Steve

I might stop

Revisado: 06-12-24

The story is pretty good so far. It's not a page turner but it's entertaining enough. My issue is the narrator is insufferable. Imagine finding the most dramatic middle school girl ever and having that person read a book right after their boyfriend broke up with them via text message. That's pretty much the level of unnecessary drama you're getting with the guy reading the book.

Also, any time someone poses a question, the narrator uses the "are you an idiot?" voice. It's the voice people use when they ask someone a question, but in reality, they're saying, "do I really need to ask this?" "Are you an idiot?" You'll. know. it. when. you. hear. it...

Basically, ask every question by slowly over pronouncing every word and drawing them out so a sentence that might take 2 seconds to speak will now take 6 seconds.

Anyway, I'm at the point where I might not be interested enough in the story to continue. We'll see.

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Exponentially Stupid

Revisado: 04-05-24

The stupid decisions in this book get dumber and dumber as the book goes on. I seriously almost stopped listening with one hour to go.
First of all, it's obvious this is a book about a woman, written by a guy. He decides, "I'm going to make a smart, strong, female lead," and then she makes every dumb decision ever.
Second, the husband and wife in the book should never have gotten married and if this was real, they would get divorced sometime in the near future. The husband is an ultra-flake and lacks any kind of parenting instinct.
Third, the kid who I think is 16 years old, acts like he is 4 while at the same time being super intelligent but making every dumb decision ever. As an additional negative, the narrator (who is the best part of the book) struggles to voice a teenager. He ends up sounding like he is 4.
Anyway, the stupid is very real with this book, and it gets worse as it goes on and then suddenly gets wrapped up out of nowhere.

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Imagine

Revisado: 10-23-23

Imagine reading a book about a boy that goes off to college written by a person who has never met a member of the male gender in their entire lives. Also add in the fact that the author has an amazing vocabulary that she seems to want to bludgeon the readers with. Then, to top it off, imagine this book, written from the perspective of a boy from California who goes to school in New England, is narrated by the same author who grew up in Mississippi and can't for the life of her do anything even remotely resembling a male accent, a New England accent or a California accent. It was so incredibly distracting that multiple times I had to remind myself that the main character was male.

Next, imagine that you're going to read this book and every character in the book is completely and irredeemably unlikeable.

Instead of buying this book to suffer through any of it (I quite 3 hours in), you should continue to imagine all of this and move on to something much better.

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Meyer could write about anything and it would be a

Revisado: 01-06-23

awesome. They limited me on the number of characters. Darn character limiters!

Scott Meyer teaches a master class on non linear dialogue that so many authors and movie script writers could learn from. Real conversation isn't "you say this" "I say this" "you say this." Real conversation, especially in groups is very non linear with constant interruptions and tangents. Meyer's command of dialogue is second to none. I would be willing to bet he could take many of the very straightforward Hollywood scripts today and make them much more robust (seriously? their mother's share the same name so that's the big reason they stop fighting????)

Anyway, Destructive Reasoning was hilarious. The Narration was incredible and absolutely perfect. Please make more or I will send you naked pictures of my dog...

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Incredible start, drawn out finish

Revisado: 11-28-22

The first third of this book is amazing, close to perfect. it starts to bog down from there with a lot of repetition and over indulgence. It was enjoyable but took me awhile to finish.

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Forrest Hump

Revisado: 09-13-22

First of all, let's address my headline. This is a YA, female coming of age story. The narrator is pretty terrible. I have no idea why she makes the main character sound like a 4 year old for the entirety of the book when Kya goes from 4 to an adult. That and every time a guy speaks to Kya he sounds like he's on the verge of orgasm. It's just really really weird. If you were to pick up this book in the middle, there is no way you'd think it takes place in North Carolina. Just really bad narration. I kept waiting for her to have Kya say, "Life is like a box of chocolates."

The descriptive writing is excellent. Some incredible imagery. The story starts slow and picks up by the end. It's a bit predictable.

Like many others, I heard this book was "amazing," "incredible," "couldn't put it down. I must have missed something. This is nowhere near the quality of some recent books that many have discussed.

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Good book, annoying narration

Revisado: 11-20-21

This book was pretty entertaining. HOWEVER, (and that's a big however), if you are producing a book and you have a male and female narrator, let the guy do the guy parts and the woman do the woman parts. I don't understand why that is so hard to figure out for some of these production companies. Next, Abby Craden's narration was pretty bad. I'm not sure what's up with it. Another review said that she is trying to sound "sultry" or something. I'm not sure what it is but when she is reading the narrative and not reading the lines that are actually "spoken" she ends many sentences as if she is about to break down in tears. It makes no sense. She does it even when there is just standard narration. "and then Helena stood on the SIDEWALK"...WAAAAAHAAHHH, THE SIDEWALK!!!!!!!! I almost stopped listening. It was just annoying. Maybe trying too hard to "deliver a performance." Lindstrom was pretty good. A bit morose but I think that is because of the content. Anyway, if you can get past Craden's whine-reading, it is a pretty entertaining book.

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Good book, terrible narration

Revisado: 09-27-21

Overall this was a good book. The narration almost made me quit a few times early on but I stuck with it. The narrator is terrible at children's and women's voices. The children (who are 14 and 16) sound like they're 3 and 4. I get that they're supposed to be young for their age but they sound like Pebbles Flintstone. Also, I noticed as the book got into its later stages, the narrator had a hard time holding to the voice he chose for a character so when two people were talking, they both sound the same. The narrator has a good voice for narration, but he should work with an ensemble cast.

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Ready Player Zero

Revisado: 07-07-21

This is one of the worst books I have ever read or listened too. Here is an example of the incredibly bad writing.

"...he sails, gracefully backward through the air, tipping upside down in a BEAUTIFUL swan dive smashing through the large front windshield. It shatters, BEAUTIFULLY, in a million pieces. I'm too transfixed to move. Instead, I can only watch as Maynard continues to sail out of the window and out into the tunnel in BEAUTIFUL, slow motion."

Seriously? Get an editor. There are many synonyms for "Beautiful."
The author also has a habit of inserting movie references that come across as excruciatingly forced. They sound like an APA format citation in a paper.
The story is told in the first person point of view by the main character. However, 85% of the way through, the narrator changes and two other people narrate for a few minutes then they never narrate again.
The main character is an unbelievably, whiny baby. He is completely unlikeable. Almost every character is annoying. The only character that seems normal is Kevin.
Jessica, who acts like a petulant 7 year old is a nightmare of a person and SHE'S A DOCTOR????? Get out of here with that. She's a doctor that has such infantile behavior it is ridiculous.
Anyway, look at the most recent reviews and do some quick math on what the actual ratings should be. Terrible book.

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I cannot believe Balki is the narrator!

Revisado: 02-05-20

First of all, Balki Bartokomous is the narrator! He did a great job! Very well done. To celebrate his outstanding efforts I made bibi-babkas.

This is a very interesting premise with some well thought out ramifications of being sent back 200 years technologically speaking. The characters aren't super likable. A bit predictable and very, very dramatic. The book and series are enjoyable though. The 2nd book is probably the best. It is worth a credit.

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