S.C. James

Some interesting stories, poorly organized

Revisado: 04-22-21

I love WWII history and very much appreciated this contribution. I think it would have been better to read this book, though. The complexity of the intertwined stories precluded presentation in a strictly chronological order. When listening to the book, the dates jumped around a lot and it was much more difficult to keep things straight in your head. Reading would probably have made this much easier. The narration was strong. The best part was about the spy ring that obtained US nuclear secrets. That would probably make a great book on its own.

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A bit challenging to stay focused on

Revisado: 01-15-21

I'm not sure why, but I found it difficult to stay on point with this book. The topic was of interest to me. But it took me a long time to get through and most of the time I felt my mind wandering. It wasn't the narrator. Too bad, because this is an interesting set of historical events.

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Rote story of evil Big Business

Revisado: 08-24-20

This was an entirely predictable story of evil big business (pharma or govt) that seeks to keep their environmental impacts off of the books. The main character's mother dies from cancer. There is a conspiracy to cover it up. Blah, blah, blah. Same old story line except that a homosexual subthread is thrown in because it is so cool to be gay and edgy these days.

Save yourself the time and skip this one.

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Quite technical, but worth the listen.

Revisado: 06-17-20

While this book wasn't as good as "Where the Iron Crosses Grow," I still really like this book and appreciate the fine level of detail. I always learn a lot from Forczyk's books. He is incredibly thorough and paints a precise picture of events. For example, I had no idea how much warning and pleading Churchill gave to France to send their navy to Britain or the US to prevent it from falling into Nazi hands. If you like technical analyses of WWII battles and history, then this is the book for you.

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Lots of useful tips

Revisado: 11-25-19

I would have rated this with 4 overall stars, but it was a bit challenging to listen to this book. Reading it hard copy works have been better. The author is clearly a gifted writer and does an excellent job of writing a style guide so that it is more of a story.

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Quite average

Revisado: 11-01-19

Nothing startling in the book other than the author espousing a link between thimerosal and autism. This is irresponsible and dangerous. He is clearly undereducated in that arena.

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A bit outdated

Revisado: 05-24-19

I would have truly enjoyed this book when it first came out, but 9 years later it is a bit outdated. And many of the predictions have yet to materialize so it seems it was overly optimistic. Nevertheless, not a bad listen, I would just recommend finding something more current.

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Exceeded expectations

Revisado: 05-24-19

In addition to the expected discussion of AI weapon systems, this book delved a lot deeper into things I had not even considered. For example, there were discussions of ethics, human reactions to AI systems, implications for society, humanity, and cultures, legal quagmires, doctrinal impacts, sociopolitical impacts and so on. Quite insightful and the author clearly has spent a lot of time thinking these issues through.

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Really dated

Revisado: 03-20-19

As a scifi story, there is not much here. It got pretty boring as the main characters kept getting busy signals on their phone lines. Guess the author could not foresee that we would overcome that problem. Also, they used steamer trunks for luggage. Maybe you learn a little about the plague, but overall this is a slow story without much excitement. Skip it.

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A little dry

Revisado: 02-16-19

Not particularly well written. It was a bit hard to stay focused on this book because there were never really any "grab your attention" moments. The soldier was incredibly lucky over and over, but the writing was not at all conducive to the listener being on the edge of his seat as the descriptions were fairly dry.

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