Anthony DiSario

A great read! A clear voice! A course in Logic as it applies to race relations in America.

Revisado: 03-02-24

Really easy to understand, Highly logical. Makes sense. A framing of past and present racism and neo-racism that closes the gap on a future for all. A must read!!

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Ugh! It could have been great!

Revisado: 12-06-22

I don’t know what happened. First I was reading an amazing mystery book with a sci-fi theme. Then I was reading a ridiculous book with so many plot holes and impossibly believable decisions that it was a struggle to continue. If not for Ray Porter I never would have made it.

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It was a great book until the dead guy in the wall and then the book seemed to go off the rails. It actually felt like Clines wrote the first part of the book and then a few years later wrote the second part and they just didn’t fit together. Just too silly to suspend my disbelief and could only give it 3 stars - all three for the first 3/5 of the book and zero for the last 2/5.

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Ugh. Hate to hate on JR, but this is trash...

Revisado: 03-01-22

First, I am a Jeremy Robinson follower and have read many, many of his books and listened to RC Bray read most of them. And, there is no doubt that RC Bray can carry almost any book. Even RC Bray could not have carried this one. It's just bad. It is written at about a 4th grade level and seems to be directed at 13 year old boys because the bathroom humor is literally non-stop. Lazy writing, zero character development, completely impossible to suspend disbelief. This is one that should probably be skipped.

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Meh... maybe for a ten year old.

Revisado: 01-18-22

Typically there are two reasons why I don't like a book. If the book is poorly written it is a struggle to get through and finishing the book becomes more of an exercise in, "I can do it!" rather than a joyful experience. By poorly written, I mean unvarying sentence structure, lack of description and poorly detailed descriptions. In this case, it isn't that the writing is poorly done - obviously Patterson is no rookie! But with Patterson, sometimes we get obviously rushed attempts to publish a book. This is one of those cases. Reading The Shadow reminds me of the picture book in the movie, Elf that is missing its last few pages! At only 7 1/2 hours, Patterson's plot line is barely understandable and incredibly immature. I kept waiting for the, "...but it was all just a dream..." ending typical of the budding fourth grade writer. Instead of actually writing, Patterson just invents new superpowers out of the blue for the characters when conflicts arise. As hard as I tried, I just could not suspend my disbelief and that made reading this book a chore!

Side note: There are two narrators for this book. They switch off chapters. This is a great strategy in a book like Red Rising. In this book, however, the perspective doesn't change. So, some chapters are narrated by a male narrator and some by a female narrator and while many of the chapters sorta align with the characters, many chapters did not and came off as clumsy. This was the first experience with multiple narrators for me that just didn't make sense a lot of the time.

Patterson has written some absolutely amazing books, but this book is better left unread in a dark corner somewhere.

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The Perfect Book... for a love struck 10-12 y/o.

Revisado: 05-26-21

How many of the same teenage love scenes can be repeatedly pressed into one book? Nope. Your answer will be too low. This is the kind of book that forces the reader to really push through to be able to complete it. This book, and series, represent the worst of time travel novels.

Bill and Ted are laughing at this book.

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The Perfect Book... for a love struck 10-12 y/o.

Revisado: 05-26-21

This was the perfect book... for a love struck 10-12 year old child. This was the kind of book and series that you have to really push yourself to finish so that, at the end, you really know how badly a book can actually be written. Time travel novels are always hard to write because of the paradigms that always embed themselves in the plot. This book, however, and the entire series represent the absolute worst of time travel opportunities. I am proud of myself for finishing this series. If the ridiculous story, repetitive love scenes, and hundreds of pages of inconsistencies are any indication, It was much harder to listen to than it was to write.

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Great story! Poor execution...

Revisado: 03-08-21

I loved the story line. And the author did try to address paradigmatic problems associated with all time travel books. But the dialogue and prose were too sophomoric to believe and “buy into” for anyone who has outgrown Manga-level voice overs, which is what the very unreal dialogue sounded like. The ending? Ugh.

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Was hoping it would be great...

Revisado: 10-21-20

Darn! This book has an awesome premise. It attempts to do what few other works in the genre attempt: A visit with Jesus. Sadly, the book reads like those old bible cartoons. Soooo immature and unrealistic. Soooo many plot holes and paradigm issues. Luckily RC Bray narrates it, as that is this books only "saving grace."

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Absolutely Amazing!

Revisado: 09-16-20

Incredible author's voice that allows a reader to literally (almost) be there with the characters. The narration is amazing - especially Phoebe Strole's perfectly timed delivery! And then the writing! Reallllly happy someone convinced me that this book was wayyyyy better than the movie and that I should give it a try. They were right!

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Great idea... just not well executed.

Revisado: 08-28-20

The premise of this book is very cool. The authentic military experience is well-written. But we get it, author. The soldiers want women. If I had a dime for every time the author repeats that the soldiers are in need of female company, I would have made as much money as the author did for writing this book. I wonder if the author was in need of female company while he was writing this book! Unfortunately, the plot almost entirely focuses on the soldier's need for women, a little on the day-to-day building and other than man-vs-nature, there isn't much else to this book. Gary Paulsen's Transall Saga does it better.

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