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Narrado por:
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Jeff Harding
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De:
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Lev Grossman
About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hotshot young investment banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. His task is to search their library stacks for a precious medieval codex, a treasure kept sealed away for many years and for many reasons. Enlisting the help of passionate medievalist Margaret Napier, Edward is determined to solve the mystery of the codex-to understand its significance to his wealthy clients, and to decipher the seeming parallels between the legend of the codex and an obsessive role-playing computer game that has absorbed him in the dark hours of the night.
The chilling resolution brings together the medieval and the modern aspects of the plot in a twist worthy of earning comparisons to novels by William Gibson and Dan Brown, not to mention those by A. S. Byatt and Umberto Eco. Lev Grossman's Codex is a thriller of the highest order.
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This book not so much. He has, and displays extremely well, an exciting knowledge of - yes, really - library; wrong word but he's got solid material and displays and uses it very well.
Plot is - sigh - shaky with logical and common sense 'gaps'.
Read to me like a first novel and not nearly as bad as other 'firsts' I've read.
Reader/performers, regrettably, don't add to the book.
Has Mr. G other books?
I'd try another than this without hesitation.
Wonderful for technical detail - only
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Not what I expected
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Weirdly disjointed
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Like the protagonist of The Magicians, the protagonist in Codex is oddly off-putting and somewhat cartoonish. He neither acts, thinks nor feels like a real person. Instead, he is relentlessly and unchangingly self-indulgent, pampered and self-absorbed–the reductio absurdum result of helicopter parenting. He uses people for his convenience. He does not understand that to receive loyalty one must in turn be loyal. Perhaps that was the point that Lev Grossman was trying to make, but the protagonist’s sheer, perverse inability to learn or change at all makes him unbelievable as well as unlikeable.
Conversely, Jeff Harding’s performance is excellent. I have not heard any readers actually use falsetto before, but he does it with such skill and conviction that it sounds natural instead of forced.
I will probably never read a Lev Grossman book, but I will also probably listen to any book he publishes because he is creative and interesting, and because the life breathed into his books by his readers makes up any shortcomings in the personalities of his characters.
Brilliant Book Detection, Pathetic Protagonist
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Guess it comes down to, especially in a book about scholarly adventures, it’s all the more highlighting the degrading of literacy in our modern world.
Jeff Harding: you’ve been a great narrator for many books I’ve listened to so am frankly confused how this one you’ve performed this way.
That all said: the book is still enjoyable
Good book, mostly good narration with poor pronunciation
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On top of the characters being shallow (both in personality and development) the plot is honestly boring. This book is described as a thriller, but the only suspense I ever felt was for the last chapter to finish. Ultimately, nothing happens storywise, I'd recommend skipping it.
side note: every woman is introduced with a description of her mouth, breasts, and hair, which is honestly a huge red flag for me when reading so I feel it's worth noting.
It's not the worst
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Anticlimactic story, full of mispronunciations
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Gender garbage was hard, story still compelling
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The story is set up as a literary ???thriller???. While there is an ambiance of darkness and danger it never materializes. There are multiple twists and turns throughout the story but each twist and turn is easily anticipated. I had the story figured out less than half way into the book.
The main character is a young narcissist who postures as if he is the next best thing to James Bond???or Stephen Langdon of "DaVinci Code" fame???but who misses every telegraphed clue that Grossman so abundantly provides. The protagonist seems to be a caricature of Langdon. While Langdon rushes from one life threatening danger to another, all the time figuring out subtle clues and saving the day, as well as the beautiful girl along the way, Edward Wozny has the clues shoved in his face almost every step of the way. It is the homely but brilliant girlfriend who figures almost everything out. There is no action in the story. There appears to be no real danger. There is no confrontation with the ???bad guy???. As a literary send up of the ???thriller??? genre, I admit that it works. I give it an admiring groan, with an emphasis on the groan. However, I found the book irritating and the main character so much of a narcissist and so blind to what is going on around him that the story lost the patina of credibility. Even a good send up should keep the reader/listener engaged.
The narrator was decent.
groan
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