David Stone

Boring

Revisado: 03-07-25

I was excited about this book, but after a few hours of listening to this monotonous female voice with an inexplicable British accent, it was too annoying to continue. One of the most disappointing reads in my 30 years with Audible.

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A Little Deception in the Performance

Revisado: 06-21-24

The sturdy, well-enunciated narration made for a smooth easy listen, except for some flaws leading me to suspect that Angelo Di Loreto is actually an automated voice and a very good one. But after suffering through numerous and obvious mispronunciations, it's hard to believe that any human professional would repeatedly say Leslie "Karen" in place of Leslie Caron along with others. No problem with automated voices, as long as they're not stolen, but the producers need to do a better job of cleaning up mistakes.

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Another page turner

Revisado: 08-01-22

Terrence McCauley’s gift for narrative is complimented with improving character development. He brings out the good versus evil conflict with clarity without shortcuts. Like the very best writers, he knows how to close.

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Never a dull moment,,.

Revisado: 07-18-22

Well, maybe a couple, but there’s little pretense either. The world’s bestselling author comes off as someone you’d love meeting up with on adjacent bar stools. Not only is he a great storyteller, he’s also genuinely interested in you.

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Until this author, I never liked Westerns.

Revisado: 06-30-22

Terrence McCauley is master storyteller and creator of compelling characters. Can’t wait for my next read.

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Big Disappointment

Revisado: 09-14-19

I love Pam Grout's books, but this one's a bomb. It has all the markings of a publisher demanded sequel, including name-dropping other Hay House writers. This essentially works to discredit Grout when she shills for the likes of Esther Hicks.

What made me delete this book, however, after less than an hour, was the absence of Grout's usual whimsy. It's replaced by the rote self-help mantras about how everyone gets it wrong and is suffering and, guess what, I can show you how to fix it. The formula is tried and true, of course, but it's not Grout's style. What a waste of talent.

From original and witty to pedantic and same old, same old.

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One of the Best

Revisado: 01-12-19

As Jimmy Webb said in interviews after publication, this was a painful story to write, so much so that he may never do a sequel. Read by Webb himself, it's genuine, heartfelt and true to the point of being raw exposure at times. Not only does Webb bring his large literary gifts to the work, but his honesty in introspection and personal discovery is stunning.

In many ways, this book reminds me of what made me want to write books, the suggestion by Henry Miller in the forward to Tropic of Cancer that true personal stories, full of experience and insight, were the seeds of great novels.

This book, including its many surprising stories of other celebrities engaged in the late 60s and early 70s, will stick with me. What I missed reading about was what was probably most intimate, his love for his mother who died while Jimmy was a teen, and how she's stuck with him since, inspiring at least one great song. That might have gotten just a little too personal.

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Best for Beginners

Revisado: 01-12-19

Although this audiobook was not without helpful ideas for anyone, it's geared more toward beginners, a worthy approach, but if you've been at it for a few years, you'll hear a lot of what you already know. Totally credible, but not advanced generally.

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Disappointing loose with facts

Revisado: 11-30-18

I was skeptical to begin with - Reality Unveiled... Really? It's a nonsense suggestion. Reality isn't veiled. It's extraordinarily complicated, and we don't know nearly enough about it to be satisfied. But veiled suggests something hidden, not simply undiscovered. And true to that, Masri suggests repeatedly scientific conspiracies and "corporate scientists" determined to hide the truth for what he suggests are obvious reasons without explaining what they are.

That's unfortunate, because there's a fair amount of interesting reading here, especially when it comes to UFOs, but that does not make numerous uses of untrue claims acceptable.

In creating a mystery that doesn't exist, for example, Masri claims that Neanderthals suddenly disappeared. In reality, it was a transition of thousands of years in which they were partially absorbed into modern human societies as they died out as many species have had when overwhelmed by a competing culture. They left their marks, however, breading with homo sapiens, leaving their genetic signature in modern humans around the world.

Masri claims it's a big mystery. It isn't.

That's just an example, and there are others. Together, they beg the question: if you've got a valuable case to make, why make up stuff to sell it?

I quit this book without finishing because I couldn't take being conned anymore.

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Classic Anne Tyler but...

Revisado: 07-26-18

The heroine, Wiila, reminds me of Ladder of Years, but Tyler now creates a different character for a different time.

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