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Seriously needed an editor

Revisado: 05-07-24

King is apparently too famous to be edited. It would be a much better book with 50% of the content, mostly self-indulgent, boring meandering,, were chopped out

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Comparison to Patrick O'Brian absurd

Revisado: 05-07-24

Cornwell is not remotely at O'Brian's level, or even C.S. Forrester or George McDonald Frasier. The characters are all cardboard cutouts. Mind you, I have enjoyed these books, but as trash reading, not as anything resembling literature.

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High school level, not college

Revisado: 05-07-24

Very shallow rendition of the story . If you want to acquire a college-level of knowledge about this era and place, look elswhere.

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Parker has lost his touch by this point

Revisado: 05-07-24

The story lacks the vitality and freshness of earlier Spenser novels, and the narrator's Spanish accent is extremely weird. Has he ever met a Latino? Absurd accent for Hawk, too, but same goes for other narrators.

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narrator mediocre, Parker has run out of ideas

Revisado: 05-07-24

The content was like a pastiche of past Spenser novels. The narrator has very weird ideas of how people with ethnic accents speak.

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Narrator is an amateur, not a voice actor

Revisado: 05-07-24

He's just reading it, and he's not even very good at that. Reminds me of 1980s books on tape. I have become accustomed to expressive reading, and gave up on this one after an hour or soe.

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Not Hakeswell again

Revisado: 06-12-23

I've been listening to these in chronological rather than publication order, and so I've been free from the Hakeswell character for several books. But now the loathesome, one-dimensional bad guy character is back. Cornewll's books in general tend to have cardboard villains (which makes all comparisons to Patrick O'Brian specious), but Hakeswell is just annoying. He would have been fine if held within a single book, but this is now the third or fourth time I have to endure him. I couldn't, and returned the book. (Don't get me wrong - I enjoy Cornwall's writing a great deal. But comparing him to Patrick O'Brian is just silly. Perhaps Hornblower? But even Hornblower has more balanced characters.)

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Unlistenable due to narrator

Revisado: 02-08-23

As others have mentioned, this narrator seems fit mostly for children's books. His rendition of a Danish accent is almost comical, and his languid rendition of Uhtred's speech is garbage. I listened for a few hours and then gave up, returned the audiobook and read the print book instead. On to Book 4, and the return of excellent narration.

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Vivid language but trite, insubstantial plot

Revisado: 12-18-22

There's just not much to it. As others have said, it superficially resembles David Mitchell, but it's much less inventive. Perhaps if one had never read any other time travel story, it would be more interesting. This is too bad, because on a sentence by sentence or paragraph by paragraph level it's great.

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pitched a bit low

Revisado: 07-09-18

The speaker has a great voice, and covers good topics, but at too low an intellectual level for my tastes

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