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A Good Listen

Revisado: 12-29-22

This book came as a recommendation from a friend. It had a lot of great insights and really gave me a lot to think about. I am left wanting to go and listen to more about this books - critiques, lectures, etc - which I think is a good thing. It means the author left me wanting to learn more and I think he would agree that that was part of his mission.

The narration is clear and easy to listen to. It's a very quick listen. I highly recommend.

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It was a long slog. Not worth a credit.

Revisado: 06-07-22

I just wanted it to be over with and find out what happened. There are so many cool ways this story could have gone, but as it is it just felt like it stagnated. I was dying for a breeze in a stuffy room and it never came.

The characters were mostly 2-dimensional and made very little sense in spots. I don't think the timelines made much sense. There were plot holes. I don't understand how your teenage son beating up a drug dealer gets shrugged off as like "o he's a sweet boy doing normal teen stuff." It just made zero sense. So many things made no sense.

It feels like it was just written for clicks. There was nothing good or redeemable about this story. Some bits were cool to think about but that's it. It wasn't worth the credit.

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Loved it

Revisado: 04-24-19

I really loved this book. I grew up spending my summers on the coast in rural Alabama where my family has lived for hundreds of years, and this taps into all that southern lore. It's really a cool story and I very much enjoyed it.

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Eye opening. I wish I read this years ago

Revisado: 09-21-18

This was a fantastic book on BPD mothers and how to cope with them. It really made a lot of my life make sense and I highly recommend it to anyone who may be suffering. Even if you aren't suffering though, it provides great insight to the lives of those who live with and love those who have this disorder. I can't reccomend it enough.

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Great performance, but story stagnates

Revisado: 08-21-18

This came reccomended by an acquaintance of mine who is a writer. I never liked her much, but thought it was on me and tried to give her a second chance. She recommended this book as a great book. It was horrible. It infuriated me. It felt like being stuck outside on a 95 degree summer night with no breeze. The story just stagnated, and the book just stopped in the stagnation, leading to a very awkward, unfulfilling ending.

I hate the main character. She is a whiny sad sack with no spine. What makes it worse is that her antagonist is even WHINIER.

It makes sense, because the person who suggested it to me is a whiney-type.

So if you are the weak-willed whiney type, you may like this book, and enjoy swimming in the weak willed cess pool of despair this book becomes.

Really though, I think my friend only liked it for the lesbian love scenes which are the most interesting parts of the book. The rest of it is so without action or point that it just makes me sad I wasted that many hours of my life on it. Honestly part of me thinks people only "like" this book because they think it's "progressive" because of the sexual orientation of the main character.

It's just an incredibly boring book, with weak characters I grew to hate, in a thin plot that is about as weak willed as the characters inhabiting it.

The narrator was bomb though, so there is that.

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OK, but not great

Revisado: 07-05-18

Interesting book, but it didn't hold my attention the whole time, and I almost gave up when the narrator went all William Shatner with one of the character's voices. I couldn't handle it.

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Love Wheaton, hate the story

Revisado: 06-27-18

The characters are flimsy and 2D and about as far from complex as it gets.

The women are few and far between and generally follow set archetypes - but then again everyone does.

It's basically a nerd listing 80s nerd-lore and loving himself for how smart he is. It's mildly interesting in that I felt like I had to finish it, but there were parts where I just had to fast forward through lists of data I don't want.

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Good book but not the best

Revisado: 06-04-18

I loved the female narrator but not so much the male. his voice just didn't match.

This book came recommended from a friend and while I did enjoy it and would reccomend it, it wasn't all that I'd hoped it'd be. I feel like the author could have done more with the story.

That said, it's a good book and had me captivated the whole read.

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Great narrator, but had issues with the plot

Revisado: 11-07-17

So this was fun for a Halloween read, except it just went way beyond believable. I don't want to spoil the ending, so I'll try not to. My main issue was that the antagonist was just too powerful. And while there are cool snippets of actual voodoo history in the book, the fact that so many people so easily died was just annoying, honestly. Then there was the ending. The ending was just so easy. It made no sense. I get my spooks from the remote possibility that it could happen I guess, and I was too distracted by the way the plot didn't make sense to feel much if any suspense. I guess that's what this novel missed out on - there's no suspense. Everybody dies quickly and in great numbers. it's a blood bath. I think it could have been rearranged and drug out in places to make a cool story. More near misses and less all out carnage, and it could have been better.

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Great and needed listen

Revisado: 07-25-16

This is a dense and powerful book, that is laid out in a clear and concise manner so that it is easy to understand. It gives the reader a lot to think about and reflect on The narrator does a great job of conveying the complex ideals. Would definitely reccomend to all.

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