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Rushed ending ruined the story

Revisado: 11-01-22

I enjoyed it until the end. But it seemed the author rushed to complete the story.

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Enjoyed it immensely!

Revisado: 12-06-17

It's not the Martian but it was still a great story. Reminded me a lot of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

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Lengthy British legal drama keeps you captivated

Revisado: 02-18-17

What made the experience of listening to The Verdict the most enjoyable?

Narration was terrific and the insights to the British legal system. Much like a Grisham novel, but longer and more involved.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Well, it's all about Terry. He has spunk, morals, and drive plus a flawed past which he has to overcome.

Which scene was your favorite?

Those with the grizzled detective were great.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Hardly, it was 20 hours long! But I did "binge" a bit to get through it.

Any additional comments?

The ending was a bit of a disappointment, unrealistic and it felt rushed to clear up all the details. Otherwise an interesting page-turner.

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Gruesome story with slow moving plot

Revisado: 04-07-16

A very dark and depressing story wrapped inside a police procedural. The ending seemed to drag on forever and was a bit implausible. Well read however.

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Needs fact-checking

Revisado: 02-02-16

Would you try another book from P. M. H. Atwater and/or Tantor Studios?

While the subject is fascinating and provocative, the author reaches too many conclusions, stating them as facts when they are not facts at all. This created for me a lack of trust in the other material presented in the book. But the sheer number of cases which the author states that she has researched makes for a compelling case for NDE's as a real phenomenon. But the overstatement of many of her conclusions left me hard pressed to know what to believe and what not to believe.

Has Near-Death Experiences turned you off from other books in this genre?

No, but I may remain skeptical because of it.

What about Tantor Studios’s performance did you like?

Competent and well-spoken.

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

The large number of cases of NDE's (over 3000?) that the author claims to have researched was a surprising number and lends some credibility to the phenomena.

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Great page-turner YA story, Hunger Games for Geeks

Revisado: 05-03-12

Very enjoyable, compelling story. Couldn't put it down and hated when it finally ended. It has much of the appeal of Hunger Games, except it's about geeks living in an online world to escape the reality of their bleak, post-apocalyptic reality. It has a bit too much reverence for 80's pop culture for me. But I could relate to it even so. Warning! If you haven't played computer/video games very much, or at all - especially many of the games from the 1980's - you may not enjoy or relate to this aspect of the book.
Wil Wheaton performs a great narration and I enjoyed the novelty that he is actually mentioned in the book by name. I wouldn't imagine that that happens very often!

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Good first novel, but not great

Revisado: 01-04-12

It was interesting to read this first novel shortly after reading Grisham's The Litigators, as the stories are fairly similar. This novel delves more into the emotional challenges to the protagonist's life - infidelity, guilt, revenge, retribution - than Grisham does. But in some ways it is a less compelling story. In the end I was left wondering what was the point (of the story) as the plot seemed fairly implausible. Perhpas it was to show the arc of the realization of life priorities - a common occurrence for someone reaching their 35th birthday as does the main character.

I didn't care so much for the reader who needs to work on his pacing (he often rushed phrases of dialog) and to better differentiate his portrayal of characters, especially women. I can't give this book the highest rating, but it kept my interest throughout the story. I look forward to reading the next effort by this new author - perhaps with a different reader.

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Best Stephen King in years

Revisado: 12-04-11

What made the experience of listening to 11-22-63 the most enjoyable?

Very good story. Intriguing, thought-provoking, unexpected. At 30+ hours and knowing Mr. Kings propensity to go on and on - I always felt his books would be much better with a good editor keeping his excesses to a minimum - I was prepared for many boring sections. But even when the story dragged, it was still interesting and then it moved on to something interesting.The narrator's performance was exceptional and personally I enjoyed the voices of Burt Lancaster, Jimmy Stewart and John Houseman as many of the characters. Lots of emotion and pathos in the reading.

What did you like best about this story?

Well, I bought the book because I've always been fascinated with the JFK assassination and while that part was pretty interesting, the overall time travel adventure was much better than I expected. That said, I would have done things much different than Jake. Especially his calamitous methods of raising money. I had some trouble with the

What about Craig Wasson???s performance did you like?

Just great, is all I can say. Very well done and always kept my interest up.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Are you kidding! No way! Too long for anything like that. But I enjoyed taking my time with the whole thing and letting the story unfold in its own sweet time.

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A bold, inventive, well-written first novel

Revisado: 08-26-11

As a previous reviewer, noted, the first half of this novel was more interesting than the second half which felt a bit manipulated to keep the suspense alive. It felt like an old Saturday matinee with each cliff-hanger miraculously topping the previous one. But the novelist's world of magic is inventive and interesting, reminding me more than a bit of the Harry Potter stories. I would recommend this novel and am looking forward to reading the next in the series.
I found the narrator to be interesting and she made it easy to differentiate the characters which is their number one goal in my estimation. As with most female readers, her male characters weren't as realistic as the female characters, but they were all distinguishable from one another.

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Decent story, weak narrator

Revisado: 05-25-11

Having listened to several other (later) Lisa Gardner books, I have to rate Anna Fields a C-. She's OK on the female voices and even exceptional on the child voices, but the male voices are a joke and very distracting from the story. It takes more than speaking in a low-pitched voice to sound like a man would speak!

By contrast the recent Love You More read by Kirsten Potter and Katie MacNichol is very well-done and Hide (the "sequel" to Alone) with Maggi-Meg Reed is also good. The book itself is good and typical of Lisa Gardner - twisty plots, manipulative women, and fast-paced. So far Love You More is my favorite LG novel though,

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