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The narration

Revisado: 10-02-24

I struggled with the short chapters but as the story evolved they grabbed me and wouldn’t let got

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Unbelievable

Revisado: 01-22-24

I did not like this at all . So excited to listen but the plot was just too pat. To easily resolved …. Ridiculous and didn’t like any of the characters . Waste of time and money

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Disappointing

Revisado: 11-10-23

The plot was predictable. I found the protagonist unlikeable. Overall
I was disappointed with this novel

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Narrator spoils the flow

Revisado: 01-08-23

Good content. However, this narrator appears to have done absolutely no research on the pronunciation of place names and people. Hal Puthoff (Put-hoff) comes out as puth- off. I don't even want to tell you what he does with Pascagoula. Do the work, would you?

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Flawed performance

Revisado: 11-17-18

The narrator should be required to re-record this in whole or part, and correct his pronunciation of helo from hello to HEE-lo. The author uses 3 words when one word would do, and words with 3 syllables where words with 1 or 2 syllables work just as well, and are more accessible. Hard to sink into listening to this book for those reasons.

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Fantastic

Revisado: 03-12-17

Great Narrator. The story is interesting, and sets the stage for novels to follow. You can share this one with the tweens and early teens, because the language/violence/sex is pretty family friendly. I will happily listen to the following books, so long as you keep Clare Corbett.

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Among the best of the Great Courses

Revisado: 12-04-16

I own several dozen of the Great Courses, having purchased my first about 10 years ago. I cannot remember the last one that I found as interesting as this one. It is, in one part, a fascinating survey of the past, current, and probable and speculative future of the acquisition, holding and trading of information. It also discusses, in sufficient and understandable terms and detail, what individuals can expect with regards to their own privacy based on this body of information. The Course can be more fully described, but I hope this review will be sufficient to excite the interest of an ambivalent browser.

Professor Rosenzweig speaks clearly and without any distracting idiosyncrasy in his presentation, which you unfortunately find in some of the Great Courses lecturers. I look forward to any other courses of his that I might find.

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Narrator gets in the way

Revisado: 01-12-16

The narrator of this book appears to have never heard many of the words he is called on to read here-he pronounces them in a way I have never before encountered. His Australian accent swerves from South African to stuffy-headed SoCal surfer, and you honestly wouldn't know that it is Australian if you weren't told so early in the book.

There are numerous occasions in which the narrator does a second take-both takes are present, separated by what sounds like a finger-snap. He also clears his throat with some regularity.

I am not yet through the story, and don't know whether I will be able to finish it. Although there is some promise, some of the dialogue is stilted and distracting. Overall, it is difficult to sink into this book because of the reader.

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If Stephenson wasn't listed, would you read it?

Revisado: 05-09-13

I bought this because Stephenson was the first listed author, and I like his other work. The setting of this book is foreign to me-perhaps if I had more knowledge of the Mongol Empire I would have found it a better read.

Stephenson's participation is difficult to detect, and there is some downright painful writing in here. For example (I don't know the exact quote and can't be bothered to backtrack and get the exact quote) there is a section in which a priest is talking to the Pope. The simile used is something like "life had been wrung from him like juice is wrung from a grape." Who wrings a grape?

I speculate that the breaking of this story into several volumes is an effort to obtain more money by encouraging serial purchases. I will not follow this story further, there are too many other good books to listen to.

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Poor sound quality

Revisado: 04-30-12

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In format 3, this was very difficult to listen to. I had to increase volume well over that used for playing other books I have downloaded from Audible, and even at that volume words were sometimes unintelligible.

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