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21 July 2007
Almost believable, good story line, Good CD listen
1 of 1 found this helpful The plotline can be found elsewhere. I buy CD books for trips, but sometimes I just listen to them when running errands, it beats all the bad news and rap music on the radio! This was a good story, with several well-developed characters. The premise of the psychic is ALMOST believable, and hey, it's fiction, right? There are several storylines that come together, making it a bit hard to keep for me to keep it all together when listening in 15-minute chunks. The villian (Sykes) is just a bit over the edge, but then that's what makes this a gripping story. The ending had me feeling both good and bad, with events turning out almost too realistically. In all, I liked the story, I liked the premise, and I liked most of the characters. They seemed to be real, which is what it's all about. 5 CDs read by Lindsay Crouse, who's been on Law and Order, ER, NYPD Blue, Alias, and other shows and Broadway, plus films The Verdict, House of Games, The Insider, and Places in the Heart. She does a great job!
30 October 2006
Entertaining
1 of 1 found this helpful I bought the book on CD's, so I could listen whenever I was on the road. It took about two weeks to go through the entire story (8 CDs!). It was funny, engaging, perhaps a bit contrived, but hey, it's fiction! From the get-go to the end, I enjoyed Buffet's writing, and identified with several of the characters. Isn't that what writing is all about? The reader did a good job with differentiating the speakers in quoted sequences, even if his Carribean accents leave a bit to be desired. In all, it's a good read (or listen, in my case).
My only complaint is that the reader continually pronounces "Fresnel" as FREZ-nel, which any Frenchman or stagehand will tell him is properly pronounced fre-NEL. And Buffet confused the Fresnel lens with a lighthouse light source. The lens serves only to focus the light from whatever source, in this case, some form of diesel-fueled burner, perhaps with high-pressure and forced-air, I don't know. I just know that though the lens might be particular to a particular burner, but it is not the source itself. When you get into real-life technical stuff like that, you need to do your homework. Hearing it mixed up constantly reminded me that I was hearing fiction, which kept me from being totally immersed.
Recommended!
19 June 2010
Windshield mount: EXCELLENT. GPS... So-so
We've used a laptop-based GPS program for nearly a decade. We've reviewed that DeLorme produce here. But we've wanted the portability and compactness a dedicated mobile GPS offered, so we bought a TomTom 350XL. From appearances and features in the documentation, it offered similar functions, features, and specifications to the other market offerings, but at a lower price.
First up, we've got experience with the Garmin line as well. And BOTH these units require a considerable amount of time to download the most current maps from a dedicated web site. Garmin "gives" you a single, one-time download, and requires you to pay a fee for additional updates... a pretty hefty fee! TomTom, on the other hand, offers the 350XL with a lifetime (of the product) map upgrade as part of the package. To us, this was a differentiating purchase feature. Roads change, and there's no point in having a GPS if the maps are not current.
Second feature is also an upgrade on both units, based on how much you pay: current traffic updates. The TomTom 350XL offers these reportedly "current" traffic adjustments to your route based on a radio-transmitted data update. When we tried to activate this feature while online with TomTom, it offered no updates.
Another nice feature the TomTom has: you can set it for left-hand or right-hand screen orientation. If the unit's mounted left of the steering wheel, you can have the screen-based buttons moved from the right to the left, actually a pretty nice ergonomic option.
Proof's in the pudding; the TomTom failed badly in navigating. We used it on familiar routes to check its ability to recover if you went "off-route". On several occasions, TomTom tried to take us several miles out of our way to return to the original route planned, instead of "rolling with the punch" and presenting a new route based on our present location. Only when there were NO OPTIONS left did it "relent" and route as expected. This would be a dismal failure for us in unknown areas, as it would likely run us all over the countryside, in search of a return to a pre-planned route, instead of dealing real-time with our location and destination.
Second failure was that TomTom asks when you set a destination whether you want to avoid unpaved roads. First, the updated database apparently believed our paved road was unpaved. Second, even when we allowed unpaved roads to be included, TomTom continued to take longer routes that avoided them. Why ask the question if 1) you don't have information that is current to guide it, and 2) you pay no attention to the user's choice of whether to use it?
And we'd say that the menu structure for TomTom is just not intuitive. We were perplexed on how to add a Via until we returned to the manual, and promptly forgot how to do it next time.
Face it, ease of use and routing is what GPS is all about. This unit was returned to the store.
Gotta say, tho, it had a much better suction-cup mounting for the windshield that the Garmin has. And it came with a case, a $20 "accessory" for Garmin units.