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Not sure why there are so many complaints about the narration, it’s lovely!

Revisado: 07-27-22

I can’t help but think that the people complaining about the narration are the same ones that get angry when video games feature female characters and call it “forced diversity” and “unnecessary wokeness.”

She did a fantastic job. There is no confusion about who is speaking. Yes, Robert Petkoff does a better job at “doing the voices” but if you get confused about who is speaking in an audio book because the narrator doesn’t sound exactly like the tv characters… maybe just watch the movie this is based on..?

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Poorly read, racist story.

Revisado: 05-13-22

Was is really not possible to get a reader that has seen an episode of Star Trek? There are so many words that are specific to the ST universe and the reader didn’t get any of them right.

It really takes you out of the story and it happens a LOT. At least somebody seems to have told this guy about half way through how to pronounce Ferengi (no, it sure isn’t FAIR- en- gai). Yem hadar? Come on.


Spoiler?


And the story.. um… was it really necessary to give the terrorists middle eastern sounding names?

It’s a race of people specifically invented for this story. The “extremists” fly ships into space stations. Namoud Ak Bahail, Mossam ak Foral, Seresh ak Momad, Jorrun (read as YaRon, how Aaron is usually pronounced in Hebrew) and Kumaah. Really?

And the star fleet members refer to them as “red skins”? WTF?

I know it was written by two German people, but the whole thing felt like a VERY thinly veiled reference to 9/11. It made me really uncomfortable.

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Lovely story!

Revisado: 03-18-22

Clever and well written. Immersive story and scenery. Deep characters that grow and learn. Just lovely. I wonder if there will be a third book?

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Unlistenable. "Xan" is pronounced "Zan."

Revisado: 02-07-21

How does a narrator get through an entire book without figuring out how to pronounce a frequently used character name? It's clear he knows he's saying it wrong, he doesn't say it the same way twice in a row. Ksan. Kasan. Zan (ahh...), CHaSan (*&^%!!), Ex-Ann. No. Just no.

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Not useful as an audio book, not useful at all.

Revisado: 01-17-20

First of all, get a narrator with basic knowledge of how to pronounce medical and anatomical words. It's hard to give credence to a book when you are hearing so many words being so badly mispronounced.

Second, the entire first EIGHT hours are just a brochure/commercial for the last hour. It is not appropriate to refer to "Part 2" so many times in a book where you can not flip around to actually find that section. You have to sit through eight hours of useless stories/anecdotes, a little basic anatomical information and a huge build up to "the basic exercise." It's a 7:59:10 if you want to bother.

We also learn, about six hours in that the "real" exercises are too difficult to teach in a book, rather than an in person class, so what we are going to get, if we can bear another two hours of useless fluff, is a watered down, not nearly as successful exercise that was created for the book. Why spend 8 hours hyping up something that isn't even going to be provided?

The author is a massage therapist practicing in Europe, so perhaps is not aware that the advice he is giving massage therapists on how to asses and advise patients is illegal in the USA, would be considered practicing beyond their scope and would result in loss of license and possible criminal prosecution.

Glad audible has a return/refund feature.

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Awful.. not for sleeping.. huge volume fluxuations

Revisado: 10-07-14

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

What I really appreciate in a SLEEP hypnosis program is the ability to SLEEP through it. There seems to be an attempt made about every 15 minutes or so to jar the listener awake with sudden silence in the midst of talking, jangly piano music after several minutes of quiet ocean sounds, many minutes of near silence with barely audible tones back to some VERY LOUD TALKING. Sheesh. And why on earth is the default conclusion to the (rushed, not relaxing) relaxation bit at the beginning to bring me "WIDE AWAKE!! unless you'd rather sleep, then do that or whatever.. but otherwise!! Get Ready!!! We're gonna count up to being WIDE AWAKE!!!" For !@#!@ sake. Are you trying to make me an "alpha female" by pissing me off and depriving me of sleep while wasting my audible credits? It's working.

What do you think your next listen will be?

Probably a free Youtube video that will do a much better job. Or maybe I'll make one myself with my cell phone. Maybe Audible will buy it!!

Would you be willing to try another one of Joel Thielke’s performances?

No. This was unlistenable.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Be an Alpha Female & Empower Yourself with Hypnosis, Meditation, and Affirmations?

This recording was clearly not edited by anyone.. though some of the jarring blank spots do seem to be editing remnants.. so maybe it was. I can't imagine that a person previewed any of the (jarring) piano music selections and thought, "Yeah.. someone could sleep through this...!"

The fluctuation in volume does not seem intentional or helpful.. ESPECIALLY the COMMERCIAL at the end. Did you really need to follow up the subliminal, nearly silent ocean sounds section with a full volume announcement about the author, copyright and website information? REALLY? You needed to wake me up to tell me about your website? 4 hours deep puts that around 2am. Thanks a lot. It's bad enough that Audible tacks on a cheerful "Audible hopes you have enjoyed this program!" to the end of everything, even if it is intended for sleep. Audible is just being thoughtless. Most of their books are not for sleep. This is the freaking SLEEP LEARNING SYSTEM. There are moons on the cover art! What are we not clear on here? If I'm going to learn in my sleep, you have to let me SLEEP. GAHH!!!

Any additional comments?

There is just no organization here. It's a random, noisy hodgepodge of poorly edited, poorly created, poorly selected sounds. Don't waste your time, sleep or credits.

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