Drew Lackovic

amazing poyums

Revisado: 03-16-24

loved thes poyums in the Scots language. Len is an absolute wordsmith to be able to turn ugly pain into literary beauty without sounding bitter and hateful.

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too passive

Revisado: 11-05-19

Couldn't make it past chapter 3. the writing is almost all in passive voice, with too much reliance on tired metaphors and over explanation of common ideas. also the narrator didn't even vaguely attempt the accents that were indicated by the dialog.

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Worthy revision

Revisado: 01-26-19

The original version of this book is what made me fall in love with Chuck Palahniuk in the first place. The remix version does definitely add enough to be a different experience, and while the audio version is fun, I think I'd rather have picked up the print version considering the book's choose your own adventure style layout with other textual oddities. Still, even listening to it straight through without doing the requested jumping was a wonderful experience, but perhaps good only because I remembered the story from the first time around. New readers of this book may want to pick up the print copy first.

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a solid history of the Viking era

Revisado: 03-27-18

This book provides a great background on the Viking era. It is a bit dry, but overall worth the listen if you're interested in Viking age culture and society.

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not very informative

Revisado: 12-03-17

This book didn't have much to offer. I expected to learn more about dog psychology but little in it was really all that new. the book read more like a memorial to the author's dog than anything of major importance. also the narrator sounded like siri, which made the experience worse.

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game of thrones wannabe

Revisado: 05-30-17

I tried real hard to make it through this book, but the writing was bad.

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In need of editing.

Revisado: 02-12-16

this book could easily convey its entire content in about a third of the time. I like long books and long running series, but this installment really dragged into the doldrums. if I were reading the text instead of listening to the book, I would have put it down and probably never finished.

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So much better when read by the author

Revisado: 08-15-13

What did you love best about The Ocean at the End of the Lane?

Gaiman's storytelling has always been top notch, and this novel balances brilliantly the ephemeral nature of memory with the passage of time, and hearing the whole thing rendered by Gaiman's voice just added to the beauty of the whole piece. This is the first audio book I listened to more than once, and I can see myself playing this one again in a few years.

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Best Free book ever

Revisado: 08-15-13

Would you consider the audio edition of METAtropolis to be better than the print version?

Definitely. The voice acting here is top notch, and though I suspect Scalzi probably talks a bit in text format to set up each novella, it was great to hear his actual voice on the setup.

What about the narrators’s performance did you like?

The narrators seemed to be catered towards the tone of each novella--different one for each, and the opening novella, especially, just blew me away with narration.

Any additional comments?

This book came up as a freebie for the Audible Christmas in July sale. I never would have known about it otherwise, but man, after hearing these stories, I want to follow all of the authors contained within. Great stuff, and excellent experiment in worldbuilding.

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