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Played it Twice!

Revisado: 06-10-24

I bought this book along with three others to listen to on a trip between southern Oklahoma and Hollywood California. I abandoned one of my books to play this one a second time. I read Dune in 1980 while a sophomore in high school and even then I thought it was very unusual in the way it was written and the kind of content it embraced. This book shed even more light on the groundbreaking book that was Dune. It's hard for us to imagine when this kind of science fiction didn't exist at all. The dessert world with giant sandworms, the valuable spice that brought people to this hostile environment, and the power struggles were all completely new. This book reminded me of all the things about this series, and the movies, both made and unmade, that will now be with us forever. If you're a fan of Dune, you'll be a fan of this book

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The Planets Indeed

Revisado: 05-22-24

If you are fascinated by our solar system and its exploration, this is the book for you. It covers each and every probe mission ever sent out to explore our solar system. A better collection of facts and speculation on the history of our solar system has not yet been written.

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Skip this sequel

Revisado: 05-22-24

I'm a big fan of When Worlds Collide, and I was always curious about how the people of Earth that made it to a new world would set up a new society and start repopulating our species. That's not the book the authors wrote. I didn't find it exciting, or believable. Certainly, no new proposals for creating a better society the second time around. Shallow.

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One of the best in the series

Revisado: 05-22-24

I've read all the Virgil Flowers novels, and this is one of the two best, the other being Mad River. John Sanford has done it again.

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Outstanding

Revisado: 05-22-24

This account of one of our greatest achievements read better than any fiction. How scary it must have been to be the first people to leave the Earth a quarter of a million miles behind them and trust that engines would fire and the aim was true so they could make it back home alive. I left this book appreciating these men and their accomplishments a lot more than I did before listening.

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Not Funny Joke Book

Revisado: 05-22-24

Really people, don't waste your time or money on this one. The jokes are not funny and the reader is awful. Hearing a bad joke once was bad enough but several of these not funny jokes were repeated over and over.

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Down to Earth

Revisado: 05-22-24

This book walked through the writing, then the making of this movie in such a way I felt like I was standing on the sidewalks of New York City watching the film crew at work. These were people making movies, and not the high and mighty described in some books about the great directors and the larger than life stars. Real people chasing a dream, and unsure at times if they pulled it off or missed the boat altogether. I've seen other books in the Audibles library written by Glen Frankel and I plan to listen to them as well.

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Even included Cinerama

Revisado: 01-30-23

The author got it right. So many times I get books about the movie business where dates are wrong or details are wrong. Everything in this book was spot on. This book covered the widescreen era of the 1950's and 1960's, which most film history books ignore. If you're interested in the business end of Hollywood, especially in distribution, you'll love this one

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Suprised me!

Revisado: 04-05-22

Started out interesting and just got better as it went. For a short story this one really packed a punch

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fascinating

Revisado: 04-27-21

Loved it. Held my attention from beginning to end. After listening I went out and bought a collection of Audry's movies on DVD so I could watch the ones I've missed

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