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Only a few chapters in….WTF is with the “music”?

Revisado: 01-04-22

I’m finding it so hard to get into the story with the ANNOYING music in the background.

I doubt I’ll finish, even though I want to.

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a great way to experience an old favourite

Revisado: 05-07-20

Read this book many, many years ago. I loved it so much I reread it so many times.

I love this story and the themes throughout. It was a simpler time when this book was written, but I found the naïveté rather charming because I too had such hope for the coming digital revolution. Turns out Koontz was way over optimistic about the advent of the internet, as was I.

This was the book that made me love Dean Koontz as a writer and I was delighted to revisit some old friends through this reading. The narrator did a great job, the story is still as captivating as the characters and I’m so glad I downloaded this book. I remain a Koontz fan through and through.

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Awesome

Revisado: 05-25-18

Great book and brilliant performance by the reader.

One of the greatest joys in life is discovering an author that paints masterpieces in your mind.

Not believable in the slightest, but that’s the point. A fun and adventurous story with the most delightful characters.

5 stars all around

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Flawless

Revisado: 09-20-15

I cannot recommend this highly enough. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book a few years ago, but the narrator brought another dimension to the story that blew me away.

In my humble opinion Iain M Banks is a master of this genre, rivalled only by Alastair Reynolds. This story is beautifully written and totally absorbing from the beginning. The characters are wonderfully realised, the story lines fast paced and believable with an underlying humour that I found delightful.

As is often the case when I read Banks, I found myself marvelling at his insights and observations. He is a formidably intelligent man.

Toby Longworth is a brilliant narrator and this story suits his talents to a tee. It takes real talent to bring characters to life as he did in this book.

Loved it and will listen to it again for sure.

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Story has great potential, but...

Revisado: 09-06-15

I read the Saga of the Seven Suns quite a few years ago and remember I felt distinctly relieved it was all over by book 7.

Nonetheless I decided to give this a go. While I gave it a good go to slog through the first two books, I am not going to bother with the third instalment.

The story is quite good, but the author insists on treating me, the reader, like I have the memory span of a gold fish. He wastes huge amounts of time reintroducing each character every time he focuses on them, often using dialogue. As a result the protagonists have long conversations stating the bleeding obvious to each other and the dialogue is so stilted and wooden I sometimes felt like I was reading a Little Golden Book.

Unlike Alastair Reynolds or Iain M Banks (IMHO the current masters of the genre), Anderson does very little to inject any believability into the sci-fi concepts he presents to the reader turning the story into a rather lacklustre soap opera.

Keep searching. There are much better book out there.

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