Darko

A must read.

Revisado: 08-12-23

One of the best books I’ve ever read. Hard to believe it was written in 1839. Highly recommend.

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Aged so poorly.

Revisado: 03-07-23

Sci-fi novels either age extremely well (Dune) or get stuck in the time they’ve been written. This sci-fi novel aged poorly, probably already a month after it was published. Whether human clones would have a soul is such an uninteresting and dated question, I barley made it through the book. & the entire book relies on this hypothesis. IVF, growing human organs in animals, embryonic stem cell research — all those concepts were not groundbreaking in the year 2005, and they make this poor effort at a moral dilemma fall flat. I am gladly letting this book go. Goodbye.
PS. If you are unaware; this is a young adult novel. A genre that really shouldn’t exist, but it makes the prose unbearably juvenile. Making your characters “clones” is a poor excuse of making little effort to develop your characters. I should’ve learned my lesson with ‘Klara and the Sun’.

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Who whispers while reading an audiobook?

Revisado: 01-12-23

A great book if you want to learn about Sri Lankan history while reading a poorly written fantasy sci-fi murder crime thriller. Also, the narrator doesn’t read the book, he whispers it, a huge issues when trying to listen anywhere out in the open.

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A book full of jokes, not of them funny.

Revisado: 11-28-22

What a disaster this book is. The author is trying so hard to be funny, and it failed every, single, time. Self-indulgent, contrived, pointless, story-less. This is an example of how not to write a novel. I keep all the books I read, I’m returning this one. Some moments in the book were so cringey, I almost didn’t finish it (the brunch episode for example). Do yourself a favor and skip this one.

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Not a good narration, okay story.

Revisado: 12-02-21

Narration is quite bad, the reader is just not a good reader. I had to re-listen a lot of times to figure out what was being said. I’ve listened to a lot of audio books, and this is the first one where I wanted to slow down the speed.

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The worst audiobook I’ve ever listened to.

Revisado: 01-03-21

This is by far the worst audiobook ever. The narrator changes the speed of reading constantly, even within a single sentence, making it impossible to follow. It’s the one thing you should never do when recording an audiobook. Combine that with awful accents that are used to portray characters ethnic backgrounds, it’s a disaster, and borderline racists. The book itself is very bad, which doesn’t help, it feels like it was written by a 12 year old; undeveloped characters, storyline that feels like was written in a day, with no imagination or detail, or novelty, bizarre and rapid change of emotion and circumstances, really bad. Probably the worst book I’ve read in years.

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