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Drawn out but interesting

Reviewed: 04-24-22

The whole time I was waiting for something interesting to happen.
****spoiler****
The idiot ends up being an actual idiot and no progress was made. Total waste of time.

The entire book you’re thinking that the protagonist is a nice guy that people keep taking advantage of but it turns out that he really doesn’t know better and actually reverts rather than progress in life.

Total waste of time.

High rating because it was well written, the characters were fully defined, and it kept engaged the whole time. The story itself, however, was disappointing.


Would not recommend.

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Fantastic narration that gives life to the characters

Reviewed: 06-26-21

I picked up this book for exactly one reason: Graeme Malcolm. I thoroughly enjoyed his part in Agatha Christie’s The Man in the Brown Suit, and immediately after finishing it searched his name for more of his work. I knew nothing about the story just the name of the book and the narrator, and that worked out fine for me. The book is set in the highlands in Scotland. There are many characters with distinct personalities and Graeme portrays them all wonderfully. They all have their own accents and ways of speaking and you really get a sense of the person even if they only appear briefly in a short conversation. It’s amazing. The story itself is decent. It’s entertaining and unfolds steadily with no great complexity or shocking revelations. The telling of the story though, that’s where it’s at. Give it a listen.

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Great story, not great narration

Reviewed: 06-26-21

I read this after having watched the Netflix show. Great show btw, would recommend. The story is engaging and keeps you hooked even if you really don’t know any of the chess jargon. The narrator, though, detracted from the experience for me. She did alright with the female voices, but the male voices were terrible. They all sounded the same and had no depth or character. Ok she did have a Russian accent that used for all the Russian male characters, but again no variation. Also her main narrator voice was distractingly clinical. I felt like Siri was reading me the story.

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4/5

Reviewed: 06-26-21

Interesting topic and entertaining enough to get all the way through. It was a bit narcissistic in that the author made it about himself and then chose to narrate his own book himself. Also his voice was a bit distracting with his odd high pitches. Besides that though, the information was cool and really made me think about my own caffeine consumption. All in all, would recommend as a book, but maybe not this audible book.

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