Jeff Shaddock

Not the best Kingsbridge book, but it's great

Revisado: 10-29-23

As the title suggests, this isn't the best in the series, but it hits all the KF notes of memorable, developed characters, conflict and romance, and interweaving with actual historical events. For fans of the other Kingsbridge novels, I highly recommend.

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Wonderful story

Revisado: 01-12-23

A small story with a huge heart. I had very little knowledge about this story or the author before listening, but I was hooked right away and couldn't stop listening. Listening to this story is spending time with real, heartfelt, and heart warming characters. A superb listen and most certainly one of my recent favourites. If you're wondering whether you'll like this, you will.

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Great start, trails off at the end

Revisado: 01-08-22

This is a good summary of Jackson's life and career as a player and coach. the first half to two-thirds are excellent, with much insight into Jackson's thinking and philosophy interwoven with basketball stories. the last part devolves into a rushed summary of his last few seasons with the Lakers.

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Amazing reading!

Revisado: 09-18-21

Zahn's continuation of the Star Wars saga in the time after Return of the Jedi is at least as good as the films. Thompson's performance is superb - one of the best I've listened to!

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The birth of a genre

Revisado: 06-30-21

From what I understand, this is the first of the "post-apocalyptic" genre that is now so popular. the story itself is a little dry and at times slow, but that is more than made up by the character development of its main character, Ish. I came to this book from the video game series "The Last of Us" , where a minor character is named after this story's protagonist.

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Wonderful tale of personal science

Revisado: 06-15-21

This is the story of a woman's discovery that plants in forests are interconnected in ways that few in the scientific community had considered. Dr Simard spends much of her career trying to convince the forestry community to look at forests in a different way that simple cash crops. The author's personal life is well-woven into the story as well and presents both uplifting and sad moments. The narration (by the author) is excellent and I doubt could have been done better by anyone else.

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Expertly read, tough story

Revisado: 06-06-21

The narration by Mr Baker is very well done - some of the best I've listened to in an audiobook. The story was not what I expected. The father is a very difficult personality to spend a whole story with, which made the listen a challenge.

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Very hard to review - read below

Revisado: 03-28-21

The story is fantastic - if you're listening it's likely you know some of the story already. The production is fantastic (in parts - particularly the chapter starts by the princess). The major issue is that the use of voice actors is not consistent - e.g. sometime the Baron Harkonnen is voiced by the narrator, other times by a separate voice actor. worth a listen, but I don't know why they'd do this.

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Enjoyable, but not what I was expecting

Revisado: 03-05-21

Coming into the book, after hearing the author on CBC, I wasn't expecting as much personal information from the author. I was hoping for a book that dwelt more on "why fish don't exist". I did enjoy the book, and the author did a good job of reading, I was just hoping for more taxonomy

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Difficult listen, but enlightening

Revisado: 12-26-20

This is a hard "story" to hear - I was moved to tears more than once. I use quotes because it is the fact this is not fiction that makes the actions of so many of the characters so difficult to comprehend. Hochschild's research, pacing, and balance of anecdote with analysis is perfect - it's no wonder this book won two significant awards in 1999. be prepared to be moved.

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