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Awful, and for babies

Reviewed: 06-08-21

I got this to understand the mind of a standard boomer minded manager. I was actually surprised at how childish and trite it was. In the foreword they say it took 20years to convert this story to a book, in that same time Stephen King wrote The Dark Tower. Can't even keep their metaphor straight at the end in terms of what is Cheese vs what is change. This is a book you read to a child too dumb for Sunday School stories, and the main resolution to any practical problem is literally just telling this story to everyone you work with; "Have you heard the Good Word?"

I think everyone must get this book because they, like me, want to know bleak tune echoes in the skulls of the higher and highest ups.

This book taught me rich people assume people fear change because they're stubborn, or they embrace change because they're mice and like being told what to do if told a quaint repetitive story first. If you enjoyed this book, you might just be smart enough to work in HR.

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Needed a better editor

Reviewed: 06-02-21

I skipped about 7 chapters forward, completely boring. Show don't tell shouldn't be applied to completely mundane tedium. We don't need to know exactly what insipid texts are exchanged. Writers, stop doing this. Good narrator. Just say the guy disappeared and start the search. This book is obsessed with wasting your time. Awful.

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Stylishly written

Reviewed: 02-18-20

Word choice and sentence structure was rather excellent. The story itself was not terribly exciting, if you enjoy the Warhammer universe you'll probably like this, if not you may be underwhelmed by the characterizations. The characters are all kind of flat feeling, mostly grim practical sorts, I forgot who had what names at times. I am impressed enough with the writing on a technical level, and the voice performance, that I will probably listen again to get a better picture of the story details. The actual plot just involves the standard finding of a dangerous artifact by a warrior type and his sidekicks, not very original.

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Great narration. Story is a Greek tragedy

Reviewed: 06-18-19

Story is a Greek tragedy but written in a more modern style. It follows a seemingly insignificant nymph and her life amongst gods, titans and mortals. The author made an empathetic character of the villainous witch and her transformation through ages of immortality. Her tribulations, betrayls, and minor victories were told with elegance and emotional gravity. Very well written and excellent narration. I was pleasantly surprised and enthralled. This is a depressing story, a tragedy as I said.

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Returns to status quo

Reviewed: 12-20-18

Compelling story which ends with a memory wipe of Ripley so none of this affects the canon. 1 new character knows about xenomorphs by the end, but is adrift in space. Basically a really riveting story with a flacid conclusion. I liked the story until the ending. Excellent voice work.

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Mary Sue who

Reviewed: 01-06-18

Started out good, then took a nose dive. Added generic aliens almost like an after thought. The dynamic between the two brothers was really quite good but is dumped out the airlock after the first meeting. After which most of the book is litterally reading percentage improvements to imaginary ship systems to which you have no basis of comparison to imagine. 20% more armor! Wow! that means it can withstand...20% more...fun. Characters are perfect Mary Sues except for their "low command scores." Oh god, many a night hard drinking to forget our pathetic LOW COMMAND SCORE! This story takes place immidiately after a clearly more interesting story the author felt not quite ready to tell. Good start and undefined finish because I got so bored I stopped trying. Too much is going on, author needs focus.

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Long winded and overly tangled

Reviewed: 03-29-17

The sample "can't outfox the devil..." etc was punchy and poetic. Unfortunately this book is very often very long winded and looses itself in its own analogies. It seems like this was originally meant to be a short story which was added to later and thus watered down. It has some interesting concepts with respect to horror but mostly abandons them to tell an adequately mundane action story. The story goes swiftly from the supernatural present to a basically uninteresting past. In fact the 2 unique characters (Eb and Minerva)have basically no reason to really even exist, unless they are planning a sequel. To which I would further downgrade this book if it couldn't conclude a story in 15 hours. The evil is more or less revealed and lazily if not puzzlingly (not) dealt with. This thing can seep through rock and make giant monsters at least attempt a permanent solution(again sequel?). The end was just really unforgivably lazy. Not scary either. I have seen it compared by some to Lovecraft but the prose fall well short and the horror described can be neatly visualized, categorized, and probably killed. Interesting start, flacid finish, many unanswered questions(not in a good way) 2/5. Great narration though, really amazing work as the reverend.

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Stereotypes and lack of subtlety

Reviewed: 03-15-17

Book favors delivering some socio-economic message and spouting stereotypes and incorrect information. e.g. Japanese have no problem with homosexuality, the Japanese legal system and its ultra high conviction rate, how safe any area of Japan is. They are generally the good stereotypes being spouted but still make the minimal research done on this book evident. Like they got all their information from a Japanese ambassador or a tourist. A problem because they come from a supposed expert on the justice system and Japan. Otherwise good dialogue and smooth description and delivery by the narrator. Some of the detective decisions seemed half assed too but I guess we're to assume they are just really efficient. I found this story acceptable.

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Loose ends.

Reviewed: 01-01-17

The writing was technically proficient, descriptive yet succinct with mostly understably motivated characters. I however suspect the daughter was revised from being a wife or girlfriend at some point in the draft. She is at times annoying and hard to relate to comparatively, thus I removed a star. Pacing was good and kept me interested and at times disturbed. I tried this after Burnt Offerings (another evil house horror) and found this more engaging and scary. I hoped for a sequel by the end as there is a huge loose end whose solution is perhaps alluded to. The loose end involves the extension of supernatural influence beyond the confines of the evil beach. This may be explained by a kind immaculate conception. Some things are better left mysterious perhaps.

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Well written but at times superfluous

Reviewed: 08-05-16

I saw the show, listening now to this. Since I saw season one I figure just go to book 2. It answers most questions about the origin of The Master and the ancients. I actually like the writing quite a bit but at times it is dragging and over done.

The reader for this gave it the gravitas it needed but a lack of vocal range made me go back and re listen when I found the person I thought was talking was not. This happens in normal reading too though.

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