Dr. Jonathan Newman

Love this series

Revisado: 01-11-20

If you like action, spy thrillers, military and the detail and plot of a Tom Clancy book, then this series is for you!

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Not great

Revisado: 12-31-19

I’m sure it was cathartic for McGarry to write this but it’s not really a book length story. There was about 10 minutes worth of the action he sets out to tell. The rest is a rather uneventful and uninteresting story of a young soldier’s 4 years on active duty.

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Epic saga

Revisado: 10-09-19

This last book in the trilogy if even more epic than the first two put together. I enjoyed the trilogy but it did sometimes drag on with excessive detail and explanation. It’s also a bit difficult to keep all the characters straight through 60 odd hours of narrative. Finally there are many threads of the narrative that go nowhere. Still I highly recommend the books.

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Complex narrative arc

Revisado: 04-10-19

This is a highly enjoyable book, well performed with a tight story. Very well thought out and complex story. My only quibble is that there are long stretches in the book where the author explains things to the reader rather than let the actions do this. And some of those long explanations are more detailed than is probably necessary. Still, I’d recommend it to science fiction fans and who like the emphasis on the science.

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Detailed military history

Revisado: 03-26-18

Like everything Atkinson writes, well researched, thorough, and detailed. I’ve listened to most of his work. This is just as good as his other stuff. Riggenbach did a good just with the narration but the a long pauses peppered throughout. I assume they indicate new paragraphs. They are a little off putting but not ruinously so.

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Quirky but interesting view of history

Revisado: 08-25-17

This is a fascinating look at history from the end WW2 until the end of Obama's administration. It's obviously not complete and yet it gives the reader insight into modern history.

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Not what I expected but enjoyable

Revisado: 07-08-17

I guess I didn't spend long enough checking this book out before getting it. I was under the impression it was more of a story than it turned out to be. What it really is vignettes from the author's life, interspersed with personal observation, statistics, and results of sociological studies, on the plight of hillbilly America. It's interesting and somewhat heartbreaking. The author narrates and dies a great job of it. I think I learned a lot about a world I hardly know.

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Not great literature but enjoyable

Revisado: 05-19-17

It's a bit like an old Tom Clancy novel. Lots of details about technology and tactics. Not great character development and what there is isn't terribly convincing. Nevertheless I enjoyed this novel and have gone on to listen to the next book in the series.

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Thoughtful, entertaining and inspiring

Revisado: 02-23-17

An outstanding history of growing up black during the waning years of apartheid in South Africa. Noah is a wonderful writer and an outstanding narrator. I highly recommend this book!

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Padded and stilted

Revisado: 02-05-17

It felt as if the author's first hand account of this ferocious battle wasn't enough to make a whole book, so the story is drawn out by interspersing it with asides on the history of the marine corps, the Vietnam War, and America in the 1960's. But little is done to connect the historical asides to the bigger story. There is no real attempt to reconcile the author's experiences with what we now understand of America's experience in that war. Plus, much of the language sounds like a B movie script. I was expecting better and was a bit disappointed. Unless you are a total buff of the genre, you can safely pass on this one.

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