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Emergency Neil Strauss Review: The Book That Changed How I Live

Neil Strauss, narrated by Neil Strauss

The highest writing score on this site, and it is not a score for the sentences. Writing 4.75, narration 4.0, and the reason to read this one rather than listen to it.

Writing
4.75
Narration
4.0

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Everyone Loves You When You're Dead Book Review: No Audiobook, and Why

Five hundred pages of interview fragments, scored 4.25. There is no audiobook of it at all, and having read it, I do not think that is the loss it looks like.

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A book worth reading can be unlistenable in the wrong voice, and a modest book can be carried by the right one. A single rating hides which of the two you would be paying for.

So, you get two numbers, one for the writing and one for the narration, and you can see which half earned it before you spend twelve hours finding out.

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