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A great pleasure to read. A jewel of it's time.

Revisado: 01-04-20

I'm glad I finally got around to this Christie masterpiece. I wonder if John W.Csmpbell was thinking of this when he wrote Who Goes There?

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Great potential. Uneven quality.

Revisado: 10-12-19

First and last are good. Stories in between seem a little sophomoric. I don't think they made the right choice of narrator. His homespun accident did not suit some of the stories. Sometimes it felt like I was listening to a narration by comedian, Ron White., and it would take me out of the story.

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One of a kind.

Revisado: 08-11-19

An astonishing achievement. Shocking in its audacity. A gorgeous palette of the English language. Amazing.

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Could have been a third shorter.

Revisado: 05-16-19

Great narration. Cool premise and had a great first act, then grew tedious in a few sections thereafter. Should have been about a third shorter.

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Deceptively brilliant.

Revisado: 03-31-19

I feel like its narrative structure inspired Pulp Fiction. I found the first third of the book a little slow. and annoying. During the second third I started to think "This is pretty good and there is a lot more going on under the surface than first meets the eye. In the midst of the last third it hits you in the face that this book is not only brilliantly constructed, but very innovative narratively considering when it was first published. Its a dark, mean, deep and amazing novel. I loved it and recommended it highly.

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Great book but poor narrator casting.

Revisado: 02-15-19

The female narrator. in the first section was poorly cast. Her voice and style are more suited to reading a children's book, YA or a romance novel.

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Fun, but a bit tedious and overrated.

Revisado: 01-27-19

Fun read, but it also felt a bit like homework. Very well written, and the character of Ignatius certainly earns its place as a literary icon. Ultimately, thought, it seems like the story of he books origin is more interesting than the book itself.

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Seminal King

Revisado: 10-08-18

A fantastic and chilling exploration of grief, denial and our ability to rationalize irrational behavior.

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Anticlimactic.

Revisado: 01-24-18

Starts with a promising premise and interesting structure that shines a light on how a person can be changed by a good or bad marriage, then devolves into too much sleight of hand supposedly shocking character and motivation reveals that are either telegraphed too blatantly (it's easy to see the first big "raising of the curtain" coming), boring, or just plain unbelievable (that last one is with a pointed finger at two "twists" toward the end of the book). One can only suspend their disbelief so much.

Also, the book spends a great deal of tiime building up the main antagonist as a manipulative monster, but the when-and-how resolution of that character arc is handled in such a way that it leaves one feeling cheated and underwhelmed. When a villain finally falls in a work of fiction it's safe to think the authors don't want our response to be "meh."

Though the book was co-written by an accomplished author and seasoned editor, it very much felt like a first novel in that it starts with an intriguing premise, style and structure, but then stumbles in places with too much exposition and trickery with a lack of gravitas and cathartic payoff.

In regard to the narrator, I don't think she was the best choice for this book. While she handled the female characters fairly well, she didn't seem to have a lot of range. However, it was her handling of Richard's voice that took me out of the story. Her choice of delivery inflection for him made his lines sound melodramatic and soap opera-like and, like a lot of female narrators doing male lines, her "male" voice comes across as overly rough, unrealistic and just plain trying to hard.

Note to Audible: I really wish Audible would consider using both a female and male narrator for all their selections (especially in novels written in third person perspective, though I understand this could tonally be a problem for books written in first person). Talented voice actors can play a range of dialects, tones and inflections within their same gender and I think it would make the listening experience more dynamic.

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A fun diversion.

Revisado: 01-11-18

Definitely a "beach" book. A pulpy, violent crime story about despicable
People who think they really awesome. I expected more from this in the Max And Angela series but it was a fun, entertaining read. Didn't expect social commentary or deliberation on the human condition.

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