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WoW that was the Best Audiobook Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Revisado: 10-16-20

I loved the movie, but this book was not about battles and very different than the movie. It is about the Human Condition and what we do with the brief time we have on Earth. It does very well with character development. You can see these people in your mind's eye. The narrator, the revealed thoughts, and the dialogue are extremely meaningful. It is a spiritual journey of the human condition without God. I thought the whole thing simply amazing and it is hard to put into words. It also is really about modern times and not the past, and our need for purpose and justification. This was the only flawless audiobook I have read because it had a deep meaning that goes to the heart of life and ideals that give life meaning.

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Childish, simplistic, clumsy, implassiable

Revisado: 01-29-18

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Anyone under the age of 16 years old, who was just starting to read sci -Fi

Has Red Hope turned you off from other books in this genre?

Yes, I did not think it could be this bad.

Would you be willing to try another one of Bob Reed’s performances?

Maybe

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Red Hope?

I would burn the book, like Martin Luther with a gallon of Gas and a lighter.

Any additional comments?

This would have been good if written in 1959, before astronauts , NASA, landings on the moon and the militarization of space. The physics was basic, and the science part was little. Basically the Premise is the following: President wants to go to Mars NOW, this year. Because it is so rushed, the A team does not want to go so they form the B team by giving them an extra million in bonus (NASA does this ???). Sends a millionaire who has "GET THIS" a bad case of Closter phobia a relationship with an astronaut farm girl type, a flawed Capitan and a female Cosmonaut. They go to Mars stab each other in the back totally act without any command and control and with the primary goal of getting famous and do whatever they want without any real planning. At ONE POINT THEY TRY TO LEAVE MARS AND FORGOT TO RELEASE THE GROUND TEITHERING CABLES CONNECTED TO THE GROUND AND THE SHIP WHILE THEY TRY TO TAKE OFF, THEY JUST FORGOT-HEY I THOUGHT YOU DID IT!! In Mars for the very first time, part of their mission was also to SET OFF a bunch of Mars Nukes to start the terraforming process in Mars even though humans were never on Mars before and the terraforming process would take hundreds of years. Aggressive mission for the B team and idiotic plot twists Then while in space the earth orbital defense satellite staff on the satellite bumped into a bunch of nukes and "accidently" blow up all of Russia. Think one of the guys dropped a wrench, no failsafe for the orbital nuclear missiles just, hey sorry think I just blew up Russia-Brilliant.If this was written 60 years ago, it could have had a point to make and be justifiably naïve. But now it is just like too silly for anyone still in a good High School writing program. It amazes me how bad with obvious holes and gaps in a story that could have been easier to write well than so poorly.

Embarrassing mess and anyone who liked it is probably a moron.

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The worst language book

Revisado: 06-13-15

Would you try another book from Innovative Language Learning and/or Natalia Araya and Carlos Acevedo ?

Hell no!

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Natalia Araya and Carlos Acevedo ?

Anyone who can speak English without an accent

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

confusion

Any additional comments?

The most useless language book since, "Learn how to speak Spanish, was translated into Spanish"It starts off, with the narrator speaking so fast I could not get a word. Then having a second person explain the context by going to high school renditions of Past Perfect, Conjugations, past participles etc. while lapsing into Spanish, while explaining past perfect as it relates to conjugation in temporal space. Do the people who put this together think that people are so mentally nimble that they can go back to the original rules of English sentence structure, while remembering the different tenses and definitions of proper language structure, WHILE learning new words (that are defined long after the chatter), and putting them into a sentence with TWO people talking?! Really, if you are that smart you should already know the world languages .It was like trying to learn how to cook while Stephen Hawkin was talking over the cooking instructions and explaining how heat of the stove effects the atomic structure of protein matter. If you can get this linguistical gibberish you are so smart, you probably already know how to speak Spanish and a number of other languages and you probably just don't realize it yet-So habla spanol to you but I gots to find another book!!P.S. for the educational geniuses who put this language book together, STAY AWAY FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS. They have enough problems.

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One Of Us is High !!

Revisado: 01-11-14

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

I think it would be great for someone who could not get to sleep.

What was most disappointing about David Wilcock’s story?

It was hours of meaningless clap trap, narrated by someone who spoke in a slow deep monotone voice. Nothing is really Synchronized but unconnected statements that did not add up to anything.

Would you be willing to try another one of David Wilcock’s performances?

I would not try another Wilcock "performance" even if the story was about me.

Any additional comments?

This book was just a lot of hippy, dippy and silly new age statements trying to find a philosophy. Kind of like the stuff people come up with when they have mind altering drugs and alcohol.

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Learn, Laugh and Live

Revisado: 11-28-13

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

One of the few things I have ever experienced that had me thinking about, farming, the nature of nitrogen, oxygen and Hydrogen and their different properties, Physics, space travel, survival, human nature, bureaucracy and future planetary travel and media while laughing out loud. Flawlessly brilliant, incredibly suspenseful while oddly comforting.

The book, is basically about not panicking, making the best of a situation while being realistic. I remembered and learned a little High School science, while laughing at the predicaments, and seeing how one person can live even at the edge of survival.

Amazing!

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The reason I became a member of Audible

Revisado: 05-27-13

If you could sum up Bring Up the Bodies in three words, what would they be?

This was the type of experience that I had expected or hoped would be among the best audible could provide. The reading allowed me to passively become part of another world. It was a brilliant read that made me feel as though the people were all real, and that I could know their thoughts, motivations and hopes. A brilliant creation of a lost world.

What about Simon Vance’s performance did you like?

Was hooked as soon as I heard his voice, with all its cunning and caution. He captured the presumed weary character of Cromwell. A pragmatic, devious, yet mindfully pious and thoughtful man, that was wise enough to know he was playing a deadly game in a jungle where all the animals were predators yet foolish enough to think that he alone would not be devoured in the end.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

At the end of the book, when Cromwell becomes introspective and thinks about the effect that a death had on himself, and knowing that even though he was wiser, more intelligent and thoughtful than his adversaries, he never the less would succumb to the awful fruition of historical forces, forces which he himself would unleash. Some of it was intentioned by the protagonist but other forces unpredictable and unknowable until revealed, until the bitter end, thereby like the others Cromwell outsmarted, becoming his own executioner.

Any additional comments?

Took a lot of purchases at audible to get to the one that made all the other duds worth it.

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