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Great idea, but book is long and wandering

Revisado: 03-13-24

The idea of acting out the voices in our heads in the second person is a great one. All you really needed was the first striking story to get it. The next few chapters were somewhat helpful, but soon the book veered into the bizarre and author-gratification. This idea could be told in such a shorter space with a few more instructions and been much more effective.

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I wanted to like it more

Revisado: 11-13-23

I was very excited about the premise of this book, and I loved the first section about being badger, which he awesomely did with his young son. That part was inspiring. But after that I felt like I was taken down a depressing path into the authors emotions, sarcasm and dark world view and hardly ever got back into an animal again. Also I was not enamored of how often he seemed to need to mention genitals. Maybe a guy would be less sensitive to that.

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Great classic, really well read

Revisado: 10-12-23

Can't argue with this classic book, and the narrator does a great job with accents and drama. I listened through with hardly a break.

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Pretty interesting story, didn't like narrator

Revisado: 10-12-23

This was interesting enough, though at times it was a lot more about the logistics of photographing bats in inaccessible places on deadlines than about the bats themselves, which I would have preferred to hear more of.
Also, the narrator has a voice I found irritating, not just because of his grating tone, but because he has this cadence where he very often drops his volume on the last word in a sentence and you just can't hear it. That was seriously annoying, especially when it was an unfamiliar word like the name of a strange city in Southeast Asia or something. It was bad enough that when i listened to a sample of another book i really wanted to listen to and realized it was this guy, i decided sadly I couldn't go through another whole book of him again and didn't get it. This book was interesting enough that I gritted my teeth and listened to the end, but I could never do it again.

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Really wanted to like this

Revisado: 09-15-23

It was slow and plodding, repetitive. I kept thinking she was going somewhere helpful, but she never did.

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Great!

Revisado: 08-30-23

Loved it. The twists and turns keep you wondering, and the ending is beautiful, not at all what you might have expected. The writing is gorgeous.

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