Carlos Benjamin

Poor quality all around.

Revisado: 11-03-24

Virtual voice did not pronounce many words properly and everything suffered from flat delivery. I was surprised, knowing Mr. King only by reputation, that the writing was so poor. Plot inconsistency and repetitive use of words and phrases in the same paragraph were the most common.

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A Sprinkle of Magic on a Tale of Discovery

Revisado: 06-25-24

I couldn’t help rooting for Walter as he goes in search of his own “lost” item and discovering much more along the way.

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Good, old fashioned ghost story.

Revisado: 06-17-24

The narrator did a good job. The story was good as well. Reminiscent of other British ghost stories complete with a creepy house and miserable weather.

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Mind numbing for those who struggle with math.

Revisado: 06-05-24

I love Tony Shaloub, but there is no dramatic meat on the bone here for him to do more than a dry recitation. If you love math and think in algebraic equations you may love this.

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Ray Bradbury’s life was more interesting than I’d imagined.

Revisado: 03-08-24

There’s quite a bit of repetition (several essays share the same stories as others), but that was the only negative for me. I started reading Bradbury in the 5th grade. Maybe it was my undeveloped brain, but I thought his prose flowed like poetry. Whether a book took me to dusty Mars, the African Veldt, or a dark carnival, I was always spellbound. I decided it was time for some rereads and some sampling of stories I’d never gotten around to. This was one I’d never been aware of, and even though it transported me to Southern California and France rather than elsewhere in the cosmos I enjoyed the trip nonetheless.

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Overall a good listen

Revisado: 07-12-23

While there were several points that felt like a stretch, overall it was good.

Toward the end I had a suspect in mind and then they threw in a twist that made me reevaluate. A while later, during the reveal my former hunch proved to be correct. I like that the author was able to dissuade me with the kid the book started with so late in the game.

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Ray Porter is normally a favorite, but….

Revisado: 03-02-23

A couple of things were jarring for me. Ray Porter usually does an excellent job, and is a well-liked narrator. For some reason, Joseph Bridgeman, the main protagonist, has an American(ish) accent even though he has lived most of his life in England. To compound this problem, the Joseph Bridgeman who did not experience the loss of his sister when he was fourteen has a decidedly British accent. I can understand how living through such tragedy can profoundly affect someone (the changes in character are understandable), I can’t see how it causes Joe to not develop an accent.

There is one massive plot hole surrounding Joe as well. When he changes the past, the Joe in the present has not had to endure the same traumas and is a completely different individual that goes well beyond how he sounds. For some reason the Joe we know from the first book was not replaced with a Joe who had no such trauma. That’s on the author. “Old Joe” is, in fact, new Joe and should have remained to live out his shallow, self-serving life and not been replaced by new time traveling Joe. Of course, without this glaring error we’d have only had one book in this series.

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You know where it’s headed, but can still enjoy the ride.

Revisado: 01-16-23

Zachary Quinto first crossed my radar in the series, “Heroes”. This story was reminiscent of the dark path his character followed in the series, and in both stories the lengths those characters took were completely unnecessary, but revealed their psychopathy as a part of their character development. Definitely worth a listen.

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Poor narration makes book hard to judge

Revisado: 06-01-16

I can't fault the narrator during passages that were not the characters speaking. The voices adopted for the various characters seemed very contrived. Though and difficult to sort through. There were variations on raspy old man and high pitched adolescent boy and little else. The story itself was convoluted and the voices only made sorting things out that much more difficult.

In addition to the odd character voices the narrator mispronounces several words. I always find these jarring and I have to use context to determine what the word should have been.

I ran across this book in a search for steampunk novels. It is not a steampunk novel despite the use of flying submarines, machines designed to burrow to Pelucidar and bathyscapes, although one would think..... I'm not sure if this was a problem with Audible.com search algorithm or a misclassification.

Things are not as they seem and I went from thinking every character was completely mad to figuring out what was happening before too long, so I don't know that the narration can take credit for all of my dissatisfaction with this book.

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A clever vignette

Revisado: 06-10-14

If you're familiar with the Riyria duo you'll already know and love the characters. It's like a scrumptious morsel of something you already have a taste for. What's not to like?

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