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Spaceman
- An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
- De: Mike Massimino
- Narrado por: Mike Massimino
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 4,196
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,896
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,889
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that's about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour? Or to look back on Earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble Space Telescope, wondering if the emergency repair you're about to make will inadvertently ruin humankind's chance to unlock the universe's secrets? Mike Massimino has been there, and in Spaceman he puts you inside the suit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Likable guy, great storyteller
- De Joy Woller en 10-09-16
- Spaceman
- An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
- De: Mike Massimino
- Narrado por: Mike Massimino
Warm, personable and often riveting!
Revisado: 04-04-21
Listening to this audio book was outstanding! Being read by the author himself gave it the best quality and detail. He was telling HIS story. You can hear it in his voice, almost hear his heartbeat. His experiences were fascinating and so detailed! I enjoyed every minute!
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U.S.S. Seawolf
- Arnold Morgan, Book 4
- De: Patrick Robinson
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 14 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 437
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 408
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 406
Armed with stolen US military technology, the Chinese are producing a frightening new breed of weaponry, led by the ICBM submarine Xia III - a vessel that just might be able to launch a nuclear warhead across the Pacific Ocean and take out an American West Coast city. National security adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan can't let that happen, and he dispatches the most stealthy hunter-killer submarine in the US fleet, the 9,000-ton ultrasecret Seawolf, deep into the dark, forbidden waters of the South China Sea.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Sexism/Racism/Bigotry No more Robinson for me
- De David en 08-25-20
- U.S.S. Seawolf
- Arnold Morgan, Book 4
- De: Patrick Robinson
- Narrado por: George Guidall
Riveting! The best in the series!
Revisado: 03-05-21
Was glued to my earbuds everywhere listening to this thriller! Driving, walking, shopping, dishes, whatever! Patrick Robinson had me hooked on this thriller. George Guidall is also outstanding. I hope he continues to be the reader for the series. Up next Shark Mutiny. Can’t wait.
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Special Ops
- Brotherhood of War, Book 9
- De: W. E. B. Griffin
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove
- Duración: 23 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 933
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 847
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 839
In November 1964, Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara went to the Congo with two hundred men, intent on making it his first step in taking over Africa and South America. He failed, thanks in large part to the efforts of an intrepid band of Green Berets. Licking his wounds, he retreated to Cuba to recruit more men and try the same thing in Bolivia. He failed there, too. In fact, he died there, and thus, despite his incompetence, became a glorious martyr to the cause. But who was trying to kill him, really - and who was trying to keep him alive?
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Congo & Che Guevara
- De Jean en 02-04-13
- Special Ops
- Brotherhood of War, Book 9
- De: W. E. B. Griffin
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove
The Brotherhood series ends with a whimper
Revisado: 01-13-21
I read The Lieutenants while in Army OCS. My classmates and I loved it. Over the next few years I devoured the rest of the series. Could not wait until the next one came out. I was in Army flight school when The Aviators came out and just loved all the local references. 30 years later, I signed up for Audible and listened to the whole series once again. Eric G. Dove does a pretty good job with his voices and accents. You can almost always tell who is speaking. In the early books he has trouble reading military time correctly - 1000 hours he says "one thousand hours" instead of "ten hundred hours", but actually gets better later on. He also doesn't know when to pronounce acronyms as words, versus spelling out each letter, which can be exhausting. Mr. Griffin also didn't do his research about the CH-47 Chinook. As a former Chinook mechanic I can tell you that a Chinook doesn't have a tail rotor! It has two rotor heads, identical in size, each with three blades. One goes clockwise, the other goes counter-clockwise. They are in-sync or meshed so they do not hit each other. We refer them as the forward rotorhead or system and the aft rotorhead or system. Never ever ever ever is the aft rotor system called a "tail rotor"! (Okay, rant over.) Now to Special Ops. First off, I haven't finished it. So much of it is a complete retelling of The Aviators, which I just finished, I thought maybe I had fat-fingered my iPhone and was repeating the last book. It's one thing to briefly catch up with past events, but these are word for word scenes from the previous book! I can't believe Mr. Griffin has done this! There are some changes however. In one scene he changed a perfectly good description of PAR approach to Cairns Army Airfield to an ILS approach, but the description is still a PAR approach! Okay, so that's down in the weeds for you non-aviators, but it bugged me. Anyway, I will probably continue to listen but based on all the reviews I'm seeing about the book on here and Amazon, I really wish I hadn't wasted my credits. The Aviators was a decent "last book" for this series, but Special Ops is a dud.
