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Control-Alt-Disappointing

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2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-20-23

Spoiler Free Review. I REALLY wanted to like this as it is the second of a divine comedy trilogy. I earnestly enjoyed Damned. I am a conflicted optimist. So Damned worked for me. This story is supposed to be a version Purgatory. So it's a retelling of all of the antihero Madisons predead sins and defining moments. There are nearly a 100 chapters in this book. It's so staccatoed that it is distracting. The author makes some of the scenes incredibly grotesque that it's laughable and slapstick yet not entertaining it just feels repetitive. As a reader, I am not sinking into the story. I found that I was constantly having to corral my thoughts and suspend my disbelief. when the story got too "dumb" I had to stop and say to myself this place Madison is in is supposed to be not hell and not heaven and those are the lenses the reader should be absorbing the book. This book was just eh and kept imbibing it hoping that the end would find redemption. FAUX SPOILER ALERT. It control-alt-fails.

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Solid Pick

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 11-13-22

this was a fantastic audiobook. often times i will get an audiobook and then start to weigh if the book is better or worse than the show or movie. it is rare for a book to be so good that itself is fantastic and only make you like the movie even more. if you liked the movie...get this book. you will not be disappointed.

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Bzzzt...audible your 1033 review is here...

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-20-21

there were definitely some parts that had me laughing. I really could feel the improvisation in this reading vs when I watched the show. it was pretty good. perfect to make me temporarily forget the idea that I was slowly commuting to work

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Not the best...but a solid ending.

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-06-21

There was actually a point in this book I got teary eyed and sniffling during my more I g commute.. So the writing could be pretty powerful. I've always liked the how the authors I included quotes from other books with the meanings sort of lost to time...but alluded and foreshadowed things. Perhaps this was just really heavy handed referencing that history repeats itself but...it's a characteristic of the writing I've come to I really enjoy.

I also like how character motivations were blurry. Sometimes good people do bad things. Sometimes the good thing is not always the right thing. Also how "bad" guys can sometimes do the right thing.

The whole thing kinda took a
Game Of Thrones turn towards the end. And if it wasn't for the epilogue I'd say the ending kinda stunk. Like...if Zephram C. said...you know what warp speed is just too dang fast.

In the begining I kinda felt like Jefferson Mays was phoning it in....but he found his stride an hour or two into the story.

I liked it enough. A decent slightly melancholy. ending for a great series.

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Just press Alt-F4

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2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-08-20

I really enjoyed the last book. Quite a bit. I listened to it at least 4 or 5 times. Usually while doing something that did not actually require me closely listening to it. Washing dishes. folding laundry. driving to work. I learned that the more I listened to RP1 the worse the book became. How Cline built characters, pretty vapid dialogue. The more I read this book...the older and "lamer" I felt.
RP2 is terrible. It starts essentially right were the last book ended. Except... It threw away much of what the characters learned in the last book. They are shells of what they were in the previous book. Often times they were just mouth pieces for some pieces of trivia or tidbit about some bit of pop culture. These bits you realize quickly are only important because some old white guy thinks that a younger person ought to worship because he worships it.
So. Much. Pop. Culture. It's like there was an stadiumful of anxiously waiting fandoms and he had to nod to all them at least once and recognize them. But then on another level was Cline calling out many "woke" topics. But rather than sort of nodding to them so the reader can acknowledge that they shared this information, Cline would spend several sentences or passages expounding the topic to demonstrate he KNEW this. Except, by expounding it like this only makes you more aware that the character and author kinda don't know these things at all and are parroting back something they JUST learned.
It felt like there was an editor that recieved the manuscript read the cover, winked, then handed back the book. There were alarm bells in the beginning. I should have listened to them but the momentum of the previous book made me HOPE it would get better. It failed.
Great job by Wheaton though. Maybe not as nuanced as the first one. Maybe a little better than his reading of Armada. Perhaps he knew that this book was garbage and his heart was not in it.

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Better than Red Shirts.

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-21-20

Zachary Quinto nailed this. Good voices without being hackneyed. Subtle things where to put a breath. Laughing in character. Sighs. Even a handclap. It was great.
The story was just enough fiction in what could seemingly be reality. No 4th wall breaking which I hated in Red Shirts.

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pretty good. not the best.

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-05-19

great job by the narrator Mays as usual. was hoping for some real gut punch dynamic or character implosions but I just did not feel like that happened. but Ill settle for what I got. I like how the author calls back other characters. I listened to this book and now I want to relisten to the series and everything in order.

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a pretty decent book

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-26-19

This is my third listen of this book. Admittedly. it's better than the first listen....worse than the second listen. If that makes any sense.
I'd say the weakest part of this book is and will always be King attempting to write from the POV of a child. Or worse...when King writes one character attempting to think in the POV of child. Ironically, it is....to put in the parlance of today's youth. "Cringy."

The reader is wonderful. You could tell he read parts of the book several times because he made the script his own. He knew the right words to emphasize. He knew when to speak fast and when to ad lib some of the flourishes. like when a character might blurt something, shout something in anger, or laugh part of their dialogue.

all in all. it's a good book and I recommend it..
I just might be done with re-listening to it.

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Gods of Risk Audiolibro Por James S. A. Corey arte de portada

meh.

Total
3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-04-19

Meh. This book does very little to provide a depth or background to Bobbie Draper that I could not correlate already from the novels. The churn definately adds some depth to Amos. this one...not so much. It does add some depth and understanding to the climate and politics on Mars which play into the very end of Cibola. but again...not crucial.

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Still will prolly be better than the show

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-28-19

Someone described that Corey is getting a little formulaic. I'd have to agree. The book is good. I enjoyed it. But it bad guys and good guys all seem to be cut from their same respective cloths.

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