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𝑮𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑻 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅! Looking forward 𝒕𝒐 ❝Dust❞!!

Revisado: 09-26-23

Title sez it all - perfect reader!Good storytelling; terrible reviewer lol all’s 𝑰 wanna do 𝒊𝒔 get 𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 series, okay‽‽

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WTF‽ I Love ALL 8 Novels (so far) & 2 other Novellas

Revisado: 07-18-21

As a gum-snapping,crassly erudite & toothless public figure, it❜s tough for someone like me to admit a book - especially by a Geminid author he loves with a-band-on — has his mind stumped completely by what is either a well written side story, a prequel to a character or more who aren’t related to Novels 1-8 or is some glimpse, as I suspect most, of a part of the sadly 9th and final one of the series.

Imagine that.
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I am so damned spoiled.

Revisado: 06-19-21

What do you do for entertainment, meaning &/or distraction after you❜ve heard every novel *and* novella & watched every episode of the Amazon Prime superlative interpretation of these superior books (well, duh❢) of The Expanse series‽

If you❜re a binge freak like me, you go back to the beginning of the medium you enjoyed least recently and start all over again❢

Nothing compares In sci-fi writing from my wide experience. It❜s all there:

Drama, rich characters, long & often satisfying story arcs and these novellas have been such a rich addition as I wait for the final novel.

C’mon❢ C’mon guys‽ …

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What a great prequel to a wonderful character

Revisado: 06-18-21

I❜ve read & listened to all the novels of The Expanse while waiting for the final one. While I much prefer very long books to read and/or hear there was no way I was going to ignore the novellas by S.A. Corey!

I have loved watching the tv series first, but the books, as is their wont in general, show the true depth and breadth of the pair’s symbiotic genius for mastering predilection drama.

Without giving the story away here it❜s great to see what❜s been labeled “hard sci-fi” demonstrate rich characters & a wicked, dry sense of humor.

If you feel similarly about the novels, don❜t hesitate to pick up the novellas - especially this one about how a crucial member of that famous do-gooder Martian gunship got his wings and made his name.

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I dreaded hearing this one but loved it

Revisado: 09-13-20

With the exception of The Dark Tower series, The Stand and The Shining, I am no fan of Mr. King’s prose. It❜s generally heavy handed and much too long. Even the movies and tv shows are generally far too over the top since horror is not among any of my genres of choice.

But this one seemed it could be more in one of mine, which is speculative fiction, and so it turned out to be. There❜s very little I want to disclose that hasn❜t already been written better regarding the up-close and personal characterizations and the awful small town feeling of Dallas—to which I❜d had the misfortune of having moved from NYS on 11/22/62, no less and only 12 miles East of Dealey Plaza, where I was completely at sea among outspoken racists and even smaller, fear-driven minds.

Still, I found the same comforts this character did eventually though I never quite recovered from that shocking day and remembrance of hideous comments among those happy with the outcome all around me! I was in an alternate universe after a couple decades of relative enlightenment.

Speaking of which, perhaps listening to The Man in The High Castle should precede this one just for an extended sense of whimsy if you don❜t already know it well.

In any case, this perfect length book with its excellent reading ought to satisfy you very nicely if your tastes generally don❜t run towards Mr. King’s aisles of pulp fiction, some of which I’ve attempted to read; all seemed very much the same.

I listen to this story occasionally because I do that with the ones which resonate. I recommend that you Run, Don❜t Walk to use a credit should your interest lie instead in the complexity and potential pleasures of time travel including the events that lead up to 11/22/63.

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Impossibly poor voice production used for a very good story

Revisado: 04-30-20

The narrator is one whom you either love or raise your eyebrows in disbelief compared to several others whose tone is more conducive to long book hearing.

It takes an act of faith to listen to the first hour but if you can you get used to it.

Now the story.

Listen to the entire series.

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Novellas bother me

Revisado: 12-16-19

In this case the authors have expanded the extent of “The Expanse” series, and for that I’m thankful.

But having read or listened to the first 8 novels I’ve experienced a gnawing hunger not for a novella, but for another 8 novels extending the excellent story arcs instead of fleshing out its related existing parts/people.

However if 8 novels is all we’re going to have in the excellent series, then I do recommend these novellas at least based upon this 2+ hr addition. I bought all of the existing novellas out of a sick desperation for MORE, and in that perspective the pittance I paid for them - less than one book - this, and I hope the others, will do.

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W.T.F.? No Way‼️

Revisado: 11-09-19

if you’re a hardcore FfordeFfan and this is the first audiobook interpretation of his deliciously ffun analoggue works, then this is the bbook ffor you!.

Hhowever if you’ve already llistened to the bbulk of Fforde’s whimsically bbrilliant oeuvre, ggood lluck‼️

This nnarrator’s nnearly immpossibblle to ffollow.
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Whew… end of doublelettered tomfoolery and review begins here.

