R. J. Lopez

Such a sad and accurate story

Revisado: 02-16-25

Firstly, Ray Parker has got to be the best narrator there is for any type of history or military novel. When I see that he’s narrating something I basically go ahead and buy it because I know it’s going to be good and he makes it so interesting and immersive! The authors did a fantastic job in researching and writing this book. And of course Jack Carr is one of my favorite authors! I highly recommend anyone who’s interested in what happened to us in Beirut in 1983 to read this book. And, as it has been said over and over again and how it has come to fruition for this country, “Those who do not learn from the past are destined to repeat it.“

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Not a time travel story but a love story

Revisado: 01-28-25

I thought I was gonna be listening to a time travel Science Fiction novel. Instead, I got a love story which had about 1% of time travel. Definitely not a Science Fiction story. On top of this, the characters in the story were the worst sort of 20-something adults, who basically could not figure their way out of a paper bag! It was simply ours of whining, “I can’t do anything. I’m so worthless“, “Why can’t he say he loves me?!!“, and weird interpersonal relationships. The worst thing, however, was that there was only one instance in the main part of the story where a person uses their knowledge of the future to make some money! You know if anyone went back in time and had knowledge of the future, they would be making investments, making bets, establishing relationships, etc. that would put them financially set for their future, as well as generations of their kids and grandkids! These people kept whining about, “oh, but do we have the money, do we have the funds?!” when they could’ve just gone ahead and put all they had on a sure bet in the World Cup or anything else and not worry about that!… I did not like this book at all, it was a disappointment, and truly a waste of my time.

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A pretty good story 👍

Revisado: 12-30-24

I think the story was pretty good. I liked the side story about Joe and his mom and his brother, that was nice and interesting. The plot was about a 6 out of 10, meaning, I figured it out about halfway through, but it was pleasant to listen through to the end. The one thing that always irritates me is when a narrator mispronounces a name or a name of a city. The narrator missed pronounce the Vietnamese city Da Nang . And that was irritating, as well as distracting from the story…

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Oblivious, unaware

Revisado: 12-11-24

Sydney is a grown woman. Young Tom is a high schooler. They both have the same level of emotional intelligence. The book title should have been “Clueless.” So frustrating.

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A 2 Dimensional Story - A Yawn 🥱

Revisado: 12-04-24

Honestly, it was just boring. The characters all seem to be stereotypes of their typical characters in other books. The masochistic soft porn sex scenes were disturbing. I did not even finish the book because I did not want to waste any more of my time…

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A very, very good book!

Revisado: 11-16-24

I thought this book was going to be sort of boring after the first 15 minutes, but I was absolutely wrong! The story was extremely well written and I really enjoyed a little asides that the writer put in with her characters. The narrator was absolutely great and perfect for this book. I highly recommend this story because it’s definitely different than what I’m used to listening to. Just really an excellent book!

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A poor Baldacci novel.

Revisado: 07-20-24

This book was preachy, Hackney, and a waste of time. I am a minority, and I have been discriminated against and harassed, as were my parents, but I have to say when are we ever going to stop promulgating a racial divide and simply move forward as a nation?! This book was better written by the multitude of historians that have analyzed 1960s and the racial issues that occurred. This book has also been written, in a much better way, by John Grisham several times! I don’t know what Baldacci was trying to achieve on this, but he failed. I don’t recommend this book at all unless you want to get preached to about a subject that has been covered, thousands of times before this in a much better manner!

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Definitely was an interesting sci-fi story!

Revisado: 06-26-24

I enjoyed the story because it was different. I also enjoyed the performances because they were spot on, and I could imagine the people that the performances were portraying. What I did not like was the not so subtle insertion of woke politics! It was very evident that the author wanted to get their extreme left politics into the story which was a significant detractor to the story overall. I say that because those pieces could’ve been deleted and the story could’ve been the same or even better…

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My last Cornwell

Revisado: 06-22-24

I just can’t anymore. The introspection of Scarpetta is sluggish, uninteresting and weird. Conversations are frustrating and unrealistic for a family that has so much history. I didn’t even finish the last 15 minutes. I struggled through the whole book. Fits and starts. Stops and more. Don’t bother. So many better books in the sea.

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If you are looking for an objective history of the relationship between America and Iran, this is NOT it. 

Revisado: 05-21-24

It was clearly and undeniably evident that the author of this book is an apologist for Iran. Sometimes he was blatantly jaded to Iran’s actions, and sometimes he was very subtle. But nonetheless, throughout the entire book, he made Iran out as the victim to all the mean and horrible super powers in the world. He was especially focused on Israel as being the most evil and conniving country on earth and will do anything to forward its agenda. He kept using words like naïve, innocent, accommodating, etc. when he described Iran (and I don’t include the Shah’s regime, he only uses these terms for when it became an Islamic Republic). He describes the Shah’s and their regimes in the harshest of terms, including brutal, violent, hedonistic, gluttonous, etc. I think the telltale marker of his lack of objectivity is when he spends about five minutes total, and that’s pretty much at the end of the book, to talk about the Islamic Republic’s abuses and violence against its own people. overall, I was just very disappointed in this book because it wasn’t an objective history of the relationship between America and Iran. I can sum it up in one sentence… Iran good, all other nations on earth bad. 

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