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Annoying cast, upset the dog lol

Revisado: 06-22-24

These "acting cast" performances are not my jam. I like a narrated audiobook. The overacting in this one (guy yelling and whining) upset my dog so much I had to bail on it.

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Poor narration, stopped to read it on paper

Revisado: 09-21-23

I love Holly Gibney, and loved every bit of this book. However, the audio book was a struggle for me to listen to because the narrator didn't seem to understand what she was reading. Also, she can't pronounce "library" (liberry) or "poem" (pome) and both of those words feature A LOT here as King takes some time to love poetry and writing poems in this novel. I'm not normally a thudding bore when it comes to cringing over pronunciation but in this case it really did bother me. Considering this was read by an actress who played Holly, she also seems to have zero understanding of Holly's inner life. She makes Holly into an average neurotypical girl and that is honestly just such a crime against the character. I hope this will be re-recorded by the guy who did all the other ones. If an actress, at least Cynthia Erivo really understood Holly and brought her to full life.

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Way too graphic and repetitive

Revisado: 07-05-23

If you want to hear about someone being raped with a machete over and over again this is the book for you. Great narrator but the author is so repetitively, explicitly, gruesomely detailed about women being raped and murdered that I became uncomfortable and stopped listening. I felt gross for even buying this book. I feel like the author basically wrote snuff porn in hopes of getting as rich off of it as her book's antagonist.

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Pompous and annoying

Revisado: 01-16-23

If you want to listen to someone brag about having sex with people in the most boring terms possible, this is for you. He has one word for it and he uses it a lot. Beyond pompous and well into insufferable.

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Awful narrator

Revisado: 04-17-22

Narrator sounds perpetually bored and impatient, same tone people use to say "blah blah blah" and "yadda yadda yadda" - so glad this great series has Gerard Doyle narrating everything after the first two books, which both have awful audiobook narrators.

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South Korean culture beyond Kpop

Revisado: 04-09-22

Great story, though American readers may occasionally find the protagonist hard to relate to culturally. Approach the book with the same latitude you'd have for a 19th century novel in terms of feminism and whatnot and you'll enjoy it more. I liked it, but I was aware of Korean cultural standards for how women and older women in particular are meant to act. It actually makes sense that this battle hardened assassin would be incredibly reluctant to get a manicure, or allow someone to see her in a state of undress. For all her subversiveness she's still very much relatable in that context. For all of its breathtaking modernity and technological advancement, its cultural power and production - South Korea remains for now a place where women exercise power in carefully coded and compartmented ways.

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Great book, narrator is soporific

Revisado: 04-09-22

Complaints that the book is hard to follow really comes down to the fact that the narrator generally sounds mesmeric. One, two, your eyelids are getting heavy now, three, four, you've lost the plot and have to rewind. I plan to listen to the other books but might give them a miss in favor of print just because I don't need to be made so sleepy while commuting or doing housework.

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Smug, arrogant sounding narrator

Revisado: 03-06-22

I didn't make it more than 15 minutes in, I could not tolerate the narrator's smug, arrogant tone. Might get it in print.

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I swear this is narrated by Alexa

Revisado: 03-07-21

I don't think I'm going to make it more than 10 minutes into this, the narrator is so robotic that I'm almost entirely convinced it's machine narration, like Google Maps directions or Alexa. It's jarring.

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ugh

Revisado: 01-25-20

Unable to finish. narration was read poorly; not all great comedians make great narrators. This was a painfully bad audiobook, though you can tell the book itself is probably great.

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