Jim

Extreamly well written!

Revisado: 02-06-25

If I hadn't already been a fan of "Skippy" in the Expeditionary Force novels I would have proclaimed this as a story with an extraordinary premise!
But even so, the narration, the story line the nostalgia in jokes and takes on society as a whole were well worth it!
The combat sequence's were well thought out and exciting!
The ONLY minus I'd give it is the over use of weaponry military descriptions.
I can understand "I grabbed my AR-15" or "Go set up the Claymore and get back here"! I don't need the official Mil Tech Def of every item every the time! That was a tad overkill!
Over all, a great and entertaining SciFi Classic to be!

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A little thing!

Revisado: 01-24-23

I’ve got no real problem with the reader, a little too monotone for me but no problem.
What bugged me was the section near the end when he was reading the lyrics to “El Paso” by Marty Robbins!
He should have familiarized himself to the music and rhythm of the song!
“I found a GOOD one, it looked like it COULD run.”
The rhyme is on GOOD, not “run”!
I’m not sure how any grown man could have grown up without ever hearing this song!
It’s a little thing but annoying.
I’ll listen to the next Jack Lively book if there is one anyway but this guy in no Scott Brick or Rene Auberjonois and won’t sway me to a book BECAUSE he’s the reader
He also made several other minor mistakes in Pronunciation so I’m suspicious now!
I love Jack Reacher but since Child is writing with his son, the books are falling a little short so Jack Lively has come along just in time!
I hope he keeps going!

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Even a bad reputation is better than a goofy one.

Revisado: 10-08-05

If I had been Captain Kidd, I would have made it a point to come back to earth as a spirit and haunt Mr. Zacks into throwing himself in front of a train. In his zeal to clear the name of Cpt. Kidd and reform his memory he has turned this ruthless buccaneer and blood thirsty pirate into a dimwitted, clueless and incompetent buffoon who shouldn't have been given command of a dingy, let alone a pirate ship. If I were to be remembered by posterity, I would much rather it be as the "king of the Pirates" than as one of the Three Stooges. I give this work 1 star but only because of the reader.

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Book One Of a Great SciFi Series

Revisado: 05-22-05

If you love SciFi (and I don't mean Fantasy with wizards and unicorns and helpful little trolls running around and I certainly don't mean that politically correct garbage that masquerades as SciFi these days with disasters caused by global warming and the status of race relations in the 23rd century, but good old fashioned slam-bang,laser blasting,vacuum packed, space suited up and ready SciFi) you will absolutely love "The Saga of the Seven Suns". To miss this series (and still call yourself a SciFi fan) would be like missing out on Asimov's Foundation series or the Dune series or to never have read a Heinlien or seen a Star Wars film. Impossible to comprehend! The range of characters, the interweaving of story-lines, the explosive confrontations of races, the wondrous worlds of imagination are all melded together by Kevin J. Anderson in a work of literary art that is truly a masterpiece. How he keeps track of everything that he has going on is beyond me but I'm just mortal. The only thing negative I can say about these recordings is that the reader (George Guidall) makes the characters sound a little cartoonish for my taste but that could just be a personal preferance of mine. In any case it doesn't detract from the superb story.
There are three books to the series now with the forth due out sometime this summer. Start now and you'll be ready when the forth book is published. You can thank me later.

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