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Well described ramblings

Revisado: 01-27-24

I liked how discriptive this book was written (except for the wholly unnecessary explicit bits... oh yeah the entire thing was unnecessary) and it was well performed. However, there wasn't really a story here. It read like the scattered memoir of a neglegent, self centered spiteful teenager who has issues with her parents. I felt like I was hearing the thoughts of a kid that's been emotionally blunted by SSRIs since toddlerhood. I've never taken them, but after wasting my time & a credit listening to this, I think I need Prozac. I wish people would work out their depression and sense of life having no meaning by working on themselves before regurgitating everything that sucks in a tome that lays a shroud over readers.

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Kept my attention

Revisado: 01-10-24

I liked the thought provoking language and concept of this well performed story. It was worth the credit. As an aging writer and artist myself, I related to the protagonist.

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Touching story about relationships

Revisado: 07-03-23

This is the first time I could get through such a technically detailed book, thanks to the reader friendly writing and amazing performance. Thank you. Anyone criticizing the reader could not do a better job. I was immersed and very moved by this story. I laughed and cried.

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I was inspired, characters alive...until this

Revisado: 06-02-23

This book is on the extreme end of technical formula for generic story structure. It seems like a good option for training AIs to write fiction. There is advice for what should happen exactly at the 37% point of the story. I was on fire with characters coming alive in my imagination and excited to write their story. This book's approach extinguished my light. Send help, please! What title can help me without destroying the passion behind the story?!

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Engaging story, interesting plot, well performed.

Revisado: 05-28-23

Bard recommended this book to me as an example of AI - human relations. I enjoyed listening to it. The experience described by one of the characters of not identifying with one's body or of identity being separate from one's body bled into my life while I was immersed in the story for an interesting, surreal effect.

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Kudos to reader for getting through this muck

Revisado: 02-13-23

F-bombs most every sentence, often more than once a sentence, make this miserable victim whine an overlong implication of all the folks who ever wronged the author. I became interested in this author @ an interview I heard with him where he claimed to offer group meditations for free. @ his website it turns out that is a lie. His gifts are apparently a walk-in that happened when he decided to end his life. Unfortunately it was not a full walk-in. Find your answers within. No guru needed. Trashy mouth is not entertaining or enlightening. If I was tempted to look deeper and get the perspective of this author (or whatever inhabits his being now), listening to two thirds of this book changed my mind completely. This is what people are talking about when they say they cannot get this time back. Waste of a credit. Not recommended.

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Story had a grounding effect

Revisado: 02-11-23

This was an entertaining story. I got chills when the mages in the stones spoke to Rivulet. I am not too bothered by the tendency for Card to incorporate into his work the nakedness of an adolescent boy or include descriptions of male urination (rarely needed for plot). Compared to Robert Louis Stevenson, Card's homoeroticism is miniscule and most people take Stevenson's with a grain of salt, so, whatever! Fine performance (not too much or too little drama). I rarely thought of the reader at all (a good thing!) Thank you for this book.

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Revisado: 01-18-23

Simply written and concise summary for the lay reader. No frills, to the point audio performance. Thanks!

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Expertly read mediocre writing

Revisado: 01-18-23

Only the dog character kept my interest to the end. Also, I liked how the "outsider" was given some depth in the end. I knocked off a star out of dislike for misogyny and another, perhaps unfairly, because I do not want to hear long descriptions of a lust for the joy of killing with numerous detailed, pointless examples. I felt like this story romanticized murder a lot. I do not know why it would make any top lists of great books. I agree with the author in his afterward about leaving the reading to the voice actors. But there is no need to publicly insult audio advisor. That is a petty let down plugged into the end of the recording. I left a star on because the author pointed out the underlying themes of the story. Thanks, I might not have realized them otherwise. (eyeroll)

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I like that story demonstrates how

Revisado: 01-14-23

a simulated environment has real emotional meaning in relationship. Emotionally developed characters kept me interested.

It could have done without the casual & completely unnecessary references to using cocaine.

Narrator is barely better than a robot.

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