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Always delightful

Reviewed: 06-20-23

PG Wodehouse is the most humorously clever writer of the 20th century. Every sentence pleases with it’s funny absurdities.

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Interesting story but unlikable characters

Reviewed: 10-03-22

Of the three main characters: the woman is a Pill, the 30 year old man is a whiny self absorbed slacker who has been fired fro every job he ever held, but the octopus is marvelous.
The story is interesting and the slight mystery is well plotted. But I have never encountered such a massive whiny complaining waste of space as Cameron Caswell.
I am a certified old woman and I find it obnoxious that the author treats a 70 year old youngster as so decrepit and unable to maintain her own beautiful home.

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Narration is awful

Reviewed: 09-15-22

The narrator speaks like a person to whom English is a third language and she has to think carefully to assemble the word before she speaks. Consequently the pace is at the speed of “snail” and sometime the word emphasis is in the wrong place. I had to set the word speed at 1.3 in order to approximate some semblance of natural speaking. But 2 hours in, I just gave up. This is a terrible “read”, the worst I have ever heard.

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Great as usual.

Reviewed: 07-31-22

The story is good and the reader is perfect. He gets the many different characters voices their own identity

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Just great and engrossing

Reviewed: 05-27-22

A terrific retelling of the Helen of Troy/ Trojan war story using the Irish and Italian gangs of Providence, RI

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A poor biography of an amazing woman

Reviewed: 03-17-22

Catherine’s story is amazing. A dirt poor German princess from a very minor principality becomes the Autocrat Empress of all Russia, surviving incredible odds at stacked against. She even wrote her memoirs which included her feelings and thoughts, plus there are countless other primary sources from many different people of the events in her life. The biography is full of authorial sloppiness with the phrase “ must have” .Catherine must have felt, must have been, must have thought, etc. If the author was paid for how many times she used “must have” instead of being paid the usual way with with royalties, she “must have” made a lot more money. Once or twice in a books, may be acceptable, but not 100 or more times. Once she even used it twice in one paragraph! Where was her editor? Nobody can suppose what a shrewd determined person like Sophia/Catherine felt during her rise to powers other the the woman herself. The facts themselves are fascinating. This is a very “girly” book. Read Robert Massies’s book instead! Or even a very old biography by Zoe Oldenburg. They are better

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SAG actors are not great readers

Reviewed: 08-27-21

This book would have been much more enjoyable if it had been read/performed by an experienced voice actor/reader like Will Wheaton of or Simon Vance or others who know how to pause at the appropriate places in a sentence to give the narration better cohesion. The actor also overly enunciated the words which slowed down the narrative, conversational flow. I’ve listen to several other books by SAG actors and thy have all been poorly performed providing sub par experiences. Jake Gyllennhal and F Murray Abraham for example did not read effectively and gave emphasis to he wrong words at the wrong places thus making easy understanding difficult.

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Fun exciting listen.

Reviewed: 06-06-21

Good story. Excipients fight scenes. Will Wheaton is a top notch reader. I will follow him.

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Poor narration

Reviewed: 05-22-21

Unlike other reviewers, I disliked Patrick Tull’s reading. His constant loud, audible breath intakes after every sentence, and his long, sibilant sss when pronouncing every word that
ended with “s” eg. Parisssss, was extremely off putting and interfered with the flow of the story and hampered my understanding of O’Brain’s nuances and subilties. ( and I have read the series, but style still interfered with my comprehension) Frankly, he sounds like a hugely fat man gasping for every breath.

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Good action story

Reviewed: 09-20-20

A fun, exciting, story read by one of the best readers in the organization. Phil Thron gives a spectacular reading making the story and suspense keep you into binge listening.

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