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Alice in Wonderland Cyberpunk Drug Haze

Revisado: 03-17-23

This book is well written and weird. My advice-- Don't think too hard about how anything works in this world (it's never really explained) and just accept it as a drug induced wild ride between reality and fantasy. Of course, if you're not in the mood for a book about wild drug trips this is probably not the book for you.

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Pretty good. About 1/3 too long.

Revisado: 12-21-22

I'm sure most people, like me, are mostly interested in the band-- both their professional and personal lives. Those parts were good. The politics and name dropping should have been cut. I know Bono is proud of those accomplishments and all of the amazing people he's met. It's just not what a U2 fan is buying this book for (and lets be honest, only U2 fans are buying this book). I saw some negative comments about the flowery prose. I actually enjoyed that. It was poetic and went with Bono's personality. But it did drag on about 8-9 hours too long. And Bono, at times, dragged out the delivery. Playing the book at 1.2 speed and skipping all of the politics and name dropping segments was perfect. I'm sure someone could do an excellent "fan edit" abridged version of this.

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Most of the 5 star reviews must be fake

Revisado: 08-07-22

I think most of the 5 star reviews are from a marketing company. It must be the same group that plasters social media with fake recommendations for this book.

Ray Porter is excellent as a narrator. The author, however, appears to have just made a list of sciencey obstacles for the main character to overcome because he is so smart. Hey it worked in The Martian! (which it did). It just doesn’t work here.

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The 5 star reviews must be fake

Revisado: 08-27-21

The gushing 5 star reviews of this book must be fake. Overall the book is very weak. Very few interesting stories. It's basically Cary Elwes gushing over everyone who participated in the movie in the very fake way Hollywood actors praise each other. ("He's one of the most talented... She is incredibly gifted... The most amazing cast and crew...." Blah, Blah, Blah. The only semi-interesting parts were about Andre the Giant. Maybe a book just about him would be good. Everything else was pretty boring. Skip this one.

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Solid book. GREAT narration.

Revisado: 07-03-21

Great narrators can make (or break) an audio book. I liked this book. It had an engaging story. The reason I recommend it as an audio book is due to the fantastic narration. Wil Wheaton, as always, was solid. And Katherine McNamara stole the show. Immediately after finishing this book, I looked for other titles she has narrated. Sadly, there are none.

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esto le resultó útil a 1 persona

Skip it.

Revisado: 01-22-20

I like a lot of Neal Stephenson's books. I did not like this one. It started out pretty interesting, but then it just dragged on, and on, and on. I speed up the last 10 hours of the recording just to get through it.

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esto le resultó útil a 2 personas

Skip it.

Revisado: 01-22-20

I like a lot of Neal Stephenson's books. I did not like this one. It started out pretty interesting, but then it just dragged on, and on, and on. I speed up the last 10 hours of the recording just to get through it.

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Good beginning, decent ending, UGH in between

Revisado: 01-22-20

This books starts our quite entertaining. Then it gets very cringe worthy in the middle. The "love story" thrown in for the main character was completely out of place and unbelievable. I kind of liked the ending, although at that point I was listening at 1.25x speed to get through it. The narrator was good, but overall the book was just OK.

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Starts great, then drags and fizzles

Revisado: 10-21-19

The beginning is incredible and worth reading just for that. Then it becomes a typical zombie book. The ending is weak— maybe because it is so abrupt.

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Thought Provoking

Revisado: 09-28-19

I really enjoyed this book. The beginning and the end were absolutely amazing. There were a few slower parts in the middle, but I'm still giving this 5 stars. Most of the negative reviews seem to be from very religious readers, which makes sense-- their world view is challenged again and again. Even my own view of the world was challenged (something that I very much enjoyed).

I typically read fiction as I find a lot of non-fiction repetitive with ideas from a whole book that could have been summed up in one chapter. This was not the case with this book. It covers a lot of information which I appreciated.

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