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It Worked!

Revisado: 03-11-24

My two biggest issues with my 55 pound 2-year old dog were jumping up on me, and others, in excitement and barking. I listened to the chapter about Off on my way home from work, made a shaker bottle before getting out of the car, and used it as she started jumping. It worked immediately! The barking was solved just as easily. She doesn't seem much interested in many of the other 'tricks', but they are really not that important to me. We live in the country and she has an acre of fenced area for running. The other things are not necessary. Just getting these two things under control is a game changer!

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Ends Just as the Story is Getting Interesting

Revisado: 03-18-23

The entire book feels like a build to a great climax, but the book ends before that climax. It was great, as far as it goes. Where is the rest? Why focus on one particular scene, create a tale to lead to that scene, and then end before it is all tied together? Is another book coming to solve the riddle?

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Move On, Please!

Revisado: 09-07-16

What made the experience of listening to Written in My Own Heart's Blood the most enjoyable?

Finally finding out that Brianna's son is saved. I'm amazed that it took a woman writer that long to finally save the child! As a mother and grandmother, that was my main concern. (Perhaps that's why she took so long - because people like me would buy this book to find out. I sure wouldn't have bought it otherwise.)

Would you be willing to try another book from Diana Gabaldon? Why or why not?

If she would get away from Jamie and Claire, yes. I'm sick to death of those two! I want more of Brianna's family.

Have you listened to any of Davina Porter’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

All the previous Outlander novels. About the same.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

All the boring stuff about the war. I don't want a step by step of the march to Valley Forge. Do I really need to hear about whether or not a whore can wash clothes? I also don't care about Lord John. William is just a spoiled brat! All this waste of words - 75% of the book - moves me to want to rip it to pieces. Since I am listening on audible, though, I can't even have that much satisfaction.

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Ironic

Revisado: 02-20-14

Have you listened to any of Jonathan Davis and Robert J. Sawyer ’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Yes. About the same.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No. I needed to take breaks. I can't sit through this much political mush-headedness in one listening.

Any additional comments?

The author continues his political discourse throughout this 3rd book. It reminds me of a person complaining about the evils of large corporations while eating dinner in a restaurant owned by a large corporation... a meal being paid for by his father, who works for a large corporation. How nice that you have views, but you would not be free to discuss your views in this forum if it wasn't for the benefits of the system that you believe to be inferior. Specifically, Robert J Sawyer would not be able to spend time writing about the evils of agricultural societies if he lived in a hunter-gatherer society. He would be hunting. He would be fishing. He would be cleaning game & carrying it back to where the meal would be prepared. He would be doing these things because he had to eat, not because he enjoyed them. What archaeological evidence do we have that hunter-gatherers had any sort of writing? None. All evidence of early writing comes from peoples who lived in cities & cultivated fields.

His views on religion are interesting, too. It must be nice to live in a think-tank where people are not responsible for their own actions. This is not reality, however. People choose to make mistakes. Few, if any, religions preach that people should war with their neighbors. People choose to make war instead of peace. People choose to do evil unto others. These are choices, not mandates of religious system or practice.

The often-cited view of the author that Canada is superior to other countries is odd, also. In one paragraph he writes about how horrible is the death penalty, and how Canada doesn't practice it. In another he writes about abortion and how Canada allows it. So, it's okay to kill innocent babies but not okay to kill people who have chosen to enter a school and kill children? How is that a superior, or even logical, thought process?

These are only a small sample of the views expressed throughout the book. As I said in my comments about Book 2, Robert Sawyer - please tell your fabulous story, but leave out your brainwashing tactics.

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Overall A Good Story

Revisado: 02-18-14

What made the experience of listening to Humans the most enjoyable?

I've been fascinated by Neanderthals for years & read all I can about them. Interesting fantasy culture in this book.

Which character – as performed by Jonathan Davis and Robert J. Sawyer – was your favorite?

Hak. It seemed to have more personality than the actual personalities sometimes.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

The only extreme reaction at any time was anger. Anger that the author decided to use his book as a vehicle to brain-wash. The presentation that the reason for Neanderthal extinction is that our kind of humans killed them, for instance. Mary mentions that this is just one theory, but doesn't present the other theories & says that she believes this one. Also, the idea that the only reason for slavery was/is to further the gain of the owner(s) in recent American agricultural societies, while completely ignoring the fact that Native Americans practiced slavery, Europeans practiced slavery, Africans practiced slavery, slavery is still practiced in southern Asia & the Middle East, etc., really chaps my hide! Additionally, the author's apparent need to convince his readers that religion is a ridiculous notion, believed only by the feeble-minded or people completely lacking in logic, is outright offensive! Tell your story, Mr Sawyer - but leave your thought reform tactics out of it!

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Based On A Game?

Revisado: 01-03-14

What did you love best about Mogworld?

The variety of voices the narrator can do. Also, I could "see" many of the scenes in the book as Monty Python sketches, which made it more fun for me.

Would you recommend Mogworld to your friends? Why or why not?

If they were into this kind of thing, sure.

What does Yahtzee Croshaw bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The voices of the characters.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Not really.

Any additional comments?

I guess I'm one of those people who has been trapped under a rock, because I had never before heard of Mogworld & had no idea that it is a game. I don't play video games. I think that they are a supreme waste of time. I don't have an urge to fight dragons or drive through streets at light breaking speeds or hunt down people to kill them. Perhaps if they had a game where I could entertain people in a home that was perfect & had a full-time maid, eat all that I wanted & not gain weight, work out for 15 minutes & look like I had spent the past quarter in a gym with a personal trainer, that sort of thing, I might want to play it. Anyway, this book was quite a let-down when I found out that it's just a game in print. If it wasn't for the fabulous reading by the author I would have stopped listening pretty quickly & moved it to my "may listen later" file.

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It Just Doesn't Grab Me

Revisado: 06-12-13

Any additional comments?

I'm not sure if it's the story or the performance, but I don't care what happens to these characters. Listening to the book is a way to pass the time, nothing more.

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Could Be Presented Better

Revisado: 03-06-13

Would you be willing to try another one of Alec Sand’s performances?

No.

Any additional comments?

This could be a very interesting book if the narrator sounded the least bit interested in the topic. Instead, he presents it as if he's a tired history professor, lecturing to a class when he would rather be home.

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So Far So Good

Revisado: 12-12-12

Did Dina Pearlman do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

I've just started the book but want to make a comment before I forget: It would be great if readers of books about the military had military experience. Ms Pearlman reads well enough, but I cringe every time she incorrectly pronounces a term or puts stress on the wrong words in a phrase.

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Sad, Depressing

Revisado: 08-30-12

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Definitely not! The authors apparently imagine a future filled with violence; where there is not enough anything to go around. That is such a "I bought into the nonsense" point of view! There is enough in this world to go around for thousands of years to come!

What could the authors have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Make it more up-beat; more optimistic.

Did METAtropolis inspire you to do anything?

It just made me angry.

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