Benjamin Daulton

I'm not finished, but

Revisado: 08-29-23

I don't know if it's bad to say this, but I have never been so happy for Moses to pass. I have been hearing the story my entire life and this is the only time that it pained me. The voice hurts my brain like some mind sandpaper and if that wasn't bad enough his words flow like Heinz ketchup. I guess it is mean of me to make fun of someone doing something that's honorable, but I swear it's true. You have to be especially picky when doing audiobooks as everything hangs on the voice. I have a feeling that the actor was trying too hard and delivered a slow performance and still didn't add any emotion or occasion. I think that's the only flaw so far.

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What a ride!

Revisado: 01-18-23

I have listened to 5 times. It's spectacular and Wesley gives a great performance without Picard screaming at him or trying to #youtoo his mom.
I grew up on Star trek the next generation and as much as it was a fabulous adventure with limitless frontiers it was pretty freaking campy.
A cruise liner battleship that still uses antiquated verbal commands and has no security or firewalls. This book is an outstanding dig at the shear stupidity of the show. In it's own way it has opened a new frontier in sci-fi comedy. I know there's other shows that tackle that and I am nearly 100% certain that they're not as well executed.

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Don't care about the D&D stuff, but...

Revisado: 09-13-22

Solid product and performance. I don't care about this genre, but I am budgeting right now and it's included. Anyway it's more interesting than I thought and though probably not great I can't really fault anything specifically. I guess the trope of being in duress and taking a day to ponder the meaning of life etc. Though that's just a risk of anything trying to build characters and such. There's the resistance to killing enemies that are trying to kill you after they killed your family and friends. Also after you struggled to gain powers and weapons. It's like bringing a missile to a sword fight and trying to gently nudge the enemy. Running would be a preferred response especially since they would get lost trying to chase you.
Anyway I'm pretty okay with it and I have listened to much worse.

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How many people live in this guy's head

Revisado: 09-02-22

It's an interesting story that sounds somewhat more practical and believable than many in this genre. What surprised me was the performance it was very good. The guy's normal voice is worse to my ear than his characters. We all know how much that can change things.

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Somewhat unique story

Revisado: 08-28-22

Different from other sci-fi books mostly except the Skippy sort of thing going on. They do mask it well and I don't which came first. I just know that the bobiverse one of the better audio series.

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Overstayed welcome

Revisado: 08-07-22

This went from being interesting to a second job. So many of these books have stupid stories, but what started as unknown and mysterious turns exhausting and stupid.
These variants are supposed to be an apex predator. Pretty sure sharks and crocodiles couldn't dominate on land so exactly how does the variants sit above a alligator in it's natural environment? They ambushed an alligator in water as if it wouldn't have sensed them. They climb trees, dig tunnels, have active camo, act as individuals yet also hive, and throws aluminum in the paper bin. The monsters are the same as the book in the utter lack of picking a lane. Characters need traits and characteristics that define them just like real Apex predators. They can't be everything, because there's always trade offs and to be great at something it must be poor elsewhere. This book is a study of trying to have characteristics without compromise. In other words this is distilled meh.

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One of my favorite series

Revisado: 01-17-22

This has been a unique series up to the level of the Bobs, but it's highly obvious by book 7-8 things are getting stale. Honestly it's built of a rinse and repeat timplet. How ever I am not looking for Shakespeare or anything. I am looking for entertainment that allows me to do other things while using it.

To be honest I think the real quality of the story is the narrator. That guy is the story. I will say there's some solid humor early on, but once again it becomes less interesting after awhile.

There's definitely better books, but a good narrator doing it justice is as important. There's only a couple series I like more. The exiled fleet and the bobbiverse. The expanse just wasn't as interesting where I cut in. It was actually horribly painful in trying to was lyrical over the toaster etc. It became like waterboarding. It's obviously a better story just perhaps not a good audiobook.

Once again the series probably isn't good without the narrator, but a narrator gives a book life. That's why a mediocre book becomes good. This narrator is among the best. He became Joe Bishop. There's a method that will age with each book, but there's mystery allowing for much more in the future.

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One of my favorites

Revisado: 11-22-21

A perfect balance of world building and attention holding action. Fun characters, which aren't invincible and are interesting.
I actually like it better than The Expanse audiobook I have. James A Corey seems to waterboard you with details. I don't care about the color or sounds of some mundane space toaster.

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Solid

Revisado: 08-14-21

I found this a fun series however the narrator might be as responsible as anyone. He's good at shifting characters and almost makes it an old radio show style of performance by himself.
The story is pretty rich and the concept has so much going on it's hard to not find something interesting about it.
It's probably one of the better stories I have heard and that includes the expanse which is laborious with unnecessary detail.

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A decent distraction that is exhausting

Revisado: 03-15-21

A somewhat easy to listen to story that is a good way to kill time until it isn't. It becomes horridly painfully terrible with annoyingly useless details.
The faceless enemies becomes a innocent race that is just nonsensical. I mean space crabs that are only dominated by aliens that keep their offspring that they could have not had therefore breaking the cycle. Otherwise the aliens are terrified of SPACE CRABS!!!!.

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