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Loved It

Revisado: 02-17-25

Brown never disappoints with his witticisms and manner of story telling. I couldn’t wait to get the audio knowing he would be amazing.

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Informative but Dry

Revisado: 05-31-23

You get exactly what you expect from blood powder and residue which is a very detailed and informative but dry book detailing exactly how samples are processed in a crime lab. Good for research, but if you’re interested true crime or how they are solved or how forensics and the criminal system can be flawed, I would skip this one.

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Ultimately Unpleasant

Revisado: 05-31-23

Author share some interesting details about her career in CSI. However, she comes off like a high school bully or mean girl. This made the book difficult to enjoy. If you are interested in CSI, forensics, or true crime, I highly recommend you skip this one. It wasn’t worth wading through the minutia of her day to day to get to the crumbs of actual interest.

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Interesting, We’ll Written

Revisado: 05-13-23

Right inside my wheelhouse with interests in forensics, plants, botany, true crime, biology, science, etc. Well written, and organized, with good narration. I finished it while doing a home project over a couple of days. Perfect listen.

Does mention a lot of the same poisons, plants, and stories found in Amy Stewart’s Wicked Plants from 2011.

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Fascinating Book; Hushed, Slow Narration

Revisado: 12-02-21

I'm really enjoying this book (information-wise), written and read by Patricia Wiltshire. I'm intrigued by how people get into any sort of crime-fighting forensic field. Her accent is lovely and the writing is well done. However, she speaks in low, near-whispering, breathy, drawn-out measures. I strain to hear what she is saying most of the time. I have to listen both faster and louder which is off-putting and ruins the overall experience. I think they should have hired a professional narrator. The breathiness and hushed utterances made me abandon the book several times and it is taking far longer for me to finish it. Normally, I would complete one like this in a couple of days. Instead, I've been chipping away at it over the last couple of months (coming back to it after a few days break at a time). Nothing wrong with being shy, mousy, and learned, but that doesn't help when it comes to an audio presentation. Narration is not in her wheelhouse, so I had to give a poor score for performance.

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Gross, Fascinating, Gross

Revisado: 10-28-21

If you are a Mary Roach fan, you will thoroughly enjoy the gory - sometimes gross and grisly - details of Erika's book. Covers all sorts of topics from rats and fly infestations, fat-globs trapped in our plumbing, dining on insects, correcting the mansplained anatomy of women, how pools are even more disgusting, explains why you shouldn't drink your pee or use it as a medical aid for stings, and the like. Minus the occasional mispronunciation of terms or last names of certain serial killers, the book is wonderful. Weiss (narrator) does a marvelous job. I especially like that they read the footnotes aloud as they went (and not at the end) giving the user clear reference to the respective material as we were listening along and not later, at the end of the book like in Roach's Fuzz, when we no longer have a physical point of reference because it is an audiobook.

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Entertaining Satire, But No PDF, Wear Headphones

Revisado: 08-11-21

I'm a Miranda. I knew this long before this book. I'm about 90% Miranda with a Samatha rising in that I'm not nearly as much of a needy clothing horse as Carrie or a traditional Princess like Charlotte. And that's ok. Overall, the book is mostly a satirical approach to the character's archetype and how to both spot them in the wild, seeing her in ourselves and how to live out our happiest, truest selves without having to apologize for it. Ok, so we're super awkward at both baby and bridal showers. We have non-traditional ideas about marriage and having kids (some of us). And we're more concerned about the state of our IRA than the latest trends. While this is littered with some not suitable for open office listening about sexual situations, the book, overall is a fun listen.

My only complaint is the authors keep noting referenced material that should have been included (digital PDF). The authors make mention of this from the beginning and throughout the book make said references to an accompanying document that did not exist as of this writing.

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Dithering Domesticated Dexter

Revisado: 06-17-21

Dithering Domesticated Dexter or (another title suggestion) Rita Can't Finish a GD Sentence

12 in a half hours (audiobook) of my life, gone, most of it spent listening to Dexter (in Lindsay's narration) b* about how Rita didn't get around to making dinner (yet again) with everything else she has going on (job, kids, trying to buy a new home). Heaven forbid he make a meal maybe or has to live on take-out for a while. And the rest of the time listening to Dithering Domesticated Dexter tangle with a mediocre foe, praising his darling biological baby daughter, and on the verge of wanting to rip out my hair because Rita can't finish one GD sentence. She was so annoyingly scattered and moody and lushy - from her inability to have one GD conversation about her concerns - I almost hoped for the worst. And who drinks to the point of passing out with a baby (only kids and no other adults) in the house? I'm gonna come off judgy, but seriously, she suspects her husband of cheating and instead of knuckling in and confronting him, she juices up on bottle after bottle of Merlot and endangers her children. Yeah, cause that'll make things all better.

The plot with this one was the weakest so far. I was so disappointed. I am a huge Dexter/Lindsay fan. To the point where I'll even forgo Lindsay's need to narrate when it really should be the other guy who originally narrated the first couple of books. Or hell, even Michael Hall, just for kicks. He did a great job with Breakfast at Tiffany's.

The "bad guy" in this was so predictable, I was able to suss him out long before Dexter did. It shouldn't be this easy.

Anyway, the Audiobook version also had terrible technical issues - skipping a few seconds every so often. The only reason I stuck it out is it made for mindless background noise while I worked on my puzzle and diamond painting - and because I wanted to see if it got any better. Nope. I mean, seriously, we even had a "Jaws" moment in this book. Jaws? I think Lindsay is starting to phone these in. Which is sad because he is a talented author. Instead of narrating these, he should be focusing on giving them a more flushed-out plot without filler about camping and Rita's inability to make food or finish a thought, for example.

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Nearly Every Woman Has A Story

Revisado: 05-11-21

Awful stories about trolls, stalkers, and pervs who attempt to ruin innocent lives for kicks and how the laws and online companies fail to help the victims. Instead, seeking profits over protection, using first amendment rights or loopholes in weak legislation to skirt responsibility. Sadly, cops and school administrators doing the same, blaming girls for being victims and violating/ignoring Title IX rules. In addition, tales of children/women (anyone disenfranchised of power or control) falling prey to abusers who use intimidation and coercion to get what they want.

This is not a light read. Be prepared to hear countless stories about some of the worst of the worst and how the law and men in power attempted to circumvent punishing those who committed these horrible, yet not surprising, atrocities.

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Offit's Awkward Attempt To Explain His Side

Revisado: 05-10-21

95% of the book is Offit, who I usually find to be very informative and knowledgeable, interesting even, is he defending his research, vaccines, what he was thinking, or the embarrassing mistakes he made during congressional meetings, media interviews, etc., how to better argue against those who are anti-vaxxers, through microhistory moments, some science, and copious amount of personal anecdotes (like jokes his kids, wife, or parents made about his social media and televised appearances) in granular, painfully detailed recaps of each and every encounter HE had and what he wished he'd said instead.

I thought the book would be more about how celebrities mislead the public about health and well-being. It does, sort of, in passing while Offit railroads on through about his stance on vaccines, their use, and how he has fought back against the flawed system to defend them. As someone with 2 biotech degrees, I'm not arguing. But he seems more preoccupied and pissed about how misrepresented he was in many of these situations, Offit felt compelled to write a tell-all complaint book, letting us know what he should have said or what he really meant. Um, ok. While I get why he would feel this way, I don't need an 8+ hour audiobook about it. I want to hear about the science and celebrity faux pas, not what Offit should have said while being interviewed by Matt Lauer that one time or when some random zealot did or said about him, which is no longer relevant.

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