I will have to return this audiobook posthaste not because I dislike this book.

I have no idea if I’ll enjoy this complete departure in content - I have read the acceptable précis - from the initially wonderful Tuesday Next series that utterly mimics that “Not with a bang, but…” idea.

It’s impossible to understand how and why this narration was considered passable.

It was a difficult transition for me when the powers that be - or a contractual difficulty - let the unremarkable (no mention In Wikipedia) Emily Gray replace the award-winning, accomplished Susan Duerden (Jane Eyre) actress in film, television and video games.

But this two-note clipped uptalking/downtalking narration is perhaps the best example of how an audiobook director’s choices of not only the reader himself but also the decision to allow such awful zero-star (★-1) reading can go so terribly wrong.

I was unable to tolerate this narration beyond the first 5 minutes.

Content based upon how amazing Fforde’s previous works = a probable 5★

Narration for this book absolutely ruined any possibility of proceeding with Shades of Gray for me. He speaks too quickly. Maybe he didn’t like the book, maybe his narration was adjusted digitally.

In any case this is the first Fforde audiobook which I am forced to place a titanium barrier wall in front of potential listeners. Unless you love John Lee’s narration voice and style from his many other books, I’d ask you to boycott this poor choice for a Ffordenook and pick up a paper version instead.

Do check out the audio sample and imagine hearing hours and hours of this approach as opposed to the works by the prolific readers Simon Prebble (The Big Over Easy) and Simon Vance (The Fourth Bear), both delightful Nursery Crimes stories, although I still cringe at the very thought of a giant verruca.

Maybe Lee’s done good work somewhere else - though my sampling of his many other audiobooks leads me to wonder if it’s a regionally subjective appreciation for his speaking style and unlistenable vocal tenor. At least he doesn’t sound so rushed in his other sampling’s.

Buyer be wary. This being a Ffordebook is not enough for you to autobuy!

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I can sense the end coming as I move into the 8th book.

Revisado: 10-26-19

I do hope I’m very wrong because:

1) Overall, I have been thrilled with the scope and depth of the storytelling,

B) The narrator’s ability is so perfect that I have only once or twice been pulled out of his dramatic stage work and those maybe two times were only because we differ upon how a word or so are pronounced - chalk it up to either regional differences because his pronunciation of so many other word are spot on that it’s a negligible % of the 7 very lengthy volumes so far. Not so suggest they are remotely too long. Oh, not that at all!

***SPOILER ALERT REMAINS UNTIL END OF THIS REVIEW FOR THOSE WHO HAVE YET TO READ BEYOND SEASON THREE’S ASTOUNDING REVELATION ***

III) The story has by its very nature must reach a conclusion only because after the the novel beginning the equivalent of the 4th TV season airing next month suggest a denouement equally long or longer than the end of season 3, in which the purpose or dangerous promise of the ring and the galaxies beyond take on a very dark experience.

Because some profound beliefs cause people to take over “polemically” is a much smaller storyline than the way I’d envisioned the arc I’d imagined or hoped for - though just as believable - I’ve rated this and the previous novel *only* four stars for Story.

I’d happily change them both to five stars should the 8th book open back up the one missing element — meeting and possibly surviving the civilization that destroyed all the work and solar systems of those who left the protoplasm for us to discover. And possibly understanding their horrific motivation in doing so.

Now THAT would be an amazing way to tie off what began such a promising storyline!

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Fleshes out and completes the seasons that have been shown to date!

Revisado: 09-26-19

I look forward now to hearing the story without remembering the remarkable similarities and occasional,mostly character changes and details compared and contrasted with the best hard sci-fi TV seasons I’ve seen (BSG still favorite fantasy sci-fi).

The author is a remarkable find. Just enough of the tech to sound like he’s been to the future and lived to return with perfect tone for each and every character and pacing - the former a precious and often rare gift to us all, the latter impressive to the extreme in that 3 books into it I am eager to continue, dreading only an inevitable end.

Or maybe not. I have intentionally not searched out this information!

I recommend this book - and the preceding two - first to anyone who’s seen the show and loved it because they not only do not diverge much from what they’ve seen, allowing an extraordinary revisit so far, but quite a bit more texture and deviation from some characters’ stories.

Secondly to anyone unfamiliar with the stories and who might shy away from fantastic storylines as a rule for any number of reasons but who still have an imagination capable of a *universal* scale, and those who have technical daydreams of what is very likely to come our way, and even those who prefer tense space warfare imagery, though this is not meant to scare off the more tentative among us at all.

There are theosophical debates to hand as one can imagine what can continue to develop over the next several centuries.

And finally for those who are primarily interested in the politics that will adjust to our eventual need and ability to spread out through our solar system all the way to the asteroids, we have plenty of meat for this feast.

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