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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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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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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The reality of it all

The narrator became irritating towards the end of the book - felt he missed the opportunity for creating tension and suspense. I actually couldn’t wait for the end of the book because of this. Story was good although the ending was a tad sudden and lame. Was it worth a credit? Hmmmmm

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Awful narration

Possibly the worst narration I've ever experienced from an audio book. Stuttery, slow, and hard to follow different characters. Had to listen to the book at 1.5x speed to make it bearable.

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Awful narration

Story was OK but it was like listening to my satnav read the story to me.

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Ok book, terribly read

The narration starts off ok, but swings between sounding like an AI bot, or a 5 year old reading with no inflection. The speech has little rhythm to the extent you think you’ve missed bits because of the abstract enunciation. A real shame as the reader is an awesome actor in The Wire.

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The reader, he sounded very unprepared

While the subject and overall style smacks of Crichton, it is a by far inferior book.
The suspense is shallow, the one-liners weak, the side stories unsupportive of the main story.
There are no real layers. The person reading the sorry had a great voice, but sounds hopelessly unprepared as if he’s reading the story for the first time and as if no effort has gone into researching the best way to read this book. I’ve tried listening through it but it is truly distracting.

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Who ok'd this read?

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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