James Skidmore

Politicaly Tainted and Basic

Revisado: 09-18-23

I had a feeling this was going to be a waste of time when hearing the speakers credentials and realizing he has no real world or practical experience as a practicing psychologist but instead has been institutionalized in the education system his entire life. The information is basic, which is fine for an introductory course, so I gave it 3 stars, but don't expect to learn many secrets of human behavior here as most of what is pointed out would be obvious to anyone of above average intelligence. Also, because of the liberal institutionalization of the speaker and subject matter, a good deal of it seems biased toward an agenda, even if that agenda is unconscious. For example, the speaker lists multiple stereotypes that can be positive, even though they are correct statistically as the speaker mentions himself, but makes no mention that negative stereotypes can also have statistical truth to them and instead blames others perceptions of individuals. There is a disconnect here that seems to be a main theme in the work. Worth listening, if you can tell the difference, but most people probably can not, given that many students who could benefit from this course would be young and inexperienced and utterly malleable.

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Awesome!

Revisado: 12-19-22

Very well written. Just as good if not better than the Movie. I highly recommend it.

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Amazing!

Revisado: 11-25-21

Well written and well performed! An amazing true story and very vivid descriptions. I recommend it.

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Narrator ruined this book for me.

Revisado: 11-20-21

The narrator went on long stretches in a monotone voice it felt like I was falling asleep in geography class with a bad professor. Some of the voices he did were pretty good but he kept going in and out of a whispering voice and it was very hard to hear I kept having to turn it up because he was whispering half the time and then you would switch back to his monotone narration. Also this book was in desperate need of an editor which basically it got with the movie script. The climax is literally halfway through the book so the entire rest of the book has no plot and you keep telling yourself why am I listening to this what is the point.

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This book is bad and I am a Stephanie fan!

Revisado: 11-06-21

First of all I'm a really big Stephenie Meyers fan and I have enjoyed all of her other work but I hate to say it this book was terrible. it was as if the book did not know what it wanted to be. I would say the first 20% in the last 20% weren't too bad for a spy type novel but predictable and mediocre at best. Everything in the middle was absolute trash. It should have been a short story at most and was in desperate need of an editor who should have put the brakes on this mess. The concept in the beginning was interesting and then it turned into a 1980s Fabio cheesy romance novel for absolutely no reason and I am a huge Twilight fan by the way and the romance in The Host worked out really well but this was forced and it made absolutely no sense it detracted from the very thin plot. It felt like the ending was tacked on as if she remembered the story actually needed a direction. The voice work was good. It almost felt like she had some rough draft of The Host material lying around and decided to add material at the beginning and end to create a new book and not in a good way.

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Started out strong but..

Revisado: 10-24-21

Interesting concept, wasn't bad, worth the listen. Started out strong but decended into adolescent depravity and same plot for each book. Funny in some parts. Plot never really goes anywhere. Won't be buying the next one but overall it was entertaining.

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Truly Amazing Voice Acter Was Perfect!

Revisado: 07-06-21

Really well done. Voice actor was perfect, she did amazing voices for each character and the background music set the mood!

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Not nearly as good as I remember when I was a kid

Revisado: 06-21-21

the narrator does a fine job and would have been good for any other book but unfortunately he makes Louis and Lestat sound like 60 year old boring Frenchman

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I am Edward.

Revisado: 11-14-17

Loved it! Such a wonderful love story. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has not read the series.

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Stephen King is insane.

Revisado: 10-17-17

It is a decent book and well worth the read but I'll tell you Stephen King is all over the place with his writing. Random tangents and unnecessary storylines and characters do not begin to describe this mess. it is a story that probably could have been told and 1/3 of the time if cleaned up a little bit. the guy knows how to write, he is very descriptive and paints beautiful pictures but I repeat myself Stephen King is insane. Even to the very end of the book he is still adding new characters to the story that don't even need to be there and I will not put any spoilers here but I will tell you one thing you get to a point toward the end or something very strange happens involving young children doing something that they should not be doing with each other and you will just wonder what the hell he was thinking. There was absolutely no need for the scene and you will know the scene I am talking about to have occurred. I am not necessarily against that particular scene being written if it was in context of a story where actually made sense but it makes no sense whatsoever in this book. It was almost as though he added it just to see if his publisher was even reading his stuff before it went to print. LOL

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