Bill

30 short stories

Revisado: 04-06-25

I love most of Scalzi's books but this one is incoherent and a BIG disappointment.
Chapter 1: surprise, the moon turned to cheese.
Chapters 2-30: boring short stories only tangentially related (the cheese moon is mentioned)
Chapter 31: surprise, just kidding, the moon isn't cheese after all

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Waste of Money

Revisado: 02-18-23

Just a pamphlet listing 101 items. Could fit entire book on a few sheets of paper.

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Funny and entertaining

Revisado: 08-16-22

The narrator (portrayed as ex-US president Nixon) is hilarious as is the rest of cast. Loved it.

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Unimaginative

Revisado: 08-06-22

Not much to this story. Seems like the author just had to publish something, anything, to meet a deadline.

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Boring

Revisado: 08-20-19

Maybe it's me , but I just couldn't get into this story. It seemed needlessly complex and went nowhere.

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Pleasant Surprise

Revisado: 08-20-19

I didn't expect much, based on the title, but the story was very entertaining, humourous, and well developed. The narration was also very well done.

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Hate the performance, love the story

Revisado: 07-04-16

What disappointed you about Battlefield Earth?

The background sounds (characters grunting, hoof beats, and other extraneous noises) are very distracting. The music is the worst; it is more like noise.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

I am interested in listening to a narration without any distracting music or dramatization. In this audio, narrating a simple short sentence is often accompanied by several seconds of extraneous music and other meaningless drama. It is usually difficult to hear the narrator over the background noise.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

I was disappointed. The book deserves better.

Any additional comments?

This book is considered by many (including myself) to be Hubbard’s best science fiction work. Too bad that this audio version doesn’t do it justice.

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Admire me and buy my products

Revisado: 03-29-15

Would you ever listen to anything by Tony Robbins again?

No

Have you listened to any of Tony Robbins and Jeremy Bobb ’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

No

Any additional comments?

Here’s a short synopsis of the book.

Introduction: I’ll be telling you something important in this book. Meanwhile, let me tell you about myself.

Chapters 1-4: I’ll soon be telling you something important. Meanwhile, when I was a little boy…

Chapters 4-end: Buy an annuity. You should buy it from a company that I have a vested interest in because you can trust me. Meanwhile, let me give you some examples of how generous I am. Be like me!

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Boring

Revisado: 03-06-15

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

For aspiring comedians only, else boring.

What could Amy Poehler have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Tell a few jokes maybe? The reading of a chapter in front of a live audience seemed staged because the audience guffawed even though she wasn't even a little bit funny. Maybe they were here friends and wanted to cheer here on. Those inappropriate laughs were annoying to me.

Any additional comments?

This books is a rambling history of Amy's life which I found uninspiring.

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Not a Discworld Novel

Revisado: 06-24-14

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Science of Discworld?

I would cut all references to the Discworld because they have no relevance.

Any additional comments?

This book has no relation to Discworld. It very lightly touches on a variety of scientific topics. It would be better suited as a NOVA television program. Bill Bryson’s book, A Short History of Nearly Everything, is a much better choice.

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