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Terrible!

Revisado: 01-11-24

This was way too hard to follow. The audio play is so badly written that the story just isn't there to follow. You never know what the scene is. You don't always know who is present in the scene. You can't follow the action because there are only some bad sound effects to listen to. Sometimes there is earie music to listen to and it seems they forgot we have nothing to look at so the passage adds nothing to the story telling
The story needs narration. You can't just remove that part of the 'book'. A graphic novel and a radio play have no intersection - a Venn diagram with no overlapping circles. Perhaps the vision was for the audience to be paging through the graphic novel while the audio played - perhaps then we would have something more whole.
There is very little character development. The plot is weak and hard to follow.
I have a terrible compulsion which makes me stay with a bad book too long - often until the end - which is the only reason I spent more than 5 or 10 minutes on this dumb thing

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My New Favorite Historical Fiction Author

Revisado: 04-23-19

Wow. What a great read. Terrific balance of history and fiction. I only subtract one star for staying too long on a few plot points. Trench warfare dragged on a bit as did the Russian revolution.
I easily placed my trust in the author to teach me history lessons so that I felt like I was filling in my spotty history knowledge with ease. If ever the book touched on some points where I had a bit of knowledge, I was completely reassured that the author had done his homework.
The Narration was second to none. Characters came alive and were made separate and convincing despite the limitation of a one-voice production. I’ll be on the lookout for more of his work.
I’m very much looking forward to the next book in the series.

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Doesn’t hold the storyline tied together

Revisado: 04-23-19

(Disclaimer: I only made it about 3/4 through the story)
The story line wasn’t believable or compelling. I frequently found myself trying to recall what the protagonist wanted and why her merry band was along for the journey.
I lost track of how many times they faced a meeting of some sorts that turned into a double-cross or ambush. Over and over.
I just wanted them to pick up the phone and call the Secret Service or CNN. In a story line that keeps the good guys “out in the cold” you have to give a plausible scenario that prevents them from just calling the authorities, and child porn (ick, by the way: choose something else) just doesn’t fit the bill.

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A Wild Ride

Revisado: 02-14-13

Sharp Objects goes places you don't expect - places no other novel I've read would ever go. The plot is disturbing and gripping. The flawed heroine is fascinating and she develops throughout the story which a refreshing change from the average flawless, shallow characters we come to expect from a murder thriller. A gripping plot combined with a relentless series of twists in plot and character development make for a complelling read.

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Big Let-Down

Revisado: 11-03-12

Every sequel faces a number of challenges. First is what to do for character development for the reappearing characters. Nothing new was learned about John Cory, no substatial new characters were introduced and nothing was done to elaborate on the 2-demensional Kate. Kate with her beauty, power, education and gender-challenging position in the FBI combined with the absurd relationship evolution with Cory in the previous episode could have been developed in any number of ways, but instead she is sidelined.

Another challenge is building on the previous plot without repeating it. this was a complete repeat.

Cory was most interesting in contrast to the feds and especially Kate. Almost none of that here. It was an NYPD show without the interesting aspects of the NYPD. NYPD just serve as the 'establishment' who demonstrates that their plodding methods aren't effective against 'this' kind of bad guy and provide an authority for Cory to disrepsect.

The killing-machine villian who was so frightening because of his elaborate, surpising methods and his speed has developed an appetite for prolonged hand-to-hand combat. The swift, clever Kalil reduces the ranks of Lybian cab drivers and disaffected Serbians, contibutes nothing at all to the doomsday sub-plot and then devolves into Dolf Lundgren in the final showdown. Only knowing about explosives and such from book and movies, I was never really convinced that a conventional bomb set off in the middle of an enourmous crater was going to harm anything other than dump trucks.

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Started Early, Took My Dog

Revisado: 08-09-11

Another terrific novel from Kate Atkinson. This was my first Audiobook and now I think I'm hooked. The narration was terrific. I have a 1 hour communte each way and this made the time fly. I found I was actually looking forward to the drive.

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