Judgment

By: Lee Goldberg

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

JUDGMENT is the classic action/adventure novel that was a runaway paperback sensation in the 1980s...and that skyrocked the career of Lee Goldberg, who became the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of True Fiction, Lost Hills, fifteen Adrian Monk novels, and the first five, globally bestselling Fox & O'Hare novels with Janet Evanovich.

Brett Macklin was a freewheeling son of sunny California, a collector of vintage cars and a connoisseur of beautiful women. But when his father is murdered by a street gang, Macklin becomes something else--a deadly weapon against crime, a relentless vigilante who won't stop until he's wiped out the killers who have turned Los Angeles into a war zone.

"As stunning as the report of a .357 Magnum, a dynamic premiere effort [...] The Best New Paperback Series of the year!" West Coast Review of Books

(Originally published as the first book in the ".357 Vigilante" series, under the pen name Ian Ludlow.)

Other books in the series: ADJOURNED, PAYBACK, and GUILTY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar & two-time Shamus Award nominee and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over thirty novels, including the Wall Street Journal bestseller True Fiction, three Eve Ronin novels (Lost Hills, Bone Canyon and Gated Prey), fifteen Monk mysteries and the first five internationally bestselling Fox & O'Hare books (The Heist, The Chase, The Job, The Scam, The Pursuit ) co-written with Janet Evanovich. He's also written and/or produced scores of TV shows, including Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, Monk, and The Glades and is the co-creator of the hit Hallmark Mystery Movie series Mystery 101. As an international television consultant, he has advised networks and studios in Canada, France, Germany, Spain, China, Sweden, and the Netherlands on the creation, writing and production of episodic television series. He is also the cofounder of the publishing company Brash Books.

Terrible AI Narrator

I’m sure the story was good. I love Lee Goldberg, but I couldn’t get through the first chapter of the mechanical voice.

The computer generated voice, horrible

The auto voice, never again will a listen the book read by a computer generated voice!!

Poor Reading by the virtual voice

The virtual voice mispronounced so many words in this reading it was very annoying. For example, 501 jeans were called 5 Hundred and 1 jeans.
Please !
Also, simply miss pronouncing the tense of a word is very annoying when it happens over and over throughout the book.

Not worth your time.

First and last book by this author. I kept hoping it would get better but it never did.

virtual reading is awful.

I know this is a good story because I read it myself a long time ago. decided to listen to the audiobook since it was free. I would be super angry if I had paid for it as the virtual reader was so awful.! I couldn't get past half an hour of listening before I had to stop. The horrible ore rating was so distracting and annoying that it was impossible to follow the story. I will never listen to a virtually read audiobook ever again.

Liked the Virtual Voice!!

The story was good and kept my interest I listened to it in one sitting.
The virtual voice did a good job.

Ugh on the narration

The AI narration is awful. I couldn’t keep listening! Please don’t replace the real thing.

Good Book with a bit of nostalgia!!

I enjoyed this earlier work by Lee Goldberg. It was written in the 80’s and other than a few mentions of phone booths or TAB soda and a few other small things the book could very easily have been written yesterday!
I found the virtual voice pleasant to listen to. I remember years ago listening to computer generated voice being very monotone and this is not like that. The new virtual voice has different inflections and for me if I didn’t know I honestly couldn’t tell that the narrator was not a real person. The exception is certain things that a person would recognize like a.357 was pronounced “point three five seven “. This also doesn’t mean I’ve found it to be a favorite for narrating books but I didn’t think it was unpleasant at all and I did listen to the entire book. But this is only my opinion.
The story is good. It’s fast paced and has some touchy moments. There is a scene where the protagonist shoots two men during a rape. And the ethical question of whether he’s guilty of murder because he was not defending himself.
Anyway, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book. It was free and I thought it was worth a couple hours of my time to test drive the voice.
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Virtual voice made it unbearable, truly awful!

With the virtual voice there is absolutely no emotion at all. Just flat reading with occasional mispronunciations of simple words like "sacrifice".