Ray Odiorne

A missed opportunity

Revisado: 04-09-22

What an idea! Combine Wodehouse and Doyle for a mashup of Jeeves and Holmes!
Unless:
it's not funny, none of the Wodehouse wit
the mystery descends quickly into slapstick
The characters aren't developed; the Wooster character seems just stupid.

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A flawed classic

Revisado: 01-23-21

There was a time in my life when this author and this book in particular had great impact on me. Returning to it many years later, I become all too aware of its flaws, its use of Ayn Rand's philosophy, its depiction of every adolescent boy's narcissistic dream, and its inconsistent attitude toward authority. (Any social authority is suspicious or rejected, every assertion of personal preference or desire becomes essential.)
Of course the writing is very good, and the performance here is flawless. But, although in the past that would cover numerous sins, the continuous passages where the author gets to extensive views on his randian views gets tiresome and has one wishing for a good editor (or maybe this is the later edition published after the author's death and includes all those passages previously edited out?)

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Case history

Revisado: 07-27-20

In a wonderful amalgam of clinical family history and personal testimony, the author lays out a archetypal dysfunctioning family, leading to Greek tragedy on a national and global scale

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Hard-boiled exorcist

Revisado: 01-29-20

At one point in this story, reference is made to Raymond Chandler, one of the great writers of hard-boiled detective fiction. This is only fitting, even though this story takes place in world of ghosts, demons, zombies, and loup-garous.

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From the Gold Age

Revisado: 01-15-20

Writing from the days when authors were paid by the word, this melodrama mystery shows its age. A story that tends to wander, a hero with q secret skill that seldom shows up in the course of the story, and the various characters that show little depth, . The ""riddle" of the title is solved quickly half way thru, and more or less ignored after that. Fun, for all hat, but patience is necessary.

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Asimov's masterwork

Revisado: 11-23-19

It would seem at first that The Foundation Trilogy is too big, too complex, to fit into a radio drama. This proves right in this case unfortunately. This adaptation, while good in itself, seems rushed and hectic at times. Technical problems also makes much of the dialog hard to hear or understand. Sound effects ultimately become annoying. Those already familiar with the story might find it satisfactory, but, for the rest of us, the similarity of the voices, that sound effect present in the background, plus suspicions that we are listening to an abridged version, makes this a disappointing version.

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