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Needs a lot of work

Revisado: 03-20-23

I was REALLY looking forward to this. I remember the January 27th Apollo 1 fire. But this book spends the first 75% of the book covering the entire space program.

The author spends roughly 2 hours justifying why he wrote the book

The narration is good but he kept mispronouncing the name of Donn Eislie pronouncing it Is-Lee when it’s Eyes-Lee

Again it has its moments but extreme far and few between

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Better than the Movie

Revisado: 02-28-23

This is much better and more entertaining than the Roger Moore movie. Very little of it is the same, maybe less than 5 percent. Bill Nighy does a fantastic job. First class narration

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Yawn

Revisado: 11-16-22

I have zero idea why this is a classic. The hero and is love interest are boring with no depth. This is a huge let down.

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Boring

Revisado: 07-30-20

This is so boring it’s not even funny. This could have been so much better but the stories were boring and the acting is just walk through

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Everything you ever wanted to know about Hue

Revisado: 11-29-19

I love reading Mark Bowdens books. Guests of the Ayatollah should be required reading in school. Black Hawk down is a masterpiece. But like the Vietnam war this book is just a little too long. The narrator is good but I found myself being lulled to sleep at times.

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Great Story

Revisado: 10-14-19

The story of the Alamo is legendary. I love Walter Lord’s book. Very detailed. The narrator is slow to the point I had to move my speed up slightly. He is very monotone in my opinion. Still a fantastic story

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Long

Revisado: 12-27-18

This could’ve been a fantastic story. I’m having trouble trying to figure out why this was such a hit. For me I had trouble separating fact from fiction. Uris put in way too many characters. It’s extremely slow moving. However the narrator does a fantastic job with all the voices and accents.

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Fantastic Telling

Revisado: 09-14-18

Great job on this extremely in-depth but never boring book. My only complaint is the reader kept mispronouncing the last names of the mayor and District Attorney of San Francisco.

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Good book with some historical mistakes

Revisado: 04-06-18

What made the experience of listening to First Man the most enjoyable?

The naration voice over job was first rate. Enjoyable with clear understanding of the words.

What other book might you compare First Man to and why?

Apollo 8 by Jeffery Kluger and A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin. These books all showed the human side of the astronauts.

Any additional comments?

The is an excellent book, however there are historical mistakes. At one point the author refereed to Wally Shirra's flight as the 3rd manned Mercury flight when it was actually the fifth man flight, but the 3rd orbital flight.

In another part a spacecraft is refereed to as an aircraft.

Even with these mistakes, James Hansen, does a great job of telling the story of Neil Armstrong with good coverage of Aldrin and Collins. For any history person or space junkie this book is worth listening too.

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Very strange

Revisado: 08-02-17

I enjoy the series on Amazon but this is bizarre. Too much time on Eastern Religion The ending was so mellow dramatic I keep waiting for more of an end. Obviously written with the idea of a sequel that never came.

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