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SOS

Revisado: 12-30-24

been done and done better many times. Dont like the study shocking dogs to get another useless academic paper published

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courage of the soldiers and stupidity of senior officers

Revisado: 09-16-24

i hadn’t heard or read about this battle before. it is as good and important a story as We were young and soldiers once

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Good story, badly written and narrated

Revisado: 09-27-23

There is a good story but this book doesn't do it justice. Boring writing, poorly paced. The narrator is awful. I tried to persevere until the author wrote that the US used Apache helicopters in Vietnam. Those came out long after the Vietnam War. If he got that wrong what else is incorrect and unreliable?

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Rambling, Preachy, Vague

Revisado: 01-15-20

I bought this book after I read an opinion piece the author did in the WSJ. His point there was that the leftists lost the battle to impose a socialist government in the USA (I'm not sure they've lost it yet) so now they are trying to impose 'cultural marxism'. I agree with that argument, that the MSM, Democrat party, mainline churches, and the universities are trying to undermine Western traditions and morality - hence the idiocy of transgender rights, wind energy, hating the American flag, etc.
Alas, his book meanders on an on about disconnected topics - how lobsters and wrens fight for dominance, how the Old Testament is a great font of wisdom for modern life, how you should sacrifice yourself like Jesus and Socrates did, etc.

And the narrator's (Dr. Peterson) voice is annoying. I made it through five chapters and gave up.

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Very disappointing - drags and is anti-Trump krap

Revisado: 03-15-19

I've read most of Winslow's books. Power of the Dog was very good, I've read it two or three times. Cartel was step down - the ending was not believable at all. I didn't like at all the way Winslow tried to make the Eddie Ruiz character (based on real life thug called Barbie) like some hip cool dude who just happened to be a cartel assassin. Or the Chuy character, a psycho that Keller literally adopts and takes into his home. This latest installment is boring - lots of characters you can't remember on the Mexican side, Keller now the head of DEA - laughable given his anti-suit history, and BTW since when does a senator appoint the head of a government agency? and the anti-Trump b.s. gets old fast. Winslow would have us believe that the Trumps are in bed with the cartels.
And Ray Porter can be a good narrator but sometimes he is overwrought, especially doing Mexicans.

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Inspiring, Thrilling, Maddening

Revisado: 08-28-18

This is as good a book about combat and special forces as I've ever read. The Rhodesian SAS could got toe to toe with the SEALS, British SAS, Delta, Speznatz. They are maybe more admirable considering how little equipment and resources they had to work with. They were surrounded by hostile countries that played host to communist supplied, trained and in some cases advised on the ground. Worse, they were sold out by the Western powers including the UK and USA, who embargoed the country.
There's enough history of the country and the conflict to show the context of the struggle. If Israel had pulled off any of the exploits of the SAS there would be blockbuster movies about them. They planned and executed dramatic raids into enemy territory, outnumbered 10 to 1 and prevailed. I mean like 200 men fighting and beating 2,000 terrorists.
The maddening part is that the Western powers looked the other way when whole families of white farmers and white missionaries were butchered. When the terrorists shot down a passenger liner then raped and murdered the survivors the politicians in Washington and London looked the other way. But when the Rhodesians fought back, they were called racists and colonialists.
The courage of these men should inspire anyone who is not blinded by political correctness.

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Dynamic Duo - Olsen and Pierce!

Revisado: 05-21-18

Jack Olsen is my favorite true crime author and one of my favorites in any genre. He writes like a great novelist, and gets into the characters' heads. In this book his depictions of the two killers are both hilarious and horrifying. Think of any fictional character and none can beat Cindy Ray and his dimwitted, pompous fool of a boyfriend David West. They're like characters out of Fargo at its best, or Elmore Leonard criminals. Cindy is a master manipulator, like Lady Macbeth, and seems to have multiple personalities, but this may be part of her act to manipulate. There are several other colorful characters, such as David West's Blanche DuBois mother, and Kim Paris, the beautiful operative for an investigator who finally broke the case.

Kevin Pierce is a great narrator. His dry, restrained style is perfect for the content. Some narrators get too hammy, or try to mimic accents with poor results. Not Pierce.

I've listened to several of Olsen's books narrated by Pierce and this is my favorite.

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Bad Imitation of Stephen King

Revisado: 01-29-18

What would have made 14 better?

Make the characters believable. Protagonist 'Nate" is 32 y/o college grad working dead end for close to minimum wage, lives in strange apartment building with other mostly 30 something losers. Interminable conversations about children's cartoon Scooby Too - thy even think of themselves as characters from same. They have no dating or personal lives excerpt to act like children from a King novel or Spielberg film - the Goonies comes to mind. Lots of chapters devoted to Nate drinking beer with grizzled old Marine type on the roof. Nate must be a virgin - he feels awkward to see his hot neighbor's bare breasts.

What was most disappointing about Peter Clines’s story?

All the 5 star reviews led me to believe this would be a well written thriller or horror novel, like something King or Dean Koontz would write.

Which character – as performed by Ray Porter – was your favorite?

No one. They are all cardboard.

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Ray Porter's reading. He could read from a phone book and do good job.

Any additional comments?

How does a stinker like this get all the 5 star reviews? Is someone gaming the system?

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Overwrought and Over-Cynical

Revisado: 06-26-17

What did you like best about The Force? What did you like least?

Lots of action, fast paced, fairly well plotted.

What was most disappointing about Don Winslow’s story?

Overly cynical. Not one decent character. Main character is dirty cop who, with his fellow thug cops, rips off and even murders drug dealers, does drug deals with Mafia, is bag man for city hall, and everyone from the mayor to the feds are corrupt.

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

Narrator is skilled with different voices, and does good job with Winslow's frenetic writing style. It took a while to get accustomed to African-American narrating story about Irish-American NYC cop.

Any additional comments?

This story has been done before and better. Prince of the City, The Shield, Serpico, a movie with Richard Gene as the crooked cop (can't remember title).

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Disappointing & Disturbing

Revisado: 11-13-15

Would you try another book from Robert Galbraith and/or Robert Glenister?

Not sure. I enjoyed the first two in this series and looked forward to a new installment of Cormarant Strike. But I couldn't finish the first chapter, told from POV of a serial killer who tortures and dismembers young women, and he's stalking the hero's girl Friday Robin. It appears to be a cynical attempt to cash in on the serial killer craze, which I avoid like the plague.

Would you ever listen to anything by Robert Galbraith again?

See above.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

He didn't, it's the material.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Career of Evil?

The whole book.

Any additional comments?

I want my money back!

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