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Book is vile. No stars would be appropriate.

Revisado: 06-17-21

No attempt was made to tell a mystery. Everything out of the mouth of the main character is an attempt to be humorous. If you want poor humor you might find this book interesting but if you want a hard core mystery it's not here. The mystery is that publishers think this is a police procedural mystery. Waste of time and money.

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Not worth buying

Revisado: 05-25-19

Not only boring and not worth buying, but content seems like gobilty-goop. He seems to have reasons for anything about cat behavior that enters his head and makes it up as he goes along.

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Totally boring

Revisado: 03-02-19

I really don't know which is more boring - the story or the reader. It must be the combination of both.

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Musical words without a story only harmonious sound.

Revisado: 09-23-18

One star is one star to many. Talking, talking, talking - the author is more in love with the sound of his words than in creating a story. The reader only has the sound of words rather than a story to tell; although her reading is as melodious as in an opera.

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Boring!

Revisado: 10-10-17

did not finish. much overused plot which doesn't stand the test of time nor hold my interest.

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Tongue in cheek or sour grapes?

Revisado: 03-02-15

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The auther sounds as though he would like to play with the big boys at CERN. He so would like to exchange his Vander Graaf generator for a Large Hadron Collider. Brockman seems to be of the opinion that "Higgs boson" should really be named "Brockman boson". If only he was a particle scientist the Noble prize would have been his.

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Entertainment not Education.

Revisado: 08-10-14

What was most disappointing about The Great Courses’s story?

In Language A to Z John McWhorter entertains rather than educates. He gaily skips across a bed of quick-sand (language and grammar). McWhorter neither stumbles nor falls. N’ere even gets a toe wet. I don’t want to drown in a sea of grammar but would have liked to, at least, get ankle deep or even knee deep. Every time I reached for a pencil to take a note I found that McWhorter had changed direction and was forging forward on a different train of thought. McWhorter is bright, knowledgeable and witty. Perfect for a cocktail party not for a Great Course!

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Religion Add-on

Revisado: 06-05-14

What disappointed you about Truth-Stained Lies?

The mystery is quite nice BUT once the mystery is solved Christian theology is added. There is no reason to add Christian theology to this story. It does not add to the story nor is it necessary to understand the conclusion. For me to read "let's pray" as part of the story is completely OK but to make the request to pray to a Christian G-d excludes me and all the readers who have faith but are not Christians.

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Far beyond Good

Revisado: 05-01-14

Where does The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

There was really nothing about this book that attracted me except the sale price. So - I bought it, put it aside for later, and started to listen to it when my internet cable was down (out of shear boredom ). What a wonderful surprise! I found everything about this book, the story, the main protagonist, the reader, and the pace and sound of the language to be beyond my wildest expectation. Please get this book. Just sit back and listen and just say ahhhhh.

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Totally A Waste of Time

Revisado: 05-26-13

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I had expected an interesting story in line with Dan Brown's quasi historic pot boilers. Alas, this book is total hog-wash -- Blaming America for 9/11 --
Drawing parallels between the fall of the first Temple in Jerusalem and the fall of WTC is beyond contempt. One would have to be a rather dim bulb to see these happenings as G-d's punishment for the deeds of the victims rather than the actions of evil men.

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