Robert Edgmon

Satisfying Conclusion To the Series

Revisado: 03-17-25

It’s been 20 years since its publication so I guess it’s safe to say that this is the conclusion to Petra’s story. It’s a satisfying conclusion, even though it is just open ended enough to hint at the possibilities of more to come.

The fault of this book is the same fault I found with its predecessor Gemini, to much exposition which throws the pacing, the rhythm of the story off.

Burnell got it right in the first book of the series; by the fourth book, the exposition really started to distracted, to the point where I sometimes felt I was reading an article from The Economist. Not enough for me to dislike the book but enough to make me glad he didn’t continue the series.

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Every Tea Sipper and Farmer Will Enjoy This Book

Revisado: 11-20-24

A UT student from 1982 thru 88, this book was a great walk down memory lane as well as giving me a few “well I didn’t know that”. I have no idea how this book will go over with those who have no connect to The University or that Nice Prep School at College Station but for those of you that do — can’t recommend this it more.

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An Eye Opening Story With a Feel Good Ending and Tragic Epilogue

Revisado: 09-23-24

The right length, the right amount of detail. Opened my eyes to a part of my friends lives (they have
children; I don’t ) that I was completely unaware of yet explains a lot of American culture today

The ending was bittersweet for me because I found out, halfway into listening to the story, that around a year after the story ends, Dixie, Lewis’s daughter and the center of the story, is killed in a car accident.

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A fun listen and interesting reboot

Revisado: 06-19-23

Very good voice actors, fun interesting story of what if Mariarty was the hero and Holms the villain. Glad I listened it.

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Wow. A new standard in autobiographies

Revisado: 05-27-23

I have listened to numerous autobiographies and a fair number of ones about musicians. This one has unfairly raised the bar on any I listen to in the future. Unfairly because Bono didn’t approach this as a book that could be read out-loud as his peers did. He approached this as a performance piece. It was a great, entertaining, thought provoking performance that will stay with me.
Ignore those reviewers who say this audio-book is “preachy”. Far from if. What you will hear is a man who humbly shows you his heart, his soul and his fallacies. If a listener finds it “preachy” then maybe it has just made them uncomfortable regarding where they are and where they should be.
Those reviews who write that it’s a political statement — well if talking about how those of us born in the 1st World have been blessed and acknowledge that maybe we should use some of our blessings to help those not so blessed — ok call it “political” or maybe it’s just being a decent human being.

Give yourself a gift and listen to this recording. Treat yourself.

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The Empty Glass is Finally Filled

Revisado: 05-07-22

Interesting, new, honest, real. More approachable, more down for earth then his autobiography, whether a fan of Townshend or not, the listener can’t help but like the 78 year old narrator as he shares a 20 years period of his life that shaped who is today as much as the 20 years previous in the spot light. For the fan his reinterpretation of some of the songs written almost 40 years go is worth listening by themselves.

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