Armando L. Franco Carrillo

I love to listen to this audio book at night...

Revisado: 02-01-24

... Set the timer to 10 minutes and let it work its magic. It makes me fall asleep before the timer runs out. I discovered this power by accident, when I felt sleepy listening and driving. It must have been a plot to kill the listeners, but I thwarted it by using it at night.

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Nice, light, not his best.

Revisado: 03-22-22

John had fun with this one. Characters have a Michael Bayish quality: they banter, and are always cool, like teenagers showing off. It felt like I was watching a Shia Labeouf performance in Transformers.

More than half (maybe even two thirds) of the book is setup. The action comes at the final chapters.

It was OK, reads more like a young adult novel than most of his previous works. And I have read or listened to all of his previous books since Agent to the Stars.

Most of the time I laugh out loud with his books. It happened only once with this one, near the end.

Maybe the narrator influenced my opinion too. He reads something like "WHAAAT" a lot. His voice goes up and sounds whinny when does it. And it happens a lot in the book.

I do not live in the US, and I am mexican. Others have commented it has too much politics in it, and even though he never mentions political parties, or actions exactly as done by a particular politician, you can see some of the things some characters with power do in the book are similar to what Trump did... Or what Bolsonaro is doing... Or what Lopez Obrador is doing... Or any other populist president... So, if you are sensitive, the shoe will fit, and you will assume he is talking about Trump because Scalzi is an american, I guess.

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Gripping.

Revisado: 03-14-22

I listened it whole in two days. Very entertaining. I hope they make a second part.

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Entertaining

Revisado: 02-22-22

It is imaginative, funny and ridiculous at times.

Some episodes (the one on Nevada, most of all) felt like fill-up.

I would listen to another season.

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A nice thriller

Revisado: 02-12-22

I had no expectation and the voice acting grabbed my attention from the start. I don't want to give much about to avoid spoilers.

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Great narrator, so-so story.

Revisado: 02-19-14

I was expecting to laugh. Based on the descriptions, I thought this would be like a book by John Scalzi. It was not. I did not laugh. I did not care for the characters, and I will not be looking for the last two parts. The narrator did a great job, though: it is easy to know who is talking at any time by the voices he uses.

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Not for SMALL entrepreneurs.

Revisado: 08-10-13

The book mentions many examples of how to do meaningful marketing. Then, after several chapters, the author says: "And I am going to give you a way to apply it!". Then he starts talking about how you have to talk to your team for this, your team for that, your team, your team, your team. At one point, he says something like: "After all, what is a 30 million investment these days?".

The book says it is good for entrepreneurs, but it is better suited for marketing vicepresidents with huge budgets and teams.

It gets three stars because it has several good ideas, but the implementation plan lost me. I think a book that gives an easier to implement plan for small businesses is Duct Tape Marketing.

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I was laughing aloud.

Revisado: 02-16-13

I was hesitant to get this audio book because I read many negative comments on Amazon, but I like Scazi and Wheaton, so for it anyway, and I am glad I did.

The characters are interesting. The main one is insufferable and likeable at the same time.

I have still to finish the original book, but this one stands on its own.

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Interesting but hard to listen.

Revisado: 12-21-12

There are several interesting concepts, specially the fallacies. Several people have complained about the narrator, but I set the playback at triple speed and it was easy to understand and not boring.

At the last three hours, when speaking of fractals, the author is so arrogant (this guy was my only living teacher. All my other teachers are books. He was the only one who understood the black swan and the misuse of the Bell curve, on and on) that it was too distracting.

I like what he has to say, but prefer the way "the invisble gorilla" and "thinking, fast and slow" have exposed it.

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Some interesting facts, it was a chore to finish i

Revisado: 09-23-12

Would you try another book from Lawrence D. Rosenblum and/or Lawrence D. Rosenblum?

I am not sure. I did not hate it, but I was not looking forward to listen to it either. I learned some stuff, but it was boring to hear about a series of experiments and results without practical application.

What did you like best about this story?

It had interesting facts amid all the experiments.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

He sounded excited many times at things that were not very exciting for me: "You can not distinguish DA and GA!". I felt like saying: "and so what?" many times during the book.

Did See What I'm Saying: The Extraordinary Powers of Our Five Senses inspire you to do anything?

Not really. Maybe perform a couple of experiments some day.

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