Jillian St Andre

Good start, inadequate ending.

Revisado: 06-22-22

Only four characters. Only two of them have growth. A lot of unfulfilled potential.

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Final Entry Falls Flat

Revisado: 05-29-22

This ultimate chapter of the Kade Saga starts strong but then fizzles into bland sentimentality. A disappointment. It's also a little sad that the author and editor don't know the difference between regretful, meaning full of regret, and regrettable, meaning something one ought to regret. For example, I regretfully report that it's regrettable that this is how the saga ends.

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is Museum Audiobooks cast a couple of robots?

Revisado: 04-26-22

it's really wonderful that this audiobook exists to make important anarchist writings accessible, but the performance was, at times, rather grating

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Respectful Account of Tillman's Life and Death

Revisado: 04-18-22

You've heard about the football player who gave up a promising career to join the Army Rangers, but you might have forgotten that he died in a friendly fire incident and then the government covered it up and treated his family shamefully in the aftermath. If you have any interest in biographies, military history, or the misdeeds of the US government, this is a book you shouldn't miss. The author, Jon Krakauer, soberly tells us everything we might want to know about Tillman's life and death, saving his personal perspective on the political and philosophical implications for the last few pages. Scott Brick's performance strikes just the right tone.

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A man tells a sad true story to his friends.

Revisado: 03-15-22

This story is not very long and contains few surprises, maybe none if you're especially quick to pick up on hints, but it's wistful and tragic and very romantic and if you're in the mood for that kind of thing then it's just right.

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Profoundly Unsatisfying Ending

Revisado: 02-27-22

Here's a story about a love affair. It goes nowhere, and it tells you nothing about the human condition. Books like this one leave me amazed at the sheer quantity of boring literature in the world.

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Watch the miniseries instead.

Revisado: 02-15-22

It's an engaging story, if you like the sort of thing. It gets sentimental and philosophical enough. Has engaging characters, a good ending. A good amount of tension, especially towards the end. Sufficient conflict. Could even be seen as somewhat of an allegory about British colonialism, if you're willing to really reach for it. Also good for familiarizing the young with how different things used to be for women, even only a century ago.

Weaknesses: There's completely gratuitous use of the n word a few times. Sometimes literature contains offensive words or phrases and it would be naïve to expect otherwise, but in this case there's no reason for it, it's coarse and vulgar and adds nothing to the exploration of the themes. Secondly, the performance is, I'm sorry, just the worst. It's terrible. I'm not convinced a real person performed this, I think it might have been a computer. And the attempt at a French accent for one character is unforgivably bad. An inexcusable travesty beyond the worst you could imagine. As if the technician programming the computer voice had never heard a French accent in their life.

If you want to experience this family saga full of wealth and passion and clashing ideas and personalities and really enjoy it, here's what you should do -- find the Masterpiece Theatre production and watch that instead of listening to this. Trust me. That's the way to go.

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You want it darker.

Revisado: 01-29-22

With this book, Spiner has given all his adult fans and any random afficianados of either Hollywood memoirs or gothic romance a charming present. There's sex, there's violence, there's cheeky irreverent humor. Like any worthwhile writer, he weaves philosophical observations throughout the blended fantasy and realism of the story. In the audio performance, LeVar Burton and Patrick Stewart hilariously lampoon themselves. Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFadden and Michael Dorn also voice their charicatured alter-egos in -- sadly -- not quite so spectacular a fashion. The story, which is dark, certainly could have gone even darker -- this is no Twin Peaks or Naked Lunch, and doesn't bring the full tilt paranoia you might expect from Philip K Dick, for example. Nevertheless, it's a satisfying work of art, an homage to both Star Trek and film noir. Any negative or even especially ambivalent reviews you might encounter are doubtless from critics who are ... not truly fans, and therefore cannot understand the work and all that it has to say.

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Utah, with its pioneer spirit.

Revisado: 01-26-22

The Kade Family Saga can scratch a certain kind of itch, but if you're looking for sex or surprises, this ain't the place. Book 4 is both wholesome LDS agitprop and a postmodern Western, likely to satisfy conservative grandmothers and feminist twelve year olds but to leave everyone else a little bored. Can earnest and plainspoken ranch hand Ethan convince his feisty and skeptical cousin Jessica to join the church? Will they and their friends survive the perils of the Old West, such as rattlesnakes and ornery cattle-rustlers? This generally inoffensive fourth installment in the series answers those questions and not much more.

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if you like that sort of thing

Revisado: 01-16-22

Just as in the second installment of the Kade Family Saga, this book focuses on Elisabeth and James, Lydia's two children from her first marriage, before she joined the Mormons. James, having adopted his mother's and stepfather's religion, shows great resilience and fortitude, and he ultimately prospers. Elisabeth, stubborn and prideful, has allowed her heart to harden against Lydia, Christian, and the church. In contrast to James, she finds herself growing bitter and lonely, trapped in an unhappy marriage and dissatisfied with mere worldly comforts. This series is LDS propaganda and some people won't like its overt moralism or predictable plotlines. Having said that, I think this third volume was the strongest yet in the series and I have every intention of listening to book four after some non-fiction for a palate cleanser.

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