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More of same, nothing new

Revisado: 12-15-24

I’m starting to get tired of some of these authors who stretch their books out into multiple volumes. They really could use an editor. I love the early books in this series, that’s why I bought this one. But really this story has been over now for a couple of volumes. It’s always been complicated trying to sort through all the various Bobs, but this one didn’t really explore any new material and was still confusing as to which Bob was which. I’m sad, but I’m done with this series.

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An outdated, snarky, and cynical view of America.

Revisado: 04-15-23

I am usually a big fan of Bill Bryson, but this book seems like it was written by his bitter, frustrated, teenage self. He rarely has anything positive to say about any of the places he visited on this trip. and the narrator seems to relish this distasteful snarkiness. As a Bill Bryson fan, I can affirm that this one should be skipped.

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He said, she said

Revisado: 07-21-22

This book is really difficult to listen to because of the incessant references to who was speaking. The lines of dialogue are so short it seemed all you hear is “he said“, she said”. I typically like Will Wheaton, but here, his monotone delivery leaves so little definition to the characters that you never quite know who he’s portraying at any given moment. I had to give up on it.

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Same ol’, same ol’

Revisado: 06-28-22

I gotta hand it to Alanson. He sure knows how to take a story that is only maybe two books long and stretch it into 13. Nothing to see here, move along until we finally get word he’s furthering the storyline.

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Just more filler

Revisado: 02-21-20

I really loved the first 3 books in this series, but Alanson has succumbed to the likely Audible encouragement to stretch a single book into 10 volumes in order to milk your readers of all their credits. I’m really tired of it. So, if you’re considering this one, just know he doesn’t move the story line forward at all. He doesn’t develop the characters any further, and to be sure, he doesn’t get Skippy any closer to “the collective”. He ends with a cliffhanger that would indicate he might just finally wrap this thing up in the next volume, but I’m going to wait to read the reviews before I give him any more of my money.

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Absurdly biased

Revisado: 11-12-19

I was hoping for an insightful but enjoyable story of prepared people overcoming the disaster of societal collapse. But Tate blames the collapse entirely on liberals. It’s absurdly biased and insulting even to conservatives. And he tries so hard to point out that particular races are not to blame that he inadvertently reveals his own racism. It’s really too bad because there are elements of the story that would have been fun to play out.

Another issue I have is that this is at most a two book series, but he unnecessarily stretches it into multiple volumes in a cheap attempt to squeeze as much money out of us as he can.

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Adolescent and way too short

Revisado: 07-13-19

I was really looking forward to this book, and was really enjoying Adam Baldwin‘s performance, when suddenly it was over! I failed to notice that the book is only just over two hours long. Be aware! It’s not worth one of my monthly credits. I really hate that audible pushes these short stories out at the same price as a whole novel. As for the story, there’s some really funny moments, but ultimately it devolves to the level of fart jokes.

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Interesting premise that goes nowhere

Revisado: 05-26-19

The book starts off with an interesting idea, but never really goes anywhere with it. Like too many SF adventure stories, it sets a good tone only to devolve into tedious, overly macho battles with the aliens. C’mon, the hero takes out the evil dominating alien with a fist fight? Geez. And he is on a tirade against the Mormon church, which is in no way affiliated with the organizations he contends with, but, by implication he condemns all Mormons. Easy scapegoats I guess, but I’d like to see him attack any other religion like this and see what happens. And I’m disappointed with Bray here too, as he never took the time to find out how to pronounce many names of people and places. Inexcusable.

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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here

Revisado: 08-17-18

I was hoping for an adventurous survival tale, only to be drug into this didactic, depressing lecture. The author doesn’t even give us a reason to care for the characters. We only get enough information to give them some context. This is a soapbox diatribe about the risk of an EMP attack on the United States. He assumes a worst case scenario, resulting in the most disastrous outcome for the country. That’s fine if intended as a work of fiction, but his implication throughout the book is that this is a very real threat to the US. A little bit of research shows the likelihood of an attack like this being impossibly small.

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A fun ride!

Revisado: 06-28-18

What a great story! And Ray Porter has to be, hands-down the best narrator in the business!

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