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Excellent

Revisado: 08-30-22

Great book, but that's easy, as I love Terry Pratchett and the disc series anyway.
The new narration is excellent and I think Indira Varma did a good job of giving the book life.
Highly recommend.

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Really enjoyed

Revisado: 08-11-22

After reading a lot of the discworld books when I was younger, I find the new audio books very enjoyable.
I have only one minor criticism. I find that some of the characters voices are sometimes hard to understand. I'm not necessarily blaming the narrator, as english is a second language to me and most of my listening is done while driving, so it could be just me. Anyway, I still recommend!

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Interesting subject. book was meh

Revisado: 08-01-22

This book has 2 major failings, for me at least.
First of all the narration felt like I was lectured to, but not in the good way. I would much rather have the narration be dryer, made it a real slog to get through.

The other thing that bothered me is what felt like a logical fail regarding a general purpose AI abilities.
on the one hand it will be more intelligent than a human, but on the other it wouldn't be intelligent enough to discern human emotions, thus making potentially critical errors.

Overall it's still a good book, but I really struggled with finishing it.

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a must for the space exploration enthusiast

Revisado: 05-11-21

Very human and very accessible book.
I love space exploration, especially the early years.
Michael Collins gives a very down to earth (pun intended) telling of his adventures while at NASA.

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Painfully PG-13

Revisado: 08-19-19

I loved the Bobiverse and I think this made my expectations to be too high.
My main gripe was it felt childish, it went out of it's way not to use "hard" language, it was full of tropes and was all well that ends well.
The writing and performance are still good, I wasn't bored, just underwhelmed.
Bottom line, if you like soft sci-fi, non challenging, feel good listen - this is for you.

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simplistic and over dramatic

Revisado: 07-23-19

This sounded to me like listening to a HS student essay.
I can save you the time listening to this:
John Houbolt was a poor farm boy, he became an engineer for NACA/NASA. Not everybody liked him.
He thought LOR (Lunar Orbit Randevue) was a good idea for Apollo, he broke rank to fight for it.
His ideas were accepted, he got recognition for it.
Maybe he felt he didn't get enough, although he kinda did.
He was a great man, we could all be more like him.

Now seriously, Houbolt wasn't the first to think of LOR and he wasn't the only thinking it was the right way.
He was influencal in the early stages of planing the moon mission, but wasn't really involved after that.
Listening to this you could think that without him the moon missions could not be done!

Another thing that bother me about this book is the premise of a big debate on how to get to the moon.
It is inferred that the convention was doing it by direct accent and a minority was think that LOR was the right way.
This is the fundamental aspect of the book, but it doesn't explore any of that! There were some meetings, not all the people agreed with John, more likely because he wasn't an easy man, eventually LOR was chosen as the best option - That's what the book tells us summerized to one sentence.

Give this one a pass...

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A bit on the boring side

Revisado: 04-17-19

This book is short and dry.
I love the Apollo 13 story and wanted a more indepth reading about it.
This book was fine, it gave some nice information.
This book isn't overly technical, but also isn't very dramatic.
It's fine.

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Fascinating and disturbing

Revisado: 01-21-18

Geart book for lovers of history of the cold war/atomic arms race and in general.
It meticulous and detailed, but not overbearing or overly technical.
My only gripe with this book is only using imperial units. I am aware that the target audiance is mostly american (which I'm not), but in this day and age it feels odd.

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Probably better in a visual media

Revisado: 08-22-17

My opinion - don't get it audio form.
The book, I felt, was meandering. It jumps from the main story to anecdotes and side stories far to often.
This was compounded by the fact that pacing of the read was way to fast! It felt breathless, just an onslaught of information.
But worst of all was the imperial measurments. I expected more from Bill Hammack. Maybe, if this book was more story/drama oriented book, but this is loaded with technical data. I know this is a general audiance book, and I know it was written in America, and I know 1930s Britain used well... imperial measurments, but it felt wrong and anachronistic to not include metric.

So get this book in hard form, make your self a nice cup of tea, and read it as it should.

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An OK book for the uninitiatet

Revisado: 06-15-17

The good:
Has lots of information about the early space program.
Is reasonably entertaining.

The bad:
Felt to me be overly american/patriotic.
The intermitent use of accents and voices, by the narrator, was not good.

The meh...:
This book didn't left me with strong emotions and I didn't find myself attached to the events.
Overall it's an OK book, baut maybe not for the hardcore space history buff.

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