- ISBN13: 9780385513531
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Product Description
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve “the greatest expl… More >>
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Doubleday has chosen to criminally disable text-to-speech in this book, hurting their own sales, discriminating against the blind and reading disabled, and joined the Luddite mentality of Random House to shoot themselves in the foot.
You, the consumer, are being treated like a criminal. I encourage you to not buy this book or any other books. Do not support stupidity or discrimination
Rating: 1 / 5
This is not a review of the book. I will not order it because the text to speech function is disabled.
Rating: 1 / 5
I was going to buy this book on Kindle until I saw that text to speech is disabled. Although I may not use this feature, on general principle I will boycott the book and it’s author. It is especially annoying since they are charging two and a half times a much for an audio version. This is obscene.
Rating: 1 / 5
I can’t believe I missed this when I bought this audiobook. It was fascinating to me how a book could be vaguely interesting, and boring at the same time. I just kept waiting for something to HAPPEN. But now, I guess I can forgive it, because it is a true story. I’m so glad I’m almost through with it. The only reason I wrote this review is to spare someone else who might be intrigued with the premise, and think it’s going to be an actual adventure story, not a series of ENDLESS mini-stories.
Rating: 2 / 5
The best use of this book was as bedtime reading. It was 100% effective. It took a long time to read because I fell asleep after 10 minutes of reading. it was poorly written and poorly edited. I didn’t care about any of the characters. They were poorly drawn and without maps, it was hard to follow the events and grasp the scope of the “adventure”. I don’t know why anyone would care about a British adventurer who spent years searching for treasure in the Amazon jungle and finally took his elder son and friend into the jungles where they met their fate at the hands of aboriginals.
Rating: 1 / 5