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Losing Some of Its Magic

Revisado: 07-23-19

Excellent series, but starting with Chapters 6 and 7, Dr. Kong began getting too heavy on the stats descriptions for items, people, plants, animals, dungeons, personal gear, and buildings, etc. Much of it was repeated information. Many of his Readers no doubt had a firm basis and read the details already. This is the digital age and no one is going to pick up a series 7 book at the airport, so I am not sure why he repeats these internal details so often (it was too much fluff distracting from the story) Also, the conversation with Randy was a little " Matrix II and III" type in style with too much awkward "Land Techniques and language" dialogue and esoteric explanations. In the first books, the stats and Land's internal working drove the story and were sporadic and brief. In Book 7, I was almost five hours into the audiobook until the story actually started. Kong writes a great thriller and provides necessary insights, but "less is more". Chapters One through Ten were tough and the conversation with Randy was way too long and filled with esoteric distraction. Hoping for more story and less details about stats and builds.

Podehl is great as always.

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Wikipedia Narration

Revisado: 07-21-19

Seriously lacking in unique content. Starts off kind of disorderly then goes over brief highlights readily available on wikipedia. Narrator is monotone throughout and even stumbles on some words too often. Not a good buy.

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last narrator was far better all characters sound

Revisado: 06-03-18

female characters sound like new jersey teens in drag. last narrator was far better. Very nasal like. ruined it.

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Droning

Revisado: 05-05-16

What would have made Stuff Matters better?

Better cover stories and historical narratives regarding the advancement of materials. Less recitation of endless uses for materials (such as the ad nauseum list for paper) and meaningless tangents stories from the author's life, which - no offense, are boring excuses to lead up to the actual chemistry & physics of the material.

What do you think your next listen will be?

Not sure. Ratings appear to be inflated on this site.

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

Nothing. He could have not over done his British accent anymore.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Stuff Matters?

All of the authors personal observation of the cultural uses of materials. Many are boring and others are just "D'uh", we used card for tickets?

Any additional comments?

Overinflated.

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