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Excellent, necessary, intelligent

Revisado: 05-24-20

I'm sending it to three other people right now. A gracious word to a church in need.

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Good story & narration -- DISTRACTING sound design

Revisado: 02-13-18

Delilah wrote a good story, January told a good story, but man oh man...

I had a really difficult time listening to this book because the sound design was SO distracting. There's music, robotic beep-boops, animal cries, wind sounds, weapon clangs and a ton more, and it is under EVERY SECOND of the book. It was like they were trying to produce an audio-movie, but it prevented me from being able to form pictures in my own mind, and kept me from getting into the story.

I'd buy this book again, but I'd buy it as a paper book, NOT an audio book.

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I only wish it was the full Bible

Revisado: 01-17-17

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

ABSOLUTELY. Anyone who regularly reads the KJV needs to listen to this. Seeing the difference between Tyndale and the KJV is interesting, but the real benefit is the OP. Hearing the Scriptures in this accent/pronunciation removes the distance between you and the text. After a few minutes the old-timey language and grammar doesn't sound old-timey anymore. It feels fresh, and close, and urgent in a way that is difficult to communicate. I desperately wish that David Crystal would do a full KJV audio bible in OP. I would recommend this to anyone who finds the thee/thous goest/doth language of the KJV to be dense and discouraging. After listening to it in this accent, it feels clear as water, and not formal or highfalutin at all. For language nerds, this is also super cool to hear the OP which you can tell is a sort of "mother-accent" to a dozen modern English accents.

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Super fun listen.

Revisado: 05-16-14

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This book was an EXCELLENT listen. Wil Wheaton did a fantastic job with the narration, but the book -- the story itself -- was the most fun I've had with a book (audio or otherwise) in a long while. I'm not really even a Star Trek fan (only seen a handful of episodes in my life), and I still enjoyed the heck out of this.

Recommended.

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Satisfying.

Revisado: 07-13-10

Scott Brick is at his best when he's reading DeMille's smart-ass John Corey. This was a fantastic, tightly plotted, well written, well read thriller.

Highly recommend.

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Draaaaaaags.

Revisado: 07-13-10

I love DeMille, and Scott Brick is my favorite narrator, but this audio book is painfully slow. I am in part three of four (it has taken me several months to slog through this many hours) and there's no indication that the plot is going to pick up any time soon. I feel like I've listened to the same two hours of audio 15 times.

My recommendation is that you skip this one and go listen to the John Corey series.

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Use your extra credit here.

Revisado: 12-15-09

I was left with an extra credit and used it on this short collection of stories by Sedaris -- I laughed all the way through and my only complaint was that I wish it hadn't ended so soon.

Sedaris is one of the most intelligent and sly humorists out there, and is best appreciated when he's reading his own material.

Recommended.

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Absolute Rubbish

Revisado: 12-14-09

This book was the worst thing I ever bought on Audible -- I deeply regret wasting a credit on it. Rubbish and nonsense.

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Mesmerizing

Revisado: 12-14-09

A book written with grace and beauty, and read with feeling and perception. Highly recommended.

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Required Reading

Revisado: 12-14-09

It's not for nothing that this book is required reading in many schools now. Besides being a fantastic story, it's one that thinks deeply on the nature of leadership, morality, duty, honor, love, friendship, and power.

Many people will shy away from Ender's Game because they don't read sci-fi, but they shouldn't. I read it 5 years ago as a 20 year old woman who'd never picked up a sci-fi novel in her life, and loved it.

Not only was it the first sci-fi I'd ever read, it was the first audio book I'd ever listened to. It got me hooked and is still the gold standard. Rudnicki and the rest of the cast are pitch perfect all the way through.

Very highly recommended.

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