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Great information but repetitive

Revisado: 01-06-25

Great COVID information but very repetitive and defensive. Could have been edited down to a shorter book.

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Awful. Only listened to 20 minutes.

Revisado: 07-21-24

Dramatic reading really slows down story. Very hard to hear due to background noises, echos, and lack of compression. The story completely lacked interest after 20 minutes, so stopped and deleted.

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"Hack" your new acquaintances - They won't mind

Revisado: 07-19-24

If you like the overused and trite word "Hack" then this audiobook is for you. I'll bet I heard Vanessa say "hack" 500 times. Honestly, this audiobook was a struggle to get through. On a positive note, the author seems to be data and test driven, more than a little OCD, and a rather irritating. Her lengthy list of suggested conversation starters would not attract the people I know, or would want to know. Quite the opposite. Might work at a Renaissance Fair. The audiobook frequently referenced attached PDFs which I can't view while driving or weed whacking. I'm sure some people will get something out of this hack book, but not me.

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Not so good and sloppy writing

Revisado: 05-06-24

This is a rip off of The Truman Show, rewritten as science fiction by somebody who knows very little about science. Earth has so much water that people can only live only a tiny mountain top called High Earth. Who knew that glaciers held so much water? We have thousands of glaciers taller than Mount Everest, right? Need to rescue somebody from an asteroid/space station orbiting the Earth? Just launch a rocket and slam into it at full speed. You'll be fine if you're harnessed tightly in the back. A massive amount of kinetic energy never hurt anybody.
Mission, the star of the reality show Ignis: Live! gleams the stars and position of Earth for the first time but admits she can't place her location because she doesn't know much about astrology. Yup, I rewound several times and heard correctly: Astrology, not astronomy.
Wil Wheaton did a great job of narrating, and Katherine McNamara was fine narrating the star Mission, though a little too sexy with her soft vocal fry voice, but was awful with cringeworthy narrating of Craig Helix, the creator of the show Ignis: Live!
Overall Vicarious was meh, with a really bad, disappointing ending.

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Woke nutcase

Revisado: 12-19-23

This audiobook started out non-political but that didn't last. It's the white supremacists who are antisemitic? Like all those conservative white supremacist ivy league college presidents condoning calls for the genocide of Jews?

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COVID! COVID! COVID!

Revisado: 09-18-23

If you read fiction for a temporary escape, this book isn't for you. It's all about COVID-19, and every new strain is more deadly than the last. By the time of this review, a single cough could kill half the planet. Hospitals are overflowing from MAGA Republican antivaxers dying in the hallways. Fortunately if you're around somebody who's been double vaxed you can't get COVID, so take your mask off, especially indoors. Like I said, it's fiction. COVID and Trump aside, the story is weak and predictable. SK has lost his writing chops.

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Couldn't finish this NPRish dribble

Revisado: 08-12-23

I've always been interested in Mark Twain and food so this audiobook seemed like a natural fit. Instead it was an NPR-like documentary with frequent uninteresting sidetracts and a lot of racial handwringing. I tried but couldn't finish it. This audiobook is most likely aimed at snowflakes who own a lot of cats.

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Could have been good

Revisado: 05-13-23

This book has the clunky utilitarian prose of a Haruki Murakami novel, but without the brilliance. The characters are boring and the dialog is unrealistically Woke, even in the dialog from before the turn of the century. Really difficult to get through and unrewarding.

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Lots of clichés

Revisado: 04-20-23

Simple one-dimensional characters, full of clichés and excessive boring details. More testosterone than intellect.

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Was great until it wasn't

Revisado: 04-12-23

The first third of the book was great, and then unraveled into boring fantasy. Excellent narration.

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