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to adjust narration speed, use app settings

Revisado: 07-12-22

Mostly I wanted to respond to the commenter who was frustrated with the speed of narration. in the audible app you can easily adjust speed. For this book, I increased the speed to 1.2 and thought that was a good place. With that, the narration was perfectly fine.

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Another Blast from Buehlman!

Revisado: 07-03-22

I don't normally get excited about vampire books, but I trusted Buehlman. He effin' delivered! Loved it. Loved the reading and accents. It was a blast.

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contender for most fun book I've ever read

Revisado: 01-11-22

I haven't enjoyed a book this much in years. It's not just "another fantasy series". It is definitely irreverent as advertised. But also genuinely creative, clever, rich, nuanced, and just to reiterate-- fuckin' fun.

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Genuinely Creative and so. much. fun.

Revisado: 05-08-19

This book is a blast. I'm not typically into horror, because you have to trust the author so much to take care of you. (Will there be scenes that go too far, or trigger some gag reflex? Will the author kill the innocent just to make you feel loss?) The author earned my trust with North American Lake Monsters, and then took me for a wild joyride with this one. The tone is perfect--chilling and creepy, imaginative not terrifying. Yes, there's sprawling gore, but somehow it's just plain fun instead of revolting. I can't say I'd want to live in this book's universe, but it was great fun to peek over the edge.

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Some gems, some slow, all good writing

Revisado: 08-05-18

This collection has some real gems, but they don't show up until about halfway in. The opening stories, to me, were slow and disappointing. I felt like they were more descriptions of moments than they were stories with an arc. But later in the collection, he seems to hit a stride, particularly with the sci fi ones, one or two of which are in the Martian Chronicles.

Regardless, the stories are well written, and each one dissects or depicts some deep aspect of human thought.

The reader is amazing. Really! He was fantastic.

So, my recommendation is to read the Martian Chronicles first, and then, if you're really craving more, check this out, but keep your expectations low, particularly for the first half.

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Fun story with great ideas, expertly read.

Revisado: 06-26-18

What's the next phase of human evolution, under a system where pure competition is rewarded (survival of the fittest)? What are the power structures that our society enacts to preserve certain biological hierarchies? This nice explores those questions with an adventure spanning multiple characters/readers.

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Good Introduction

Revisado: 05-25-18

Good introduction to debate as a mechanism for making business decisions and a debate as a cerebral competition. The lectures are well organized and follow a steady progression. There were times when I started to get lost, but the author did a good job of reiterating the main points enough that I could catch up.

One of the best aspects is that the author uses fairly controversial topics as examples, arguing from both traditional conservative and traditional liberal stances. I really enjoyed hearing both sides of an argument and getting an appreciation for the process of constructing and judging a case, regardless of my previous personal stance. Based on some of the other reviews, it looks like some people struggled with this and got frustrated to hear the weaknesses in their views.

Full disclosure: I'm the author's younger brother, so I'm not unbiased. But as someone who has never formally debated, I learned a lot.

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Excellent concise history

Revisado: 11-11-17

This book focuses on big ideas: movements, leaders, culture. It covers 1000 years in just 10 hours! This is just what I was looking for, a concise introduction to this rich, relevant, enormous country. The author helps give context to events, while appropriately noting that sometimes one can't simplify or distill down complex events. There are just enough anecdotes to help you relate to the people, while not focusing on any one particular era or event too long. I ended up slowing it down to 90% because it moves pretty fast. But the reader did an excellent job.

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