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Dillon_907

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Clean, fast, fun

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 11-17-24

Wonderfully clean and age appropriate. My only critique is that the narrator could use a bit better pacing and inflection. She gets a bit monotone at times.

this is definitely a book I'll be letting my daughters listen to! Smart, logical characters.

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Fun but scattershot

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 09-16-24

Like always it was a fun ride but too many disparate plotlines. I liked how Heavens River had one major (the expedition) and one minor (Starfleet) plotline.

This was more of a setup for a next major arc but I was hoping for more "meat" to the story.

I'll still listen to the next one and this one many more times of course.

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One of Heinlein's best

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-30-23

There were a few small parts where the narrator's pacing, tone, or accents could have been better but overall very good.

This is a fantastic book for young men to serve as a "this is why you apply yourself at school" lesson. Heinlein really demonstrates his attitudes towards academic preparation and toughness whereas Farmer In The Sky shows manly virtue, and Starship Troopers shows civic virtue.

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I've litened to this book more than a dozen times

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-13-23

I've literally listened to this book and the whole series more than a dozen times. For a year it became my bedtime "lull me to sleep" choice and my common background noise while doing other tasks.

The series has inspired me to go back to school and get a second BS in Computational Mathematics and eventually a graduate degree in AI. I want to write the AI for space exploration drones thanks to this series.

I only have a few criticisms:
- DET obviously has a very liberal bias. His attitude towards religion is obviously negative and his understanding of the philosophical arguments for religion in general is very kiddie-pool-shallow. This mostly comes out mostly during the fourth book but its still entertaining. What really grinds my gears is that DET really leans into the trope that all religious people are Southern bigots. Its very childish and cliche. Also, the fact that DET chose a totalitarian theocracy as the big bad bookie-man of the future US shows that he has a wildly myopic viewpoint of US politics to think that that is even a plausible outcome.

- DET knows very little about career military types. He tends to paint Medeiros and others as 2D characters. If you're taking into account the ability to frame jack and time dilation Medeiros could have educated himself on all of humanity's vast knowledge of quantum physics, art, and crochet. So the Bobs shouldnt be surprised when he throws them a curveball.

Other than that I honestly love the books!

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Likes others have said, the politics ruined it.

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2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-13-23

I have listened to all of the Bobiverse books more than a dozen times (literally). I love them. Outland was really great and was fantastic at portraying the effects of a supervolcano on a global scale. With that said, Earthside is a huge letdown.

Like others have said, the politics of Earthside is a huge letdown. Its childish and two-dimensional. The only realistic thing is that a colony comprised of college students would certainly come up with such stupid ideas like blaming all the world's evils on the "Gerries".

What bothers me is that that idea is portrayed as something that should be taken seriously. Also, like in modern political discussions, everyone in the book who talks about someone being a fascist, communist, commie, socialist, etc only demonstrates that they have no idea what those terms mean. Its like Taylor took a bunch of political ideas and portrayals off of Reddit and called it a day.

The book spends an incredibly inordinate amount of time on politics with everyone debating stupid grand ideas (on every side) instead of admitting that they are barely a town and need to govern it like such. They weren't building a nation.

I was hoping for more stories about mounting different expeditions, contacting survivors, setting up more colonies, etc. Not the garbage we got.

While I routinely relisten to the whole Bobiverse series I dont think I'll relisten to this.

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