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The Mighty Eighth
- The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It
- De: Gerald Astor
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 23 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 368
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 335
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 333
Europe has fallen. Pearl Harbor is in flames. Enter: the Eighth. In 1941 the RAF fought a desperate battle of survival against the Luftwaffe over Britain. Then, from across the Atlantic, came a new generation of American pilots, gunners, and bombardiers, a new generation of flying machines called the B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-24 Liberator, the P-47 Thunderbolt, and the P-51 Mustang fighter.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Good Listen with 1 problem
- De Matthew Schuller en 08-23-19
- The Mighty Eighth
- The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It
- De: Gerald Astor
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
Great book, terrible narrator.
Revisado: 12-12-24
The book is fantastic, I read the hard copy a couple years ago and decided I wanted to listen to it as a drive. Unfortunately, the narrator has a very frustrating speech cadence where he'll say 2-5 words then pause. He does this over and over again as if he's reading the book from the little slips is paper in fortune cookies. This is the only book that I've purchased in Audible that I can't finish because of the narrator. It pains me to return such a fantastic book, but I can't listen to the incredibly awkward narration that ruins immersion and distracts from the material. Get the hardcopy, because it's a fantastic book.
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Making Supper Safe
- One Man's Quest to Learn the Truth about Food Safety
- De: Ben Hewitt
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 9
In Making Supper Safe, Ben Hewitt exposes the vulnerabilities inherent to the US food industry, where the majority of our processing facilities are inspected only once every seven years. It turns out that in our increasingly complicated food system, pathogenic bacteria are everywhere. Food recalls have become so ubiquitous we hardly even notice them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book
- De Ray en 04-25-15
- Making Supper Safe
- One Man's Quest to Learn the Truth about Food Safety
- De: Ben Hewitt
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
A food safety book that isn't about food safety.
Revisado: 07-24-23
I'm five chapters into this book and there has been nothing substantive about food safety. The fact it starts with a lesson in proper dumpster diving was the first red flag.
Chapters 1-5 let us know the author hates capitalism, opposes profit, and opposes corporations. We also get to enjoy an entire chapter that is a essentially an advertisement for an anticapitalist multimillionaire attorney who sues companies defending his poor victim clients and pockets the biggest slice of the settlement pie while each of his class action clients get a mere fraction of the settlement, the author believes this is the go-to authority for all things food safety. The author spends a chapter acting like a wealthy whole milk dairy owner is a kook pointing out the fact that he makes a good profit while having no issue with the lawyers wealth. The author constantly complains about ag producers in general without understanding why or ag industry operates the way that it does. From what I've heard so far this author has never actually spent any time in the agriculture or food production industry and has little to no knowledge of food safety practices in the either industry.
Essentially this book is all about capitalism bad, profit bad (ironically this author is not giving the book away for free), corporations bad (the author is selling the book through one of the largest corporations in the world), agricultural practices bad, no actual food safety practices discussed this far and no solutions to anything he complains about.
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Abaddon's Gate
- De: James S. A. Corey
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 18 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12,968
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11,816
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11,782
The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has built a massive gate that leads to a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artifact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core. As the emissaries of the human race try to find whether the gate is an opportunity or a threat, the greatest danger is the one they brought with them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The worst part is waiting for book 4
- De Greg en 09-16-13
- Abaddon's Gate
- De: James S. A. Corey
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
Loved it and Mays did a wonderful job!
Revisado: 12-27-15
What did you love best about Abaddon's Gate?
The story is fantastic and the narration was wonderful.
What other book might you compare Abaddon's Gate to and why?
It's like 2001+Firefly+a little Babylon 5 and some BSG thrown in for good measure.
Have you listened to any of Jefferson Mays’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Yes. He always does great!
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
None 'moved' me, but I enjoyed the storyline. While a bit of a side story I enjoy the Miller character... trying to answer this without giving any spoilers. :-/
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