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andyshute 's review for:
The Cabinet of Curiosities
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
I quite liked this, stupidity aside. Ok, so it's not as good as Relic/Reliquary, feeling smaller and more contained with less use of location as a character and Pendergast comes across almost superhuman (?supernatural, with his memory shenanigans). Yet it's entertaining. There's just something about the odd mix of police/archaeological procedural/supernatural/thriller/serial killer concoction that keeps the interest.
I thought the identity of the killer was fairly obvious though and despite the grand schemes and revelations contained, it does all feel somewhat insignificant.
I listened to the audiobook version and Rene Auberjonois does a brilliant job as narrator, really selling it and elevating the quality. However, at the very end, it turns out this was the abridged version! Argghhhh!
Not happy, I feel annoyed and cheated. Frankly, as much as it tempts me, I'm just not going to read it to see what I've missed (the Irish policeman character has been removed from what I can tell). So, now I feel like I've not really experienced it. Can I even make a judgement on the quality knowing I've not experienced the original work?
More annoying still, I have the others already from the library and now I'm not sure whether to listen or not - the narrator did such a good job and it was a great commuting book, but actively going in knowing they're abridged...
I don't think I can. Quandary.
So, 3 stars story, 4 stars narration, 1 stars abridgement. Rounded up.
P.s. I had to mention this here as I keep forgetting - what is it with adding music to audiobooks. It's terrible and always completely random and in this case drowns out the narration. Just stop it!
I thought the identity of the killer was fairly obvious though and despite the grand schemes and revelations contained, it does all feel somewhat insignificant.
I listened to the audiobook version and Rene Auberjonois does a brilliant job as narrator, really selling it and elevating the quality. However, at the very end, it turns out this was the abridged version! Argghhhh!
Not happy, I feel annoyed and cheated. Frankly, as much as it tempts me, I'm just not going to read it to see what I've missed (the Irish policeman character has been removed from what I can tell). So, now I feel like I've not really experienced it. Can I even make a judgement on the quality knowing I've not experienced the original work?
More annoying still, I have the others already from the library and now I'm not sure whether to listen or not - the narrator did such a good job and it was a great commuting book, but actively going in knowing they're abridged...
I don't think I can. Quandary.
So, 3 stars story, 4 stars narration, 1 stars abridgement. Rounded up.
P.s. I had to mention this here as I keep forgetting - what is it with adding music to audiobooks. It's terrible and always completely random and in this case drowns out the narration. Just stop it!