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Liberals dream future

Revisado: 10-22-24

While an interesting story on the state of our world, the book is a liberal fantasy of a whole “one-world government” approach and love for communism to solve problems. It takes individual freedom and sacrifices that for an unrealistic fantasy, very unrealistic, that a government agency can save the world. It specifically idolizes China, Cuba, and other authoritarian regimes for their control of the people. It sanctions the agency killing, blowing up, destroying their enemy… that’s terrorism. Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea of the story, a potential for saving world… but sacrificing personal freedoms and making this plan seem like an ideal solution / world is not the way.

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Too Short but Great

Revisado: 06-09-24

Interesting tale of a soldier fighting his country’s wars. Another exemplary story from Max Brooks!

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Pointless, meandering story

Revisado: 03-11-24

First, the positive: the narrator was a great.

The story, unfortunately, was bad. It goes back and forth on how to use a ship. “This way; how about that way; maybe the other way.” In the end, they make a decision. Nine hours and that’s the story. I bought the second book during one of the BOGO sales.

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It’s been five years, where’s Book 2

Revisado: 09-14-22

The story and narration were good but it’s been five years (2017 to 2022) so where is Book 2? It would be nice to know the continuation of the story.

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Small range of word usage & Narrator = BLAH

Revisado: 05-25-20

I am updating my review (because the first review was done when I was only three chapters in and already realize the author needs a thesaurus).

I now hate the word “said”!!! I blame this on the repeated use by the author and from the way the narrator says it (“Sam saaaiidd, he saaaiidd...) I believe the narrator hates it, too. Come on, Michael Grant, try “Sam exclaims”, “Quinn stated” or “she screamed”... use some variety. The cliches are also thrown about abundantly, showing lack of imagination.

While on lack of something: The Narrator is mundane, kind of boring and makes odd attempts at voices. Some characters sound just like each other, which is confusing because this occurs with male and female characters. The Hispanic character sounds like he is from New Jersey. The characters are all less than 15 years old but some sound like heavy smokers in their late 60's.

Interesting story that sort of reminds me of Stephen King's "Under the Dome" minus adults meets "The Lord of the Flies" set in California.

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Surprise Twist and Enjoyable

Revisado: 03-22-20

Really interesting story, performance and narration. The story is fast-paced and unique. Great ending!

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Luck and Inconsistencies

Revisado: 03-02-20

It’s an interesting story with a lot of luck for the characters but the story has some minor inconsistencies. For example, when discussing “a thousand acres of land” the further breakdown of that land is almost equal to three times that amount.

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Good Story and Concept; Narrator mispronouncing

Revisado: 02-18-20

I really like the story, especially the first contact and resulting actions.

My only complaint is the constant mispronounced words by the narrator. The worst is "corpsman" or "corpsmen". It should be pronounced similar to Marine Corps (sounds like "core"). The narrator pronounced it as "corpse" (corpse-man or corpse-men). A corpsman is a medic; a corpse is a dead person. I cringed EVERY TIME he said the word. There are others but this particular one was repeated often. To his credit, he did a great job distinguishing the character voices.

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Great series

Revisado: 01-08-20

Though the author advises reading the prequel series first, this new series can stand alone. Reading the prequel series does provide a lot AF clarification to understanding the three main characters and the world they live in. It is a great story and each book leaves off at a cliffhanger, making you want to pick up the next book ASAP.

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Classic and worthwhile

Revisado: 02-05-19

I have read and listened to this book several times. The story is intriguing, well-written and Patton does a great narration. It is worth the credit and the time.

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