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Fascinating yet stress free

Revisado: 04-03-25

Right in the sweet spot for occupying the mind to prevent stressful rumination while falling asleep.

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The sense of humor even about serious matters.

Revisado: 04-28-24

The reader’s totally flat style, betraying no affinity for the content whatsoever. Like listening to AI read.

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How can something be both interesting an soporific?

Revisado: 07-16-23

My favorite thing to listen too when I have a bad case of busy brain, and need to distract it, but also don’t want to get sucked into a long reading/listening session. Just right: engages my interest even though I have practically memorized it, but does not lead to any agitated thoughts. What a gem!

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Another intelligent page-turner.

Revisado: 01-23-23

Good heartfelt development of the dramatist personae, a wild but believable yarn, and tons of interesting context along the way. You never glimpse the edge of the holodeck.

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Happy Distractions

Revisado: 09-22-22

For when one wants to follow a line of crunchy intellectual breadcrumbs, but doesn’t want to run the risk of being upset by an actual storyline. So few books really fit this niche. Many thanks to the author and the narrator!

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Making the outlandish plausible again, in such good style!

Revisado: 09-20-21

Well written, intelligent yet outrageous. The characters are as strange as real people. The premise is so far-fetched that it has that “stranger than fiction” quality that it paradoxically creates a sense of reality. Almost as a byproduct, it is full of insights about what makes people tick, as most of their books are.
Love it. Already waiting for the next one-/:-)

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Koontz at his best narrating in the first person

Revisado: 06-01-15

If you love Dean's Film Noire/catholic/deeply-weird imagination, with all its gothic atmosphere and dog-centric philosophy, but dislike putting up with seemingly endless clinically detailed sickening descriptions of the interior thoughts and emotions of the criminally insane, then Moonlight Bay is the Koontz-o-sphere for you. I often fail to jive with stories written in the first person, due to the frequency of an egocentric tone and a monotonously monologing point of view that begs the question "when would this type of person ever end up telling/writing their story this way???" But Koontz has succeeded in presenting a main character who is totally believable AS the teller of the story. He also does this in his categorizable book "Innocence". Nick Carraway has company.

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Nothing like it....

Revisado: 05-20-15

It defined Cyberpunk, and has never been surpassed. Period.

That being said, the character of YT is not a three dimensional person, and she is utterly psychologically invalid as a 15 year old. I guess this can be partially explained by the absurd notion common in the 80s that teens would just keep getting more and more promiscuous at younger and younger ages. Good ol' Neal hadn't hadn't seen the pendulum swing back in the NeoVictorian direction yet (to borrow his own term from the Diamond Age, where YT does in fact play a small but important roll!)

Never the less, this is a thought provoking and FUN book. Well worth the time, and the reader here is spot-on perfect.

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Belloc is clear as a bell

Revisado: 04-05-15

A top notch essay on the application of Catholic social ethics to the situation at the beginning of WW2. Includes an enlightening recap of the events leading to the period of the war just prior to the fall of France. Rare to read such an unequivocal rational voice on the subject of geopolitics. Whether or not you find yourself agreeing with him you will find the engagement with his overview thesis worth having. The narrator is a tad breezy here, but still quite listenable. Time well spent!

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First hand accounts just don't get any better.

Revisado: 04-04-15

To have such a readable and fascinating first-hand account of the highest levels of command during the war that defined the 20th century and set the stage for our own time is a treasure. If by forgetting history we are doomed to repeat it, this account is nothing short of a call to arms against fate itself. Read it.

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