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A suggestion

Revisado: 11-25-24

Not a review; a suggestion:
Dear Producer, when the author says that someone is shouting or raising their voice, DO NOT allow the volume to pin the VU meter. Turn down the volume. I had some painful moments as I scrambled to reduce the volume, and then turn it back UP again once the passage was over.
This is not the narrator's fault, but a basic error in production.
OUCH!

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Confused

Revisado: 08-27-24

Overwrought . Who is who? What is happening?Sometimes dialog is unintelligible. To many writers.
Just no.

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Moony, Swoony, Turgid.

Revisado: 08-25-24

A slog of ponderous faux wisdom and almost random character description, this science fiction epic does not understand physics nor astrophysics and wastes my time.
I regret that the narrator, with her beautiful, yet over the top plummy received English accent was not closely on a tour to make sure that she use the correct words. Not her fault – but the director’s.
Overwritten pile of words hiding a lack of real content. .

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Fun Story, Too Many Words

Revisado: 01-16-24

Craig seems to be a nice guy and I could never be as creative. But I am tired of the bloated word count and the endless, repetitive arguments. Caz will have to save the world in Part III without me. I’m done.

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Superb

Revisado: 01-31-23

The last of the early parker sherries and the most involved and satisfying. I try to read the whole series every 10 years or so. I’m old now so maybe this is the last time. I’ll give it a go again if I’m still around at 85 and have a brain in my head.

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Delicious: Bertie Wooster if He Had a Brain

Revisado: 08-03-21

Stephen Hunter channels P.G. Wodehouse. What a master of different styles!
Yes, Bertie Wooster if he had a a Brain AND was also James Bond.
The language is exquisite, descriptions are lyrical, the values are both stiff upper lip and roguishly subversive.
The actionis exciting and the plot complex but clear.
Vivian Leigh is delightfully defamed.
Oh how I wish this were longer. Make this a series, Stephen, if it doesn’t distract you from Bob Lee.

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Wonderfully Detailed

Revisado: 12-21-20

I could have wished Scott Eyman had delved even deeper, and make no mistake, this was already a deep dive.
I loved the technical stuff, the quotations, and the author's own mini critiques of the landmark movies mentioned.

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Fun Story- Loser Protagonist

Revisado: 04-01-20

I had no problem with the fantastical Freaky-Friday, alternate universe, time travel story. The narrator was fun. All of that was good.
What constantly brought me down and made me switch off for hours was our heroine Jo.
Jo was:
cowardly
a whiner
an hysteric
a let-down to the people she needed and needed her
slow on the uptake
Incompetent
Unempathetic and selfish
a tin-plated loser.

Each new episode gave her a chance to disappoint herself and others, zone out, flake off, have a fit, make a bed decision. She hardly seemed like a grown woman, even in her older “adult” version.

If that does not bug you, I recommend the story, because everything else is great. It is a jet fighter piloted by Mr. MacGoo.

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Narrator Need to Calm Down-- I Had to Take Breaks

Revisado: 02-13-20

I like stories like this. The issue is a new and successful mutation that makes people more capable, but threatens the status quo. What makes the trilogy wearisome is the narrator. He has 2 levels: calm and hysterical. Whenever there is an argument, a confrontation, a mere disagreement, his throat clenches, his teeth grit, he goes all Clint Eastwood. There is menace, constricted larynx, higher pitch or low growling. This grows tiresome and is not realistic.

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Great, but Just a Taste of What Could Have Been

Revisado: 06-26-19

Thomas Harris' characters are deeply and deftly drawn, and the simple story of treasure recovery is great. The action scenes are dynamite. Every page was a pleasure.
Sadly, except perhaps for the Heroine and the wonderfully monstrous chief villain, you are fully introduced to fascinating character after character, each of whom could support an entire novel on their own, and then they are simply cogs in the gears of the story machine.

In another analogy, Harris opens a treasure chest of jewels and then does not let you dig your fingers into them.
What of the Detective? What of the Naturalist? What of the Real Estate Man or the Mechanical Expert so good with bomb disarming.

Don't do this to us Thomas!

By the way, in the audiobook version, the author narrates himself. He, like Neil Gaiman, is wonderful, which is rarely the case when authors try their hand at this craft.

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