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The Conestoga Gate
- De: Gorg Huff
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
The Land of the Free is dumping them. Denzel Woods, his family, the whole housing complex, are being dumped through the New-Texas Gate. They aren't calling it that. It's Encouraged Immigration. They give you a voucher that will almost buy one of the Conestoga Wagons. In exchange you give up your rights as a citizen of the United States of America. If you don't take the voucher they bust you for Felony Jaywalking and you go through the Gate with nothing but an orange jumpsuit. The for-profit prisons on the other side of the gates don't have to follow any of the rules protecting the rights of...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book!
- De Kindle Customer en 03-22-25
- The Conestoga Gate
- De: Gorg Huff
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
Great Book!
Revisado: 03-22-25
This was a good story exploring the idea of gate travel to alternate Earth's and how it might change our country.
Follow a smart kid poverty trapped on substance housing in a Texas city. Join a gang trying to be more. Travel the rugged trails of "New Texas" and navigate the challenges only we humans can create.
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Bug Out! Texas Part 1
- Texas Lockdown
- De: Robert Boren
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 6 h y 19 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:2 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 9
Carrie is one tough mother. It’s a normal day at the Dripping Springs Superstore. Shoppers look at merchandise while keeping their kids under control. Customers wait in the check-out lines, some chatting, others silently bored. Everything is about to change. Terrorists rush in with guns blazing, killing all who try to escape, rounding up the rest to hold hostage. Carrie, pregnant mother with a four-year-old at home, escapes into a stockroom closet. She calls her husband Jason, an Austin PD officer. Jason and his partner find a raging massacre in the parking lot. They attack, badly ...
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3 out of 5 stars
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bad AI narrators
- De sago en 11-01-24
- Bug Out! Texas Part 1
- Texas Lockdown
- De: Robert Boren
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
Just Don’t
Revisado: 08-16-24
I listened to the Audible edition of this book. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend it. I believe the author to be a good human being worthy of conversation over coffee, but this book was not for me.
The author has an admirable command of language and does a beautiful job painting a word picture. He wrote characters you could see and seemed believable as real people. The author dropped the ball with subject matter research. The knowledge gaps were too large for me to suspend my disbelief and get into the story. I believe this author has great promise and would have been successful with more knowledge on the subject matter used in his story.
The main characters are law enforcement officers, and the story opens with an Active Killer scenario. Dispatch and the Incident Command System do not exist, despite every agency in the United States using both since the early 1970’s. All communications occur as if in a video game and use CB lingo rather than standard radio practices of the modern age. The linemen working for my local electrical cooperative are better with this than our main characters. These are seasoned LEOs with zero knowledge of Dispatch and industry standard communications.
These characters serve on the Austin Police Department, a major city agency, yet assignments and promotions have no structure. In this story all of these are subject to whim and not answerable to the needs of the city or the realities of whatever bureaucracy has developed there to keep the wheels turning. Any organization of more than two people has it. While I’ve never been to Austin, it defies possibility they alone of all human groupings lack this.
Military operations are conducted with no overwatch, communications, or coordination between units. Logistics happen by magic with no effort or planning and in conflict with the sentence which proceeded them. Any operation, even a meal for two or more people, requires planning and preparation but in this story large groups of people are fed, equipped, and re-equipped out of thin air. A few sentences with someone grumbling about preparations for something other planned event / operation being re-tasked to meet this emergency would have worked. Its absence made the story into a bad video game.
After each gun fight the bodies no longer exist. I do not mean they disappear or dissolve in LitRPG fashion; the character dies and then the author makes no mention of the body. There are military battles, and the winners walk away high fiving each other while the corpses are left to rot in the Texas sun of Main St. Yet no one sees or smells them. The holes in walls, corpses, etc. are all magically better without so much as a sentence. “Adam and Bill gathered the bodies in the central courtyard so the National Guard’s Mortuary Affairs Unit could more easily handle things,” would have helped. “Carl sealed the bullet holes with caulk before spackling the ones in the drywall,” would have worked, if not used too many times. "Daisy shivered from the draft coming through the walls left in the wall;" just something to address the issue created in the story.
I appreciate the story was not intended to be “Literature”, spoken with an upper crust British accent and curlicues. Some scenes from the opposition fighter’s viewpoint would have made them more than mere cardboard cutouts. The author let us see the Politician bad-guys, but not the bad-guys who did the fighting. Bad guys, while wrong, THINK they are “Good-Guys” and acknowledging their thinking both demonstrates why they are the enemy, makes them seem more human, and makes the story feel more real. Many things in this story suggest the author values characters who put their efforts where their values are; he missed a great opportunity to show this with the opposition fighters.
The narration was performed by computer. The programmers have brought the technology a long way. The narration has some of the correct voice inflection. It was much better than past attempts but has not yet reached a place where the computer doesn’t ruin the story. Some examples are the character fires a “50 cal.” which the computer narrator speaks as “Fifty calories.” The abbreviation R. V. is spoken “Ar-Vee” but the computer speaks it as “AR-vee.” Spaces which make sense visually on a page and are easily understood by a voice actor working as narrator, like the chapter number, become long awkward pauses with the computer narrator. This book would have been better with a voice actor; while the story issues would still exist, it might have brought the characters to life in a way which got me past them.
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The Truffle Underground
- A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus
- De: Ryan Jacobs
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 153
Beneath the gloss of star chefs and crystal-laden tables, the truffle supply chain is touched by theft, secrecy, sabotage, and fraud. Farmers patrol their fields with rifles and fear losing trade secrets to spies. Hunters plant poisoned meatballs to eliminate rival truffle-hunting dogs. Naive buyers and even experts are duped by liars and counterfeits. Deeply reported and elegantly written, this exposé documents the dark, sometimes deadly crimes at each level of the truffle’s path from ground to plate, making sense of an industry that traffics in scarcity, seduction, and cash.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Never knew the behind the scenes story
- De Mike en 07-24-19
- The Truffle Underground
- A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus
- De: Ryan Jacobs
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
A candid glimpse of the European truffle industry
Revisado: 11-14-21
Peak behind the curtain of the industry around the most agricultural product. This book shows the highs, lows, temptations and triumphs of Europe's truffle industry. I ask myself if the infant North American truffle industry will follow in their footsteps, or develop without the secrecy which led to their cousins' greatest regrets.
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