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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Escape!, November 21, 2005
What a great way to expereince a dramatic story! This is not a narrated book but a professionally acted play with real characters, emotion and relationships. The combination of modern science and technology, with the classic themes of greed, murder and justice, all carefully woven into a terriffic story. I am looking forward to any other offerings by this author in this medium. The surprising turns keep you guessing all the way to the end. I loved it!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very Cool, November 6, 2005
We popped the CD in on the way to Starved Rock, and we were glued to the radio, uh, cd player, the whole time! Act I ended shortly before we arrived at the park. After a nice hike on a lovely day, and a picnic, we looked at each other and said, "Ready?"
"Yeah! Let's get the dog in the car and take off so we can listen to Act II!!" We enjoyed "Killer" thoroughly! I was a little concerned at first that listening in the car on a beautiful fall day would be distracting, but we were instantly drawn in.
There is a lot to chew over on several levels. I got a kick out of the contrast between science & business interests, particularly because I was at Bell Labs during the AT&T break-up and saw all these researchers being dragged kicking & screaming into the competitive world of business & marketing. (What a disaster!)
On another level, as pure entertainment, I harbored hopes that there would be a "Columbo" ending in which the bitch gets her due.... But some part of me knew better. This isn't a 1950's radio drama, even tho it sounds like one. In the 1950's dramas, "justice" did prevail, and all was set "right" by the end of the drama.
Then, still on the story level, I fully expected the end of the drama to be right after the delete key was hit & the "good-nights" were said, so I was a little startled by the rest of the epilogue. There is a lot of "stuff" in your play to think about. These are simply my initial reactions! VERY COOL!!!!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Like the old days, October 20, 2005
This theater of the mind is old and new at the same time. It was old-time radio in a 21st Century medium. It was modern, high-tech science and an old-fashioned murder, legal drama. It had all the elements of a great story: imagination, greed, arrogance, naivety, stubbornness, and luck (good and bad). The narrator had a wonderful voice and tied the whole story together. The characters were very real to me: the arrogant, naive scientist, the greedy businessmen, the nasty wife, the ambitious prosecutor, the clever defense attorney, the auster judge, the indifferent police, and the techy geeks. Everything fits together nicely. It was fun to listen to on a ride through the country on an autumn afternoon.
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