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Bad Country is plain BAD

Revisado: 05-17-15

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

In my opinion Bad Country is plain bad. As I did not know the author or his work did a brief search on the novel. It has excellent pedigree as the winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize, for Best Western Contemporary Novel and a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. I am a fan of modern day western novels (Craig Johnson books among my favorites) looked forward to a new author and a new mystery debut. What a disappointment. It is filled with never ending clichés. The pace is excruciatingly slow; the story tone is black and getting blacker. As some books start slow and build, I believed that I just needed to be patient, but after two hours of listening couldn’t bear another chapter of needless diatribe of dreary metaphors. In hopes to find redemption to an award winning book jumped to the last few chapters (if for no other reason) to find out ‘who dunnit’, but the storyline continued to be so desolate of any redeeming qualities I could not tolerate another minute to finish (what for me was an incredibly unwelcoming) novel.

What was most disappointing about C. B. McKenzie’s story?

The overall negative, dreary tone. The author's never-ending and woe-begotten epitomb.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Mark Bramhall?

Bramhall was awful. Throughout the book I did wondered if my opinion would have been less negative if Ron McLarty or George Guidall had narrated.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

It brought on an overhelming feeling of despair. It's hard to listne to a book without some modicum of hope.

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A Never Ending Soap Opera

Revisado: 06-20-11

Well written; well thought out plot, but after more than three hours of tedious dialogue, I could no longer take the soap opera pace. I truly enjoy listening to a wide variety of books; as in all things, enjoy some more than others. For the first time EVER in all the 253 Audible books I’ve listened to, I skipped to the last three hours. I cut out five hours and didn’t feel like I missed or shortcut any of the intrigue. Unless you are looking for a rambling shaggy dog story, your time and money would be better spent listening to the abridge version.

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