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The forced dumbness is too much

Revisado: 12-03-24

I'm trying to get into this book... but the forced fragility and dumbness of the main character is just a lot to get past. The meekness and helplessness... my god... it is cringe. Maybe she gets past that and becomes awesome, but to start off, not so much. The narration doesn't help either. Makes her sound like a 4th grader.

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Whatever you do, don't be boring

Revisado: 08-06-24

I tried to get into this story but it was just boring. Listened to about an hour and just didn't care about any of the characters and they weren't really doing much. Think of the meme with the guy poking the book with a stick saying "do something." That's where I was at. Regret spending a credit on this book.

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Heavy handed author just ruined the story

Revisado: 08-06-24

Man... I read the first book and we gearing up for the second on a long drive. Then the author just screwed the whole story up with character decisions that didn't track at all with the story only put in to ramp up the drama in an unnatural way and I just couldn't. I rage quit this book and I'm still unhappy about it.

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Like a bad game of D&D

Revisado: 07-17-22

Ya know... I wanted to like this story. I DM a game set in Eberron and figured this might be good to help me flush out some aspects, broaden my setting knowledge.

Sadly, this book reads like a really bad game of D&D. Location after location is whipped past the reader, almost as if there was a list of regions/places that had to be mentioned. This fast-forwarding through locations has the effect of flying at 30,000 feet... you get no appreciation for anything.

The characters themselves have only the lightest of development as all the focus seems to be in the nearly non-stop once-in-a-lifetime events happening to them... improbable in a really annoying way. They just jump immediately from one unrealistic (yes, I know this is a fantasy world, but even so, this just didn't work) happening to the next with no development of the actual characters.

It all had the feel of a really bad game of D&D, moving around so much there's no sense of place and all the emphasis on combat among strangers you don't really care about.

This is just after about 3 hours of listening. I can't finish it. It is poorly conceived, poorly written and the narration doesn't make up for the bad writing. I was bummed by this one and regret spending my credit thusly.

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that was highly enjoyable

Revisado: 03-05-18

I even listened when I want in the car. well performed. well written. no complaints.

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Math, read out loud

Revisado: 03-20-17

Man... I wanted to love this book. I love NdT and was looking forward to the book, but... then they started to read the equations and, well... there were a lot of equations. Got through a couple hours of it, but, the assault of verbal math just doesn't translate well for an audio book.

Would have benefited from Tyson's own voice too, probably.

Bummer.

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Well, that was disappointing

Revisado: 10-13-16

I saw that Neil Gaiman had recommended this book, may he live and write for a thousand years.

Well... his taste in books is not as keen as his skill in writing them.

This book is so plodding and cumbersome and full of the most bumbling kind of misogyny, I actually couldn't finish it.

The author also seems to have a very strong fondness for nonsensical words, sprinkling them about like a chef might do salt. Everywhere one encounters words that cannot mean anything to the reader, long words, made up words, that serve only as a stumbling block for the reader.

I wanted this book to be good. It is not.

The narration brings this book lower that it would already be as well. The dialogue is mostly conducted in a sorts of hushed whisper unlike the speech of pretty much any normal person. It may be spoken in such a way as to try and convey other-worldness, but just ends up being off putting and frustrating.

This book will go down as one of my most regretted wastes of a credit.

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The narration ruins this book

Revisado: 05-29-15

A narrator can be the voice of the author in so many ways, capturing the spirit of the book and making it come alive. For other books the narrator can just ruin the whole thing. This was one of the latter. The narration is just poorly done. There is a sing-song nature to the voice, horrible, dopey charter voices and the whole time it just killed what should have been a book I loved. I'm going to have to read.

Don't get this book on Audible. It will ruin it for you.

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I stopped listening to this book

Revisado: 04-24-15

This narrator is one of my least favorite of all the ones I've listened too. Soooooo dramatic. No one talks like that. He ruins dialogue. He butchers it. I hate listening to him.

It was a combination of his over-the-top style and the story, contrived and sensational, which caused me to stop listening to this and remove it from my phone. I won't listen to this narrator again and I think I'll skip this author.

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Doesn't do what a story is supposed to do

Revisado: 03-03-15

I feel like a chump for getting this audio book. It was only just over three hours long... a little thin for me to spend my prized credit on, but I did... I did because I liked the Name of the Wind books, the two thus far completed, and because the prospect of learning more about Aria was intriguing.

Three plus hours later and I know almost nothing about Aria except that she is insane. She has been weakened as a character. While I learned almost nothing about her past or about why she is the way she is, I do know that she is insane. She is as insane as insane. Three hours of her caring what a blanket thought and describing the attitudes of the walls and making soap... let's not forget about her making soap.

It was literary masturbation. It is the sort of thing writers write to be cleaver, for other writers to impress them at parties ("Look, I wrote something that broke all the rules!"). The after notes were basically the author saying just about as much. Yes, it was a weird, odd and maybe horrible story, but if you didn't get it, it wasn't for you. Wish I could rewind even the few hours I spend with this story.

This was a poorly done thing and it should have stayed in the trunk.

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