Steven S Payson

Great listen

Revisado: 01-09-25

I enjoyed Peggy Noonan‘s articles, they were thoughtful and articulate. The narrator did a terrific job.

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Great Audio Book

Revisado: 10-15-24

I could listen to Will Patton read a menu, he is outstanding. The story is very engaging, I learned a lot. Larson is a master story teller.

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Interesting memoir

Revisado: 04-08-24

I enjoyed listening to the author story. He tries to get a little too poetic times, but I could live with that. The space mission was absolutely fantastic.

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Lots of folk love this book. Not me

Revisado: 03-07-24

Overly long and repetitive, few characters had any redeeming qualities. The narrator did a poor job reading female dialogue.

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Good book with a great narrator

Revisado: 10-31-23

Very informative. I like biographies that do not turn into hagiography, this book looks at Romney's good and bad points. Downside for me was too much about Trump.

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Fascinating, with great narration

Revisado: 10-24-23

5 stars for me, but I'm a space nerd. For the average reader 4-4.5 stars.

Very well written, and the Audible book has a great narrator. Part biography, part inside baseball, part tragedy. With a lot of biographies I feel bad that I'm not as good as the subject, but these women are inspiring and the author doesn't go overboard with her praise. The stories about each of their first spaceflights were great. The ending chapters that discuss the Challenger disaster are sobering, insightful, and unique. The narrator really conveyed emotion, and there was a palpable sense of doom reading the lead up to the launch.

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Shouldn't even be a journal article

Revisado: 03-16-23

This could have been a journal article, albeit a not particularly good one. The book promises that "Kello develops a bold new solution: a concentrated and coordinated retaliation strategy to deter further antagonism." Nope. Lot of history on failures to respond adequately to cyber attacks. The audiobook was terrible; perhaps reading the written word would have been better, but not by much. This might be interesting to an academic, but I was disappointed.

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Another good Ron Chernow biography

Revisado: 05-26-22

Extremely detailed, as all Chernow biographies are. Grant is an interesting character, and there's much more to him than a famous Civil War general with a (deserved) reputation for drinking. Chernow engages in some hero worship, forgiving many of Grant's failures with some version of "it wasn't his fault" or "but he was a man of great character." His biggest failure appears to be being a terrible judge of character. He got suckered by a lot of people, and betrayed by people he thought were his friends. I was appalled by the Ponzi scheme he fell for late in his life, which is why he had to write his memoirs to support his family after he was diagnosed with throat cancer. (Mark Twain published those memoirs.)

I like Chernow's biographies, and if you are interested in the Civil War, Reconstruction, or American politics in the mid to late 1800s I recommend you read Grant.

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Beautiful history

Revisado: 02-08-22

I listened to this audio book and was totally enthralled. Brilliant delivery by Don Leslie, but I'm sure the written work would be just as good. I loved the intertwined stories, primarily of Kit Carson and the Navajo people, but also the Mexican American War, John Fremont's discovery journeys, and so many other characters rendered in compelling prose. A beautiful history that comes alive.

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Fun book

Revisado: 09-24-21

Good plot, liked the various POVs, well written. The Audible version was terrific, really liked the narration.

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