Arnold

cheesy and dated

Revisado: 06-25-17

I slogged through this because I figured the ending must be pretty good. But no.

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fun, informative of death trivia

Revisado: 06-19-17

the last third she tried bringing her personal life into the mix and it didn't work for me.

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Deleted this halfway through

Revisado: 08-13-16

I really like stories about the Vietnam war and I love Cranston as narrator but this sucked. The only material I heard seemed off point and designed to shock. Eg, animal torture (twice!) and Mary Anne, a 17 year old high school girl turned green beret (sounds silly, it was). Can't you write about the experience of battle? Apparently no.

The author's writing style was also trying: too much somberness, as if it was all a holy experience, and way too many run on sentences posing as detail. The Viet Cong hadn't even shown up by the time I quit! This was a nominee for a National Book Award? Please.

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So unrelentingly funny and creative

Revisado: 07-01-15

Tom Sharpe's masterpiece and one of the top ten all time funny novels. The narrator is great too.

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Stross best horror writer around today

Revisado: 01-06-15

I love this writer, he brings a touch of humor and great characters then weaves a blood curdling plot around them that is creepy, very detailed and realistic, that leaves you with the heebie jeebies at the end. This is his best laundry files book, in my opinion. I replayed the last two hours as soon as I finished, a first for me. Ingenious, funny, horrifying. He's created his own genre. Brilliant.

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Great premise and great start

Revisado: 12-02-14

but then he does these long flashbacks that slowed the momentum a lot. I skipped the last flashback and didn't even miss anything when we rejoined the present. Not sure if I would read another, definitely a mixed bag.

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Surprisingly misogynisitic

Revisado: 07-14-14

Two of the stories are incomplete novels, but every story has at least one reference to how he dislikes modern women. One story had a friend visit, regrettably, with his fiancee. Lewis enters her mind and finds it vapid and second rate. Another story, men are sent to Mars, and a counsel back on Earth (made of women) decide men can't do without sex so they ask for volunteers. In this way a fat seventy year old whore and a woman professor of psychology are dropped off for the boys, who want nothing to do with them. Very odd collection, not sure if he was attempting humour or not. If you like Lewis of Narnia or Lewis the apologist, I would stay away from this. Narrator was very good.

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As funny as Scoop, Waugh in his prime

Revisado: 10-22-13

Is there a funnier character than Basil Seal? Or a better comic narrator than Maloney? Pretty politically incorrect but I love it.

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Behind The Scenes With The Presidents

Revisado: 04-27-13

Fascinating to hear Kennedy and a two faced Mississippi governor talking about implementing a court order regarding segregation and how Kennedy worked him into a corner. Johnson gives a great life lesson on how to influence people. Nixon says unbelievable things, how did he forget it was all being recorded?

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Harsh Mistress Is A Fun Light Read

Revisado: 04-18-13

Heinlein makes an interesting plot around the idea that the moon is turned into a penal colony and then declares independence. Little of his speculative science (growing wheat on the moon? Electromagnetic slingshots for sending things to earth?) has worked out but he makes some good guesses about the future of computing considering this was written in the late 60's.
Oh, by the way, the narrator fakes a russian accent, which is off putting but you do get used to it.

The more interesting sub plot is about a computer that becomes self aware. This was the fun part that drew me in for the first third of the book. The rest of the story focuses heavily on the political circumstances they had to go through to be free and I found it trying to slog through, maybe because I was hoping for some emotional development that never materialized. The ending was good. Heinlein is a great concept guy and plotter so if that's your thing by all means get this audiobook

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