Author Topic: PC400, Giant Episode: Night at the Opera  (Read 11255 times)

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Reply #25 on: February 18, 2016, 01:59:08 AM
I started listening to "The Element of Fire" by Martha Wells because of this story. It's set in the same world :-)
So far, so good!

I just finished it. An excellent story.

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Reply #26 on: February 19, 2016, 05:40:56 AM
Overall I kinda liked this story.  My only nagging concern is that it feels like in the end, it was too well wrapped up with a little bow, like a 60-minute TV episode without lots to lead us into the next episode.  Which, by the way, I would be interested in, as the world seemed intriguing and would like to leave me thinking the author has much more richness that could be shared about it.

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Reply #27 on: February 26, 2016, 07:16:01 PM
Congratulations on reaching episode 400! May there be 400 and more yet to come. :) I've added several of Martha Wells' kindle books to my wishlist so I don't forget about them. Thanks for pointing me in that direction!

I really enjoyed this story, and the full cast reading helped a lot with keeping characters straight. I was definitely wanting more by the end, but it wasn't a terrible place to stop and I'm just looking forward to those other stories that much more.



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Reply #28 on: March 18, 2016, 03:08:37 AM
I listen to a lot of audio fiction, so guessing the narrators was trivial (I bet I guessed most of them before the story even started). Except for Nicolas...who the heck could it be? It was driving me crazy!

Then I get to the big reveal of names at the end and I was like, "How the heck was I supposed to guess that??" A dirty trick is what that was.

It speaks volumes for this story that all of the above didn't totally kick me out of it; I got entranced enough not to be too distracted trying to figure out who Nicolas was!


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Reply #29 on: April 19, 2016, 09:57:52 PM
Just finished reading The Death of the Necromancer, and now I want to go back and listen to this again.

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