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Yikes, what kind of nursing home beats people???

Posh English accents just make something seem like it’s set in the past, but I assume this is later than the 1970s the last story was in.

Oh no, I was invested in the corporate cover up. Well I know we’ll come back to things in the second half of the book, maybe she’s not dead, or the report will survive in the trash bag…

Is this section going through a lot of time?

I’m having trouble being interested in Belgium society compared to New Zealand and sailing. How long is this part going to be before it hopefully also stops mid-sentence?

This second narrator is not as easy to understand at 3x speed, but who has 21 hours to spend listening to a book at 1x speed?

I suspect Dr Goose is not actually a doctor but back then stuff that’s considered street drugs now was used as medicine so who knows? Snorting opium is just what the brain parasite needs…

Audiobook problems: not being able to tell the difference between similar sounding tribes that are surely spelled differently and easy to tell apart with eyes.

I thought the Māori were a warrior people.