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Title: read it, don't listen to it
Review: I enjoyed reading this book and the series as a whole, so I picked up an audiobook copy of it to listen to in the car during the commute. I was, in a word, disappointed.Barbara Rosenblat's reading is flat, and her intonations and inflections are unnatural and stilted. I find it hard to listen to, as her artistic take on the conversations and her impersonations of military personnel are completely off and unrealistic. Her mispronunciations of simple words sometimes makes it hard to understand what's going on, and her overall characterization is low, in that it is very hard to tell which character is speaking at any time. All in all, I get the feeling she ignored the actual content and militaristic theme of the book in lieu of a very generic, pulp reading.
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