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Great Performance of a Classic Story

Revisado: 03-21-25

Two Heroes Journeys in one amazing book. If you’ve seen the movies, you don’t know the Neverending Story. You’re getting less than half. Bastian is an unlikely hero, and this is a great story with subtle messages about identity, unintended consequences, and being careful what you with for.

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Sanderson struggles to write romantic relationships

Revisado: 02-01-25

He is so talented at world building but all his romantic relationships seem so forced. Came to a head in this series and it really bogged down the narrative.

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So Clever

Revisado: 06-25-24

Bargains Galore, what a fun, creative, and yet human story. Another home run from Pratchett and narration triumph by Briggs.

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Lewis Great, unnecessary filler

Revisado: 01-04-24

The Lewis content is excellent. The filler around it is terrible. Recommended for not only hearing Lewis’s own voice, but for deep insight into the varied forms of love.

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Major Let-Down

Revisado: 12-12-23

First of all, this was basically a dramatized biography of C.S. Lewis, and clearly constructed around that rather than any actual attempt at storytelling. If a group of college students collaborated on writing a creative report, it would be the same level.

Second, while the narrator was a good reader overall, she was either poorly directed or did zero research. She gave both young and adult Warren and Clive Lewis strong modern northern Irish accents. And while they did have strong Ulster accents as children, they were educated in English schools, and Clive Lewis was an Oxford scholar. Recordings of him exist, and there is no trace of the Belfast accent of his youth, which would be more easily mistaken for Scottish than an Irish accent anyway!! It made this audiobook totally unlistenable.

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Pratchett and Planer are a Power Partnership

Revisado: 10-24-23

How do you make a great book even better? Add a great narrator.
As always, you think it’s going to be a silly fantasy story, and it gets deep without getting preachy. Love it. And Nigel Planer is the perfect narrator. A master of unique voices, accents, comedic timing, and serious moments.

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Short but good

Revisado: 09-30-23

Some parts are clearly repeats of Mere Christianity, which itself was a collection of essays. But the whole makes sense and the reader is excellent.

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Worst in the series.

Revisado: 09-05-23

Author decided to be a toolbag to a segment of listeners. I won’t be continuing with the series and supporting this jerk anymore.

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Not the Greatest, but Interesting Enough

Revisado: 04-12-23

This narrator is okay, but she drove me nuts continually pronouncing “Jesus” to rhyme with “Cheeses.” I’ve never heard it said that way.

Also, the story was circular, couched in tons of cultural context that got repetitive. It was a bit hard to follow.

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ABRIDGED

Revisado: 02-17-23

This is a deviation from the rest of the series, which is narrated by John McDonough. The rest of the series is unabridged, and the audiobooks run upwards of 12 hours. This one is 3 hours, and narrated by the author. She does an okay job, but I hate abridged versions, especially having read and heard the unabridged in the past. Ridiculous. I don't know what rights disputes Audible might be having, but I hope they get over it soon and get the better version. I returned this unfinished.

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