Astroman

Sequel setup

Revisado: 04-02-25

Clearly incomplete so a setup for a sequel. Otherwise well done and worthwhile so I would still recommend.

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OK if you like politics, not good for the science

Revisado: 12-08-24

Had mostly politics and background and a lot about the Soviet spy ring during Manhattan. Not very much on the actual building of the hydrogen bombs. If you like spy stuff and political background, you will like this. If you want technical and scientific background, you should look elsewhere.

Basically a pale shadow of his original "The Making of the Atomic Bomb"

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Good, but not as good as I expected

Revisado: 11-20-23

Although it is overall a good book (novella) I have three issues with it:

1) Economic: It is good that I got it via Audible Plus because 3 hours of anything is not worth a full credit.

2) Overall content: It was good, easily 4 stars, but IMHO falls short of the awards it has gotten. I expected better based on the awards.

3) Narration, overall OK but not outstanding. The use of the wrong pronunciation and meaning (homographs) is becoming all too common with narrators these days and indicates that although they may be good actors/narrators otherwise, their educations (and that of their producers/editors) are somewhat lacking if they make these mistakes.

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Great if you like Politics/Finance otherwise not

Revisado: 07-07-23

Mostly about the politics and financial dealings related to building the railroads. If you are looking for physical details or technical details - look elsewhere. I gave up on this one.

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OK Story, Terrible Narration

Revisado: 04-21-23

Title Says It All, narrator is pretty bad, I could not stand it for more than an hour. Good thing it was part of the free catalogue

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Slow and jumps about

Revisado: 05-30-22

Too slow and jumps about in time, character development not great. I gave up and returned it. after a couple hours.

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Not Lucas, Not Virgil, Not all that great

Revisado: 04-26-22

I was interested when I heard the book was going to be about Lettie but I was soon disappointed. It is just not what I read JS for. I like the Midwest locations (having grown up there), this was (yuk) Texas. I like the humor (especially Virgil), this had little. I am not fond of politics (either side), this had lots. This book had almost nothing I listen to JS for.

Please do not think that this is about a female lead since that is untrue on steroids (but a typical knee-jerk reaction). I love characters like Honor Harrington and Jessica Blackwood and Sloan McPherson. In fact, I think that this book might have been better with a female narrator. Not great, mind you, that would not have made up for the other deficiencies.

I do see that JS will be returning to Lucas and Virgil for the next book. Please keep it that way!

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Book is OK, narrator is awful

Revisado: 01-24-22

I have been listening to Poyer's stuff for a long time but finally gave up on this book and will not be buying another. This is 90% due to the terrible narrator! It is hard to describe how awful he is but it will not take the listener more than 30 seconds of the sample to know what I mean.

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Gave up.

Revisado: 01-16-21

The first hour or so was all over the place with little coherency. I gave up.

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Great idea ruined by too much of a few things

Revisado: 09-12-20

The overall concept and broad plot are great but were ruined by several elements:

1) Too much detailed talk about specific sports - obviously those of interest to the author
2) Overdone southern accent and manner of the primary character
3) Too much political opinion - again obviously those of the author

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