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Predictable and silly

Revisado: 03-11-24

You could train an AI on Clancy novels and it would produce something like this. BUT the reader was excellent.

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shallow

Revisado: 02-24-23

The characters are 2d caricatures. I could tolerate that if there was an interesting plot, but after 7 chapters nothing had happened. I'm returning it.

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Frustrating

Revisado: 02-20-23

A finely sculpted courtroom drama with an important message, inexplicably padded with endless, irrelevant character sketches.

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Incredible lack of empathy

Revisado: 07-29-22

I spent hours listening to women emote about what THEY had lost - my son, my husband, my brother. Personally I am horrified by the thought of a loved one dying, scared and in pain. Aren’t you? My own misfortune in having to go on without them would pale in comparison. Yet that is all these characters seem to care about. I was left feeling pretty queasy.

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Gobbledegook

Revisado: 06-20-22

A few interesting observations padded with pointless metaphors and shallow, self-contradictory advice. Read Taleb instead.

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Best

Revisado: 06-05-22

This is the best audiobook of the last 100 or so that I’ve heard. Highly recommended.

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Well intentioned but badly written.

Revisado: 04-05-21

This book is infuriatingly vague, long on speechifying and short on concrete ideas. The author constantly commits the cardinal sin of climate writing: describing the worst-case scenario as if it were the most likely scenario.
Most of the book is a “future history” of humanity’s struggles with climate change, something that has already been done, and vastly better, by Kim Stanley Robinson in “Ministry for the Future”. Read that.

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My new favorite author.

Revisado: 11-11-18

One day in the life of one man - ordinarily you’d have to pay me to read such drudgery. But having read The Children Act I’ll read anything by McEwan. This one is even better. It’s not just exquisite writing; it’s a powerful meditation on life in the modern world.

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Great writer

Revisado: 12-24-17

Like Stephen King, Dean Koontz is a great writer in a genre not known for great writers. Children are a weak spot, and here there are a couple who sound a decade older than they’re supposed to be. But the descriptions of scenes and of the main characters’ thoughts are often enchanting, a quality enhanced by the excellent reader. Oh yeah, and it’s a really good story!

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Great story by a really good writer, well read.

Revisado: 12-10-17

As a writer, Koontz is definitely a cut above the rest in this genre. A minor flaw here; the child character sounded a bit fake. I’m guessing he doesn’t have kids. Otherwise, really first rate. The reader was fine; I’ll watch for others by her.

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