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How to turn people off from Muir.

Revisado: 09-15-21

Wonderfully descriptive stories of nature from the turn of the 19th century. Unfortunately, there are maybe four narrators and they basically rank from average to poor. Their reading is lazy and spiritless while the mispronunciation of a vast range of words makes you wonder where they found these guys. Our National Parks and Stickeen are tolerable, otherwise I'd look for different versions of the remaining stories.

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Surprisingly boring.

Revisado: 02-14-21

Too much focused on other individuals throughout his career and not enough on TR and his experiences. Some exciting portions are far outweighed by boring talk of political maneuvering.

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Just not that interesting.

Revisado: 10-28-20

There are a few occasionally interesting sections, but overall, the book lacks any substance that made me want to keep going. It may stimulate thought for some listeners, but I struggled to stay focused throughout.

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At least it was fairly short, glad to be done.

Revisado: 09-09-20

This was not at all what I was expecting or hoping for and I really can't come up with anything good to say about this book. Early on, the author repeatedly states that maybe she just doesn't understand her new way of life in America and that is clearly the case as things progress. Admittedly, there are many things to dislike about the American way of life, but this would be more appropriately titled "Me and My Friend's Theory of Raising a Family". It's more or less a repetitive list of examples of the way in which things differ between Finland and the US. There's very little historical information on Finland or other Nordic countries and a significant amount of "My friend does this....and thinks this about it."

Additionally, the narrator continually attempts to impersonate other's voices and is generally awful. When an embarrassing attempt to impersonate Bill Clinton was made early on I thought maybe it would be a one-off and things would get on track, but it more or less just set the tone for the remainder of the book.

I've got about a month of listening time on Audible at the time of this review and these ~10 hours rank right at the bottom for me. I'm increasingly realizing that star ratings are essentially useless in choosing your next title.

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Worse than expected.

Revisado: 07-16-20

Kind of a boring story, the "singing" was difficult to bear but overall the performance was well done.

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Excellent.

Revisado: 06-09-20

I look forward to hearing more from Jacobsen, very glad that the author was also the narrator.

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A thoroughly scattered mess. What a bore.

Revisado: 03-27-20

I guess everything is covered...? but it's all so brief and boring that nothing really stands out. I hope I never try to endure this a second time.

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Disappointing and unnecessary.

Revisado: 10-24-19

The final book in the series was unnecessarily complicated, disappointing, and 80-90% unnecessary filler. Several chapters could be entirely omitted without any impact on the story. So many "what is the point of this?" moments and cheaply written resolutions. Overall, the series seems largely overrated. Unfortunate.

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A couple new characters....

Revisado: 09-20-19

Thankfully, this book spends most of its time with Geralt and a few new, generally likeable characters. There's some fairly deep political discussions and a few appearances from Yennifer. By this point in the story, I've realized that I don't really care about Cirri or what she's doing. I've also realized that there's no reason for many of these books to be separated like they are, other than as a money grab from the author and publishers. Virtually nothing happens.... and then the book sort of just ends. I hope things start coming together, quickly.

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Hopefully the weakest book in the series.

Revisado: 08-07-19

Ciri, triss, and Yennifer. The book jumps around quite a bit and can be a little difficult to follow with a multitude of obscure names and locations being thrown around. Additionally, very little takes place with regards to Geralt, but Ciri's story evolves quite a bit. Not as addictive as the first two, but obviously necessary to the series.

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