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Wil Wheaton is awesome

Revisado: 08-21-19

Great book (that ending, though!). Wil Wheaton is a terrific narrator. I picked this series up because of him and I’m so glad I did.

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Wil Wheaton is the best

Revisado: 07-21-19

I'll listen to just about anything he narrates, but this book was a great listen. Lots of action, good characters, interesting premise. Definitely looking forward to book 2. Kind of reminded me of Harry Potter, even though there's no magic. A teen who's pretty normal except for one extraordinary gift, smart and capable girl, and rather hapless sidekick who always manages to come through when it counts.

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Great book, great narration

Revisado: 07-21-19

The book is laugh-out-loud funny and a terrific story--all made even better by Jones' performance. If I could give him 10 stars, I would. All the books in this series with Jones' narration are tops and have become fast favorites of mine.

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Loved the story, hated the narrators

Revisado: 04-14-15

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Both narrators sounded too old for the parts and the female had a bad vocal fry that was distracting. Great story, though. Looking forward to the next two books.

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Different narrator would have made it better

Revisado: 11-04-12

Would you be willing to try another one of Susan Orlean’s performances?

I like Orlean's writing and the subject was great, but I totally agree with those who speak of her flat, nasal delivery. A different narrator would have done this book a world of good. It was a constant struggle for me to decide to wade through the book because of the great topic or chuck it because the narration was so irritating.

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Cashman needed a pronunciation dictionary!

Revisado: 10-07-11

An earlier reviewer remarked on reader Dan Cashman's atrocious pronunciation. I have to wholeheartedly agree. I'm familiar with both Dallas and Houston, where Hughes childhood takes place, and Cashman's mispronunciation is driving me crazy! It's really distracting. For example, it's MON-trose, not mont-rose. And ga-NO, not GAN-o. FON-ten-o, not font-e-not. On it goes.

Another thing that bothers me is Cashman's rendering of Southern female voices. Though I'm sure it's not Cashman's intent, he just sounds condescending doing those voices and it comes across like he studied the accent from watching old Bugs Bunny cartoons or something.

I will say Cashman has a nice voice and a lively reading. But that pronunciation! Oy!

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Narrator is all wrong

Revisado: 09-06-11

I read the first book and sincerely wish I was reading rather than listening to this book. Carolyn McCormick is a fine actress, but she absolutely sucks the life out of this novel. She is too old to be narrating a 16-year-old girl. The pacing is grating. Read the book instead. Wish I could get a credit back on this one.

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Terrible audio quality

Revisado: 03-24-11

The copyright says 1995, but the audio quality made me feel like I was in 1982. While this book had some good points, it really wasn't what I expected and I don't feel overly prepared to defend myself verbally. Also, I felt the examples stopped short. I wanted to hear the next step in the example conversations, not just the attack and initial defense. Overall, I hoped for more.

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