Talitha

Delightful

Revisado: 01-05-24

This was the first Anne McCaffery book I ever read, almost 40 years later it’s still absolutely delightful. I appreciate her beautiful writing, and her characters could leap right off the page, but the Firelizards are what keep me coming back. I still wish I could find a clutch and impress one of my own💗

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An absolute favorite

Revisado: 02-06-23

This is my third time reading this book, and it just gets better. One of my all time favorite stories 💖

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Never enough

Revisado: 08-22-19

I have listened to this book over 6 times and it always delights, inspires, and entertains. Jim Dale is a marvel and perfectly narrates the story giving each character a distinct voice. Looking forward to listening to it again!

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Can I give it 6 stars?

Revisado: 09-11-18

I will be thinking about this book and recommending it for a long, long time. A fantastic read full of challenging ideas that are woven expertly through several story lines populated by well developed characters. Nuanced and thoughtful, a perfect antidote to hyperbolic partisanism and propaganda.

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Disgusting

Revisado: 03-07-18

This is the kind of garbage one writes when one has been poisoned by stories of “rape culture” and filled with man hating dogmas. This is not a nuanced view of what humanity might be like in the event of a population destroying plague, it’s the fears of a third wave feminist.

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Painfully juvenile

Revisado: 10-12-17

I was genuinely groaning out loud in misery as I listened. If it hadn’t been a book club selection, I would never have finished it. The action is almost exclusively explained through stilted and repetitive dialog, and the plot seems nothing more than an attempt to justify orgies and non monogamous sex with anyone you like. The theology is self serving and shallow, in fact, I’d say shallow describes the book over all. The characters are so two dimensional and uncomplicated that they are a bore to spend time with, right up until they become kool-aid drinking cult members, then they are downright disturbing. I wanted to read the book because it has had a strong cultural influence, and now I find myself completely baffled that anyone could possibly find this juvenile and self righteously hedonistic swill persuasive.

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Childish and unimaginative

Revisado: 04-09-12

What disappointed you about Camouflage?

The author fails from the beginning by never justifying the reason the aliens would need camouflage in the first place. On a primative earth, they could have survived very nicely without any disguise. More time is spent on trivial details then developing supposedly important relationships, and the aliens sexual awakening and preoccupation is laughable. If this book had been written in the 50s I would forgive its simplistic take of life on earth but I would never recomend this book.

What didn’t you like about Eric Michael Summerer’s performance?

Not sure he could have done anything to salvage this book, but his performance lacked drama.

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