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Boring and dry as dirt.

Revisado: 03-09-25

All the real action in the book is in the movie. Half the book is about Marilyn Lovell. Skip it.

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Very weak narration

Revisado: 01-07-25

That's all I got to say about that. More words to meet the minimum. The end.

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Very repetitive...

Revisado: 12-19-24

...and excessively detailed. I don't care about the contents of her lab and the dorm fire is mentioned at least 50 times.

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Initially entertaining.

Revisado: 12-06-24

Because I'm a Nebraskan very familiar with the area. Which becomes a negative quickly. Hwy 77 doesn't have anything to do with Bennett. It runs connects Lincoln to Beatrice. Hwy 2 connects Lincoln to Hwy 43 to Bennet. So Hwy 43 is correct. However alternating between correct and flat out wrong is annoying. So is the repetition hearing Carol's "version" followed by Charlie's "version". It is mentioned that many "insiders" fully believed - and continue to believe - that Carol was much more "involved" than she was tried and convicted for. Indeed many believed - and believe - she was the "mastermind". The repetition only reinforces her relative "innocence". Not only was she not executed she was parolled at a relatively "young" age.

I'm a "bedtime" listener and upon hearing "hers and his" versions of the Meyer - my last name as well although I don't know of any direct family relationship - murder before falling asleep during the The Crimes section and then yet another "retelling" during the The Trials section was a major turnoff. They serve no purpose since the basic truth - they were murderers and in her case still are - is unchanged.

Mention of "Charlie's crimes" are also sickening. They were - and are - Carol's crimes as well.

Overall this "narrative" smacks of an effort by the author to create his "In Cold Blood". It fails. Maybe not miserably but definitely.

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Twice as long...

Revisado: 09-14-24

...as it needs to be. Then there's the reader. He's like listening to paint dry. Put the speed on 1.10 and its tolerable. Its still too overwritten and excessively detailed. Entire paragraphs about Billy getting meat for a meal, said meat being only a bone, Billy going for more meat etc etc etc. It's ridiculous.

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Lots of filler....

Revisado: 07-09-24

Particularly racial and political commentary from an anti-American British author that per usual for his ilk can't write about U.S. history without bringing up racial and sexual discrimination, political corruption and scandal. Take away that crap and the book is half as long. And who can more ironically comment on those subjects than a "British citizen"?

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Not bad...

Revisado: 03-31-24

...but the intermittent background music sucks and the narrator has good moments and bad.

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Sycophantic toadyinģ...

Revisado: 03-26-24

...to long dead ignorant thugs. There is constant between the lines explaining of how such smart, strong, noble, attractive, brave, honorable "men" with "military experience" and so much experience and skill in the "bush" ended up wandering in circles at a rate of a few miles per day in the "backwoods" of flat as piss on a plate and fairy treeless southern Minnesota.

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Should be Smoke Gets In My Eyes

Revisado: 03-18-24

Because its all about her. Not much to learn here. At least its free.

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The movie may be better than the book.

Revisado: 03-05-24

The movie tells what is a relatively short, simple story in a fraction of the time. With a much better cast.

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