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This book is an enormous disappointment. With the promise of being a first rate thriller encompassing archaeological and academic discovery together with growing fears of terrorist activities, it manages instead to be just a long presentation of ideas interspersed with a tedious idyllic love/ marriage and a glimpse into the aspirations of a Syrian leader. And for what it is, it is far too long.

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Although many of the ideas presented were interesting, even thought provoking, many were ones already quite well known, even to this reader, yet were still greeted by the protagonists with the wide eyed wonder of children. Given that the researchers were supposedly the top minds in these fields, it was risible, and further removed a sense of authenticity. But the real problem was not the research undertaken, some of which, as already mentioned, was fascinating, but the writing itself: clunky and uninspired, at times repititious, the characters were heavy, the conversations dull.
Narrator, David Panfilo,, did a good job under the circumstances. Although there were a few editting glitches where sentences, or parts of them were repeated, Panfilo's pleasant voice carried this listener through to the end, although I did increase the speed to 1.25 for the final one and one half hours - would that I had thought of that earlier. Nothing was lost in the diction and the individual voicings, never very substantial, were marginally more pronounced.

This is not a completed story. After the build up to terrors that might possibly occur in this, volume one, the story continues in another book. Sorry, but I will not be continuing to volume two. I received my complimentary copy of Nothing New Under the Sun from the rights holder, via Audiobook Boom. Thank you but it was not for me even though I did thrill to the opening chapters of archaeological discovery. But so much which followed felt like packing to make the book unecessary longer and, without building relatable protagonists, the book became more of an endurance than a thrilling read.

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