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Great listen, annoying reader.

Revisado: 02-28-24

Like all of Gillian Flynn’s work, this is great. The reader/narrator got pretty grating after a while and they would have done better with someone who had better vocal range, but it does the job.

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Fantastic.

Revisado: 02-22-24

So much knowledge and experience presented incredibly well. Her humor and storytelling really comes through.

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Very boring.

Revisado: 02-18-24

This book seems like a random assortment of unrelated tales and people. Incredibly dry and boring from an author who I really enjoy otherwise.

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Hard to follow

Revisado: 07-15-23

This book is just story after story and odd anecdotes. It was difficult to tell what they were trying to accomplish and the stories were hardly woven into the whole story of the war. I zoned out constantly and couldn’t finish

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Could live without it

Revisado: 07-01-22

this book was fine. The first few essays are better then it goes off the rails. It’s more of an autobiography for an author in a hurry than it is anything else. The listical chapters are really annoying and the constant mention of cis white men (pronounced cizz for some reason) got really old and was too repetitive.

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Fine?

Revisado: 03-24-22

I don’t know why this book really exists in the first place. It’s all stories they’ve told on the show before so there’s hardly any new information. It’s still full of crappy jokes from Henry so if it’s difficult to get past that in the podcast, you don’t get away from it here either. There isn’t a specific draw for the book. Marcus does an amazing job narrating as always but it should have just been left for him with out the interruptions. Different stories that haven’t been covered in the weekly’s would have made this worth it.

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Worth the listen

Revisado: 04-17-21

This book is greatly detailed and well researched. The only thing that irritated me was the authors need to constantly comment on the women’s looks and how pretty they were, as if it were to make their suffering sadder or more controversial, as if they were ugly and dumb their deaths wouldn’t be as sad. Each introduction of a figure there is an entire paragraph dedicated to their looks and smarts.
Each time she wrote the dramatic “lip dip” I about threw my phone to outer space.
I appreciated the detail of each person but it was hardly as necessary as it was made out to be. Lots of assumptions were made about their lives and personalities that I had a hard time believing.
The audio narrator is also painfully annoying and stupid sounding. It’s a book about capitalism posing workers, not a Mickey Mouse cartoon. The inflections are not necessary.

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Good but...

Revisado: 03-27-21

I did like this book. There’s a lot of interesting information that was presented well but may not work well as an audiobook for people that don’t have an inclination for science. It’s difficult to usefully retain a lot of the information presented.

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Overall really interesting and informative

Revisado: 01-01-21

I definitely enjoyed this book, the research was exhaustive and well planned out. I do agree with other reviews that some things don’t translate well to audio so I had to FF through some sections. I loved the class and social stratification of food through out the empire and the details about the trade routes. This book really hit every point. I did find that the narrator to be droning and I found myself zoning out and not comprehending much. I think I could retain more on a second listen because the tone of voice did fade into the background if I wasn’t really paying attention. It may be beneficial to listen to this book at an accelerated speed.

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Great!

Revisado: 06-25-19

I listened to this in three days. It was so well told and the amount of information was incredible. The delivery of the readers voice was good but stoned on a little at times and made it hard to follow here and there but I really enjoyed this novel and I will likely listen again

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