Jacob Tender

With the first book, I read it in Bob’s voice and that elevated the experience. For the second, I listened to it in his voice. At first I preferred my imagination, but I came around to enjoying Bob and Sally’s vocal contributions to this fairly straightforward sequel. Paul Whitehouse didn’t quite hit the mark in his delivery. Not by my estimation, at least.

I don’t know that more of Gary Thorn is necessary. His character progression was wanting. Looking forward to Bob’s next story all the same.

When I was in grade school, I read this book and got enamored with the idea of folding 1000 paper cranes myself. I’m not sure if I hit the number, but I did fold enough to fill a laundry basket (many, many hundred), which I took into school. My teacher hung a bunch of them up and I taught the class how to fold them.

Origami stuck with me for the next few years and I even invented my own folding patter to create a three dimensional turtle. I still fold the turtle whenever I have a spare scrap of paper to fiddle with, but haven’t thought about this book in a while.

I haven't read a lot of King's work, but I have read Dead Zone a number of times over the years. I don't know what about it sticks with me, but I like it a lot.

Because I've been in school, I don't have a lot of downtime for pleasure reads. What I do have is 10 hours of weekly commute. So I went for the audiobook. Unfortunately, the narrator is James Franco who sounds exactly like James Franco for the duration of the book.

DNF.

This book is tedious and insufferable. Smells of zero editing input. Unlikable and unrealistic characters. Who talks this way? Nobody in cyber-security that I've ever met. Especially not ones in their late 60s. A genuinely, laughably bad book.

With the first book, I read it in Bob’s voice and that elevated the experience. For the second, I listened to it in his voice. At first I preferred my imagination, but I came around to enjoying Bob and Sally’s vocal contributions to this fairly straightforward sequel. Paul Whitehouse didn’t quite hit the mark in his delivery. Not by my estimation, at least.

I don’t know that more of Gary Thorn is necessary. His character progression was wanting. Looking forward to Bob’s next story all the same.

I haven't read a lot of King's work, but I have read Dead Zone a number of times over the years. I don't know what about it sticks with me, but I like it a lot.

Because I've been in school, I don't have a lot of downtime for pleasure reads. What I do have is 10 hours of weekly commute. So I went for the audiobook. Unfortunately, the narrator is James Franco who sounds exactly like James Franco for the duration of the book.