William R. Earnest

Take a hard pass

Revisado: 02-07-25

This book seems to have been written by someone with very little exposure to the sea. It is full of highly exaggerated information about sea conditions, weather such as describing hurricanes at Cape Horn, 200 mph wind etc. The book seems to have been glean from a number of journals that convey historical information. Unfortunately, however, this is what went together with a great deal of hyperbole and cliché about life for British sailors. To further compound the problem, the performance on this book is completely over and overdramatized. Also seems clear that the individual reading has very little knowledge of the sea and ships. This is one of the few books that I have abandoned in the last 10 years.

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The best Vietnam war fiction I have ever read

Revisado: 05-18-23

This is an incredible book. It feels very real and very realistic with interesting characters and a great storyline. I didn’t feel but it drifted so I’m in the last 25% or so, but still find it to be highly memorable.

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If you like Winslow, you probably won’t like this

Revisado: 09-24-22

This is the second Neil Carrie novel I have listened to from Don Winslow. He is high on my list of authors from his previous works, but I find this one especially aggravating. I guess he is trying to break out of his California genre, but this book is cram full of a lot of minutia that seems to be designed just to increase the length of the book. Winslow also has great difficulty whenever he is describing romance scenes and female characters. The relationship development in progress in this book is especially unbelievable, and frankly very hard to digest.

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Self centered pablum

Revisado: 07-28-22

I have listened to several of the Words and Music series and this one is by far the worst. St. Vincent comes across as a spoiled and self-centered. No humility or understanding of how privileged she is. She says things like “music isn’t therapy“ and then proceeds to talk about how music is therapeutic for her. Everything is about her and her lack of awareness of how selfish and ungrateful she sounds is mind boggling.

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Good story that needs editing

Revisado: 12-27-21

I felt like Stephen King fell in love with his work here in certain areas. He lapsed into long and somewhat tedious descriptions in some of the scenes which really bog down the story. Found myself hitting the jump ahead 30 seconds arrow multiple times.

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A failed experiment

Revisado: 01-31-21

As a Stephen King fan I found this book to be very weak tea. One of the hallmarks of his work is situations and characters that seems so real. This seems like a meandering experiment he was crying – perhaps to break the mold. I will definitely not be buying the second book. Performance excellent.

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The worst book

Revisado: 10-10-19

This is perhaps the worst book of the hundreds I have listened to. It is written with all the sophistication of a 10th grade history paper. The basic story of the Osage and their oil wealth is mildly interesting. Unfortunately the book plods along strewn with cliche descriptions of interactions between whites and Native Americans . Far too much time is wasted belaboring how whites discriminated against Native Americans in the handling of oil wealth. The delivery likewise was pedantic, lifeless and plodding. I have no idea how the publisher arranged for this book to achieve so many high ratings. Do not buy.

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Short and disjointed

Revisado: 08-15-18

I am a great fan of the author. However this book is a disjointed collection of unrelated short recollections. Nothing particularly interesting that gave me any greater knowledge of John LeCarre.

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Very good story – a bit slow starting

Revisado: 07-27-18

Alastair McLean is a great writer and this is one of his classics. The performance was abysmal. The reader sounds far too old to be the character which was a continual distraction. Unfortunately most of McLean’s books use John Oliver and I will therefore be unable to listen to them.

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Plot and performance lacking

Revisado: 05-02-18

I very nearly deleted this book after the first 30 minutes listening. The near ration has a flat, wooden quality that is hard to take. I decided to tough it out since I had paid for the book. The plot has some dynamic sections but I found it to be somewhat plotting in comparison to other Perry works.

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