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Enjoyed it

Reviewed: 09-08-24

Good mystery, likable MC. Didn’t listen to the first two books but it worked well as a standalone. Looking forward to reading more from this author.

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Interesting and informative

Reviewed: 08-08-24

I like that this is written and narrated by the profilers themselves. Clear descriptions and good pacing. Hoping for more content like this.

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Laughed lots. Cried a little.

Reviewed: 08-25-23

Loved this book, main characters, performances, everything. A couple of times I laughed so hard I cried. Highly recommend for any romance lover!

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Less philosophy and more history would be nice

Reviewed: 07-11-16

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I was expecting more of a grand history, what I got was a long moralizing (or rather demoralizing) lecture. I was able to get past the condescending tone, and some of the facts in the book are quite interesting and informative. But throughout the book, he insists that morality, ideas, and corporations are nothing more than a figment of our imaginations, and yet it's the only reason societies exist. It's an interesting idea, but not well supported and smugly presented in the book.

What I got out of the book is that according to the author's morality (which he claims does not exist), all sapiens are cruel, agricultural revolution (or maybe scientific revolution) is the worst thing that happened in the history of the solar system, and the American Declaration of Independence is equivalent to the Hammurabi Code. I was hoping for more history and anthropology.

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Not really worth it

Reviewed: 10-22-13

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Seemed like an interesting premise at first, and I always like my dystopian/post-apocalyptic fiction. Not this time. Started out interesting, then it seemed like the author was running out of steam about 2/3 through the book, and so was I. There seemed to be a lot of action, it was very fast-paced, but not a whole lot of substance. More like an adolescent stream of consciousness. I wasn't even interested enough to finish it, having listened most of the way through it.
I also very quickly got tired of the one-dimensional characters, and all the abnegation nonsense. Actually, none of it made much sense. This book is nothing like The Hunger Games, even if it's trying very hard to be. It is much, much worse.

Having said that, I thought the performance was excellent, the narrator kept it more interesting than it would have been otherwise.

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8 people found this helpful

Great novel, bad production

Reviewed: 05-23-11

This novel is one of my favorites. Rand was able to depict the despair of living under a totalitarian regime very well. Coming from Soviet Russia myself, I can say that not many things have changed from birth to collapse of the Communist State.

The only thing I didn't like was the production. The narrator reads without any emphasis, and at times way too fast. One will probably get more out of reading it, rather than listening to this production.

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5 people found this helpful