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annoying voice-over

Revisado: 12-03-22

This is a cute little audio play with a pretty good cast, but each scene (chapter) ends with a narrator making a foreshadowing comment and it got annoying the second time. It became intrusive as it continued. Audiobook listeners know that stories have story arcs, we're ok. This is the first time I've ever encountered a writer who actively interfered with the reader/listener's experience of their own work.

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interminable and cursed (probably)

Revisado: 07-24-22

The episodes I listened to started well, but quickly degenerated into interminable, rambling digressions into everything else these over-attenuated English majors think about.
Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to start with their least favorite book, then talk about it for two hours? They found the first podcast so taxing to record that they took a several-months break in the middle of recording it. Please let that fact sink in before you start listening because if it was that bad for them it will be so much worse for you.
I just wish I could find the magic spell that would completely remove the episodes from my phone. I have unfollowed and I never did download them, but Audible persists in queuing up the next episodes, then cycles back to the first and starts again.
Probably this podcast is cursed.

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cute juvenalia, not very professional.

Revisado: 07-09-20

This is a cute little story though it needed an editor "times infinity." The younger reader was a drag on the story. She often stopped and paused with the downward tone that indicates the end of a sentence then continued the sentence; something children who are just learning to read do at the end of their line. it indicates incomplete fluency. Several characters apparently had southern accents which came and went randomly and one character was supposed to have an Irish accent which the reader couldn't handle at all. Her attempts were annoying.
Fine for a free book but not professional.

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which part is which?

Revisado: 06-22-20

There is no guidance as to which chapters are listened to in self hypnosis, which before sleep. Also the "music" background is running water. There is no music.
This should be an excellent tool however the sloppiness of the presentation renders it useless. Don't waste money or credit on this book.

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I'd like more

Revisado: 09-20-19

I found this book very engaging and I look forward to sharing it with young readers I know. if be glad to know what happens as the students grow and learn through their Mystwick years.

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really stupid music choices

Revisado: 01-04-19

I'm only at the second day but if I get more of the discord in today's audio I'll quit.
The problem is that on the second day they switch from instrumental music to vocal music and the second layer of voices competes with the trainer and drowns her out. It's like having two people talking to you at the same time, saying different things, so that you have no idea what either one of them is saying.
In all fairness, the music is pretty bad anyway, but when it is instrumental only and at a lower background level it is easy to listen to the trainer and ignore everything about the music except the beat. But when it is vocal music as loud as the trainer it is just cacauphony. l missed several instructions to change the speed and incline because I couldn't hear the trainer's words.
In addition, when the trainer pauses, the music argues with her. She says, "you can do this," and the singers say, "no, no, no." She says, "you're doing great," and the singers say, "I don't want to." Things like that happen over and over again.
It is a shame that this good idea is being ruined by a simple but stupid editing choice.

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really stupid music choices

Revisado: 01-04-19

I'm only at the second day but if I get more of the discord in today's audio I'll quit.
The problem is that on the second day they switch from instrumental music to vocal music and the second layer of voices competes with the trainer and drowns her out. It's like having two people talking to you at the same time, saying different things, so that you have no idea what either one of them is saying.
In all fairness, the music is pretty bad anyway, but when it is instrumental only and at a lower background level it is easy to listen to the trainer and ignore everything about the music except the beat. But when it is vocal music as loud as the trainer it is just cacauphony. l missed several instructions to change the speed and incline because I couldn't hear the trainer's words.
In addition, when the trainer pauses, the music argues with her. She says, "you can do this," and the singers say, "no, no, no." She says, "you're doing great," and the singers say, "I don't want to." Things like that happen over and over again.
It is a shame that this good idea is being ruined by a simple but stupid editing choice.

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almost perfect for me

Revisado: 11-12-17

I have been very happy with this recording. I listen to both the traditional hypnosis (chapter 2) and the NLP (chapter 3) daily for a couple of weeks. My sense of my self is improving. I am much clearer about my boundaries with other people and more comfortable with being clear about my needs.
in addition, I like the reader. he strikes a good balance between speaking slowly and clearly and sounding as though he is reading line by line. He maintains a quality of speaking in a natural cadence.
My only problem is that in both chapters we are counted out of hypnosis 16 to 18 minutes before they end of the track. if I choose to stay in a trance state, and I often do for my meditation, I have to jump in quickly and forward the playbar. I'd rather not have to do that.

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awful reader

Revisado: 10-10-17

The reader of this book is excruciating. Her delivery is forced and her vocal rhythm is unnatural. Effective hypnotic speech needs to sounds like natural speaking. I didn't make it through the long, time-wasting induction.

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torn about audiobooks

Revisado: 04-27-17

This is a wonderful book, beautifully read. the problem is that I needed this information in a form that I can go back to and reference, so I have to buy a paper copy. but if I hadn't bought​ this audiobook, I wouldn't have time to read it for months.
There book needs some kind of text-form reference material, especially the lists, directions for action and the quotes from other printed material (plus the citations).

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