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Too many call backs

Revisado: 02-19-24

I love this universe and his writing; there were too many callbacks to the other books without sufficient context.

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The new aliens are dumb

Revisado: 12-03-22

Geary wouldn’t be so naive w the new aliens; it feels like 1/2 of a book.

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The A-Team in Space Origin Story

Revisado: 10-14-21

Lots of tropes are used, but the pacing and narrator make it work. Not a technical or challenging listen, but a good story.

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Great Story, Great - and different - narrator

Revisado: 09-27-21

Awesome book. Very prescient. Narrator is different and takes getting used to. Very good. Satire? Scifi? Dystopian? All
Of the above.

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Brutal first 100 minutes; I'm stopping

Revisado: 09-20-21

The first 100 minutes is about a solar powered sentient toy who wants to be purchased and their time in a store.

I love the narrator, cool ideas are put forward, but the pacing is very slow. On coming here to read other reviews - i'm not alone, so I'm stopping now.

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New Characters, New Background, Same Great Sci-fi

Revisado: 02-04-21

I love the altered carbon series - and the tv shows too. Morgan pulls his future forward, creating a new future set on Mars and a new hero, the Outrider, with a similar skill set and approach as Takeshi Kovacs.

There’s just enough new and different to keep things going. Great narrator - definitely written for an adult audience.

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Chernow - Always Reliable

Revisado: 01-18-21

Excellent subject, great writer. Very thorough, presented in an interesting fashion - not just a pure timeline, the book is organized into themes. Great narrator.

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Loved Bob - meh on this

Revisado: 08-13-18

This book is the bobiverse + Dark Forest / 3rd body type sci-fi. Protagonist is a cut/copy of Bob, which is fine, but the story doesn’t really pay off.

My plan is to give book 2 a short listen before giving up.

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Buy and Listen

Revisado: 06-13-15

This is an outstanding text and narration to either begin or further your knowledge of Wellington, Waterloo or Napoleon.

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Doesn't translate to Audio

Revisado: 02-04-15

[I am not all the way through this book.]

I'm 2 hours in and about to abandon this; it does not appear to translate to an audio format. The paper book is only available as hardback and appears to be a decorative / coffee table type book that is part of a series focused on the photography and global events that went on during this period of the American space program.

There have been some interesting parts on the space program, BUT - out of two hours of listening it seems that at least 60% has been about the impact that was had on others during this time period as they saw the moon landings occurred. This includes; (i) a future American astronaut, (ii) a Czech citizen, and (iii) US military personnel detained in Vietnam at the Hanoi Hilton.

While these sidebars are culturally relevant, they are a major part of the audio program and are not reflected in the description provided by Audible. Further, they are just jumped into - I find myself wondering what is going on and what the tie in is to the program.

Again, at an early point in the book it does not appear to be well fit for an audio format and I would not recommend it. I am now about to start skipping chapters to see if there is more context elsewhere in the production.

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