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Perfect work!

Revisado: 11-30-24

I will immediately begin to read everything by this writer. The artist has a beautiful writing style and the time/angle shifts in plot are expertly done.
This book is an obvious feat for all involved.

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Could not possibly be worse

Revisado: 11-30-24

Shockingly bad. Comically bad!

The guy pauses between each paragraph for a long enough period of time that you could go out for coffee while he audibly swallows and breathes.

There’s also the sometimes utterly meaningless sentence structure and complete lack of even the basic skills one might potentially cobble together in a fifth grade creative writing class.

Someone needs their toys taken away.

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Just not good

Revisado: 10-08-24

I detest the subject of this book but listening to a trust fund kid tell you, in a hokey, folksy way of writing on a 9th grade level, that he made it all on his own and how the Trump name only held him back.

There are plenty of books on this subject. Skip this one. While he may not be the monster his uncle is, he’s no writer either.

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Meh

Revisado: 04-01-24

I’m not sure the author wrote or even previously read this book.

What I thought were speech issues with pronunciation eventually became obvious ignorance of the words and even sentences themselves.
He literally says “statute” for “statue” 4 times in a row (as in ‘they attempted to remove the statute of Jackson by pouring gasoline onto the statute’) the and that’s far from the worst one.

Who can’t pronounce Marine Corps?! Who would say Marine Corpse? Is he 6 years old?

Gas mass is a good one.

Mostly, it’s the reading of sentences as though he doesn’t know what they mean. Emphasis in the wrong places to the extent the meaning is changed.

“We wore gas mass so we wouldn’t cough and hack ourselves.” Not read as ‘so we too don’t cough and hack’ but as ‘I coughed and hacked (on) myself’.

He does provide many details I hadn’t read anywhere else.

He could also stand to be more objective. Not because I disagree with his obvious opinions here but because objectivity just makes for better writing.

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Great book, terrible narrator

Revisado: 03-21-24

I can listen to it again and again to catch it all despite how bad the narrator and his otherworldly pronunciations of common words he’s clearly never heard is.

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Great subject, bad writing

Revisado: 01-22-24

Pretty amateurish work. Author injects his life and feelings to the extent that it makes for a folksy tale (about murder).
Your readers shouldn’t know your wife’s name, much less have to listen to you use it as though we were all on a first name basis.
It could also help not to include asinine observations like “I reminded myself to get the recipe for her zucchini dish” (while he is interviewing someone about a murder).

I tried but I can’t deal with this terrible writing and I won’t be trying with Olsen again.

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Amateurish

Revisado: 12-29-23

Not a professional job. Bad writing, even mid level grammar is off. The writer hired to help shape this up must not have been very good either.
If you can stomach the usual podcaster inclination toward injecting themselves and their lackluster life stories into the ones they research, then you are halfway there. You won’t find yourself fast forging to hear about the thing you actually cared about when you bought the book. The other half of the journey would be that you haven’t read very many true crime books.
The result here is a convoluted mess.
The writer managed to fail at what is easily one of the hottest true crime stories of our time when she had it on a platter.
She topped this mess off by reading it herself, to exactly the end result of any author who does not read or perform professionally (and even some who do).

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Don’t bother

Revisado: 12-21-23

There are much better cult books but Rinder doesn’t come off as, or honestly seem interested in portraying himself as, a decent person. He seems like a terrible and emotionless child. He skips over any reasoning behind leaving the cult and it comes across as very dishonest, as does much of the rest.

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Edit your mess

Revisado: 10-12-23

There is about 6 minutes of useful info here. The rest is a regular phone call with your grandma.
For a person working a book on an author, having read the author’s body of work seems like step one.

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Beyond junk

Revisado: 08-26-23

Troglodyte reading YouTube pages and giving you all the “gory details”. That part is didn’t appreciate. Some of us are interested in the human mind and not the “40 whacks”, Cletus.
You will hear the requisite calling card “Apple dint fawl far from the tree, did she?”
Almost as fun as the incredulous scoffing between “what do you expects”.
Junk it. This should never make it past Uncle Jerry’s asserts bin of homemade prank calls.

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