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I'm a big fan of Crichton and think Patterson is OK. This is a very week entry in either writers cannon but as an easy listen it would have been OK were it not for the worst reading talent I've ever listened to from a "professionally" read book. Even machine read books are not this bad. There are pauses mid sentence and inflection changes. It's almost as if the reader read part of each sentence on a different day then they just stitched them all together. I almost stopped and returned the book for a refund but I did want to know how it ended! Be warned!

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Slow burn, poor reader

Really struggled to get into the story, mainly because the reader struggled with many of the words. In the first half of the book, there were many scientific and technical vocabulary which the reader struggled to pronounce, as well as his random pauses or emphasis on random words.
After the half way point, the story picked up but I would recommend just borrowing the book from your library.

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Not crichtons best

It’s a bit alpha male saves the day from a utterly preposterous threat due to ridiculous decisions- I won’t give the plot away but frankly no one puts dangerous stuff on a volcano

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very gripping story

the narrative was monotone and somewhat lacking but the story was so good l had to preserve

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Not bad James Patterson, not bad

A good thought-provoking thriller which fizzles away a bit towards the end. As some others have said, I would not be surprised if there is a film in the offing.

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I expected better from these two!

If you want a 'ripping yarn' for holiday reading, and don't expect too much, this will probably do for you but when I say holiday READING......that's exactly what I mean because the narrator is so awful I found it difficult to listen. Surely two authors of experience and fame could afford to have their books read by someone better? Buy the kindle version or a paperback and enjoy loads of people getting killed by a volcano whilst the hero saves the world from something far more deadly.

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Decent enough but not his best.

I have listened to some bad narration but this really takes the biscuit. Absolutely appalling.

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Gave up half way through

Narration awful. So slow and monotone. Even speeding it up I lost interest. Story wasn't that fantastic either. Assumed having seen a few films of his books it would be better but it goes to show what a good script and film director can do.

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Terrible narration

I love Michael Crichton’s books but I struggle to give this a review as the narrator was so bad. At times I even wondered whether it was an AI generated narrator. Whilst the pronunciation was ok there were consistent gaps in sentences with words almost added randomly as an afterthought during a sentence. This seemed to be mostly occurring with the last word of a sentence which would follow a few seconds after the rest and in many cases would have a different inflection on the word than the previous words. The overall effect was just ………………………………………… strange.

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Good book, poor audio

I love Michael Crichton and James Patterson. But this felt like there was a chapter or 2 missing around the build up with the Cutlers. I also find that audiobooks are made or broken by the narrator, and I didn’t enjoy the performance. Pauses when there shouldn’t be one, inflexions wrong.

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