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The Berets
- Brotherhood of War, Book 5
- De: W. E. B. Griffin
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,289
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,159
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,154
They were the chosen ones - and the ones who chose to be the best. Never before had the United States given so select a group of fighting men such punishing preparation. Now they were heading for their ultimate test of skill and nerve and sacrifice, in a war unlike any they or their country had ever fought before, in a land that most of America still knew nothing about - Vietnam...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Griffin at his best
- De Jackie en 01-31-13
- The Berets
- Brotherhood of War, Book 5
- De: W. E. B. Griffin
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove
Great addition to the series!
Revisado: 12-19-20
Read this entire series as a young 2nd Lieutenant just out of OCS, but having been enlisted right out of high school first, I identify with multiple characters and situations, including learning to fly at Ft. Rucker, Alabama and flying both airplanes and helicopters in combat. I really enjoyed and being able to listen to someone else read it to me, it just great! Having said that, I wish someone would help Eric G. Dove with this pronunciations of military phrases, acronyms, and terms. For example, he likes to say T W X and read each letter, when in the Army, we (used to) say "Twix". WEB Griffen likes to print military orders on the pages of his books and for those of us who served, it's like reading shorthand. We already know what DA, RA, USAR, CO, TDY, RON, TRADOC, SWC, etc etc mean and in some cases, we don't spell out the acronym, we say it phonetically, like "Tradoc" instead of T R A D O C. Some we say, some we spell, so those are kind of forgivable but Mr. Dove rarely says military time correctly, even after five books. When he sees "1000 hours" he likes to say "One thousand hours", or "2000 hours" he says "Two thousand hours". Hasn't anyone told him how to say military time? "Ten hundred hours" or "Twenty hundred hours". Runways at airports are spoken as each digit, not a number. So runway 18 is spoken as "One Eight" not "eighteen". WEB Griffin himself makes a few mistakes here with a runway 45 and runway 39 (I think). Runway numbers are based on the 360 degrees of a compass and aligned accordingly. Runway 18 is a compass heading of 180 degrees. Runway 09 is 090 degrees. The opposite runway is 27 or 270 degrees. Makes it easy for pilots to ensure they are landing on the correct runway so there could never be a runway 45 or 39. These are my only complaints. Mr Dove is otherwise outstanding.
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The Lieutenants
- Brotherhood of War, Book 1
- De: W. E. B. Griffin
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,265
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,036
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,041
They were the young ones, the bright ones, the ones with the dreams. From the Nazi-prowled wastes of North Africa to the bloody corridors of Europe, they honorably answered the call. War - it was their duty, their job, their life. They marched off as boys and they came back - those who made it - as soldiers and professionals forged in the heat of battle....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not just a Novel about War
- De Rochelle in Montana en 08-03-12
- The Lieutenants
- Brotherhood of War, Book 1
- De: W. E. B. Griffin
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove
Outstanding series!
Revisado: 11-11-20
As a career Army officer and aviator, The Brotherhood of War was required reading for me and my buddies in OCS. Later, I would give a copy of The Lieutenants to newly commissioned officers as a gift. My only complaint is the mispronunciation of places and things by the reader. Also, he doesn’t know military acronyms and just spells them out rather than saying what they mean. TDY=temporary duty, for example. But otherwise he’s great!
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