stephanie scintilla

Sad male fantasy

Revisado: 02-03-25

it was just a tired cliche about incels without meaningful female, or maternal relationships, and hookers with hearts of gold. it kind of lends credence to the saying that men spend 9 mos inside their mother's body and the rest of their lives trying to get back in. Gross, pointless and sounds like a backward 7th grader made it up.
I read it only because it was on a list of shocking or horrifying books,it was really just scatological and silly. Apparently the " moral* of the story is that all of men's dysfunction and problematic behavior could be cured by women letting them into their lady parts one way or another. sigh

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A solid effort I guess.

Revisado: 10-13-24

Maybe nuances of language or even just an unfamiliarity with the way Icelander converse ate lacking, but I found the detective absurdly

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Engaging and funny

Revisado: 06-29-24

An amusing twist on the admittedly pretty crowded stage of vampire stories. But it was a good listen, the reader is great, unlike a lot of them, especially men who do cringy imitations of women and children's voices that make me want to skip past. Or the pretentiously stentorian announcer voices that just take away from the story. But the clever and comic writing of Christopher Moore has always been a favorite of mine and this production of his story is stellar.

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Very involved and twisty plot.

Revisado: 06-27-24

Intensely atmospheric and very creepy, with hints of the supernatural but mostly based on the real life nightmare story of the Japanese occupation of Nanking, worse than most of our imaginations can even conjure, or want to.

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Rather disappointing and tedious..

Revisado: 05-23-24

I found the main characters two dimensional and without much of a motivating force besides career ambition, or any kind of real inner life. The story seemed to be playing out in real time it was so dull, I felt like I'd actually been working, after listening to it for a few hours. I think the only thing that made me able to stick it out for that long, was the narrator who was really great and her Scottish accent and pronunciation of some kind of tongue twisty Scottish place names like *Sauchiehill and words for things we don't have in the states, like Irn Bru and square sausages.
* Had to guess at spelling.

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Fascinating story of a truly evil man.

Revisado: 04-15-24

Story of a sadistic psychopath who lived a life of seeming banal normality as a bridge playing IT specialist with long term partners and old friends male and female,and a family of not much more than normal dysfunction.
He was a reliable employee, dutiful son and partner, whose only noticeable quirks were disappearing at random times and putting high mileage on company rental cars.
It appears that literally none of the people who knew him had any idea who he really was or what he was capable of, which is the most interesting thing about him.

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A good suspenseful read

Revisado: 11-29-22

It's a solid mystery/ thriller that keeps you guessing up till the end, and then delivers a last surprise. Characters are believably likeable or really, really dislikeable. with enough villains to make it easy to believe that any of them is a murderer, and more than one is.

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it's ok

Revisado: 11-21-22

He described Aerosmith, Bon Jovi and Bare Naked Ladies as heavy metal. That is all I have to say.

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Good story for the Halloween season

Revisado: 09-20-22

it dragged a bit, but it started getting much more interesting towards the end. I wish male narrators would not put on sqeaky annoying voices when they read the female parts. its frankly somewhat offensive and make the female character seem like an annoying twit even if they are totally badass.

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Pretty engaging mystery

Revisado: 08-31-22

The story is decent and the plot lines are quite good. There wasn't much character development tho, and I think a closer look at certain characters behavior would have elevated this to something closer to Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine level.

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