Steven W.

Murder mystery, not an apocalypse book

Revisado: 02-04-25

The book is fundamentally murder mystery, which is pretty good if that’s what you’re looking for. The solar magnetic storm is really a side story that adds a little bit of chaos to an already chaotic murder mystery but isn’t the main plot

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Hug a Hunter!

Revisado: 11-08-24

I am a hunter, so it’s hard not to get into the weeds on so many of these issues. This is a great book to help me understand how to better discuss my passion with folks who are apprehensive about hunting culture and not steeped in its nuances and complexities. This is a great playbook for hunters on how to approach a discussion with the non-hunting public in a well reasoned and high level view that will highlight our similar goals rather than our few differences. I would urge hunters, non-hunters, and especially the hunting curious to get this book a careful listen. Also, the author has a great sense of humor, which makes what could be a very dense topic entertaining and engaging.

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Too much agenda not enough plot

Revisado: 09-04-22

I love a good apocalypse story, but this is a story about religion and agenda… any not much plot. I think we all accept that to get the plot moving you need to engage in some politics, and whether I agree with the device it gets the story started. Not in this book, the plot is a mechanism to hit you over the head again and again with the same political agenda, it’s tiresome and redundant. Even if you agree with the point of view, the agenda interrupts what little story there is. Skip this book, read the overview, it’s the whole story.

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Good Story, Poor Narrator

Revisado: 05-10-10

After reading (listening) to The Belgariad and The Malloreon I thought I would download and listen to the prequels (addendums), Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress. The two, five books series are all read by the same narrator so, the pronunciations and character voices are consistent and well done. Belgarath the Sorcerer is read by a different narrator, the pronunciations are all consistent, but obviously the character voices have to be different, and they were. This wasn't distracting and you became accustom to the new narrator quickly.

Polgara the Sorceress, however, has a poor narrator. She clearly has not listened to any of the previous books, or if she has, she ignored them completely! The pronunciations of: character names, place, and titles ignores all previous narrations. Her syntax is awful, it sounds like a female William Shatner is reading complete with weird and arbitrary pauses, and bizarre dramatic inflections. Her typical reading voice is pleasant, but some of the character voices are so irritating that it's distracting to the story. In addition to this, the audio editing of the reading isn't helping her; many of the stops and starts are very abrupt and are distracting.

This aside, the content of the story is good. It gives you another point of reference for Belgarath's history and reveals interesting things about Polgara and her motivations. I enjoyed the story and suffered the narrator.

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Good Story, Poor Narrator

Revisado: 05-10-10

After reading (listening) to The Belgariad and The Malloreon I thought I would download and listen to the prequels (addendums), Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress. The two, five books series are all read by the same narrator so, the pronunciations and character voices are consistent and well done. Belgarath the Sorcerer is read by a different narrator, the pronunciations are all consistent, but obviously the character voices have to be different, and they were. This wasn't distracting and you became accustom to the new narrator quickly.

Polgara the Sorceress, however, has a poor narrator. She clearly has not listened to any of the previous books, or if she has, she ignored them completely! The pronunciations of: character names, place, and titles ignores all previous narrations. Her syntax is awful, it sounds like a female William Shatner is reading complete with weird and arbitrary pauses, and bizarre dramatic inflections. Her typical reading voice is pleasant, but some of the character voices are so irritating that it's distracting to the story. In addition to this, the audio editing of the reading isn't helping her; many of the stops and starts are very abrupt and are distracting.

This aside, the content of the story is good. It gives you another point of reference for Belgarath's history and reveals interesting things about Polgara and her motivations. I enjoyed the story and suffered the narrator.

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