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Enthralling and interesting Story

Revisado: 03-12-24

Overall a good listen. Wish they could keep their politics out, but today’s writers are not skilled enough to do that.

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King is masterful as always

Revisado: 03-14-21

An enthralling story as King always delivers. Borrowed concepts from other stories and recycled from his own stuff as well. King has really lost touch with the real world but even his bad stuff is entertaining. Glad he kept his political views out of this one as no one wants to hear the political rants of a man whose been in his own bubble for 50 years.

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Great memoir

Revisado: 11-10-18

Really captures the truth of it. This book really shows a soldier’s view of the Pacific conflict.

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Great SciFi kept me in it the whole time

Revisado: 02-13-16

This is a great science fiction story with interesting technical aspects by a very knowledgeable author. Glad there are more in this saga to look forward to!

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extremely MEH with a great performance

Revisado: 01-29-15

I really like and appreciate when a story is 'performed' versus just read aloud. I do like just read aloud as well. this was a great job of performing the book. They story on the other hand...(spoilers follow)

Extremely bland scifi. Felt like it was 'science for dummies'. If you are technical and science minded (or a big time scifi fan), this story is borderline insulting in how everything is explained way too much. Maybe good as scifi 'lite'. If you've ever enjoyed Pournelle and Niven, you'll be bored by this. The main female character is just annoying and hardly believable in the setting. Maybe just a little too idealistic and the author makes no attempt to hide his effort to shove his agenda down the readers throat. Saves me the trouble of reading more Cawdon for sure.

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A great read and a great follow up

Revisado: 04-02-13

A great read and a great follow up to The Passage. The story was technically sound and very interesting. Narration was great.

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not bad, not remarkable

Revisado: 01-06-13

One thing that struck me right away was that Crews left no adjective or cliche unused in this book! I almost turned it off in the first hour as every line sounds so verbose. The story did hook me a little and then I got into it. I can't say that I enjoyed it as much as I just followed it. Sure seems that Crews is highly influenced by Stephen Kings Gunslinger in where this story is going, certainly not saying it is anywhere in the ballpark with the Dark Tower series.

Really good books I will listen to twice, I certainly won't do that here.

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interesting idea and well done

Revisado: 03-04-12

This is a good read. I read (listened) to it twice. There are a lot of small details that I picked up second time through.

I know this book has a powerful message and in the end, made me hungry. I sure didn't make me a vegetarian. I am not easily swayed.

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I took a 10 year break from Stephen King

Revisado: 03-05-10

I took a 10 year break from Stephen King and was completely surprised at how predictable this story was. I'm not sure how King stories over the last 10 years have gone, but this one seemed to be a template for King stories. Same characters good and bad with same results. An interesting premise and the story held me. Overall a real dissapointment that is was a cookie cuter King story.

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Great story, great narration

Revisado: 09-01-09

I haven't listened to 800+ audio books, but I have listened to a lot of audio books read by the author. When done so, it is always the best reading as nobody conveys the ideas of the author better. Sigler does a good job of 'performing' the book for the audience. Good story, lots of action.

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