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Enjoyed everything but the liberal bashing.

Revisado: 05-28-16

I have listened/read Corriea for years, love his humor and writing style. A little disappointed that he spent a good portion of the book venting his hate of democrats/liberals. I prefer when authors keep their political views out of their stories.

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Excellent!

Revisado: 06-15-14

I am a constant reader of King. I've read his great stuff, good stuff and stayed with him during the bad weird stuff. Although there is no paranormal actvity, this book doesn't lack a boogy man. The book is narrated from the point of view of a retired detective who is going down hill in his retirement and a cold blooded killer who wants to drive said retired detective to suicide for his amusement. Mr. Mercedes is a very, very bad man- a sick twisted individual. Patton's narration is excellent, he does an excellent job of giving the characters life in his voice. It is easy to tell characters apart with Patton's narration. I found Mr. Mercedes to be a "page turner", a I need to know what happens next type of book that always has something coming next. Well done King and Patton, well done.

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Way Better Than I Expected

Revisado: 05-08-14

I'm a big time zombie fan, so I've seen "My Life as a White Trash Zombie" on audible several times and thought the summary didn't sound all that exciting. From the zombie perspective really? Seems like it would be a little flat. Not at all! The main character is Angel, she's a sassy foul mouthed girl who just couldn't get her life together. This differs from many zombie stories in that the zombies in this book are mindless, smelly creatures... it's actually pretty similar to how most vampire stories explain their change... only with brains instead of blood. The narrator Allison McLemore did a FANTASTIC job giving a voice to this girl with an attitude and is able to bring out the character's strengths. The main character may have had a shady past as a junkie, high school dropout and loser magnet, but she's no dummy and she has some great street smarts. Another thing I love about this story is that Angel drops the F-bomb all the time. My favorite noun, verb and adjective happens to be the f-bomb, Rowland speaks my language! I'm looking forward to listening to more in the series.

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Wonderfully, delightfully absurd! All hail Emperor

Revisado: 03-17-14

This book was fun from start to finish! Martinez took our little solar system and jazzed it up, adding life to our neighboring planets/moons. The title character Lord Emperor Mollusk is a bit of an egotistical megalomaniac, but he’s got the brains to back it up. The world and characters are great fun. Scott Aiello did a perfect job with the narration of this tale. Aiello really brought Emperor Mollusk to life, overall his performance is brilliant!

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Should have been called Dracula Light

Revisado: 03-14-14

First of all I am very surprised that the author didn't give writing credit to Bram Stoker since that is where the entire plot came from. Instead of Stoker's version of letters penned by the main characters the story is told by Strahd's memoir. The similarities between Stoker's "Dracula" and "I, Strahd" are bordering on plagiarism. I found the characters to be flat and the telling of the story to be blase. I have a hard time understanding the high rating this book has received. On a positive note the narrator Boehmer did an excellent job with the material he had to work with. The character voices were distinct and consistent.

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NOTHING Like Discovery of Witches

Revisado: 10-02-13

The title caught my attention, “The THINKING Woman’s Guide to Real Magic”. Alright I thought a story line with a strong woman who uses her brains and whit… perhaps a different take on magic, one from an analytical perspective. Wrong. Watered down and glossed over. Don't judge this book by its title.

The book pretty much follows a parallel to Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice and references the story line SEVERAL times throughout. Instead of a strong intelligent and moxy lead character, we get a woman who follows the same idle plot line of “I like him, does he like me? Oh he’s mean I don’t like him anymore. Oh I’ll just go marry someone else” (disclosure, I hate Jane Austen books and frankly want to slap many of the characters).

Getting to the magic. Weak. Takes forever to get to the magic and when it does there lacks any real thought or depth. In fact it’s when the book gets to the magic that the whole Mr. Darcy complex gets started. At the end of the audio there’s a plug for “A Discovery of Witches” and the publisher would love to compare this book to Discovery… however the only two things that this book has in common with A Discovery of Witches are that the title character is a grad student and that they share the same publisher. I wish for my credit back.

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ALAAAAAS Babylon

Revisado: 09-18-13

Wow. I loved this book, thought about it for weeks and many books later. The story just stayed with me (in a good way). Characters are well developed and Patton's narration is perfect. I had this book in my library for several months before I got around to it, wish I hadn't waited so long. The story detailed life after an apocalyptic event without getting bogged down in the details (nor was it lacking any depth). Many, many books and months later I still think to my self Alaaaas Babylon. Recommend.

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Timeless and Amazing

Revisado: 09-16-13

I was blown away by this book. Narration by Juliani is excellent. The journey and imagery that Lem created was to me profound. After listening to this book I rented the movie version. Didn't hold a candle to this book (don’t judge a book by it’s movie really applies here). The planet is a character in and of itself, fascinating. This book made me wish I lived in a universe with Solaris so I could see the amazing transformations created by the planet. Highly recommend.

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Epic

Revisado: 11-24-12

This is one is like The Stand meets On the Beach. McCammon has a new fan, I'm amazed it took me this long to find this author. Since I have exhausted King I was looking for something that took me on a journey, Swan Song did just that. The book is lengthy but it never dragged for me, McCammon's writing and Stechschulte's narration was a great combo which has left me looking for more from both. The end of the world as it was known came from every enemy state nuking each other; the story starts there and what follows is an epic battle of good and evil.

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Early American Sherlock Holmes

Revisado: 11-24-12

This story has a great depth. I wanted to read more McCammon after listening to Swan Song (which I also loved), even though the Corbett series is vastly different from Swan Song and maybe not exactly what I was expecting I nonetheless found it rich and entertaining. The main character Michael Corbett is like an early American version of Sherlock Holmes. Edoardo Ballerini is an excellent match for Corbett's character; Corbett has a quiet confidence which is masterfully relayed by Ballerini. I have also listened to the next in the series The Queen of Bedlam and can say Corbett's character continues to grow, his logic and curiosity takes him on a fateful adventure which will lead me to the third soon.

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