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The Lodger

Reviewed: 05-22-25

It is worth the credit and the time.
Its one of the most entertaining audiobooks I've heard in a while

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Texture Originality Intregue Gratuitious violence

Reviewed: 10-09-22

The Crow Girl is well conceived – full of original metaphors that add to the texture to the scenes and the reactions of the characters. If you can overlook gratuitous violence, it’s a good mystery with intense characters. I’m impressed by any author who can have an unlikable protagonist, a partially omniscient narrator, and pull it off brilliantly. But this book should have been shorter. The subplots are tedious. It’s like one of the soaps, where you can miss a few chapters and still know what’s going on. The reason you need a ‘mind map’ to get the characters straight, is that everyone is ‘he’ or ‘she’ –when referring to their names more often would make it easy. If you are a nerd like me and want exposure to something original, give it a try.

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Good, if what you want is High School English 101

Reviewed: 06-10-21

If you are majoring in biology or robotics, and need to pass your 'English requirement, or learn how to write an effective email or abstract, this will inform you about how to reach these limited goals. The skills set taught in this course is what everyone should master in order to be effective in any line of work or study. If you're already majoring in the humanities, literature, or creative writing, you should--like seriously should--already know this stuff.

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Slow grind

Reviewed: 08-20-20

One would expect interesting character development in a story that progresses so slowly. Maybe it gets better, but it's hard to keep listening.

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Let’s be honest here . .

Reviewed: 08-20-20

This book was written before the pandemic, but clumsy attempts to make COVID-19 part of this story are so disruptive that I couldn’t even follow it!

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A Recommendation for the Like-minded

Reviewed: 05-01-20

I'm not going to get into all the reasons that this is one of the best psychological mystery I have ever read. Just, if you really loved this book, try "The Dinner" by Herman Koch.

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There is Strength in Numbers

Reviewed: 03-15-20

At the Tucson Book Festival, I asked a panel of well-known authors of science fiction why ordinary people would turn on each other when they needed each other most. Why, as the ship is sinking and all hands are needed on deck, are the main characters wasting manpower by savaging each other over issues of leadership? Don’t people survive better by protecting each other so they can live long enough to settle their differences later? This panel of authors couldn’t answer the question in any way that really made sense--scarce resource, divergent opinions about what to do . . . all the cliché’s that lead to absurd, self-defeating behavior once the situation gets serious.

So, I like the fact that Brad Manuel’s characters cooperate and learn to care for each other because they must.

I appreciated the realism as far as it went. And it went pretty far. I finished the book. But these characters were generically nice people living in an apocalypse that was convenient for all concerned. It made me hope for an apocalypse so I can meet some nice people and have everything I need fall out of the sky.

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Where is the character development?

Reviewed: 03-10-20

There’s nothing wrong with the story. It’s quite original until it becomes too predictable. I know—is there a word that means original/predictable? Oxymoron!? I don’t mind that. What bothers me is this author’s tendency to substitute an outlandish plot for virtually nonexistent character development.

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This is the least informed nonfiction author I’ve read

Reviewed: 02-15-20

My son is a mathematician. Most people have no idea what this means, i.e., the unsolved problems he and his colleagues tackle. Real physicists aren’t wasting time looking for wormholes. Mathematicians are not overlooking solutions that are “inelegant,” if those solutions work. Don’t read this if you care about facts. Come to think of it, it’s pretty crappy sci fi, so don’t read it at all.

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Thanks for Recognizing that We've Already Paid

Reviewed: 04-30-19

With the exception of those who evade taxation, all Americans have already paid for the Mueller Report. I think most readers will agree that we got our money's worth. Information gives us the power to ensure that our society remains free and our officials continue to work for us. Thanks to Mueller's team for constructing a document that is accessible to every reader regardless of background. Thanks to Audible for your public service.

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