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Echo Burning
- Jack Reacher, Book 5
- De: Lee Child
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 17 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,543
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,746
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,725
Thumbing across the scorched West Texas desert, loner Jack Reacher has nowhere to go and all the time in the world to get there. Cruising the same stretch of two-lane blacktop is pretty Carmen Greer. But for Reacher, the lift comes with a hitch. Carmen's got a story to tell, and it's a wild one. All about her husband, her family secrets, and a hometown that's pure Gothic. She's also got a plan. Jack Reacher's part of it. And before the sun sets, this ride could cost them both their lives.
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3 out of 5 stars
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very dissapointed
- De Amazonian en 12-23-15
- Echo Burning
- Jack Reacher, Book 5
- De: Lee Child
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
Save Yourself! Pass this one up!
Revisado: 01-23-19
I have loved the 10 Reacher books that I have listened to so far, so I was excited to start this one. Boy was I in for a disappointment!
The female protagonist may be the most whiney and irritating character I’ve encountered in my 500 plus books from Audible. The story is so slow to develop that it feels like hours of slow torture. I kept expecting it to pick up, but 10 hours in and I feel foolish for sticking with it this long.
As a Texan, I alternated between laughter and outrage at the completely false narrative on almost every subject. The hot weather became a major character in the plot, as it was mentioned every few paragraphs, which might be fascinating if it had any ring of truth. Child describes weather conditions of a make believe area with the temperatures of Phoenix and the humidity of Florida. Summer in Pecos might see some low humidity, 90 degree temperatures in the daytime with 60’s at night. It’s hard to continue interest in something so false when an hour of weather research before writing would have prevented the situation. Then, more dangerous, is the false narrative of prejudice, and even worse of Border Patrol Officers murdering teenagers. The attitudes and comments about “beaners” might have occurred in the 1950’s or 1960’s, but there are very few vestiges of such attitudes in modern Texas. I know that fiction is not reality, but please don’t try to sell books by defaming millions of people and attempting to create tensions between races that happened in the past and are healing now.
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Where Honor Dwells
- Appomattox Saga #3
- De: Gilbert Morris
- Narrado por: Maynard Villers
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
After the battle at Manassas, both North and South realize the nation's civil war will not be quickly resolved. Amidst the nation's struggle the Rocklin clan continues its own conflict: Vince Franklin, the renegade stepson of Amy Rocklin Franklin, has returned home. His intentions? To fulfill the requirements of his grandfather's will and claim his family inheritance, with no regard for the lives he may ruin in the process.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Where Honor Dwells
- De WMB en 03-22-24
- Where Honor Dwells
- Appomattox Saga #3
- De: Gilbert Morris
- Narrado por: Maynard Villers
Great book, problem with narration.
Revisado: 11-08-15
Would you consider the audio edition of Where Honor Dwells to be better than the print version?
I haven't read the print version. The audio was flawed in this. The first word in most sentences in this recording was almost cut off. When a proper noun was the first word of a sentence, one must rewind repeatedly to figure out the one partial syllable to guess the identity of the character in the scene. Rachel became "chl" or just "l" and Jake became a hard "k" sound. With some of the more minor characters, there are times that I never identified the character in the scene. It was a frustrating listen. I have downloaded over 350 books from Audible and have never had this experience before.
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