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Extremely Boring

Revisado: 02-24-24

If you enjoy articles in The New Yorker, where they ramble on and on, never getting to the point, this book is for you! There are endless descriptions of neighborhoods, what the victims liked to do before they were killed what jobs and aspirations everybody had, how the author was told by people that she looks like an actress, etc. etc. on and on. I finally had to stop listening to it, preferring silence to the endless droning about uninteresting things, while I waited for details about the murders. If you want to hear some good crime writing, try something by Ann Rule.

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Heartbreaking Memoir of Vietnam

Revisado: 01-31-24

A beautifully written account of Jim Dixon‘s year at war, recounting the boredom mixed with moments of disaster. He leads us through the experience, introducing us to his friends, the other marines, some of whom died just as they were about to leave to come back home. Beautifully done, unforgettable.

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Captivating Tale

Revisado: 08-07-18

The story of the wholesale murder of Osage people for their oil rights is a palling and fascinating. The taut prose serves the story up perfectly, and the three readers do a good job especially Will Patton. Ann Marie Lee could’ve gone faster, she makes the mistake that some actors make of reading too deliberatly. Highly recommended!

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Very Interesting!

Revisado: 07-17-18

Fascinating account of psychiatrists evaluating the mental state of Nazi war criminals, the subsequent trial and execution of some of them, and the aftermath in the psychiatrists life. An excellent reader did a great job rendering this book.

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Overlong and Dull

Revisado: 06-16-15

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Those fans of Philip Caputo's Vietnam memoir, A Rumor of War, will not find the same taut prose and carefully chosen phrasing in this overlong effort. This book is self-indulgent in the way of a New Yorker magazine article--nothing is deemed too tangential to be included, so the plot suffers and the listener has to plow through hours of tedium to get to the interesting stuff. There are too many characters to keep straight and certain stories are simply not integrated into the overall story. A condensed version of this book would, oddly, have a better impact, although if you are interested in learning everything you could possibly know about the problems in the Sudan, this is the book for you. Caputo is a journalist, and this is more a report than a novel. As for the vocal performance, it was outstanding, so that's a plus.

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Amazing and Powerful

Revisado: 11-15-13

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

This book resonates long after it's finished because it is about excellence, and the cost of pursuing it. In telling the story of Steve Jobs and Apple, the author describes an obsessive personality who wouldn't rest until everything was exactly the way he wanted it, and in contrast describes other executives who bumbled critical decisions for Apple and Sony. Was Jobs crazy? Probably. His bizarre diets and tantrums worked against his self-interest. But what he achieved for the computer industry, and the music industry, and animated films left an amazing legacy. His death was a great loss because he was the only visionary in Silicon Valley who could imagine something simple, elegant and easy to use--in a world dominated by engineers who are satisfied with complicated patched-together crap. Walter Issacson has written a fast moving, novel-like narrative that's difficult to put down. Every chapter is a new revelation. Beautifully rendered by the reader, Dylan Baker. Highly recommended.

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Less Would Have Been More

Revisado: 07-15-13

What did you like best about From Here to Eternity? What did you like least?

In listening to this famous book, I found myself longing for a Reader's Digest condensed version. Scenes and conversations go on far too long and retrace the same path--many times I rolled my eyes and said 'for god's sake let's move on!' The writing is awkward and self-indulgent, the philosophy espoused by the characters--often at great length--is complete gibberish. The characters themselves are maddeningly self-defeating and unfathomable. It's hard to identify with Prewitt, who seems incapable of making a single correct decision. The men are all misogynistic and in the alternate reality of this book, women don't really enjoy sex, they just do it so the men will talk to them. For all that, I must admit it did conjure up old Hawaii before the war very well, and it held my interest. I guess any character you get to know is interesting, but there are better writers out there than James Jones.

Note to the actor who read this: Adjutant is not pronounced ad-JOO-tent. M/Sgt is spoken as master sergeant, not m-sergeant. Others have commented on your Hawaiian name mangling and I concur. Your funny little voices were annoying, especially that of Stark. Less is more in that regard.

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