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Perfect everything

Revisado: 01-09-25

Would like to hear more of Wil Wheaton in books like this one. My kind of book. Humor, intrigue, cats, creative fantasy, and all without needing romance for completion. Perfect.

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Wonderfully written, but w/a huge flaw

Revisado: 09-03-22

Taking this straight from badkitty1016's review on Postcards From Purgatory, b/c it's exactly the way I feel: "I really enjoyed this book, and had nothing bad to say about it until the ending. O’Farrell gets to the climax and then it just stops. There is no resolution, except to the relationship between Esme and Kitty. And that’s not a good resolution. I really don’t like it when novels have cliffhanger endings. I know that novelists like to experiment and all that, but I’m a traditionalist in the sense that I like to read books that resolve the plot."

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Beautiful and interesting

Revisado: 01-19-22

Found myself identifying w/a few of the parents in this book even though we had two healthy babies w/no problems. Fascinating story of adoption and families.

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Nauseatingly depressing

Revisado: 01-15-22

Sick book about a damaged main character who learned nothing in a lifetime but how to inflict damage and pain. Reminded me of Gone Girl, so if you liked that you'll love this. Not my thing. Returned.

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Loved it.

Revisado: 12-28-20

What an interesting -and at the same time sweet-story. So much going on, inside the characters' heads and outside in their worlds. I'm usually not much for a Western, but I loved this one.

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A whole lot of nothing

Revisado: 12-27-20

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somewhat confusing ending offering no conclusion, no meaning, etc. I really didn't care enough to consider it a waste of time; I need some background noise while I work & this was good enough. Generally I want more out of a book, though. This is a beautiful National Geographic scene of the frozen north, and an introspective monologue of an astronaut, but not much else. Made me decide not to see the movie.

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Loved this story!

Revisado: 07-31-20

Some of the 1-star reviews are ridiculous. Today, any child at public school has heard every bad word under the sun by the age of 12; outstanding movies, books, and songs contain a few 4-letter words - no reason to write off the entire thing!
I thought this was a very well presented and interesting story on the value of persistence and being true to oneself, an insight into the bare bones of a writer’s process & his triumph over self-doubt, and a beautifully told relationship story between a father and son. I really enjoyed it.

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Wanted a little more

Revisado: 05-29-20

Wanted an afterward too, but kept me at the edge of my seat! Overall a great story.

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What is this? Not worth listening.

Revisado: 05-08-20

Expected a straight-up story. Got a weird, boring, long-winded beginning with annoying voices/sound effects. Decided not to continue about 10 minutes in. Just couldn’t get into this.

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so moving and important.

Revisado: 11-17-19

Thank you Audible for making this one of your free monthlies; it’s the only way I’d have seen it. We fly into El Paso several times per year, bound for Las Cruces where my husband grew up and where his parents live. They have family in El Paso, too, but he knew absolutely nothing about this. Now he does. We visited Juarez in the late 1990s and it was beautiful and thriving. The Mexican government should be ashamed of itself and how Mexico has deteriorated.
It’s important that Americans are aware of what’s going on.

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