Sharon G

Mostly good

Revisado: 11-15-24

Not going to spoil it but I saw the solution to one of the subplots many chapters before this elite team did. I tend to want my book detectives to be relatively intelligent so it was frustrating to wait for them to hit in the obvious. I’m sure their denseness was just to pad the book but still.

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A terrible part of our history

Revisado: 08-24-24

This was well-researched, well written, and nicely read. And I hated nearly every minute of it, especially knowing that my family was almost certainly doing similar awful things in Georgia. It is history we should all know but it’s hard to take at times. What really scares me is that we still have people espousing those beliefs and whipping up crowds with similar lies. And there are still too few voices calling out the lies for what they are.

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Male narrator?

Revisado: 01-08-24

I can’t criticize his performance but it seems odd for a book written by a woman about women would be narrated by a man.

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Interesting but…

Revisado: 08-25-22

I really liked the details of this story and the way it was incorporated into Japanese and Samurai history. However I have a real problem with nonfiction books that purport to know what someone was thinking. This happens throughout this story and to me was a distraction.

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Ignore the first one

Revisado: 08-13-22

I was glad someone else commented that these got much better after the prologue book or I would have stopped listening right there. The next two were quite enjoyable. Perhaps not the greatest mysteries to ever come along but fun light entertainment.

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Better than expected

Revisado: 03-18-21

The other reviews almost stopped me from listening to this. Now that I have heard the whole book, I wonder if some of them bothered to finish it. Yes, the beginning is both emotionally fraught and somewhat off putting, even if true, but she works her way through this to a conclusion that is satisfactory, with a recognition of the places both her fathers had in her life.

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Too much author

Revisado: 03-25-20

I really enjoyed the scientific part of this book and even occasionally thought that the connections to his own experience added. Most of the time though I just wanted to move past the current ramblings and get back to the past.

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Get someone else to narrate

Revisado: 06-09-19

I really like Sarah Vowell’s books but this is the first one I’ve done as audio. For someone reading her own book often about her own experiences, she is amazingly flat. I also didn’t care for the use of different voices for the quotes but I can see where that could appeal. But I’ll stick to reading her stories from now on.

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Really disappointing

Revisado: 05-13-19

I really like Joy Ellis’s works as a rule but this one just didn’t cut it. I found it completely unrealistic with plot twists that made no sense and some pretty poor police work in the middle. Then a sudden magic wand at the end and all is forgiven and everyone lives happily ever after.

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Predictable story, painful accent

Revisado: 11-26-17

This was a reasonably satisfying light read, even if the story was totally predictable. The narrator’s version of a Boston accent was almost painful and the British accent was nonexistent.

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