Andy Dillbeck

One of the most enjoyable in a while

Revisado: 04-06-25

Great story. Honestly could barely put it down, and it made me wish Audible had a better sleep timer.
even made cleaning the garage enjoyable.

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Best of the last few

Revisado: 08-17-24

I really like this series, but I'm not the biggest fan of the last few books.
I almost didn't pick this one up, knowing it was a continuation of that story line, but figured I'd take a chance.
And I'm happy to say that I was actually surprised by it.

Granted, the best part of this book is that Imp and his gang are barely in it, and there is almost none of the "oh I have a traumatic life, don't you feel bad for how horrible my life is? Let me upstage everyone else's trauma with my completely irrelevant backstory that doesn't matter to the story but lets me pretend to have a personality. My personality is trauma, by the way."
I know Stross can write good characters with actual personalities. Do better.

The dream roads plotline is interesting, but mostly in a "time travel that doesn't matter, and I can't decide if it will have consequences or not" kind of way, but it does let him explore the whole archetypes in fiction thing again like when Bob was becoming Bond.

Gjdeon Emery is great as usual, and really makes everything work.

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Same high quality and immature humor

Revisado: 11-09-22

Very interesting story, and I thought that the resolution and the way that everything was tied up at the end was pretty satisfying.
I have a very minor gripe in that I would have done it slightly differently and gone back to visit the pyramid and changed other events when the opportunity was available, but maybe that would have been a little bit too much time stuff.

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A bit more original

Revisado: 08-10-22

The first book, while a great story, was heavily influenced by a popular show to the point that it felt like a fan fic.
This one is starting to branch out and become its own thing, and is a lot better because of that.
The narration and production were good.

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Good story...

Revisado: 05-22-22

I really enjoyed this story, sorry to hear about all the stuff he went through while writing this.
it's a good story, I like the characters and their chemistry, the monsters are great.
The TDS is a bit over the top, especially after the events since, but it's not so much to ruin the rest of the story.
Will Wheaton did a good job as usual. He has a good voice for someone who is overly excited about seeing a whole new world.

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Lots of fun, better than the first

Revisado: 09-11-21

I really enjoyed this one a lot, and even though it cliffhangers, it just makes me want to pick up the next one right away.
Narrator does a perfect job, and I really appreciate the effort that she put into the super hero catchphrases.

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Title is a bit misleading

Revisado: 07-31-21 El oyente recibió este título gratis

First off, this story is pretty well written and narrated, though the British accent for mostly American characters was occasionally odd. Not bad, the quality was good, just odd.

Story wise there is a lot of mystery about what is going on, and zero direct answers. Again not bad, just so long as you like that.
These are several short stories that are loosely tied together by all being after an apocalypse. I would have liked to have had a little bit more of a connection, but that's me. Characters are believable for the situations that they are in, so that is good.

About the title; these are not love stories, except maybe the last one. Most of them are very nihilistic, and none of them have much joy or hope, except maybe the last one, kinda. It did leave me thinking about it, and I am left wondering about the mysteries behind it all, but if you were in that situation you wouldn't know anything more, so it works that way.

One thing that negatively colored my opinion early on was bringing politics into it in a jarring way, but thankfully it wasn't a running theme.

I did receive this book for free in exchange for an honest review.

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Fun sequel, satisfying ending

Revisado: 07-03-21

So this was a good story, and though there may have been unanswered questions from differences between this one and the first story, like I don't remember the ship having FTL in the original, but that might just be my faulty memory.
None of it made any difference to my enjoyment.

Infinite 1 felt like it had a good ending, but also left a lot of stuff hanging... The mortal woman in the cryo chamber forever, the great escape and how long could you really live that way, wear and tear on the ship has to do something eventually...
This wraps those up with some really exciting bits thrown in.

I also like that other characters and stories written by Robinson get brought in and explored. Makes me want to check some of them out.

The narrator did a good job again, as you would expect from R.C. Bray. It would be more remarkable if he did poorly.

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Pretty good

Revisado: 04-30-21

I would have liked to watch this as a movie.
It suffers from the same problem that most dramatized things like this do; trying to be a movie without moving pictures instead of a book.
Starting with a script, and a narrator, instead of only relying on sound effects.
I've heard dramatized books before, where you have a full cast, but also keep the the scene descriptions and inner monologue and stuff.
This is less good.

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Loved it

Revisado: 04-28-21

So I had moderate hopes for this story, but I am happy to report that it's pretty great.
Just the right amount of humor without getting too silly.
Narration was well done too.

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