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Half the show is missing

Revisado: 07-03-24

Very funny, but an awful lot of the show was visual gags. I'm going to try to find a video instead.

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Did no-one listen to the narrator?

Revisado: 07-04-18

I was completely distracted by Faust Kells' constant mispronunciations. I mean, really? The place was lit by flaming brassieres? That is the sort of mistake I would expect a twelve-year-old to make. Some of them, I found myself wondering if he was doing on purpose.

A pretty good prequel to the other two books in the series.

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Good, but not great.

Revisado: 06-13-17

A good story, with compelling characters, but it suffered from the author's tendency to have exposition dump chapters. I'm glad that he had everything worked out, but a chapter on the cosmology of the Abyss works better in an appendix, as opposed to breaking up the narrative flow. That said, I am going to buy the sequel.

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Magnificent

Revisado: 05-08-17

I first bought this audiobook more than a year ago. It fell off of my radar, and I didn't listen to it until recently. I deeply regret the delay.
There are so many great lines in this book. Not just funny ones, although they abound, but moving ones, and thought provoking ones too. Near everyone one, at some point or another in their life, considers being an author. Mr. Russell's skill with a descriptive phrase has convinced me that I am not one.
And Faust Kells. He does not read this book. He does not narrate this book. He PERFORMS this book. I am afraid that in some parts, he overshadowed the material with which he was working. Call it a give and take.
But, I don't want to oversell it. So, yeah, it's pretty good.

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This needs a sequel!

Revisado: 01-29-17

I cannot believe that more than two years have gone by, and we have not yet seen a sequel to this excellent book. That is truly, my only complaint. It felt like these characters' adventure was just starting, and lo, do I wait for a sequel.
I mean, I have other complaints. The author has the unfortunate tendency to drop a brick joke into an otherwise dramatic scene. Sometimes, the tonal shifts between over-the-top parody and drama were a touch jarring. And a lot of walk-on characters were introduced by name, causing me to wonder with each of them, "Will this person be important later?" (Although this may have been intentional on the author's part.)
But all of this pales into insignificance next to the fact that I WILL PAY MONEY FOR A SEQUEL OF THIS, PLEASE!

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This needs a sequel!

Revisado: 01-29-17

I cannot believe that more than two years have gone by, and we have not yet seen a sequel to this excellent book. That is truly, my only complaint. It felt like these characters' adventure was just starting, and lo, do I wait for a sequel.
I mean, I have other complaints. The author has the unfortunate tendency to drop a brick joke into an otherwise dramatic scene. Sometimes, the tonal shifts between over-the-top parody and drama were a touch jarring. And a lot of walk-on characters were introduced by name, causing me to wonder with each of them, "Will this person be important later?" (Although this may have been intentional on the author's part.)
But all of this pales into insignificance next to the fact that I WILL PAY MONEY FOR A SEQUEL OF THIS, PLEASE!

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Presents multiple scenarios.

Revisado: 01-12-17

A good, solid story. I will be recommending it to my friends. I'l likely buy the sequel, too.

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Good story; minor things bothered more than...

Revisado: 12-12-16

...they probably should. Maybe that's a function of the rest being so good? It bothers me that the narrator does not apparently know the difference in pronunciation between "voila" and "viola". Other thing: author overused the trope of spelling out the horrible worst case scenario before revealing no, that's not actually what happened.
Still, enjoyable. At times, incredibly so.

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A story rare in its beauty.

Revisado: 09-14-16

It's rare for a book to get to me so strongly that I'm brought to tears. This book, like it's predecessor before it, has done that.

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