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Utopia
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bookshelves: 2014, borrowed-audiobook, fiction, mystery-crime-conspiracy, thriller-suspense-adventure, borrowed-library, audiobook
Aug 13, 2014
bookshelves: 2014, borrowed-audiobook, fiction, mystery-crime-conspiracy, thriller-suspense-adventure, borrowed-library, audiobook
This book was remarkably dull for being a thriller. Within a couple chapters, it began to feel like a chore to read it. I wasn't into any of the characters from the very start. Then I got the audiobook since I needed something to listen to, and I listed to the rest of the book until the epilogue. Read the epilogue from the actual book.
I just never bought into the premise of this book. A futuristic, amazingly technologically advanced theme park that has turned the amusement park world on its head and is the MOST AMAZING THING EVER? And within 6 months of opening, it's already entrenched in the world consciousness as the must-do attraction of the century? That just didn't jive with me.
It was also a problem that it was describing all the super-technological advances, except they all seemed pretty humdrum here in 2014. Not like anything special at all, really. And it was written before cell phones were ubiquitous, so it's got all this amazing technology... yet they have to find a walkie talkie or a landline to figure out where the hell anybody is. Doesn't work here and now.
Anyway, I didn't enjoy the story that much. It just all seemed.... almost like a kid's story, but with waaaaaaaay too much detail. On top of that, the narrator on the audiobook had this unbelievably annoying end-of-sentence-lilt he used on several of the characters. Drove me nuts. And occasionally it came out just in the regular narration which was also annoying.
I just never bought into the premise of this book. A futuristic, amazingly technologically advanced theme park that has turned the amusement park world on its head and is the MOST AMAZING THING EVER? And within 6 months of opening, it's already entrenched in the world consciousness as the must-do attraction of the century? That just didn't jive with me.
It was also a problem that it was describing all the super-technological advances, except they all seemed pretty humdrum here in 2014. Not like anything special at all, really. And it was written before cell phones were ubiquitous, so it's got all this amazing technology... yet they have to find a walkie talkie or a landline to figure out where the hell anybody is. Doesn't work here and now.
Anyway, I didn't enjoy the story that much. It just all seemed.... almost like a kid's story, but with waaaaaaaay too much detail. On top of that, the narrator on the audiobook had this unbelievably annoying end-of-sentence-lilt he used on several of the characters. Drove me nuts. And occasionally it came out just in the regular narration which was also annoying.
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Reading Progress
Started Reading
August 12, 2014
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Finished Reading
August 13, 2014
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August 13, 2014
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August 13, 2014
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August 13, 2014
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2014
August 13, 2014
– Shelved as:
borrowed-audiobook
August 13, 2014
– Shelved as:
fiction
August 13, 2014
– Shelved as:
mystery-crime-conspiracy
August 13, 2014
– Shelved as:
thriller-suspense-adventure
August 13, 2014
– Shelved as:
borrowed-library
November 11, 2018
– Shelved as:
audiobook
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May 22, 2020 05:12PM
There was way too much detail which made the story so slow i almost didnt finish it The Epilogue was terrible. two stars
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I can’t speak for the audio book - I do think that the narrator can make or break a book which is why I don’t listen to them. I suggest actually reading the book - it might give you a fresh perspective. It is one of my all-time favorites.
