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Great plot, story, characters but . . .

Revisado: 03-30-25

Great writing in typical Sandford style but after reading 35 Prey novels, all the Flowers series and the Letty series, I feel more than a little upset and jilted. Hopefully Sandford resolves the issue in the next Prey book (if there is one) and hopefully at my age I live long enough to read it.

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Expertise but waaaay toooo loooong

Revisado: 01-29-25

No doubt Prof. Brier is extremely knowledgable. But 48 lectures is way too long, especially as his speaking style is repetitive along with a strong tendency to go down rabbit holes or get lost in the weeds. Splitting the course into two, one chronological, the other to deal with how ancient Egyptians lived might be helpful.

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Meh

Revisado: 12-27-24

There's a reason this story bombed as a movie at the box office despite starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone and Samuel Jackson. The reason is the story is not that good but had great potential.

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What's given credence and tends to go off-track

Revisado: 12-27-24

Throughout the book, Prof. Cline warns that ancient sources should be taken with a large grain of salt when extolling the virtues and actions of the various leaders and kings, EXCEPT when it comes to what he terms the Hebrew Bible - this he seemingly takes at face value.

Another point which may be just me, when telling about various and sundry kings, pharaohs, monuments, cities, etc. he constantly interrupts the narrative to give background information on who and when artifacts were discovered, what happened to the artifacts, where they're now kept and so on. This information lends itself to being put in footnotes so as not to disrupt the flow of the main narrative. Bad enough in print, very distracting in audible format. His editor should have stepped in.

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An honest appraisal

Revisado: 12-16-24

A very honest appraisal of how the right goes ever to the right, becomes ever more narrow and exclusive.

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Well researched on a deeply relevant topic

Revisado: 12-08-24

Although the autocracies may not be working hand-in-glove they are mutually beneficial to each other. The danger is real.

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Major plot points were telegraphed including the groom

Revisado: 11-23-24

Spoilers: By the time the apartment was painted, we knew who Robin Hood was. Morelli is a bad choice, He’s always been portrayed as a kind of teenager that never really grew up. Stephanie will be 2nd fiddle to the Rangers, the Giants, the poker game, and the Morelli women. Not to mention what happens when Morelli finds out (and he will) Stephanie was banging Ranger within 3 weeks of the wedding. By book 33, she’ll have cranked out 2 kids and become a trad wife or they’ll be divorced. Ranger on the other hand took himself from nothing to a success, who ALWAYS dropped everything to put himself and all his resources at Plum’s disposal.

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Very good until the conclusions

Revisado: 11-14-24

The authors seem to think the over-concentration of capitalism increasingly held by the wealthy can be solved by legislation while failing to realise Citizen’s United also allowed the wealthy to overly concentrate their hold on the legislators.

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Not the best Reacher

Revisado: 10-30-24

Not the best, requires a bit more suspension of disbelief than I like. But any Reacher is good Reacher

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Coming of the Terror, indeed

Revisado: 08-12-24

A general history of the French Revolution that essentially ends with the downfall of Robespierre. It's told mostly through anecdotal recitations of letters and diaries to support the author's conclusions. (This seems to be a recurring theme in many histories today, makes one wonder if historians two and a half centuries from now will base conclusions on postings in 4Chan, Tumblr and Grinder?) IMO, the author should have shortened the time frame and not begun with pre-revolutionary France but expounded more broadly on the immediate causes of the Terror, say after the flight of Louis XVI to Varennes? But to each his own. It is obvious the author did a tremendous amount of research, so much so that it seemed he got me lost in the weeds several times. So much so that by the time he gets to the Terror, the horrors of it though mentioned aren't fully exposed.

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