Tasha

Could not put it down.

Revisado: 11-21-17

This book has been the most unique thing I have heard in a long time. The narrator is superb and I was put under his spell. Use your credit on this one folks—you won't regret it.

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Phenomenal

Revisado: 07-14-17

This book should be a film! All Canadian's should read this book. A thrilling, thoughtful and insightful look into a past that has had rippling effects throughout the generations.

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Great performance, long winded, predictable story.

Revisado: 12-16-16

I'm sorry to all the Dan Brown fans out there, but I just can't give this a top star review. I listened to the whole book and honestly, it could have been hours shorter/pages shorter. Don't get me wrong, the story was interesting, but man, the author needed to stop repeating the same details. Every time a character had to be updated on something or we heard a new perspective, Brown would have them recall previously hashed out information. It made for a dull listen.

Brown used the exact same literary devices over and over again for every new piece of information as well. Imagine your friend received a gift and they described everything about how they felt about it; who gave it to them, where they received it, and the shape of the box, but never got to the reveal of what the gift was! Yeah, that's this whole book... with every plot detail! I realized it was probably for suspense purposes, but man, it was like pulling teeth for me.

Overall: interesting plot, nicely researched historical information, vivid descriptions which could easily paint images in your mind, great character building, terrible repeating plot details and character dialogue.

Sorry, just not into it.

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Amazing short stories.

Revisado: 10-07-16

I enjoyed all of the stories in this book, though my favourites would have to be the Forerunner stories. I want them to reappear in Halo 6+.

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Reading was good, story, alright. No real climax.

Revisado: 09-15-16

The narrator was a bit old for the reading of a 20 year old woman. The story was alright overall. it had no climax.

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I don't understand why this book is rated highly.

Revisado: 08-17-16

What did I just hear?! 5% interesting story, 95% whining and loose plot. I feel like an Olympian after the hours of forcing myself to finish this book. Maybe I should have read it. The voice actors were of noticeably varying levels of skill and were either annoying or bad casts.

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Why is this a best seller?

Revisado: 03-04-15

I don't see how Gladwell has told us anything new. It's a collection of stories of how individuals with successful lives made it because of their connections, upbringing, financial status or the like. Each story paints the same picture which could be summed up in a short paragraph: success is arbitrary and just because you work hard doesn't mean you'll have it happen to you.

Boom, lfe changer right there... waste of a credit. His other work is better.

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esto le resultó útil a 3 personas

Started "wow", downhill and repetitive from there.

Revisado: 02-23-15

To start, the book narrators are top notch. Very engaging and talented, too bad the book was not as fantastic as their abilities. if they weren't so good, I doubt I wouldve made it to the end.

This book began exciting and strange-changing timelines, converging stories- which at first was cool. But that wrapped up fairly quickly and then began to pander between characters who we never quite understand the relationship of. Incestuous themes aside, the plot was confusing and heavily masked with apathetic side characters and unexplained events. I dragged my heals to finish this.

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esto le resultó útil a 3 personas

Had me frozen on the sidewalk.

Revisado: 01-22-15

A breathtaking story, however hard to get into as the beginning starts slowly. Stick with it. This book left me emotionally drained, and frozen In a moment of deep awe in the final moments. Beautiful..

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esto le resultó útil a 22 personas

Worth spending your credit on.

Revisado: 01-12-15

I devoured this book in three days and I wish it was hundreds of hours longer.

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