David

Another great one!

Revisado: 11-21-24

Listening to Greg Boudreaux read Charlie Cochet is like taking a long hot-tub on a winter's evening! I absolutely love, love, love Charlie's Kings series with Greg's narration. The story and characters are so vibrant and filled with such emotion (and the sexy scenes are fun too :b). I hope you continue writing Kings adventures and having Greg narrate - your collab is an instant buy for me! BTW... when does this get turned into an Amazon Prime series???? I'd love to see that!

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Collab Forever!

Revisado: 11-21-24

Listening to Greg Boudreaux read Charlie Cochet is like taking a long hot-tub on a winter's evening! I absolutely love, love, love Charlie's Kings series with Greg's narration. The story and characters are so vibrant and filled with such emotion (and the sexy scenes are fun too :b). I hope you continue writing Kings adventures and having Greg narrate - your collab is an instant buy for me! BTW... when does this get turned into an Amazon Prime series???? I'd love to see that!

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such a powerful message

Revisado: 08-01-24

As a gay man that grew up evangelical in the 80s this was ine of my biggest fears. I'm so glad I never went through that hell

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Why isn't this streaming on Prime again??

Revisado: 07-03-24

TLDR; My only critique is this isn't streaming somewhere... seriously, this needs to be made into a Prime series even if they had to tame the sex scenes to do it.

All four books in this audio book are amazing. Each story draws you along so that you forget you're actually listening to something - you fall right into it. A constant thread and story line is maintained across the books, and I just loved the constant references to earlier story lines from the other books. The erotic scenes were extremely detailed to the point I had to stop and do the deed a couple of times - if you know what I mean.

The narrator is just amazing, he has developed a fully-fleshed character for each person in the story with a variety of accents and cadence. How does one guy make you feel like you're listening to a movie with dozens of different actors?? I was thoroughly impressed and lost myself in the story and forgot all about him ... only a great narrator can do that.

If you like guys with heart, brains, and muscle - smash that buy button
If you like brotherhood stories -- that all help each other with tough love - take out your challenge coin and smash that buy button
If you like a variety of guys working toward finishing their mission - smash that buy button
If you like hearing about detailed sexual encounters - smash smash smash that buy button - and then do that again.

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Half Way There Baby!

Revisado: 05-13-24

there's so much depth to Ru, and he plunges deep! I give it 4.5 overall, because I didn't want it to end - there's so much more to tell! I guess that's for the next one! keep being gorgeous and brilliant!!

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Great Story

Revisado: 05-08-24

Just a great fun story about gay wolves - ya know, the usual :) I love that they treated the love like it was normal.

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surprisingly good

Revisado: 03-28-24

I thought I was downloading a book on various cases. instead, the author gently explains the most likely explanation rather than leaning into the hyperbolic or being overly dismissive explanation. I came away with a new appreciation of UFO, extraterrestrial, and unknown. And I feel I'm armed with a new approach to looking at future UAP sightings.

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Yes Yes!!

Revisado: 03-03-24

I loved everything about this book, and if I start really reviewing it I will only give away the story -- it's worth starting it without knowing anything. I will say, I bought this book skeptically and after listening to it I almost cried when the final credits rolled.

The voice acting by Ray Porter is phenomenal - well done sir!

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An Epic Tale

Revisado: 03-03-24

I've never actually read Dune, although I've seen all versions of the movies. After listening to this book, I see the last movie stayed very true to the book, and the next movie will cover the rest of it (and I hope stays true to the book as well).

The only wish I had for this audio book, is that the publishers had chosen to use either a single voice actor playing all parts or cast of actors. For some reason they chose to do both, and then randomly switch between the two styles. A couple of times it was confusing. "Wait, is this still Paul speaking, or..??" Each performed their part well, it's just the production itself suffered by trying to sneak in a full cast for no reason. I feel like the single voice actor would have been better.

Still, the story was amazing, and it was worth the listen for sure!!

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Clearity Within The Fog

Revisado: 02-01-24

This book is a must listen for anyone that wonders why these days the Evangelical Christians seem to be so ... extra.

I grew up Evangelical Christian in the 80s and 90s, however I no longer consider my self part of that religion. My faith is in Jesus alone - no others. My disillusionment started when I was 19 (in the 80s), and I began to see my local Minnesota pastors setting themselves up as celebrities that treated their churches more like a high-growth business than a ministry. Huge auditoriums, high schools, TV shows, theatrical and musical performance were all designed to bring in people and (in my opinion) raise weekly income exponentially. The church I called home had a pastor that started out by leading a bible study, but by the time I decided to quit, he would arrive in a limo, directly speak to only the powerful in the church, owned a huge house on the lake, and seemed to care more about making his church big than actually being a shepherd of his flock. So I walked away holding my Lord in my heart rather than on my sleeve.

Once on the outside over the years, I've observed the church through the eyes of my family. My mother still holds to the values of the 80s style beliefs that hold Christ above all others, She used to be a power force in her church, but today she has a very private, personal relationship with Jesus and doesn't frequent services very often. My brother on the other seems to have dove head-first directly into the populist lake of a celebration of Trump. He goes to rallies, proudly displays his "Trump Leadership Certificate", surrounds himself with only like-minded Trump loyalists, while (as Tim Alberta points out continually in his book) pushes those that don't believe in Trump away from him.

It has been an interesting journey over the years trying to parse and interpolate those two dichotomous beliefs, but I could never get a handle on **why** the Evangelical church lost its way. What happened to the preacher that now treats the service like a campaign rally? When did the pursuit of money and power become a central focus rather than caring for those in your community with need? How did the message of Christ - of love and ministry - become a message of hate and exclusion? I would, on occasion, quiz my brother on these questions, but it always would end up in my frustration that he was afraid of everything "they" would take away from him and his family (though he couldn't really define who "they" were or how they materially affected his life). Once Trump entered the conversation, there was nothing that would reason with him. And, after being cut off a number of times, I simply stopped trying to understand or criticize. (though I still "...stand at the door and knock..." from time to time)

Alberta's book helped me understand clearly what my brother couldn't explain. Tim clearly walks through the link between who the Church used to be and how it is now. He deftly weaves his way between the various belief systems and churches of the Evangelical faith, and his reporting of his experiences with different, prominent Evangelical and SBC thought leaders helped me understand the state of the church today. The most revealing part of the book for me was Tim's journey from pastor to pastor across the country, and how some have turned away from Trump while others still hold loyalty to him. Tim contrasts the Evangelical Church's pursuit of power and wealth and actual words of Christ, and he give a broad survey of the state of church and how it may (or may not) move forward.

One day, I hope we can all look back with incredulity and disbelief of a time when Christ's Church went astray -- and then came back to Him. I join Tim in believing in an optimistic outlook, and I have faith that Christ will restore people's lives - even if we may not call it the "Evangelical" church anymore.

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