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pretty good

Revisado: 05-13-21

This is an interesting book. Even a true story has characters, I listened to both the book about the IRA and the book about the Sackler family before this one and the latter two give you a better sense of the people involved. Better character development. Also, this one is worlds better than Chatter. Not that Chatter is bad. it isn't. I just wanted to be able to recommend it to a paranoid friend of mine as an introduction to how to find good information, but it reads like a love letter to a thesaurus and it will put anyone who isnt in love with language for its own sake off. The author is getting better at organizing the story and giving the reader some points of view to follow, That's where this one is lacking, the point of view.

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excellent narration of an excellent book

Revisado: 05-07-21

It is my default position that authors should leave narrating to actors. Neil Gaiman does alright but really, they make actors for a reason.

This guy does well. If I wanted to be critical, maybe he gets a TINGE snarky. But I keep listening to this when I am at work because its a good story told in an engaging way with a solid performance and a clear deep voice. Patrick if u are reading this you could probably do fiction if you wanted to, certainly histories

John Oliver recommended this on TV and he was right. I have all 4 books by this author now, one left to listen to He does good work.

Thank you kindly.

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great narration

Revisado: 05-21-20

I almost didnt get this because of the bad reviews and uselessly short sample.I think all these negative reviews are downright crazy. I am a few hours in and totally engrossed. The performance is excellent.

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not the same characters at all

Revisado: 09-23-17

while characters over a series are expected to grow and change this installment is not true to their essential nature. Lisbeth is not Lisbeth in this story and there is not much of her. And the incompetent prison warden is REDICULOUS. Simon Vance is always perfect. We love you Simon!

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story so strong it survives the terrible reading

Revisado: 06-29-17

its good historical fiction. Its mostly politics and social history, but told in a totally human way so that you can be transported to the space and imagine the real lives of actual people. I dont know how accurate it is - I come to this with no knowledge of this period in france.

The story is engaging and well written .. its not a romance novel. The reading however is one of the worst I have even been able to endure. Any scene that involves any action or emotion is delivered in a shrill and shreaking tone that is very off-putting. Its completely over -acted as though the reader thinks words do not carry meaning all on their own and must be punched out all dripping with inflection or that no one ever expressed anger without becoming completely unhinged.

Its a shame. A skillful performance with a penny's worth of subtlety would have made this one of the best stories I have ever heard.

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BEST FANTASY FICTION EVER

Revisado: 12-09-16

This story and the two that follow are among the finest stories ever told. When I first joined audible 13 years ago I requested this many times. I wrote emails, I sent letters, I researched rights holders. Eventually they wore me down and I gave up. But look! Here it is. I can't write anymore, I need to go visit the cave. Thanks to whoever released this .

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why drag Shakespeare into this mess?

Revisado: 03-05-15

I thought I was buying a work of historical fiction that would humanize Shakespeare and have him as the main character in the story. What I got was an old guy's internal monolog concerning the problems of having a penis and daydreaming about improbable lesbian sex. I wonder why that wasn't what I expected?

Some of the stories might have been cute/ funny if they were told in the manner of a friend relaying an embarrassing moment, but the "story" doesn't go like that.

Actor was very good, will look for other works narrated by Mr Malcolm

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I thought it was a murder mystery

Revisado: 01-14-15

after 12 hours of what can be summarized as " women are evil, but I really like sex, but women are evil blah blah blah. I gave up. I am baffled to my bones how anyone anywhere could like this insane rambling drivel. Curious, I watched the trailer for the movie. Then I watched the movie with Sean Connery and Christian Slater. Movie was pretty good. Maybe about 5 minutes of woman hate in the movie.... medieval monks ... cant be helped ... there really is a murder mystery - save yourself 19 hours of crap and watch the 2 hours worth of plot in the movie

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I liked it - I skipped from Oryx and Crake to this

Revisado: 09-01-14

I am glad I read reviews. I would have been mad to read the year of the flood and find no Snowman and no Jimmy. There isn't much of him here, but there is enough, almost. And its a good story. Maybe its not AS good. But neither is it as sad. I don't know if I will listen to the year of the flood or not. I was not as engaged with these characters as I was with Oryx and Crake cast, except for 2 that aren't in the flood at all.

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was not translated by a native english speaker

Revisado: 09-01-14

I couldn't get into it. The language is terrible. This work was translated by a native French speaker with high test scores in conversational English. A street vendor in Paris would sell crepes, not pancakes. Even if I could let the pancakes slide, neither pancake nor crepe is made with paste. Its batter people. Its batter.

They should have given this work to a native speaker of English for the American market, to translate it into a work that flows with a story- teller voice . This doesn't have any kind of voice. Its bad.

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