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Seemed like an AI version of Reacher

Reviewed: 03-13-25

Performance was good but there was very little Reacher and even less plot. I felt like I was listening to an AI version of a Reacher novel.

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Like playing a video game in god mode

Reviewed: 05-02-22

Didn't like the accent the narrator used but worse there was no point. The initial concept was good but there were no limitations, no challenge and given god mode, no surprises.

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So happy when it ended

Reviewed: 03-02-22

I'm not sure my review isn't a generation thing so setting my perspective in place, I'm on the other side of sixty and I cut my reading teeth on the "Golden Age" of science fiction. That said, there's no story here. It's a stream of consciousness for someone that is barely aware enough to stay alive and yet is highly trained in a number of martial arts, engineering and probably world finance if it ever becomes necessary. If you like people that stumble through life with little or no thought, this is for you. On the other hand, if you yearn for characters with personalities and stories with a real plot, stay far far away.

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Tend to ignore his own advice

Reviewed: 03-02-22

No doubt he understands his subject and I can't deny I've fallen into a few of the same pitfalls he describes but he cherry picks his examples and tends to simplify his examples to the point you start to doubt some of his fundamentals. Much of the book came across as I'm so much smarter than these other researchers because they .... It wasn't a waste of my time but I felt the time invested versus knowledge gained ratio was slightly skewed.

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Never used five words when two hundred would do

Reviewed: 11-23-18

I'm sure there's good information buried here. I might actually like the print version where I could skip the author's rambling, personal side notes and disclaimers. I felt like I was listening to a warning label on medication. To be honest, I never made it past chapter two. By then I had learned that the author had lost a dog because it had gotten out in traffic. Yep that was it and I don't mean I had learned nothing new. That one line sums up the first two chapters. With a good editor, it might become a very good ninty minute book, I'll never know.

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Read like a heavily redacted report

Reviewed: 07-09-17

I liked the way Fred Burton took what little he was able to say and wove it into an entertaining story.but the whole story seemed like a heavily redacted copy of a once classified report. You wanted to know the details behind what wasn't said. That I finished listening to it despite the lack of details is a tribute to both Fred Burton as a writer and Tom Weiner as a narrator.

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Far more entertaining than I expected

Reviewed: 05-29-16

I bought this book for background material to give legitiment color to anything I wrote that might have police officers in it. I expected a fairly dull book full of case studies and substantial bragging about his achievements. What I got was an extremely entertaining book that guided me, gently, into the world of police as they see it. I felt like I was eavesdropping on a training class for rookies. I looked forward with anticipation to each section. He doesn't try sidestep the grimmer aspects of police work but neither does he go into such gruesome detail that you can't bring yourself to listen to another word.
When he finally came to the end, I found myself wishing the title had been 800 Things Cops Know.

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This has little to do with improving your writing

Reviewed: 03-09-13

The information presented could be very useful but I found the title very misleading. The book has nothing to do with improving your writing skills and everything about managing your writing as a project. It's a great idea except I've spent years doing just that. I was looking for something on improving my writing skills not my project skills. Depending on your current skill set this might be just what you need but it wasn't what I thought I was getting.

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4 people found this helpful