LISTENER

Amazon Customer

  • 23
  • reviews
  • 45
  • helpful votes
  • 216
  • ratings

Excellent start to a new series

Overall
5 out of 5 stars
Performance
5 out of 5 stars
Story
5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 09-05-24

Listening to Jefferson Mays narrate a new James SA Corey feels like coming home. Fascinating world-building, wildly diverse alien species, and heart-wrenching decisions abound. Highly recommended.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

Abridged

Overall
4 out of 5 stars
Performance
5 out of 5 stars
Story
5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 06-20-19

Quote enjoyable, but be aware that this omits some things from the book. It's old enough that number of tapes/CDs was probably still a concern. when it was made Still enjoyable to hear it as read by Adams himself (he's not perfect, but he does quite a good job), but I was a bit disappointed by the omissions.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

Rise & Shine Yoga Flows: Part 1 Audiobook By MoveWith cover art

Good for intermediate practitioners

Overall
4 out of 5 stars
Performance
5 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-19-19

This one, like the other MoveWith title I've tried, assumes familiarity with basic yoga poses (downward-facing-dog, plank, upward-facing-dog/cobra, primarily). While there's some effort made to describe poses, I wouldn't recommend it to a raw beginner, but so long as you're familiar with the basic poses, you should be fine. I was happy that there was less pitching of the company/series in this one than there was in the first "sleep" set, and the narrator sounded more like she was actually running a class (reminded me of a few yoginis I've had classes from, in fact).

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

Bedtime Yoga: Slow Down for Sleep: Part 1 Audiobook By MoveWith cover art

Good Evening Wind Down

Overall
4 out of 5 stars
Performance
3 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-19-19

This is a very good evening wind down (and my first experience using any of MoveWith's audio products). Be aware that it is not designed for extreme beginners. Knowledge of basic yoga poses is assumed (downward-facing-dog, tabletop, child's pose, and happy baby specifically came up). Modifications to those poses is described, and there's enough specificity there to help jog the memory if you can't remember a pose exactly (I had happy baby mixed up with something else, and was able to get to the correct posture based on the verbal reminders), but I doubt it would be enough for someone completely unfamiliar with the poses to figure them out. Recommended for people with enough yoga experience to follow, based on posture names, who are looking for an evening wind-down.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

20 people found this helpful

Wonderful and Haunting

Overall
5 out of 5 stars
Performance
5 out of 5 stars
Story
5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 11-14-18

Very enjoyable sequel. This time around, we have the "migo" (aka the Outer Ones), the trapezohedron, ghouls, and the Dreamlands threading their way through the plot. The Innsmouth books are more about connections between people (of whatever species), but sometimes those connections are forged through conflict. And sometimes people make choices that others do not understand. It's a beautiful exploration of free will, and understanding, and trying to figure out what the right thing actually is.

Highly recommended.

Gabra Zackman is an excellent narrator, and I wish she would read more things that interest me. She's quite good. I was surprised by her pronunciation of trapezohedron. I had mentally pronounced it trapeze-oh-hee-dron. She pronounces it tra-pez-oh-head-run. It's an uncommon enough word that I don't know that there's actually a definitive standard. :)

#LovecraftReborn #Migo #Trapezohedron #tagsgiving #sweepstakes

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

Somebody Killed His Editor Audiobook By Josh Lanyon cover art

Entertaining little mystery

Overall
3 out of 5 stars
Performance
4 out of 5 stars
Story
3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 11-14-18

Enjoyable little mystery saga, where a writer at a writer's retreat cut off by weather and a bridge collapse solves a murder, while reconnecting with an old lover. I liked the meta-aspect of it, where he keeps comparing how this plot is going to the ones in his own books. There were several nice redirects, where evidence seemed to point one way, then another, then another.

The romance subplot is amusing, and somewhat sweet, but either Lanyon is really bad at writing sex scenes, or Free is really bad at reading them. My guess is some of both, but I'd have to compare by reading the text to really decide, and I don't own the text version. I mostly found myself laughing through the sex scenes, as they felt ridiculous and overwrought. Mercifully, they were short. I think Lanyon would have been better off with a brief, non-graphic description for them, then cutting back in for the aftermath, but I'm aware that the book industry seems to think anything with a male-male relationship is expected to show the sex, so... * shrugs *

Since I'm more interested in the plot, I was just amused by the whole thing, though I did wonder how hard it would be to edit those scenes out for future listens....

