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eye opener for those confused by Trumps presidency

Reviewed: 07-21-20

The Rosetta stone to understanding Trump's cryptic and often ridiculous utterings and how he got elected. Terrifying explanations to his foreign policy moves. None of which are random or miscalculations.

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Incredibly insightful and revealing

Reviewed: 07-15-20

Mary Trump does an amazing job of bringing a human aspect to Donald Trumps story. There is a plethora of information out there that will corroborate her story but she provides a detailed and insightful perspective that only one with the familial access and the professional background that she has can. Whereas most accounts of Donald Trumps history are cold and factual and have the feel of analyzing him from the outside, Mary Trump gives the listener a glimpse into his life as thought a fly on the wall. Fortunately for us, Donald Trump and his family's dysfunctional aberrant ways are on full display for us all due to Mary's experience of being nearly invisible to her family. While Mary may get the last laugh by exposing the sad and weak little boy who grew up to be the feeble minded, nonsensical ranter we have destroying our country today, it also gives those of us who loathe the fraudulant, demented sociopath the background and explanation that humanizes his experience. The president surely will not appreciate or even comprehend the gift she has given him in this. It is painfully obvious that he shouldn't be responsible for the life of a pet rock much less the country with a nuclear arsenal and 300mil+ souls, so nothing in this book could harm his image further than he has done on his own. Her book has given us all a way to empathize with someone who could never do the same for anyone living in the country he currently holds hostage.

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Sneaky Christians preaching again.

Reviewed: 05-22-18

No offense to the Christians but those of us who aren’t interested in your religion shouldn’t be duped into purchasing a book that preaches of rapture and being saved. I will admit to only getting through less than half but had to make it stop once they started talking to preachers about “real Christians” being taken to heaven and the rest of the sinners being left behind. Really not cool to be trying to convert people yet it’s not mentioned in the description. How would you like it if you thought you were ordering a cook book and ended up with politics or vice versa? I’d rather take a kick in the teeth than sit through the rest of this “you’re all going to hell and we’re going to be saved” bs.

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Narrator makes an unremarkable story unbearable

Reviewed: 05-29-17

The narrator's pronunciation, accent and voices for the various characters are just awful. The worst is that she keeps pronouncing Pugot Sound "puh-gut". I'd almost rather listen to the kindle read to me with the mechanical voice.

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Most boring book ever

Reviewed: 05-18-17

Felt like this book would never end.. and then it did - abruptly. I am aware that the author won a Pulitzer but I can't imagine it was for this book. The entire book seemed so pointless. There were no high points, nothing remarkable. It was basically listening to an old dude recount stories from his life... the kind of stuff you want to walk away from but kindly sit and tolerate while guys at the retirement home drone on and on. I can't believe I actually listened to the whole book. I'd be absolutely furious with the hours of my life lost had I actually sat down to read it. At least it was an audible and I was able to do other things while wondering the entire time if this guy would eventually say anything interesting or remotely entertaining.

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Senseless rambling

Reviewed: 04-03-17

Awful. Just awful. Let me save you 2 hours and a few bucks... quit reading here if youre gonna buy this book and don't want a spoiler.

Agoraphobe starts writing to a girl (whom he has never interacted with) that lives in his apartment. It turns into a journal as he assumes she is dead. He rambles on and on about having a few days of jerky, checking his neighbors apartments, going outside a step at a time, finding and feeding a cat, and going to a storage unit that he has stuff stored in. He gets beat up and his key is taken. He goes back and considers taking the cat he's been feeding. Rides a stolen bike to a military camp that's been overrun.

This is supposedly a zombie AND EMP situation. Really? He doesn't interact with people, just keeps a journal and has no plan. As far as I can tell, there's a plague and some country gets pissed off and sets off an EMP.

What moron writes this crap? This is absolute crap.

Narrator is dull and monotone. I've heard worse but definitely heard better. To be fair, I think the god awful storyline exacerbates the bored sleepy way the book is performed.

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Surprisingly good

Reviewed: 03-30-17

Creative and a bit different from myriad of zombie stories out there. Dialogue is better than the elementary school junk that is so prevalent. Doesnt rely heavily on extreme violence, sex, macho crap of cursing. Overall, a pretty decent book.

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Good for those who liked Hunger Games and Divergent

Reviewed: 03-21-17

The series was worth listening to. Made it through all 5 of the books in a few days without becoming overly annoyed with the characters or storyline.

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Awful

Reviewed: 03-21-17

Nothing original or even remotely realistic. Just a story of 2 guys running around with 2 girls in Hawaii, one guy unrealistically dragging an orphan around and trying to save people who won't do a damned thing to save themselves and being all self righteous when his buddy doesn't feel like sticking around to do the same. Very rarely do I give up on listening to a book, especially if it's not just the first in the series but this one is a complete waste of time. I can't believe it was published much less invested in as an audible.

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Nothing special.

Reviewed: 03-21-17

Was decent enough to get me to listen to the next book, hoping that the story would improve since a lot of series dont start off great but get better as you become more invested in the characters. However, the second book is TERRIBLE. Elementary and not very original. No hope of improvement either. Forget this one and find yourself a book worth the time and money.

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