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The Girl Who Dropped In

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The Girl Who Dropped In

By: David Collins
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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This title uses virtual voice narration

Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.

Daniel Baker was an engineer at Raytheon Shipboard Systems. He was getting ready to move into the small cabin he had just bought that was being renovated.

Sue Glitch was the “clueless tourist” who had literally dropped into his life.

Something (almost everything) about her story screamed “not quite right.” She claims that “We are from Zealand, the newer part.”

Just who is this strange girl who just dropped in? Or what?

The answer is out of this world…

When fate gives you the chance to drop everything and go on the adventure of a lifetime, you dive in…

 Adventure Humorous Science Fiction

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It lacked action, but I suspect that will be corrected in the sequel. The characters could be more complex as well.

I was surprised that the synthetic voice was as good as it was. In fact, I wish it could be made optional across Audible.

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a good story but ruined by virtual voice. VV. can't vary its voice to flesh out individual characters and it all kinda blurs together.

meh...

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The story line of this book was far more sophisticated in its construction than I expected it to be. I would love to see a sequel to it and it is entertaining from start to finish. Even the AI narration is easily understood throughout.

More complex that I expected

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The dialogue was worse than stilted. It sounded like it was translated into another language, then that was translated into a third, then the process was repeated a few more times before translating back into English (if that is, in fact the original language). And the author doesn’t seem to know what contractions are used for in writing.

The plot was largely explained (in this stilted prose) rather than clearly shown. Honestly, a writing seminar would’ve fixed most of the writing problems. Or maybe just an editor would have. Even a coauthor.

The Stilted prose combined with the virtual voice just brought the stiltification to a torturous level.

And yet the speculation about future science and technology was superlative. Thaf’s where the author’s penchant for explaining actually worked.

Horrible Dialogue, Very Good Speculation About Future Science

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Not the first such premise I've listened too, so as such a solid 4 in all .

Yes ! I include the narration and narrator.
Give it a try, once you get into the storyline and rhythm it can still be a great listen.
I won't pay to listen from this format but it can be enjoyable.

Enjoyable

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