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R. MCRACKAN

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Good supplemental book

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Reviewed: 04-02-25

In any other series, I'd call this book great. Among the Super Powereds books, this is the bottom of the stack. However, that says more about how great they are. Corpies is very good and I'm glad I read it.

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Middling Scalzi

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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-28-25

Interesting premise that FAR overstays its welcome. This probably should have been about half as long. After the silliness has passed it's one maudlin existential crisis after another. Exhausting.

Sorry, Mr. Scalzi -- I love so very many of your stories but this one is a miss.

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As good as the first 2 books

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Reviewed: 03-23-25

As much as I love this series, it's honestly hit and miss. The orig was great and book 2 was the perfect sequel. Book 3 was weird and, except for the ending, I pretty much hated every bit of it. The prequel with Snow wasn't bad but it wasn't great either. Sunrise on the Reaping is an excellent return to what made it great, with an excellent narrator that I certainly hope we'll hear more from in the future.

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A depressing companion to "The Color of Law"

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Reviewed: 03-09-25

I almost gave up at first because it's frankly depressing. There's no solutions here because the system itself is irrevocably broken.

It reminded me a lot of "The Color of Law" except that book took some unnecessarily cheap shots. Allow Me to Retort knows there's no reason for cheap tricks -- when you're being intellectually honest there's already only one reasonable outcome.

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An amusing peak behind the front desk

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Reviewed: 03-09-25

While it's no Kitchen Confidential, Heads in Beds is an enlightening look at the workers in high end hotels. I was informed and reasonably entertained, but not blown away.

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Great first half

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Reviewed: 02-28-25

The first half is great. It's also more general. The 2nd half goes through practical applications. When an application applies to you, this is helpful. When it doesn't, you may as well just skip that lecture.

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Ouch! Aggressively bad

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Reviewed: 02-26-25

The other 2 books I have from this author are excellent. And I have several books from some of these narrators also, all of which are well-read. How did this book get everything so wrong?

At first I thought the tropes were the worst part but I could eventually look past these and apply a kind of comic book logic that made that part manageable.

The narration was extremely amateurish. I don't think I have any novel in my audible library where the professional narration is this bad. I have many books where an author, who isn't an entertainer, had to read their own novel in order to get the audiobook made. Bad Monkeys wasn't much better.

The plot holes and twists though are just too much. All technology, abilities, etc seem to pop up out of nowhere whenever it's convenient to the plot at that moment and then vanish otherwise. The "twists" were so frequent that you couldn't feel invested because you knew the current part would also be a lie. By the end both were so bad that I just kept looking at the timer to see how much more I had to endure.

There were a few creative ideas. Also the "Nod problem" it introduced was thoughtful. The rest though? Again: How did this book get everything so wrong?

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3 star memoir, 5 star true crime

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Reviewed: 02-21-25

The memoir parts of this book were not well done. This true crime parts, which thankfully are the majority, are excellent. Great recountings of fascinating cases.

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Still holds up

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Reviewed: 02-18-25

This novel is wonderfully read by Carrie herself and it still stands up today. In some ways possibly even more so than when it was written.

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Misleading discription

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Reviewed: 02-11-25

Good memoir if not a bit ramble-y. (Ok, a LOT ramble-y.) This part of the book's description made me think I was going to hear more about the making of the movies "following his work as executive producer on every Batman film from Tim Burton’s 1989 re-envisioning to 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises." We hear a fair amount about 1989 Batman but hardly anything about any of the others. Also, 20% of the book is epilogues -- a real slog of a way to finish.

This isn't a bad book -- many parts are very good, he did lead an interesting early life, is a fine story teller, and is a fun narrator. The book could have used a lot of revisions though.

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