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Compelling material, told dully

Revisado: 02-04-25

This should be a compelling story, told by a jurist who was there. And yet it’s not told in a way that keeps your attention. The judge describes cases that weren’t before him, and draws conclusions from them that distracted from what I had hoped would be the inside dope from the cases that were heard in his courtroom. This could have been an interesting book. It wasn’t.

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Compelling story; distracting narrator

Revisado: 07-17-24

The material is dramatic; the narrator is overly so, to the point of distraction. Hard to listen to.

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Tedious

Revisado: 11-12-23

The whale bits are interesting. The author describes in detail how she’s incapable of making a good decision, then repeatedly cites anecdotal evidence as proof than her worldview is correct.

The political lecturing takes away from the story.

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Revisado: 10-23-21

Compelling material, inexpertly told, narrated by a game show announcer.

This should have been a fantastic book. The material's there, but it would have benefitted greatly by a good editor. And the narration is completely wrong for the material.

Still 3-stars despite these large problems. There are better cop memoirs out there, e.g. The Job.

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Good, but...

Revisado: 10-14-21

There are better Holocaust survivor books. Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust comes to mind, which is the voices of the actual survivors. A few of the accounts present camp rumors as fact, which is to be expected in an oral history, but I expect better of the editors working in 2015.

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Uneven

Revisado: 12-04-20

The story is a bizarre memoir; all over the place. Almost superficial in some places, and excruciatingly detailed in others. Her work in CISM (catastrophic incident something something - providing counselling to caregivers and first responders after a bad call) is fantastic work, but isn't what I expected half the book to be about.

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interesting, but not definitive

Revisado: 01-31-20

The book was entertaining, though narrowly focused and not the definitive story of the NYPD's IAB (for that read Blue on Blue). Overall, a solid book, and I recommend it.

The audio production suffered from the occasional mispronunciation, and several times the narrator's several attempts at reading a line were left in (an editing error).

I went looking for the audiobook versions of this author's other books, but was unable to find any. I do own his two Dark Knight books as ebooks.

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I loved Motley Crue, but...

Revisado: 09-30-19

This book just never grabbed me. I wanted to love it, but am returning it after a couple of hours. I found the narration disjointed, and the stories repetitious. Sorry; it just lost me.

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Stunning book. extraordinarily well written

Revisado: 03-01-19

Loved this book. A fantastic glimpse of criminal life in Western North America in the 1880s-1920s. Extremely well-written and approachable. A grand adventure.

Older kids would like it, but there are deaths described moderately graphically, and the author becomes.an opium addict, so keep that in mind.

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Meandering, self-indulgent

Revisado: 01-31-19

I'm not sure what I expected from this book; probably more crazy-tenant stories. There were some of those, but nothing particularly outrageous, and those tended to be self-inflicted as she didn't vet her tenants beforehand. Then the story veered into her love life as she struggled to balance relationships with this Albatross of a house that she'd hung around her own neck. It became a story about how she never expected her life to revolve around this house, but here she was, and what did that imply about *her*?

I tried to finish the book, but lost interest 2/3 of the way through.

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