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One narrator drug down all the others

Revisado: 08-13-24

What kind of producer listens back to whoever read Flying Scarberryies and things, "yeah, that's fine, publish that?" The performance is more painful than any event in the book.

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A Prerequisite for Entering Trauma Therapy

Revisado: 08-09-23

I feel this book is a must-read for anyone considering entering therapy related to trauma. If nothing else, it will cover a lot of exposition about what trauma is, how it effects us, and how we can heal from it; the past, present, and future of how trauma is researched and treated; and what to expect - both from therapy and from what you're capable of.

Reading this book isn't going to change your life on its own. It will provide valuable insight and knowledge, and maybe even point you in the right direction, so that you can spend more time in therapy on therapy, not exposition.

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The Rifters Series Should Have Ended With Starfish

Revisado: 06-29-23

I love much of Peter Watts' work as much as anyone else. But this isn't his best. Starfish introduced many interesting ideas. Maelstrom added memes. Behemoth hasn't added meaningful anything to the story, or introduced new and captivating ideas. There is a Peter Watts interview out there that took place before Behemoth, where he said he hadn't written another book in the series because he didn't have anything else to say in that world. He still didn't, but he wrote another book anyways.

Luckily he still has a lot of other great works. Maybe check those out before you waste your time with Behemoth.

The narrator's performance was adequate, and that's really all there is to say about it. It wasn't noticeably poorly or well done.

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Skillfully told story, awful narrator.

Revisado: 03-24-22

Ryan is an excellent story teller. His raw, candid, honesty about the depravity of addiction is unheard-of. His prose and stories are captivating and enthralling.

The same praise cannot be laid upon the narrator. He couldn't even pronounce the author's name correctly, and then it was all downhill from there.

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Boring AF

Revisado: 11-27-20

What a snore-fest. No idea how this is so highly reviewed. I've read ingredient lists on shampoo bottles more engaging and less mind-numbing than this.

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You'll forget about it next week

Revisado: 10-03-20

The story is fine. It's entertaining enough. But there's nothing special about it. You won't retain anything you read, and there's no reason to. You'll forget about it by next week and will never think of it again. You won't take anything away from the story. The writing is competent, adequate, but nothing remarkable about it. The book is basically a plain turkey sandwich. It's fine. It's not bad enough, nor good enough to ever think about again.

The narraration was by far the best part. Top-notch.

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Terrible narration

Revisado: 12-20-19

Why tf does Van sound 102 years old? I can't tell if this chick went for vocal fry and landed on throat cancer or what.

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A mediocre story with bad narration

Revisado: 12-02-19

One of the few upsides to this audiobook is that at least now I know I'll never listen to another narrarated bt Wil Wheaton.

Aside from that the story is okay. It's not that it's outright bad or anything, but you'll forget everything about it in a few days. The story begins to scratch the surface of a few topics that could be engaging and profound, but at the end of the day none of those ideas are explored all that deeply.

I'd put this in the same category as those movies you put on to pass the time because there's nothing else better to watch.

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More Tim Gerald

Revisado: 02-04-19

Pierce Brown set the bar too high with the original Trilogy. This novel falls short. I felt too detached from the characters. Lysander arc was useless (though maybe it will come into play later on). But most of all, Julian Elfer's performance as the voice of Lysander Au Lune was so egregiously poor his sections of the audiobook were almost unbearable. His entire performance sounded like he was reading a grocery list as fast as possible. Phoned this performance in, for sure. And could the narrators and director not get together at some point to discuss how to pronounce names/words/slang? We've got like 70 hours of established pronunciation from Tim Gerard, and Julian Elfer just says things how he feels like apparently.

Do yourself a favor, skip the audiobook and pick up a copy of the actual book for this one.

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I'm not an idiot

Revisado: 01-13-16

The performance was fine. Not outstation, but by no means bad.

The story overall was a good idea. I just never found myself caring about any of the characters. The only one to really stand out at all is the universally hated JBF.

The thing that drove me nuts about the book was repetition. For instance, I don't need to have the definition of apogee and parigee spelled out each time they're mentioned. Each time something is mentioned, you have to go through pages (or minutes) of explanation, even though you've already been through it a dozen times. I constantly found myself saying, "I get it already, fucking move on already!"

The first two parts were good. The third was painfully slow, yet felt like it wasn't well thought out at the same time. The epilogue seems like it was thrown together in about five minutes.

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