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Beautiful

Revisado: 01-25-22

Beautiful, mysterious, and touching. Michael Ondaatje is a masterful writer. One of my favorite books in recent years.

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Seemingly boring legal isssues became riviting

Revisado: 08-15-21

Great book about contemporary Indian issues and society. Treuer brilliantly brought to life the issues and legal battles that have shaped Indian society and reservations. I also really appreciated the intimate personal angle. A must-read if you want to understand the complexity of issues that affect indigenous people in the US.
Besides, this is also a fun and entertaining read that makes stuff like fishing and casino rights read like a thriller.

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Highly recommended. Excellent!

Revisado: 08-15-21

A moving and surprising journey into deep time and the world underneath us. The writing is well-researched and knowledgeable, but also poetic and deeply personal.
The narrator was fine. I noticed some awkward mispronunciations of non-English words, but I can forgive those. Overall, the narration was very good.

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Annoying narrator when voicing Tibetan voices

Revisado: 03-17-21

An interesting story, well told. But I wish I had bought this as a regular book; not audio.
The narrator undermines the story by inserting himself too much into the narrative. He over-performs all the Tibetan characters with a kind of child-like, breathless, giggly voice that I find insulting and annoying.

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Distracting narration

Revisado: 11-17-20

I will have to read this book myself because I cannot stand the narration. The male narrator reads female characters in a falseto, which makes him sound as if he's performing in a Monty Python skit.
It's incredibly distracting.

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Terrible Performance

Revisado: 11-11-20

I don't usually complain about narrators. I'm fairly easy to please. But the narrator who performs the Jean Argos character inserts herself into the narrative in such a way that it completely undermines the book. Jean Argos is supposed to be a middle aged professional woman. But the narrator performs this character as if she's a 20-year-old breathless sorority girl. Every sentence is pronounced with an undercurrent of irony that has nothing to do with the text itself. This narrator should just read without inserting her "interpretation" of the text into everything she reads. It's awful. She managed to destroy this otherwise wonderful book for me.

Do yourself a favor and read this book in print. Don't buy this audio version!

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Pain Porn

Revisado: 08-02-20

What an awful book. Yanagihara is not a bad writer and the novel starts off on an interesting premise. But as the story drones on and on and each cutting and injury is described in excruciating detail, Jude's suffering becomes so over the top and unrealistic that it'd be ridiculous if it wasn't so horrible. Although the novel aspires to psychological depth, the characters, in the end, are no more than flat caricatures. The evil characters are absolutely evil, and the positive characters are saints. Some critic wrote that this is the great American gay novel. Nonsense. There are enough other contenders for that, such as Giovanni's Room or The Lost Language of Cranes.

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I expected more

Revisado: 07-08-20

I expected much more from a novel that won the Booker prize. The stories were utterly predictable and cliche, and the characters were flat and stereotypical. I listened to the end, but I got bored halfway because the stories became so predictable.
The supposedly innovative approach to sentence structure (without capitalization or sentence punctuation) does not seem to make much difference. In the audio version, the sentences actually seem quite conventional. A friend who read a paper copy of the novel told me that the lack of punctuation struck her as gimmicky.
If the Booker committee wanted to reward innovation, they should have picked the other 2019 contender: Ducks Newsbury, which is a novel consisting of one, 400-page continuous sentence.

The narrator was wonderful.

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Hyped up

Revisado: 02-01-20

I'm not sure why this novel was hyped up so much. It's all right, but feels a lot like a bland young-adult romance novel.
The narration was annoying, with the female narrator forcing her voice to portray male characters.

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Excellent read/listen!

Revisado: 01-26-20

A suspenseful true story that offers insight into the history of the conflict in North Ireland and the psychology of violent protest and terrorism.

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