Terrible narration

I couldn't keep listening, the narrator stumbled through the whole thing, slurring and his diction was terrible, stalling in syllables and pronounination of words was way off. I'm sure he was drunk. It totally ruined the story. What a waste of my credit this month.

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good story

good story as always from the author James Patterson.
Quite a few teist and turns as always

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Struggling to listen to the narrator

The narrator is giving me high school flashbacks to when everyone had to take turns reading Shakespeare out loud in class.
I don’t like to leave negative reviews but I am struggling to keep listening due to the monotoned and stumbling performance.

I am half way through and I’m enjoying the plot so far. I’m seriously contemplating returning the audiobook and buying the ebook.

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Potential???

The narration of this book completely spoiled what had the potential to be a good story.
The narrators inability to inflect any syntax, sentence structure or appropriate punctuation in the telling of the story detracted from what otherwise could have been a good listen.

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Rushed ending

Books that take time to explain characters and their backgrounds that then wrap up everything in a rush are very annoying. It spoils the book.

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Spoilt by the narration

I was able to struggle through several hours of this book’s broken and hesitant narration. Why the producer/director wanted the voice actor to inappropriately pause in the middle of a sentence or hesitate every time they were about to say a characters name perplexed me. Don’t get me wrong I love the story, it’s premise and the characters but every … single … pause and perplexing … hesitation dragged me out of my suspension of disbelief. The actor was able to make some interesting full sentences and has a good voice for the book and the character but I don’t think he was able to complete a full paragraph. So to me it doesn’t appear to be his problem with the flow of the story being continuously broken but the directors instructions. Shame.

I would buy the kindle but it is dearer than the audio book. I’ll have to keep an eye out in my second hand book store to find out what happens.

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Storyline fine. Narration terrible.

I should have read the other reviews before I bought this on Audible. While the story line is fine it is impossible to listen to the narration. I don't like to leave bad reviews and this so far is the only time I have. How this audio book is even for sale is beyond me. The narrater pauses, stumbles , changes the way he talks in the same sentence and at periods I thought it was AI talking. Very disappointing.

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Great story

Loving the story but the narrator is terrible. It sounds like he didnt prepare to read this at all.

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Intricate detail with strong characters

Really interesting backstories and strong characters. Good pace. I really enjoyed the detailed ideas around volcanoes and informational histories

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Classic Crichton

been a while since I listened to Crichton and I missed it. His characters, plots, perfect blend of science fiction and action are highlighted in this read once again. I love how he's not afraid to pull the trigger with certain characters. Patterson has done amazing job in this collaboration. recommend

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