narrators are reading without paying any attention as emphasis is consistently put on the wrong parts of a paragraph or something is spoken happily that should be intense or vice versa. Irregular, mid-sentence pauses, as if the narrator is trying to read the rest of the sentence and figure out how to say it, also often confuses the narration.

I rated the narrators with 2 stars instead of one because they do pronounce things clearly and have voices that are mostly nice to listen to.

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Manchild writes book filled with his opinion

Revisado: 08-31-19

I love the topic of this book, but the treatment is juvenile and I can’t listen to it without hearing the voice of the “comic book guy” from the Simpsons overlay the actual narrator. This has way too much of the author’s I’m-a-middle-aged-man-child-living-in-my-mother’s-basement-and-here’s-my-opinion-on-what-the-military-did-wrong and not enough actual information. I gave up on it less than half way though and returned it to audible.

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Dune this is not.

Revisado: 12-28-11

This might have been a slightly better book if it were about 1/3 it's current length. The authors have a tendancy to repeat the exact same thing over and over and over and over again using only slight variations in word choice.

There are huge logic holes such as the thinking machines being held back by a planetary shield that would fry their gell brains but not those of the cymechs (because just using the term cyborg is so uncool) under their control who had human brains. The cymechs drop through the shield to the planets surface and attempt to disable the shield in a combat where all of them apparently stood around doing nothing while the humans ganged up on one after another because that was the only way the puny human weapons could destroy the cymechs. Of course after only destroying a few of the cymechs the remainder flee the planet. Um, since cymechs and human ships and their electronics could go through the sheild why would the thinking machines waste time sending the cymechs through rather than just firing missiles or bombs on the shield generators? Or, since their objective was to destroy the humans anyway, why not just bomb the entire surface of the planet into oblivion -- they had 100 years to prepare for this battle.

The characters seemed like they were drawn up by an illiterate 13 year old and were praised ad nauseum by the authors. For instance an officer is referred to as a military genius because he ordered soldiers to defend the shield generators mentioned above rather than defending a city. I'm sorry, but there's just not a lot of thought necessary to determine that defending the only thing keeping the entire planet alive is probably a better option than protecting a nearby city.

The narrator is also pretty bad. He has a good voice but occasionally speaks for characters in his narrator voice which was distracting enough to snap me out of the story. Some of his character voices are pretty weak too, especially some of the robots.

If you think the "G.I. Joe" movie had a solid level of realism, or the plot of "The Last Airbender" was deep, complex and intriguing, then this may be a very entertaining book for you. If you are a die hard fanatic of the Dune mythos, this might be bearable. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else.

I only listened to the first 4 or 5 hours before I just couldn't take saying "Oh please, that is so stupid!" anymore.

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Unadulterated, unscientific garbage.

Revisado: 10-03-11

According to the first couple of chapters, the author would have you believe that his approach to healthy living means exposure to something like the ebola virus would not harm you. It is truly sad such a valuable topic as healthy living was treated with this kind of superstitious ignorance. This book is a travesty.

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