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Not a bad story, but a very enjoyable listen

Revisado: 04-02-19

Enjoyable, funny space opera with a lot, a lot of technical space babble.

One note: I don't love R.C. Bray as a reader, despite having listened to him many times. He's a bit dry and monotone sounding. This R.C. Bray is funny, lively and really, really great.

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Couldn’t finish

Revisado: 03-02-19

Too .... milquetoast. Grover Gardner has the voice of 1950s promotional videos. I kept waiting for him to say: “and now your new dishwasher is ready for use.”

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Good

Revisado: 01-16-19

The reader is lovely, and the writer chooses her words so perfectly. A very kind book; it s balm for rough days, to steal a phrasing.

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Ok.

Revisado: 12-17-18

Nice inclusive adventure with a good premise, that is somehow under-used.

The romance is a bit overdone, and Rhys and Aalocar’s seems more like a woman’s idea a gay relationship rather than how it actually happens. When gay men fight, it sounds a lot more like men fighting than a man and woman fighting.

But still a pretty good book. I’d recommend it, but not rave about it.

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I am enjoying these books

Revisado: 11-04-18

Well-paced adventure tale, smart, a bit sassy and humorous, progressive and interesting. And read by Kate Reading, who could make your phone bill sound fascinating and dramatic. Hopefully, in reality, it is not. Your phone bill, I mean.

As long as Marie keeps writing them, I'll keep buying them, and always look forward to my time with Lady Trent.

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Meh

Revisado: 11-30-17

It’s a fantastically uninteresting story. Ms. Dawson is fine, sort of passable, but adds very little. I love her on TV, but she’s not amazing here.

The story is also alright, but deeply forgettable. It’s not bad, but when the sounds stops, it’s over, no thinking about it afterwards. If you have lots of credits and money isn’t a care, buy it. If your credits are precious, move on.

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Profoundly Sexist and Lacking in Story Structure

Revisado: 05-29-17

What would have made For We Are Many better?

The technobabble in this series is kind of engaging, and the reader is good, but these are bad books.
- the first one is a prologue; it lack build up, and has no climax, at all.
- the book is centrally about Bob and his digital clones. Most of the dialogue and action is about their interactions. There's nothing sexist about that. But all the replicants (even those not Bob) are all male. All the world leaders are male. Even the alien leaders are male. In the Bobiverse, women are cardboard cuts outs with implied wombs. It's weird.
- there is a strange unquestioning assumption of human tribalism and inter-tribal warfare that never gets questioned or addressed, even though it caused an extinction level event on Earth.
- One has the impression that Dennis Taylor thinks Bob is an evolved male, but he's really, really not.

Did Ray Porter do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

Yes. All the main characters are Bob; they are impossible to differentiate, but other characters get their own voices.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from For We Are Many?

I would have sent it back and suggested that he revisit his single sex approach. And add a real mystery or challenge in the first book.

Any additional comments?

this book is good for white male techno-geek atheists that don't like women and don't demand a lot of thinking or self-awareness from their stories.

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These books are bloody good

Revisado: 01-04-15

Unputdownable. Exciting, well-written, characters you never want to leave. Great reader. 8 more words required. One two three four

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More nuanced than Dresden

Revisado: 12-23-14

I like these. The books take a while to hit their speed, but the character development is good, the main protagonist is not a traditional hero - he doesn't set himself to die for the greater good; he's for the most part just trying to survive.

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Listenable

Revisado: 11-30-14

Not bad, not great. Quite a few basic logic errors that kind of threw my appreciation of the story off (its a fantasy novel, the author can make up his own rules, but then he/she should then follow them). But good enough to give the second book a shot. Reader was decent and added to the experience.

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