Geoff in NY

A college thesis gone bad

Revisado: 05-25-22

I hope at least they got a good grade. They will have if the grade was based on how boring they could manage to make the subject sound.

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Boomer Review

Revisado: 05-19-20

No problem with Charles Lockwood's book I also have his much more comprehensive tome covering all the submarine activity of the United States in the Pacific. Narrator is obviously way too young (And whoever proof-listened, presuming they do that) to have spent their rainy Saturdays watching John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, and Cary Grant win the war for us. Let alone watching documentaries like the Victory at Sea Series on Channel 11. But come on guys! What about YouTube? They mostly get it right on there. Many easy words were butchered, Halsey, Tarawa , and you don't want to know how he handled Leyte and the chain of island that contains the island of Saipan are the Marianas, not the Marinaras (Seriously?) I wouldn't kvetch if I didn't think I could do a better job myself. I guess I should look into that.

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An exercise in the author's self-aggrandisement

Revisado: 08-26-19

This book did not tell me anything that I even wanted to know about Woodstock '94. The book pretty much exists as the author's excuse to name drop on the basis of a rather tenuous connection to the event. My connection? Also rather tenuous, I served as an EMT for the community surrounding the event during the entire duration of the event and before at the site during the preparation. I did see what was required for the community to hold Micheal Lang's feet to the fire to properly organize and execute everything necessary to hold the only Woodstock that wasn't effectively a manufactured natural disaster. Woodstock '94 wasn't perfect; but it was way better than the 30th, and the 50th anniversary concert. There's at least one proper book waiting to be written on that subject.

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A great first hand account of PT boat action

Revisado: 02-12-18

If you could sum up PT 105 in three words, what would they be?

Exciting Naval story

What did you like best about this story?

The author had a great experience with the PT boat's story from the beginning, and then was stationed throughout the war in key campaigns.

Which scene was your favorite?

Hard to say , from the trials and tribulations of training, to the battle accounts, they are all very good and the book flows almost as effortlessly and with as much excitement, as the its namesake boat in the title.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

The author generated empathy in me as he told of a number of quite humorous incidents and with honesty and candor in the light it showed him.in and how the loss of friends affected him

Any additional comments?

The narration was one of the best I have ever heard in an Audio book You will think you're listening to the author extemporaneously spinning tales of his time in the war.

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very stupid book

Revisado: 11-07-16

Would you try another book from Donald N. Panther-Yates and/or David Coatney?

no

Would you ever listen to anything by Donald N. Panther-Yates again?

no

Any additional comments?

I guess I should have returned this book immediately. I lived for a time near Los Lunas, and I knew that the first European settlement from Spain, coincided with the Spanish Inquisition. That might have led to possible emigration of Jews to New Mexico at a very early date. The 8th century? Please! I have just 2 words: Small and Pox.So what did happen to the indigenous populations in the years following 1492 would have happened in the 8th century! Enough said.

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Riviting I couldn't turn it off!

Revisado: 07-28-16

A worthy companion to the Stig Larsson genre I have to add words to submit this review but I don't want to spoil the story for anyone.

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A lot of answers to stories of my youth

Revisado: 07-28-16

I grew up in the town next to Woodstock a few years after a lot of the story took place. (I was 11 in 1969) The whole scene was the underlying pulse of my youth. We knew the personalities, and some of the stories, This narrative provides an excellent disquisition of the spiderweb that was the Woodstock scene possibly best told by someone outside of the world. The only minus was the pronunciation, of several locations.Notably Ohayo Mountain Road is not pronounced like the state between Pennsylvania and Indiana.

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Too lightly covered

Revisado: 10-14-12

Wrong format for the topic. Nothing covered in any form of adequate depth, In other words not worth the nickel

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My Best listen in a while

Revisado: 05-11-12

I'm a car nut and a compulsive reader, growing up I jad subscriptions to Hot Rod, Motor Trend, Road & Track, Car and Driver and Motorcyclist fo good measure. I owned 2 '67 Goats. a '69 Mach 1, various Volkswagens, even a Corvair, although, mine had a 300hp '70
Camaro engine sitting where the back seat once resided. Even though I usually think I know this subject thoroughly, I learned a lot from this book. Well written with surpisingly few technical mistakes (and I might be wrong about those, who knows it might be possible)
He provideds in depth knowledge and analysis of the motivations for the vehcles and their legacies on our world I cannot recommend this book enough to any person wh has an interest in this subject, and maybe a little grease under their fingernails

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Excellent and exciting account of the subject

Revisado: 10-20-11

My only kvetch Perry didn't wait for high tide to float his boats over the bar (There are no tides on the Great Lakes) other than that, an excitng and compelling account on an often overlooked part of American history

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