Thomas D. Kehoe

Reader can't pronounce German names

Revisado: 12-03-23

Can we get a reader who can pronounce German names?

Otherwise the book was somewhat interesting.

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Verbose, overwritten

Revisado: 11-29-23

I listened for more than an hour, in which many words are used to say little. There might some interesting stories in here but this author isn't telling them. Maybe an abridged edition would be better.

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Nothing happens

Revisado: 06-19-22

I listened to 16 chapters. No plot or characters that I could find. Some descriptions of growing up in Bulgaria in the 1970s.

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Not funny

Revisado: 06-19-22

I suffered through the first chapter (40 minutes). Does "comedic" mean funny? The author seems to have not understood that.

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Strongly interiorized, inconsistent world

Revisado: 04-07-22

I listened to the first 90 minutes. It’s strongly interiorized, i.e., heavy on the narrator’s thoughts and light on anything happening. I didn’t like the characters. It’s also inconsistent. Two-inch high plastic soldiers are brought to life and a cat kills one soldier. “We’re brave soldiers but we’re only two inches tall,” the officer says. Then a few pages later he threatens to kill one of the people. The toy soldiers can’t kill a cat but they can kill people? Science fiction worlds can be as fantastic as you want but the world has to be consistent.

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Nothing to learn from this book

Revisado: 02-23-22

I plowed through 3 hours 17 minutes before switching it off. Blank writes for large, well-funded startups with many employees that have a new technology and are trying to find customers who'll buy the technology. I started my company thirty years ago to solve the biggest problem in my life. I avoided new technology and built my products with established technologies. I kept expenses down. I'm not rich but I've seen many better-funded competitors come and go. Blank's advice is obvious and repeats himself to make a book out of basic advice.

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Only for stay at home disasters

Revisado: 02-23-22

I only made it through the first 30 minutes. This section was about buying and storing food. I was hoping to learn about floods, fires, tornadoes--you know, the exciting stuff. What kind of ziplock bags to store your oatmeal in isn't something I need to listen to.

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Run, don't walk, from these cliches!

Revisado: 06-17-20

In Chapter One McKee explains his "arc plot," "mini plot," "micro plot," "no plot," and "anti plot" theory. No one else in the world believes this theory. In Chapter Two, McKee shows you how to rewrite a scene from "Chinatown" properly, with a half-page of inner thoughts for each line of dialogue. I plowed through this melodramatic dreck for an hour before giving up. It's painful to listen to. You could torture prisoners by forcing them to listen to this audiobook. Any producer who saw such a screenplay would throw it in the trash. I didn't listen to the rest of the audiobook, which I'm guessing has a chapter on putting in camera angles, and a chapter about sending producers a baby shoe with your script and a note saying that you want to "get a foot in the door." Save yourself the pain and read "Save the Cat!" After that read "The Writer's Journey."

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Loved but the abridged version might be better

Revisado: 10-25-18

This book sometimes has too much detail. I didn't care what pieces of his wife's jewelry each astronaut brought. There's a lot of technical details that an engineer might be interested in (Armstrong was an engineer first and a pilot second) but most people wouldn't care about. Now to compare the book to the movie. The book is much better! My friend didn't read the book before we went to see the movie and she was often lost as to what was going on, e.g., what the Columbia was and why it orbited the Moon, what the Agina was and why Gemini 8 docked with it, etc. The actor who played Armstrong didn't seem like the Armstrong in the book.

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Can't stand the narrator

Revisado: 07-13-18

I gave up after a chapter. The story might be good (the first chapter wasn't) but I couldn't stand the narrator.

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