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I’d have to say that I agree with several other reviews on this book. I don’t know if it was the narrator, or the author that made the book monotonous. For the author, he seems to be writing a “Homicide Detectives for Dummies” book they way he would go into detail on what the detectives were doing, and their reasoning for doing it. I felt like the author was trying to school me on routine detective activities like interviewing and evidence collecting, rather than telling me a story. Formatting Criticism; the entire disk was one chapter. If you ever removed the CD, it would take forever to find your spot again. Also, they narrator didn’t indicate chapters. As a result, you’d be listening to a story about one murder case, and suddenly they would be talking about another case. There are so many good books out there... pass this one by.
Narrator is bad, as he makes this seem like monotone lecture than good non-fiction. Stories jump around so much that I REALLY got confused. And worst of all, as other wise indicated is the format. Basically a chapter a disk with no way to get from one to the other made listening a chore. In all honesty, I think this formatting issue made it harder to like than anything else. None of it worked for me, but I think in a different format I could have handled it much better!
This did not work well for me - each disk is worked as one chapter - and I was unable to devote the time needed to listen to an entire disk in one seating, as I was unable to forward 1/2 of this disk with the setup as it was. What I did hear jumped around a bit. I would have prefered to have each case told from begining to end.
Exactly as described, well written and very interesting
I dutifully listened to the end even though I wasn't particularly interested in the outcome. The flip-flopping accents of the narrator was irritating.
Though the concept was interesting, I found this work to be very dry and read more like a journalistic venture relating facts and less of the entertaining, engaging read I was expecting. I felt the characters came off as one dimentional and as a result, I failed to become invested in the story completely.