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Matthew Atherton

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Should have been a 2 hour podcast

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2 out of 5 stars
Performance
2 out of 5 stars
Story
1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 08-01-23

As glamorous and exciting as a story like this could be, I found myself bored by the mundane nature of most of it. This made me think, this would be an interesting podcast episode that focused on the interesting elements and truncated the rest. Instead, I often found myself hoping for chapters to end to get past irrelevant backstories or to get to the elements of the escape.

All and all, not horrible, but it did not need to be nearly 7 hours.

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My Favorite Audiobook

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
Story
5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 01-11-22

The charm of this book is the narrative flair of the protagonist. The plot of the book is fairly standard, but it is elevated by the charm and humor of the way the adventure is presented. Additionally, this narration does an amazing job building the world. This is elevated even further by Christopher Buehlman's performance of the audiobook. His accents, singing, and delivery of his witty dialogue take the book up to a whole different level. The audiobook just oozes fun charm. Also, I loved that while more books are coming, this book wraps up the adventure in a satisfactory way. Think of the first Matrix movie, where you likely wanted more but were also satisfied that you had been told a complete story.

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History In a Smart and Funny Package

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
Story
5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 12-08-21

A great combination of knowledge about people you thought you knew and people you have never heard of before. The writing is smart and funny. It also gets into enough depth to surprise you with plenty of things you might not have known about even well-known people like Sanny Davis Jr. Mo Rocca does a great job reading the book.

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