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Brian Finger

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Satisfying Conclusion

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-08-24

Being the last book in a series I've enjoyed listening to these past many years, I will miss the elaborately simple, fantastically realistic, world of Sookie Stackhouse and the many characters in it.
Narrator Joanna Parker has done a wonderful job voicing the dozens of characters (both male and female) and a narration by her will be a definite plus when considering future listens.

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Life in a Small Texas Town in 1950's

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-29-22

A book about life in a small town in a time past. Populated with depressing characters who are also realistic and well-thought are out. The book is filled with anecdotes tied with a loose narrative. The stories are often strange, sometimes disturbing, but they are well-written. The narrator's dry style presents the story very well and keeps the absurd from sounding so. It is rarely humorous but is often touching and sad. Life moves on and drags us along in its wake.

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Political Insight for Easy Listening

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-21-22

John Boehner is an increasingly rare politician: someone who believes he is right but not feel that he has to demonize those thatdisagree with him. He is memoir is light on the personal details and focuses on giving a peek behind the curtain and telling easy to listen to stories that weren't going to make the news.
Boehner's honest appraisals of those around him make him relatable and his political memoir is an entertaining, often humorous, listening experience.

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Disconnected Non-Lyrical Poetry ?

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1 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-10-22

Terrible, impossible to follow the plots of these short stories. I was looking for historical fiction prose to enjoy and this was not it.

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A Superior Entry in a Great Series

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-10-22

"From Dead to Worse" eally advance the overall story.

The narrator's voices for the different character really gives life to them and is a pleasure to hear. The secondary characters are well thought out and the primary character continues to be both interesting and a boring normal person.
A lot of long plotlines have been put to rest, leaving the author room to make new ones.

It feels like the second act has ended in the Southern Vampire mystery series and I look forward to what's coming .

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Unlikable Characters in an Inconsequential Story

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2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-01-22

I liked the characters but the modern day assassins are unlikable and the story makes no justification for why they are right. Omar's blindness is too much and makes a great character silly.
The acting is good, the production is good and I like the idea if self-contained stories.

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Multi-layered mystery dealing with difficult stuff

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-11-22

Harris's Silence of the Lambs meets Burke's Robicheaux in Faulkner's Mississippi.
The narrator's fluid, lyrical, southern accent perfectly fits the setting.
The story hooks you and reels you in with complex, flawed characters in a twisting mystery in a weighty story that gets heavier as it goes on.
The plot is ominous and heavy. but is rewarding to the reader
The narrator is good. Her use of electronic media for phone calls is a nice touch. The female narrator is not very good at differentiating male characters, but their emoting makes up for it.

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Disappointing Audiobook

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2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
2 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-02-22

I read the book before and liked it but the format does make a good audible experience.

The dry narrative fails to capture the exciting plot of the book. It reads like an anthropological account, which may have been the intent of the author, giving a realistic rub to such a fantastic story.
The narrator himself seems to have different versions and the alteration in his voice between chapters 6 and chapters 7 is jarring.
The digressions that the narrator (and author) takes for extra-factual context are jarring because the narrator does not differentiate their tone very well from these scholarly statements and the Arabic protagonist.

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Boring.

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2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
2 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-28-22

very droll and dry
occasionally funny
well written and concise sentences no extra fat to chew
but it drags on and on, with no twists or turns to a conclusion easy to see coming
The voice narration is lacking, in a book with many characters, it is hard to differentiate them which is hard to follow in multi-character settings.
The plot is overall exceedingly boring with few bright spots.

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Advances the Overall Story, lacks a concise plot

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-20-22

Where is Rhodes, Illinois? The author does so well writing such immersive descriptive locations for real cities, that the imaginary small city of Rhodes cane off as generic and flat. That one complaint aside I liked this entry in the series. It digs Sookie further deeper into a hole that she did not create nor can she get out of. Appearances by characters from past books give fuel to the feeling that this is a real universe with people who grow and mature even when not near the protagonist.
As always, the voice narration is great and I do not take it for granted.

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