Frank F. Sommers IV

A Great Package of Fact and Fiction

Revisado: 01-15-20

This is the best intro possible for those interested in the Napoleonic Wars at sea. Great narration adds to the pleasure. Adding Dr. Maturin as the clueless (about war at sea) physician allows O'Brian to give us textures missing from the other solid versions of this story by C.S. Forrester (Captain Hornblower) and Alexander Kent (Captain Bolitho), both of which are fun too.

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Worth a Detour

Revisado: 01-02-20

Old, but good up very well against the new guys, I'm Brian and Kent. Feels much cleaner and more true to the old reality of the hard service.

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Wordy, Wooden and Weak

Revisado: 08-17-19

Good idea, but way too long in development.
and Niven's names, Lord God, his names...!
(Difficult enough to read see e.g. Ringworld and it's progeny) but to listen to on tape-'shoot me before I kill again.'

not worth the time to hear, nor the powder to blow it to Hell. (and I'm a huge Niven fan. Read all the books multiple times, except this one. Gag me.)

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Wordy, wooden, weak and self indulgent

Revisado: 07-30-19

This shouldn't have gotten past the editor.
Way too long and sloppy. Atreides, the first volume, is now revealed as the beginning off a slide into mediocrity.

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A Brilliant Follow-on to Neuromancer

Revisado: 06-19-19

Great things about reading a Gibson years after it's written is to see just how much he was ahead of the curve as to various technological and social developments. The Internet, got it perfectly right . Cell phones? Totally missed it.
Courtney Liefje the reader, however, is his ability to talk about the technological backdrop of his work without preaching about it too much-it just is , like the beat up Sam crawlers in the first Star Wars movie . No explanation, just pay attention and get with it. Find away my favorite sci-fi writer of the last 30 years

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Great description of otherwise boring circumstance

Revisado: 06-16-19

As a lover of the A- M series, it pains me to pan this one.
Necessary to the narrative flow though it may be, in and of itself it's slow going.

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Nineteenth Century Hillside Ripper

Revisado: 06-12-19

About the French Revolution in its early phase. Escape from the revolutionary rabble. (Bernie Sanders families need not read.).

Read it long ago in my youth. Loved it. Listened to it this week in periods of insomnia. Less enchanted, but still listened to the end with great pleasure.

Baroness Orkzy writes from the woman's POV, to great effect on a current audience, both positive and negative. A little skewed by 19th C ideas about womanhood, but a great read for young girls and boys, esp if paired with Scaramouche, about the same period in history.

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not as good as I expected

Revisado: 05-22-19

repetitive and repetitive and....
fragments of other stories.
I've read this before in other collections.
and he reiterates himself within the short story format.
meh.
I love his work but...
meh.
ptui.
meh.
FOAD.

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Self Indulgent, Wordy, Wooden &Weak

Revisado: 03-16-19

stipends way to much time fleshing out things that we don't.need to hear about in this much detail. His prose isn't good enough to carry these efforts

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Why Has Jayston Changed Bolitho to Boleetho?

Revisado: 12-05-18

Insomniac listening to these night after night.

Formulaic but comforting in their similarity.
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Audible not listing in sequence, and skipping titles, drives me crazy. Ditto inability to read summary after download, to try to figure out sequencing.
O'Brien is better, but these are fun.

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