M. Fry

Story was pretty good. Love the ingenuity with 'bread magic.' The reader's fake English accent almost made me stop.

Revisado: 11-27-24

It was some uncanny valley thing. I have consumed enough British media that I was absolutely sure she was not a native of GB immediately. I tried to convince myself that the character just talked weird. I can do a passable English accent and she is probably 'better' in some relative way but outside of annoying my children I would never fathom that I was capable of professionally reading a novel. This didn't need an English accent and, if it did, there are a plethora of British English that could have done it. Literally any English person.

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This book has given me the vocabulary to describe what I find unfathomable in human nature

Revisado: 11-22-24

I am constantly finding myself boggled by the actions of others. This is cathartic and healing because naming it, describing it, is the first step to understanding it. Humans brains have difficulty with interpreting situations that they cannot describe. This is why there are volumes upon volumes of scholarly work on WWII and will continue to be. Truly a remarkable read. I don't want to overstate things but it's so prescient right now and I encourage you, you in particular, if you are finding yourself unmoored by current events, to pick this up and read it now.

It's always a dicey situation when an author wants to read their own book. I think of Lemony Snickett and how truly awful his reading of his work was. Writing well and speaking well are not the same. However, Ms. Klein has perfect poise and diction. It feels as though we are having a conversation; she is so comfortable with the text and her own voice. I went to look for the Shock Doctrine, which I have not read, and was disappointed to see she had not read that as well. I encourage Ms. Klein to do a new update to that book and read it. I would very much enjoy to hear it.

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Wow, this is one of my top ten books of all time

Revisado: 10-02-24

Such a human story. Wonderful world building. Ray was fantastic! There's a lot I want to say about it but it's all spoilers. Just.... so good.

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truly top notch hard sci-fi

Revisado: 09-06-24

I blew through the thing in like 4 days. Wil did a fantastic job and he was perfect for the nerd humor.

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Not as spectacular an opening as I'd hoped

Revisado: 08-31-24

I enjoyed and finished every bit of the expanse but here I found myself bored through large portions of it. I knew some of it was important info but it was hard to understand which and why.

I was really confused by the perspective. I think it was first person throughout but seemed to jump into 3rd person omniscient sometimes without explanation. Sometimes it was difficult to know which character was being followed. Maybe there were unlabeled breaks that I wasn't following.

It set itself up reasonably well for the next books and I will be listening to the next ones when they are done.

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The story gets a bit boring in parts but what an ending

Revisado: 08-15-24

The narration is Brick standard. Very smooth but Scott predates the trend of narrators adopting voices significantly different to help the listener. I am just blown away by how intelligently and yet how immensely readable Asimov's writing is. He is truly one of the greatest writers of all time and what a polymath.

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Short stories are hard over audio.

Revisado: 08-06-24

In them, every single word counts and must be listened to with a keen ear. Oftentimes you only get one chance at hearing a full name but they are then referred to both first and second name and that can get confusing fast. It also seems like Asimov trends toward very similar sounding names. Venabli and Demerzel. Seldon, Hardin, Sutton, and Sutt. I'd honestly recommend reading this.

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fantastic

Revisado: 06-11-24

man I'm having a hard time keeping up with who everybody is and when but it's the best... timey wimey wibbly wobbly.... stuff.

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Honestly meh. I'm not sure what all the fuss was about.

Revisado: 05-19-24

I know it's supposed to be subverting expectations but I don't know.... I kind of had the inkling in the first book that this was not for me but I soldiered on like a certain Superior we know. "Why do I read this? Why?" There is nothing technically wrong with the book it's just a story that felt meaningless and a set of characters who I don't care about. I see why people like Glokta, he's the only one that shows any growth. He's still an awful person. When I didn't know Bayaz's reasons it was at least mysterious. but now it's just meh

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Not actually my favorite for the series

Revisado: 04-08-24

it was a satisfying conclusion and left things open for more but... I don't know the final battle was a bit anticlimactic.

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