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some cute and odd story situations, but missing a good through line

Revisado: 09-18-24

some funny situations but not the best story. The narrator is fantastic. stoopid minimum review wordcount.

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cute story, well executed. Short but well done.

Revisado: 06-27-21

why does Audible force reviews to be more verbose? 🤔
The title here adequately reflects my complete sentiments.

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Baffled by the sterling reviews here

Revisado: 11-25-20

I felt confident going into this story based on all the great reviews I saw here.

This isn't a terrible book, but it's certainly not a good one for me. The wife and I had to switch it off during the tedious character introduction flood about a quarter of the way into the book... not only was this confusing and almost impossible to track- we both looked at each other and realized that we just didn't care enough about these characters to endure the mental slog.

I'm glad some folks enjoyed this story, but it was not one for us.

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Craptastic

Revisado: 05-17-19

Narration is okay, but the story is intolerable. Maybe there's a payoff for having to hear the details of every paper form filled out by the primary characters, but geeze already! I don't believe the payoff would be worth the mind-numbing tedium of listening to this painfully slow-paced tedium. Yuck!

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more inspiring awesomeness

Revisado: 08-26-17

fantastic and very entertaining. Al Franken is truly inspiring. the world is a better place with him in it with us.

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Really cute story, should make a good movie

Revisado: 10-03-16

I liked it. what I don't like is this stupid minimum review word count, ugh.

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Dull treatment of an exciting subject

Revisado: 01-31-14

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

probably not. there are better books on the subject

Has The Secret Lives of Codebreakers turned you off from other books in this genre?

Not at all

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I hate to be too hard on this book, but I personally found it a very dull read on a subject I am fascinated by. It's not easy to write engaging non-fiction, but if ever there was fertile ground for it, it was the story of Bletchley Park in the 30s and 40s.There was nothing new for me in this recounting of the facts- though there were some interesting "telling" about some of the more interesting personalities and management styles, but it all read like a newspaper account- there was no "showing". I never felt any kind of connection to the people or the place. It was all just thoroughly, but dryly described.

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Very good for intermediate/advanced French

Revisado: 12-01-10

So glad to see more advanced titles showing up on Audible now.

Very frustrating that (on 11/30/2010 any way) EVERY sample file for Pimsleur titles is the same one from the very first basic unit (arg!)

However, I took a chance on this one and was not disappointed- it is pretty good. You should have a strong working knowledge of the language if you're diving right in at this level.

It assumes you have a good grasp of grammar and syntax, but goes easy on you with vocabulary. New words are introduced gracefully and repeated in multiple variations as with other Pimsleur titles.

Sections aren't repeated nearly enough for a beginner, but the pace is awesome if you're looking for a refresher for your conversational French and don't want to hear the same basic phrases repeated a dozen times.

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Truly inspiring

Revisado: 05-25-07

This is a must-read for anyone wishing to gain insights into how the poor of the world really live, and to at least one way that can make a difference in their lives (the answer's not charitable hand-outs).
Neither a ringing endorsement of the virtues of capitalism, nor a socialist idealist picture of the world as it should be. The work of Professor Yunus represents a pragmatic and proven effective way of making the world a better place.
Read this book, get inspired, and take action (if only to reduce the amount of ignorance in the universe of how much impoverished people of the world suffer and how some can be helped).

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Plot, schmlot

Revisado: 05-25-07

Plot in a novel is overrated. If you want plot, read Dan Brown instead- though that's all you'll get.

This is a work of genius- and not only because of the author's penchant for self-promotion and intentional obscurity and obfuscation.

This is truly a piece of art painted with intentionally hammy techniques and wonderful surreal and non-linear streams of consciousness. All of these things dance around the sensation of the characters, the essence of spirit that the author wishes to share with those who can sense it.

I laughed when a reviewer preferred to go back to Ulysses instead. Well, that's a mighty difficult yardstick for each and every novel to stand comparison. It's like comparing every portrait to the Mona Lisa.

Full disclosure: this was my first reading of a complete Pynchon novel. I'm not a literary snob and don't feel the need to crow about how much better his other works are. Some folks more learned and well-read than I am have said Gravity's Rainbow is far superior. Great- more to explore!

For me, this is one of the most wonderful author "discoveries" since I first read Kafka.

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