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Complete lack of US military knowledge

Revisado: 03-06-24

I picked this up because I saw a review comparing it to Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy. A better comparison would be to the 2012 remake of Red Dawn.

The novel drags on with unnecessarily during the first 40 or so chapters. The entire premise is that nearly the entire US military is completely inept and rolls over to a first strike by China, Russia, the Iranians, and North Korea. Later in the book, a group of Marines decide to give tactical command during combat to a Navy astronaut that was formerly a pilot. What a joke.

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Basically Expedition Force, but on Earth

Revisado: 02-17-23

So, it starts out kind of questionable, but not bad. I raised an eyebrow at a SEAL on liberty running around with a SAW, an M79, and loads of ammo in his trunk, but when the protagonist runs across the alien gun, he becomes a total moron and it's blatantly a rip off of Expedition Force. Just annoying banter between an alien AI and a stupid human.

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Worst book in the series

Revisado: 03-02-19

I'm not sure if it was the content or the narrator, but the main character sounded basically like a child throwing a temper tantrum.

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Great book, narrator was not so great.

Revisado: 01-26-19

Narrator could not keep character voices consistent. It got confusing when in a single dialog the main character had 4 different accents.

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Heavy downward spiral

Revisado: 10-16-18

This book was, in my opinion, the worst in the series. Craig Alanson's lack of military knowledge continues to be more and more apparent. Joe seems to lose intelligence every chapter and the back abd forth with Skippy gets monotonous. I enjoyed the first book, but I keep expecting the characters to act more like competent military professionals and less like idiots and it's not happening.

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Amazing book, Poor Reading

Revisado: 08-13-18

Starship Troopers is a great book. I read it while I was in the Marine Corps and it should be required reading for all service members in my opinion. I picked this up to fill in a gap between book releases and get a little nostalgia. I was unimpressed with the presentation. He does not have the voice for the tone of the book in my opinion. Additionally, there are two or three sentence sections throughout the book that are clearly recorded at a different time and with substandard recording equipment. I think this might be sections of to fill in the primary recording being the abridged version. Overall, great book, but the presentation really takes away from the experience.

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Another great book, but poor audio quality

Revisado: 12-11-17

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

The audio quality of this book is considerably worse than the rest of the series.

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Amazing book, the narrator is not so great

Revisado: 04-22-17

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

The narrator has a speech problem with words that end in S. He whistles at the end of every S word. It's extremely annoying until you just start to tone it out, or maybe he stops doing it.

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Horrible recording and narrator

Revisado: 10-24-16

The recording is horrible. Clearly a poor analog recording. Sounds like the narrator is talking through a hallway at the mic. In addition the narrator is incredibly monotone with no expression or life in his voice. This is one of my favorite Clancy books and thus guy completely ruins it.

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Great Book, Excellent Performances, Inconsistent

Revisado: 06-16-16

Did the narrators do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

The main issue I had was that the narrators for different characters was constantly changing. The Baron Harkonen had at least 2 different narrators. The Duke Leto, Stilgar, and several other characters all had the same issues. This made it difficult to keep up with the conversations when they would transition between scenes despite the same conversation continuing.

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