Steven Alpert

Interesting, but not insightful.

Revisado: 04-02-25

I listened to the whole thing in one night, but I was waiting to hear some things that I didn't already know, and there was not much of that.
I think they gave Biden the worst accounting of all the players.
Overall, it was just a detailed retelling of the events of the 2024 campaign, and there was little about how the election night unfolded inside the two camps.
Nice narration.

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R.C Bray, on the bounce.

Revisado: 10-02-24

The old classic now has the reading it deserves. But we knew that before we even heard it.

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Top Notch WWII Commando Story

Revisado: 09-03-23

I already knew quite a lot about this story, having years ago played the old Avalon Hill Solitaire Wargame "Raid on St. Nazaire". Like this book, that wargame was also at the squad level, and individually represented most of the actual men that took part in it, their assigned targets such as the Pump House, the Old Mole and the Winding Houses, as well as the approach of the Campbeltown and motor boats under enemy fire.
So it was a pleasure for me to listen to this, as I eagerly heard this detailed retelling of the individual heroics of these very real and heroic men. I thought the narrator's performance was just perfect, with his Patrician British accent and his lively, interested reading. He reads it almost as from memory, as though he had been a member of the team. Stiff upper lip, chaps!

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I Think, Therefore I Can Not Recommend

Revisado: 03-13-21

A good story, ruined by First Person, Present Tense.
*Now I do this. *I think this. *Now I stand up. *I watch him do that. *I feel this. *Suddenly, this happens.
This is a painful approach for readers or listeners, and is become all too common in current literature.
*I stop listening. *I feel that I could have spent this credit better.

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Why are so many new romcom novels in First-Person?

Revisado: 03-04-21

Perhaps because it requires the least effort for a writer?
This was a good idea for a story, but first-person narration may read more like a comic book than a novel, unless written skillfully. The first-person style in this rendition is amateurish, and quickly became wearisome. I think I'll listen to A Room With a View, to wash away the sounds of this one.

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Better than the movie with Errol Flynn

Revisado: 12-02-20

Very enjoyable. Loved the reader's impression of Captain Blood, with his cool wit and irish accent. Great stuff.

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Very weak, all fluff

Revisado: 11-17-20

The dialogue is all flirting. I'd compare it to eating a bowl of sugar.
Performers did what they could.

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As good as the movie, but with access to her mind.

Revisado: 11-12-20

Don't be put off by poor reviews on the narrator. Amy Landon has a sexy voice that most men should enjoy, and her rendition holds her own against a near perfect Netflix adaptation. The story is of course a big winner, so much so that it's too bad that Beth Harmon is a fictional character.

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Holds you fast, right from the start

Revisado: 08-23-20

Sailed right through this! Lots of other audiobooks haven't held my interest, but not this one.
Glad to have found it, and there's lots more stories available with which to follow this character's development from troublemaker to midshipman to whatever rank and fortune will come.
And this boasts one of my very favorite narrators, as I remember him from the great Noble House series. This story needed a really pleasant, masculine voice to tell it, and John Lee is perfect for it.

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Everything I hoped for

Revisado: 07-22-16

Great audio! I thought they got it about perfect, and it was certainly a challenging task to bring this about. Great fun to listen to, it wipes clean the stain that the movie left on this fascinating story.

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