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Lame

Revisado: 02-18-25

Not at all believable, ridiculous plot points (especially the office break-in), ending highlighted the shallowness of the characters. Waste of a few hours.

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Great story

Revisado: 04-12-24

Wonderful story. Interest by the listener in Mongolia and Tibetan Buddhism would be useful, and in any event this is a good intro to both. I’d love to know what happens to the tulkus. The narrator is excellent, Some of the Buddhist vocabulary has a quite different pronunciation than I’ve ever heard, but that won’t bother anyone (except me).

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wildly inventive

Revisado: 02-29-24

Really delightful. Original and interesting story, and some quite compelling action and ideas. Hilarious in parts and often welcomingly tongue-in-cheek -- just for example, armed rat-weasels with goggles, a quite snarky phyaicist, and a Dr. Evil stand-in. Also quite a few easter eggs (think 42). Wonderful narrator, who is perhaps unintenionally hilarious when affecting a supposedly Californian accent -- she's a bit wobbly there and often sounds like a New York mobster, perhaps a result of watching too much Law & Order. All in all, leaves me wanting more.

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If I could give the narrator 6 or 7 stars I would

Revisado: 06-09-19

Wonderful story, brilliantly told. You can get the plot from other reviewers, but I particularly want to commend Ms McMahon who darts from one accent to another, one gender to another, with accuracy, grace and aplomb.

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Ignore the negative reviews

Revisado: 03-19-19

First off, please recognize at the beginning that this is a true story, about real people, with their real names, only lightly fictionalized. It's not a novel, although it appears to be one to those who don't know this. The story is absolutely riveting, and the narrator is excellent, one of the best I've encountered (and I've encountered many). The material is hard, but so what -- it's crucial that we don't forget the level of inhumanity that can be inflicted for simply being other, and the love that can bring people through the worst of times.

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Not credible

Revisado: 03-29-18

First off M. Levy’s American protagonist seemed pretty French to me. That aside, too many clues that the reader picks up but the characters are oblivious to, too many unasked questions or ungiven explanations that would clear up misunderstandings immediately, too many people not recognizing a movie star (master of disguise notwithstanding), and possibly most not credible the assumption that nobody watching Korean TV could possibly speak English. Romcom material, with an interesting twist, but ultimately a piece of cake that you regret eating. Good performance though.

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Wonderful memoir

Revisado: 05-15-15

Oliver Sacks is one of my intellectual heroes. This memoir of his is very welcome, as it gives further insight into how his mind works and who he is: brilliant, unpretentious, somewhat regretful, enthusiastic, profoundly curious and compassionate.

If you are coming across this without knowing Dr. Sacks’ oeuvre, I suggest you first start with The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and/or An Anthropologist on Mars, and then either read Awakenings or watch the wonderful movie starring Robin Williams as Dr. Sacks, Robert DeNiro as a post-encephalitic patient, and Marge Simpson as his nurse, and only then dive into this book. As an aside, Dr. Sacks was amazed at how well Robin Williams captured his persona.

In order to fully appreciate this wonderful memoir, you must be interested in neurology, and it would be good to also have some interest in the literary mind and process of writing; you must also not be put off by Dr. Sacks’ description of a few sexual encounters.

Narration was good, except that I question (as do others) the curious choice of an American to voice Dr. Sacks, who has a distinctive English voice. I also wish that the narrator would have researched some of the foreign words that he mispronounces -- a minor and mostly irrelevant point, but a pet peeve.

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