Comments on: Eastern Standard Tribe

By: Yttermayn

Yttermayn — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:11:52 +0000

Excellent book. I had the same thought about the speed at which it was read. SLLLOOOWWWW would be annoying, but making sure the transition pauses are in there would help with flow. I love the concepts in this book. I swear, I think an agent provocatuer had a hand in designing Verizon UI’s, particularly in the ‘feature phones’.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:27:00 +0000

Terrific book! I loved the delicately styled plot and shifts back and forth from the asylum to the lead-up. Cory is a great reader; I’m glad I listened to this instead of reading it, as it made me laugh out loud quite a bit, but was also poignant and powerful in vision. I dosagree about the pace of the reading – the book has a frenetic character that is well represented by the rapid fire dialogue. Yes, there was a time or two I had to rewind a bit, but that is only proof that I cared to hear something I’d missed! I donated!

By: Laura Church

Laura Church — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:21:42 +0000

It took me two tries to get into this book, just because of the reading/ performing style. But wow, great book and the style so totally fits the characters/ setting. The concept of being aligned with a time zone is intriguing also. Now, six months later, I find myself still thinking about this book, especially the “comm” chatter scenes- loved those! May listen again after I’m done my current book, and I have only, ever listened to one book/ series twice, and that was 7th Son. Thanks so much for the brain candy, Churchie

By: Timmy Mac

Timmy Mac — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:50:25 +0000

I loved the book, and I’m glad you put in your authorial aside about Harvard Divinity School, because I was yelling at my stereo about it at that very minute. Much more character driven than I expected, too. It was as if Douglas Coupland wrote Pattern Recognition.

By: Cory

Cory — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:31:34 +0000

I wouldn’t change the reading pace. I actually am thrilled by the pace.. you just have to listen fast. He doesn’t waste my time.

Trust me, audiobooks read too slow are WAYYYYY more annoying.

Loved the book, Doc. Incidentally, you should use your clout as a goggle-wearing hot air balloon superblogger to try to get podiobooks to partition their bandwidth a little better so the website runs a little faster. I literally can’t rate books because it just takes too long for the rating to happen.

(I note that the paypal link seems to be pretty quick though

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:54:20 +0000

There’s probably a good story in here, but I won’t find out by listening to it. Cory Doctorow, like so many other authors, just goes too fast, and it’s really frustrating. I felt like I was being rushed along. I couldn’t sit back and enjoy the story, as I had to concentrate too hard to keep up with it. The pauses are not long enough in transitions from one character to another, or one scene to the next, and so it’s only once you’re into the next part that you realise the perspective has changed. Man, just slow down a bit, and use emphasis and silence to convey meaning.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 22 May 2007 06:43:54 +0000

Well it was interesting getting started for me, largely cause I had no idea what was going on. The problem with audio books is once in awhile you miss a key phrase or segment that changes the whole flow of the book.

Eventually I figured it out and figured my confusion was largely due to the fact that the book is written from the perspective of a semi crazy person in a semi dystopian future, who works in a rather abstract field.

Towards the end I thought the book really found its stride. My comprehension of it went way up and all the confusion of earlier episodes started to gel and clarify in my mind.