A remarkably human tale

interesting, exhilarating and increasingly relevant to the challenges we as a society will likely face in the near future.

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Full steam ahead.

Fast paced, clever and well worth a listen.
Read / listen before you watch the film.

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Great book, well read.

Great book, well read. Like the film, but different ending, More detail in the book, i actually thought it was better than the film.

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Film was better paced than the book

Narrator was good
Story got caught up in finance and conspiracy rather than the opportunites

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Thoughtful and engrossing

Having watched the film prior to reading this, I was pleasantly surprised by the major differences in the story. I was engrossed from the off and looked forward to the next listening. Would highly recommend and would encourage anyone who maybe thought the film was below par for the concept.

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An interesting concept but just rather dull

I think I should say from the outset that having seen the film Limitless first, I would say that other than a few basic details there is not very much that the two have in common. Indeed the book is slower paced and more sedate in it's approach.

The concept is quite novel, which is how would your life change if your intelligence could be chemically enhanced. In this matter it gives the protagonist Eddie much greater motivation and drive to achieve his goals. Unfortunately the focus of this was that Eddie spends a good section of the book talking about dealing shares and business affairs, there appeared to be very little human interaction in the book and it reached a point where I started to loose interest in what was happening. There was not a great deal that appeared exciting or thrilling.

The narration is acceptable and pleasant but not the best that I have heard and had the effect of making the story seem rather sleepy and slow at points.

Perhaps I am being unfair as by contrast to the film the story within the book is fairly ordinary by comparison. Whereas in the film Eddie is described as having a stratospheric increase in intelligence and confidence, in the book it comes across more like he just becomes a fair bit brighter but ultimately is not changed in quite the same way.

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This was a great book, by far one of my favourites

Great book, much better than the film and managed to finish it in about 4 days, loved it and would 100% recommend it. It very much has a Lucy meets wolf of wall street feel to it. x

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Decent book

I would say that the film does the book enough justice that it is not worth reading the book and watching the film, but if you haven't seen the film, then the story is worth hearing.

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Interesting first experience of an audiobook.

As a fan of the Limitless movie, I really enjoyed listening to the audiobook. It's just as good or even better than the film. The pace slowed for me a bit during the focus on trading, so I took a break, but I eventually came back to it and enjoyed the rest of the book. Maybe it was written like that on purpose. This was my first audiobook, and I look forward to listening to more, it's such a nice rest for the eyes.

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Better than the movie 

Like the title of my comment says this book has a better overall story, and I enjoyed every single moment of it

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