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Crisp situation description very impactful

Revisado: 04-09-20

The author clarifies and illustrates many themes with a short description of the scenario that very effectively makes the point.Rather than a academic description of an interchange, the author refers to short stories and situations. John said "X", Mary heard and replied "Y". You can see the dialogue going off the rails, This really brings home how many times I made the wrong turn myself either when speaking or listening. Author acknowledges the gray area in communication. There's endless room for learning and improving our listening and speaking skills. I also enjoyed his self depreciating humor.

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Vivid clarity and interesting detail

Revisado: 04-09-20

James Horn Fisher provides a great well researched accurate history. A great follow-up book to "Neptune's Inferno".

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Really?

Revisado: 05-31-17

The novel stays on the edge of believability almost the whole time, but occasionally you find yourself asking "really" can't the protagonist come up with a better plan than this. Good reader, I liked her English accent, and her voice and inflection seem perfectly matched to the protagonist's.

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Great story, super reader

Revisado: 05-31-17

Susan Kietzman has crafted a genuine, heartfelt, and moving story tracking three interesting women through the midlife transition of the "empty nest". The women explore several contemporary issues in a well paced story. The book delivers a perceptive insight into women's perspectives on gun control, gambling, sexual orientation, and traditional and evolving expectations on the roles of mothers, kids, wives and husbands. The reader, C. S. E. Cooney, does a super job. You instantly know which character is speaking at any moment. The reader delivers with perfect touch, tone and inflection an insightful story.

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Realistic and Riveting

Revisado: 03-22-13

The events in the lifeboat struck me as completely realistic and authentic, yet the setting was so unusual that it was riveting to see what would happen next. The narrator's voice was perfect. Her tone and inflection enhanced the literary writing and seemed right out of 1915. The interplay between big ideas and the small irritations of the lifeboat experience were nicely woven. This is a good yarn and requires a little thinking to get the most out of it.

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US Navy At Its Best

Revisado: 09-22-12

Ian Toll does superb work with this history. The story of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to Midway is remarkable. These six months may be the Navy's best. Toll expertly weaves in back story and context, just when you want it. Toll's analysis of the facts struck me as completely authentic. And Grover Gardner does his consistently great narration on this book as well.

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You can feel it

Revisado: 01-14-11

Turow has the cop and court language captured perfectly. His depictions of angles and attitudes is right on. Turow does the old forbidden fruit story and the eventual heartache with realistic emotions. The ending didn't have the pop that Presumed Innocent does -- but this one keeps the trip to end riveting all the way.

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What a character

Revisado: 01-14-11

The personal side of Richard Feynman is very unexpected for a brilliant physicist, he was fun, almost goofy, and open about it.

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As good as the movie

Revisado: 10-06-09

Excellent listen. Narator does a good job with many different voices. The movie was good, and turns out it followed the book very closely. That's a tribute to how well McCarthy can paint a picture. Like the movie, the violence is disturbing, but that's integral to what the book is about.

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Good for awhile

Revisado: 10-10-08

The first three quarters of the book held my interest. There was a believable level of super-natural things going on. The characters were interesting. Then as the final climax began to build my interest began to wane. It seemed too much and I left disappointed. I was hoping for something more like "The Green Mile".

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