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Yelling Apparently Makes It Exciting

Revisado: 01-31-25

Performance unbearable. Tried several times over a couple years. I don't need unleveled yelling with every bit of action to make it exiting.

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Who Cares

Revisado: 11-25-24

A mishmash of mostly unrelated stories jammed together. Masses of explication without point, It’s all made up nonsense. Which is great and wonderful in support of a well told tale. There is no tale here, Just Bobsplaing. And more Bobsplaining. And jumping from Bob A to Bob B, I lost track of all the Bob’s and for a while kept going back to figure out which Bob I’m hearing from now. Around chapter 30 (of 72) I stopped caring which was which, or which was where. Or why. Around 53 I gave up altogether, Loved early Bobiverse tales. This one would have bored damp paint.

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Decent

Revisado: 11-05-24

This one felt a bit mechanical and Bray seemed a bit underwhelmed as well, turning in a professional but uninspired performance. Not either the author's or the actor's usual standards. Not bad either.

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Better

Revisado: 06-19-24

More focused and cleanly told than the last few. Being subjected to more antagonist POVs than pro is mostly gone. Still enough pontificating and monologuing to make a superhero film seem pithy. So not all the way back to Wang is a Badass, but on the way. Basically, still needs an editor with a spine and without mercy.

Bray had some odd lapses and a few mix ups of accents. But, still great. More a reminder by contrast of how good things can be than a real problem.

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Drivel, Author Needs Counseling

Revisado: 06-14-24

Main characters are raping, being raped, dismembering, torturing to death. Books barely started. This is just character intros. Feels like the author is trying for every trigger possible. But only comes off as wordy, pathetic, incompetent.

Porter's not bad. But his usual achilles heel is here in spades: female dialogue. He also seems to hate what he's reading, presumably signed a contract a little too fast.

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Bad Prepper Soap Opera

Revisado: 05-30-24

Save you the time: two groups, each composed of the absolutely stupidest people ever to survive a pulp pandemic encounter each other. Extreme, extreme stupidity ensues. By the end you’ll wish everyone dead, The "good" and bad. The good because they have moral compasses that;d embarrass the Khmer Rouge and the foresight of teenagers in an 80’s slasher.

A hundred words where ten would do.
No main characters.
Many irrelevant povs, chapters, and characters.
Seems more like author therapy than a tale for an audience.

Bray as good as he always is.

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Teenager Reading Poetry Mode

Revisado: 05-28-24

Every sentence, no matter how mundane is inflected with deep meaning and artistry. Sentences that actually are meaningful, artistic, never mind deep, sound like a thirteen year old reciting poetry to a crush. Otherwise, audio is good. Great diction, clean recording, Just a probably good actor who seems to have momentarily lost their mind and a producer that didn't notice or care.

Nails on a chalkboard.

Unfinishable. Gave the story four anyway because Howey is usually top notch and nothing here made me think he wouldn't finish in style.

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Same Old Same Old

Revisado: 01-06-24

Summary of book: Bishop dwells at length on his heroic stand against…reasonable nutrition normally needed to perform well under stress. Spoiler: Skippy very slightly impacts the plot by behaving like a spoiled child. But, again the plot is mostly randomness seemingly unrelated to anything before other than through hours of verbal explication. Explication made so much better by Bishop interrupting everyone and anyone after suffering horribly for three or four seconds of someone not Bishop talking.

RC Bray awesome as always. Few more errors creeping in than early books, but fewer than more recent books.

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Big Jump in Story Quality

Revisado: 01-06-24

Almost back to the level of the first few books. Far less filler than the most recent few before it. A bit rushed and spotty in places, but if you've come this far, give it a go.

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Big Bang Theory with Railguns

Revisado: 12-28-23

Childish bickering sprinkled with childish jokes relieved by brief moments of conflict resolved by high fantasy magic (aka extra dimensional AI). As far away from the early books as a broadcast sitcom.

RC Bray turns in a great performance as always. One blemish is a voice meant to very annoying that he unfortunately does very well. As always.

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