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I had fight to stay interested

Revisado: 03-23-24

The only good thing about the book was the setting. The narrator was good as well. I could see why it was on the 2-for-1 list.

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Magnificently researched, written, and narrated.

Revisado: 07-22-22

This is one of the finest and most informative books to which I've had the pleasure to listen. There are a myriad of animal senses revealed to us which we had no idea existed. Animals reveal ingenious and mysterious ways in which they communicate and live within their worlds, and Ed Yong explains them in perfectly chosen phrases that make us want to read more. At the same time, he reveals the fragile ecological balance in which we all exist, and how humans carelessly and unthinkingly can disturb that balance and doom many animals - including themselves - to extinction. This is a marvelous book that should be read by everyone.

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Narrator drove me crazy

Revisado: 02-06-21

I had to return this book because the narrator's delivery completely turned me off. She ended almost every sentence on an upward slide, totally eclipsing the story with her speech pattern. She did absolutely no justice to the story.

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Narrator drove me crazy!

Revisado: 01-06-20

I loved Lori Gottlieb's text, which was filled with deeply informative and emotionally resonating material. Thank goodness that it was magnetic enough on its own to keep me from turning away in disgust due to the narrator's affected and stilted style.
First, the valley-girl overlay was maddening, with overwhelming stress on final plosive consonants, like "d" or "t," that totally shattered the smoothness of the writing. Second was the mispronunciation of words like "groceries," where we hear the voice-over saying "growsheries," or substituting "asterix" for "asterisk." I've been in the music/voice-over production business for 35 years, and I'm finding more and more that younger voice-over talent haven't really gained the level of professionalism and mastery of our language that used to be the standard. To use a valley-girl accent on a book of such import is a real shame, in my humble opinion.

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Announcer is a big disappointment

Revisado: 01-06-20

Having been born and raised in Chicago, I was looking forward to the story offered by Charlie Donlea that uses the city for its backdrop. However, the narrator kept pulling me out of the story with her constant mispronunciation of the word "the" when it's placed before any word beginning with a vowel. Instead of saying "thee alley," she would say "thuh alley," or "thuh other" instead of "thee other." This is a vocabulary lesson that most of us learned in grammar school. The narrator is supposed to be a professional who is paid to know how to pronounce words correctly, but I'm finding that more and more young voice talent can't speak the language properly. I really am drawn to the story; it's just the voice-over person that makes it almost impossible not to get frustrated and annoyed!

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Guffawed until I gasped!

Revisado: 08-25-18

I always look forward to a new Andy Carpenter book, knowing I'm in for witty quips galore (plus some great action and courtroom drama). David Rosenfelt nails my sense of humor like nobody else can, with his twisty plot lines, his marvelous characters, and his wonderfully dry wit! I think "Collared" outdoes his previous books, which is quite a feat indeed. I literally was gasping for breath during some incredibly hysterical dialogue. Add to all this the love of innocent animals shown by Andy and his cohorts, and one has everything one needs to be happy and content immersed in a great book!

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Instantly Magnetic

Revisado: 08-20-12

What did you love best about Maisie Dobbs?

Her character is fully three-dimensional, not only in life, but in time as well. She is vulnerable and fallible, making her someone I wanted to know more about.

What did you like best about this story?

The characters are seamlessly woven into the World War I era and are caught up in its happenings and aftermath.

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

Ms. Barrington gives us the flavor of what the era in Britain was like at that time - the transmutation of the culture from Victorian mores to a more progressive and permissive time, and the resulting change of how women were viewed and how they viewed themselves.

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Couldn't see the forest for the (dry) trees

Revisado: 10-04-10

I was expecting a thrilling page-turner, but was greatly disappointed as the plot continually got bogged down by constant explanations of dry minutiae. The narrator tried hard to keep one's interest, but fought a losing battle when pitted against endless expositions on such trivia as the chain of command on reporting naval deaths in the Pacific, battles fought by various ancient Hawaiian kings, and much more. To me, it was as if Ms. Reichs worked harder to impress us with her brilliance and research abilities rather than treat us to a breathtaking ride through the pages of her novel.

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