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Redemption
- Ryan Drake, Book 1
- De: Will Jordan
- Narrado por: Sam Devereaux
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 828
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 751
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 750
Ryan Drake is a man who finds people who don't want to be found. Once a British soldier, he now works for the CIA, leading an elite investigation team that tracks down missing agents. But his latest mission - to free a prisoner, code-named Maras, and bring her back onto US soil within 48 hours - is more dangerous than anything his team has attempted before. Hunted by his former comrades, Drake is left with no choice but to trust a dangerous woman he barely knows.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great female protagonist
- De grael23 en 07-17-20
- Redemption
- Ryan Drake, Book 1
- De: Will Jordan
- Narrado por: Sam Devereaux
Writer Wields Thesaurus and Smites You With Words
Revisado: 08-14-20
This novel lives in the James Bond genre, with a dash of paramilitary soldier thrown in. It appears to do this poorly. I say appears because this book is filled with obsequious manuscriptation that is laboriously difficile to envision.
In other words, the author uses words like a gorilla wields a baby.
With the flowery prose scraped away one is left with an unbelievable plot about CIA intrigue and the lone actions of one man. The basics of the story are absurd even in a genre filled with the absurd. The characters are, for the most part, totally unlikable. The only shining point of this audiobook is Sam Devereaux' reading, which is excellent. Other than that, I would not recommend this book.
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Economics: Making sense of the Modern Economy
- The Economist
- De: Saguao Datta - editor
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 110
A radically revised new edition of this highly readable, popular guide aimed at everyone from students to statesmen who want to make sense of the modern economy and grasp how economic theory works in practice. It starts with the basics, and from the underlying theory it moves to the specifics of the world economy, including an analysis of the recent recession. The closing part puts the usefulness and the failings of economics under the spotlight, and looks at the innovative approaches being developed to address these failings.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A smorgasbord of old Economist articles.
- De Mark York en 07-21-14
- Economics: Making sense of the Modern Economy
- The Economist
- De: Saguao Datta - editor
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
A smorgasbord of old Economist articles.
Revisado: 07-21-14
What disappointed you about Economics: Making sense of the Modern Economy?
This is a collection of articles that had originally appeared on the pages of The Economist (a British financial magazine). The chapters in the book are edited versions of those articles and they do not blend well together. Yes, it's one of those make-a-book-out-of-a-magazine's-back-catalog efforts. In this case, the back catalog is at least 5 years old and woefully out of date.
Economic theories tend to go bad after a few years, and so to the theories put forward in this tome. On the plus side, the actual writing is structurally excellent.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
The one saving grace about this audiobook is David Thorpe. There are times that I want to listen to a book not for it's content, but as background noise while I work. Mr. Thorpe is excellent in that role. He takes what is dry and boring in this book and reads it in almost a musical manor. Whether that is sufficient weight to overcome the book's shortcomings is debatable.
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