Anne D.

Great story, as always

Revisado: 02-03-23

As usual, Jeffery Denver delivered a great story. The scientific and engineering details could sometimes use a little research though. For example, water pressure is the same no matter how big the pipe is and there is not high enough pressure to cut through someone in a city system. Also, the reader needs to get input from scientists for technical terms. If he said "gee cee SLASH em ess" for GC/MS one more time, I was going to hurl my phone across the room.

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Good story, bad accents

Revisado: 12-02-22

I grew up relatively close to the area where this book was set so I had a little extra understanding of the area. The story was good and I appreciated that not all of the characters fit the stereotypes people have of small town Mississippi. However, the readers need to stick to non-southerm accents. And when they have to pronounce place names (e.g. Biloxi), they should look into how they're actually pronounced by the local population.

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Interesting concept introduced

Revisado: 05-25-17

The storyline is good, but he got a little too mired in Chinese politics and ideology for my taste. I was, however, interested in the biotic vs. abiotic oil theories as if never heard of those before. I'll definitely have to explore that further. Overall, it was a good read.

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Mostly good, but...

Revisado: 05-28-16

The story was a pretty easy read and kept my interest, but the ending was poorly done. He seemed to be grasping for how to tie things together. It was almost as if he had written it not knowing himself who did it and then finally decided in the last twenty pages.

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Ok story...read emotionlessly

Revisado: 10-24-15

I think when the next one if this series comes out, I'll read it the old fashioned way. Roberts has difficulty conveying any sort of deep emotion vocally. A tragedy occurs to someone near Stone because of their involvement with him and he sounds like it's just a minor inconvenience. He also makes Dino sound like a toad, not attractive at all. The story is a REALLY LIGHT read. Good for the beach or something else where you're just trying to fill time enjoyably. All in all I'd say to skip this one on Audible and maybe buy it when it goes on sale in paperback.

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Far fetched

Revisado: 04-17-15

VERY far fetched plot. If you have any scientific knowledge, you really have to suspend disbelief to make it through this book.

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Too much character development, not enough mystery

Revisado: 02-20-15

Would you try another book from Paula Hawkins and/or the narrators?

No, I wouldn't. I downloaded this book because it was on the top of the best sellers list for mystery. Although it is a mystery, most of the book is dedicated to the first person musings of three women and has little to do with the mystery. It's kind of like the first third of "Gone Girl" except that that part takes up about 80% of this book. In the end I felt like I had wasted many hours on parts that should've taken maybe half or even a quarter of the time to develop.

Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

The performances were great. It was really well read.

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One step away from a romance novel

Revisado: 08-12-14

What did you like best about Live to See Tomorrow? What did you like least?

It's easier to say what I liked least about it than best about it. I think it would be a tie between the difficult to believe mental telepathy angle and the romance novel feel it had to it.

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

It was okay, but somewhat anticlimactic.

Would you be willing to try another one of Elisabeth Rodgers’s performances?

No, her attempts at accents were awful (and I'm not even usually sensitive to that) and her reading tended toward melodramatic at times.

Could you see Live to See Tomorrow being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

Only on the Lifetime Channel.

Any additional comments?

I think Iris Johansen's books jumped the shark when she started delving into the supernatural. They're just becoming more and more unbelievable. She doesn't seem to be putting much effort into them, just churning them out fast to make money. I think this is the last one of hers I'll be getting.

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Unresolved

Revisado: 07-27-14

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Yes, I would change the ending. It never really reached a conclusion. It just sort of ended.

Would you ever listen to anything by Gillian Flynn again?

Maybe

What about Julia Whelan and Kirby Heyborne ’s performance did you like?

I liked that they didn't rely on one narrator to perform both the primarily male and primarily female voiced chapters.

Was Gone Girl worth the listening time?

No. The first quarter or third of the story is primarily made up of the two main characters waxing poetic about their lives up until the point of the first event of the story. While I later understood its necessity, it was really, really boring. Then the story picked up and became very entertaining and suspenseful, but that's only worthwhile if it ultimately reaches a clear resolution, which it didn't.

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