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made a murder mystery boring

Revisado: 02-15-25

Presumably in an effort for verisimilitude, the author dragged out the story with boring characters too many irrelevant details and a glacial pace. This was "masterpiece theater" for the demented .
very disappointed.
The narrator was competent / skilled and my low score for the book was not his fault.
Since there is another book by the author in this series available with membership, so I'll give him another shot..but if this is his tempo/style, he isn't for me...

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don’t get it

Revisado: 02-10-25

in fairness, I didn’t /couldn’t this.. just sounded very whiny
more whiny than a witty observation of the human condition anyway

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well done, plot, action etc

Revisado: 12-04-24

a good grey man action novel. good narrator . if you like the series you will like this one

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excellent

Revisado: 06-02-24

excellent accurate exciting by an experienced naval aviator . life abord ship and in combat.
clearly based on experience as an F18 pilot!

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This needed an editor- to screen from publication

Revisado: 02-06-24

The story meandered about two clueless older guys crossing the bar in a Hobie Mirage Kyack, a couple paragraphs for no real reason about 2 paragraphs on the columbia river geography, too much detail about an abusive father and some interesting history about the columbia bar seemingly taken...plagiarized..from the excellent book ASTORIA (cant recommend enough..a fascinating historical account of the founding of the city / fort of Astoria..).
The adventure of crossing the bar was strangely without much detail.... I have crossed the bar several times in 40-50 ft boats and found it sometimes terrifying, sometimes flat and lake -like (depending on how well you time the crossing with tides) but there are very interesting features of the river that are absent in this book. The characters in this book seemed foolish and willfully ignorent with a mission that had no point...
The narrator was ok , but mispronounced a number of words he should have been able to have researched proper pronunciation as a professional narrator.
I lost interest in this odd story with no seemingly point. WIll return the title if I can.

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Excellent

Revisado: 02-06-24

I had head of rudolf deisel and knew alot about the deisel engine of today.... but had no idea of this history and story of his death
very well done

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Narrator very bad with dialog

Revisado: 09-05-23

The plot and characters are interesting the writing and plot move along but the narration really ruins the story. The narrator reads the first person perspective well but is terrible with performing dialog .
He is very amateurish with the same annoying tone of voice for male and specially female voices when speaking dialog. The speaking of characters other than the protagonist is sort of a yell with absent or inappropriate inflection of voice.
It is reminiscent of what I would imagine a first reading of actors in a high school play would sound like .
I am really surprised this narrator got the job for a book that has dialog... he is simply not equipped to do the voice acting required and expected for audible.
It makes one appreciate the excellent, talented skillful performances of the narrators of audible books we often take for granted.

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not much sailing in this one

Revisado: 03-26-23

was very disappointed in the lack of sailing or action in general in this one.
I bought it because I enjoy sailing ships in action , maneuvering , life aboard ships in the age of sail and general nautical action…. it is almost absent .

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narrator is very irritating.

Revisado: 07-27-20

the narrator ruined the story for me. he uses the same sing-song voice for the entire book regardless of what he is describing except when speaking in a characters voice. the inflection is hard to describe but is like a kinder garden teacher reading a fairytale out loud to the class.
the book is written primarily as a 3rd person , so the narrator is really distracting and annoying.
it is too bad too, since he is pretty skilled with voices/accents.
maybe that is why the book was on a sale or reduced price of some sort.

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technical issues

Revisado: 08-13-19

at least one chapter is misplaced in sequence and i believe at least the last chapter is missing- ends abruptly. too bad since is otherwise very well done

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