#MM #Mystery #Meta #tagsgiving #sweepstakes

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

Hard to get into, but worth it once you do

Overall
4 out of 5 stars
Performance
4 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 11-14-18

Slow beginning, but once it got going, I didn't want to put it down. Note that before it got going I put it down and it was 7 months until I got back to it, but I'm very glad I did. Once Cheris is given access to Jedao, the story really takes off. Jedao's motives and loyalties are unclear, though his ability is obvious early on. Impressively, Cheris is mostly able to hold her own against him. Her journey from Kel to ... something else ... is intense and believable.

I'm giving this four stars for the strength of the ending. I think it's a case of the author starting too soon. The story probably should have started with Cheris finding herself melded to Jedao, and given any necessary details from before that as flashbacks or thought-paragraphs. From that point on, I was hooked, but I nearly gave up on it before then. This is one that could even get away with starting at the very end, and telling all the rest through flashbacks. That might not be as good an idea, since it would spoil the ultimate outcome (which I will not do here).

As for the narration, Zeller is quite good. She puts a lot more emotion into character voices than most narrator's I've listened to. Part of me thinks it's a tad too much, but I often find myself thinking that other narrators don't put enough, so I'm probably just hard to please on that count.

#SF #magic #tagsgiving #sweepstakes

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

Silly romp through the English countryside

Overall
5 out of 5 stars
Performance
4 out of 5 stars
Story
5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 11-14-18

Much more lighthearted than the first book (and pretty much standalone; you don't need to read Doomsday Book for this one to make sense). Just as much fun as I'd remembered. And I managed to follow the plot better, as I remembered most of what was coming up.

One unexplained thing that seems problematic: In The Doomsday Book, it's a major plot point that they have to pick Kivrin up on the same date in her time as it currently is in their time. However, it is also implied that time travel has advanced since then, so possibly they've just gotten better at it. Only... that doesn't seem to have been the case for some very plot relevant drops ... but those were before they had the "safeties" in the net to prevent incongruities. * shrugs * It just doesn't quite feel right. Possibly Willis had forgotten about that detail, or possibly she ignored it because it didn't work with the story she wanted to tell.

Oh, also, "handhelds" (presumably cell phones) do now exist in the future.

The narration is quite good, but it's a bit odd that Mr. Dunworthy sounds vaguely Scottish here, whereas he sounded full-on British in Doomsday Book. Different narrators, but you'd think someone would check for things like that. Also, the name "Badri" (had to look up the spelling) is pronounced completely differently between the books. "buhDREE" in Doomsday Book, but "BAHD-ree" in this.

#TimeTravel #Pets #BirdStump #tagsgiving #sweepstakes

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

Impressive but Bleak

Overall
4 out of 5 stars
Performance
3 out of 5 stars
Story
5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 11-14-18

Impressive, but not one to read for cheering up. There are attempts to lift the mood with keystone-cop-antics, and they help some, but a story set in one time in a flu pandemic, and in another during the plague, is still not particularly light. There's a sort of comedy of errors around the time machine (called simply "the net") and sending Kivrin, and getting her back, but there's an awful lot of bleakness as well. I'd read it once before in college, and knew what to expect. Definitely one to be prepared for before reading.

There are some oddities that show up because of when it was written. It's set around 2050, but no one has cell phones, and there's no reference to email or the internet. The same story could be woven with those element and a few adjustments, but it certainly feels rather strange for those to be missing.

As for the audio version, Jenny Sterlin is mostly a fine narrator, except that she cannot do a decent American accents. She kind of gets the vowels most of the time, but cannot seem to do a strong American 'r'; the best she manages is a New Yohk 'r'. As the Americans are mostly comic relief, this kind of works, but I really hope she got a dialect coach before doing any other American accents...

#TimeTravel #Plague #Bureaucracy #tagsgiving #sweepstakes

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

Old favorite, now on audio

Overall
5 out of 5 stars
Performance
5 out of 5 stars
Story
5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 11-14-18

This one is an old favorite, but this is my first time listening to the audio-version. Very good narrator. Admittedly, I'm probably biased because he makes Crowley sound like David Tennant (who will be playing Crowley in the Amazon adaptation early next year). Recommended in both book and audio form (and hoping that the upcoming video form will be at least as good).

#Apocalypse #FourHorsemen #BookOfProphecy #tagsgiving #sweepstakes

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

adbl_web_global_use_to_activate_webcro805_stickypopup