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A Great Return to the Rot and Ruin for the Imura's

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-07-25

Anything goes in the great Rot and Ruin and Benny, Nix, Lila and Chong find themselves in a very dangerous place. Tom Imura really is the bounty hunter that settlements count on to feel safe. The narrative tells like a western - think the Magnificent Seven. A huge threat to humanity emerges - kids grow up fast in the apocalypse and the zombies really are not the most dangerous thing out there.

Game Land is back and bigger than ever. It's a threat to people who are kidnapped to fight in zombie pits for sport. This is how a band of brothers, friends and bounty hunters rise up together to right a massive wrong being done in the Rot and Ruin. Coming of age is cliche here, but there is a sadness here as the survivors try to make a better world. That world bites back.

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A Young Adult Venture into the Zombie Apocalypse

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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-07-25

I wanted to try this series and was pretty excited when it came in as a free selection. As a big fan of the Joe Ledger books and the the Imura brothers tales of the apocalypse, I had built this up. As a young adult fictional trajectory into the apocalypse, it tends to pull the punches on the grittiness of the other characters.

Ray Porter does his usual awesome job delivering a ton of characters voices. Even the Raggedy Man and his guttural voice give the tension knob another turn.

Just go in knowing it was written for a young adult audience or closer to Maberry's comic book fiction. Good, just not for everyone.

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Historical Fiction at It's Finest

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-07-25

This is a fictional story about the legendary fighter Jack Johnson. If you don't know his story, this fictional account might prompt you to read up on perhaps the greatest prizefighter of all time.

Joe R. Lansdale delivers again with the backdrop of an actual hurricane that hit Galveston in the early 1900's. Leave it to Lansdale to focus on a prizefight between Johnson and a hired killer. It's a tense narrative alternating between the growing storm, the harrowing escape across an access bridge for the island population and a young family who must make sure their baby survives at any cost.

Brad Sanders did an excellent job giving a raw edge to Jack Johnson's upbringing as a black man in a racist society. This is an excellent piece of historical fiction and told by someone who cares about everyman's story. This is Lansdale and you should listen to all the Hap and Leonard stories you can. You won't be sorry.

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A Serial Killer Stalking a Porn Star? Yes Please!

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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-09-25

I absolutely loved this story when I first discovered Robert McCammon in college. And it still stands the test of time. It's like a transmission from the 1980's, but aside from the references to porn video tapes, The story of Deborah Rocks and Father John "Lucky" is one of a pornstar who aspires to be a real actress and a young priest who questions his chosen path with the church. Their initial meeting is innocent enough, their relationship sweet and maybe a bit sad and the cloud of a serial killer targeting Deborah is unknown to either until late in the story.

It's a terrific story that pays homage to the human ability to lose their way, question the path ahead and shift. Bronson Pinchot tried a bit too hard in voicing Travis as the serial killer and Hoss. But, hey, he's Bronson Pinchot. Whether you remember him as Serge or Cousin Blaki.

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All the Chaos of Making SNL Great

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
2 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-02-25

If you are an SNL fan, you have heard some of the mythos of how frantic the pace of making each episode can be. The writers, set designers, costuming, talent and so much more. But Susan Morrison really takes the show's idiosyncrasies and brings them together in this biography of Lorne Michaels.

If you are looking for funny anecdotes of backstory, you won't necessarily get it. Instead you get a feel for how Lorne Michaels was made - even more so than how Lorne Michaels made SNL. The man was young and talented for comedy in the TV media in the 1960's and into the 1970's when it counted. His search for perfect comedy is admirable, but he seems to learn well from an uncanny ability to deflect, charm and survive. You get a first hand feel for how he has built SNL to become an American cultural comedy icon.

My one issue with the audiobook is that of the primary narrator Kristen DiMercurio. She uses accents for British quotes of the likes of Paul McCartney and that was fine. But then, she does her own Lorne voice. I mean, if you listen to "Fly on the Wall," a podcast with Spade and Carvey, they have their own imitations. Most of the staff in the book have their own Lorne impression. Ms. DiMercurio's impression just took away from the narrative. Leave it to the comedians. She also mispronounced several names of people and characters of SNL lore. In writing this review I remember off the top of my head her misprouncement of Mary Katherine Gallagher and Tim Herlihy's last name. Maybe not a big deal, but I would have hoped the narrator would have been a fan or had notes on pronouncements of names.

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McCammon's Homage to the Twilight Zone's Anthony

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-04-25

It is fitting that Yellowjacket Summer appeared in "Twilight Zone" magazine. The story may be familiar if you are fan of the show as it is is similar to Anthony Fremont's story. That of a boy who had horrible powers and ruled as a child in a small town. Ruled by fear. For sure, McCammon takes his own twist and it is glorious. You might also get a little of Stephen King's "Children of the Corn" vibe. Fun, free listen that takes less than an hour. Highly recommend this one.

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Pre-Origin Story of Repairman Jack Sets Up Series

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
2 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-01-25

After reading some reviews and talking to some other Repairman Jack readers, I saw this one get offered in Audible Plus. It was a pleasant surprise and sets up Jack's special person of interest with the Otherness. You get to see a 1980's version of Jack with Weezie and her brother in the New Jersey Pine Barrens as they find a body and artifacts of the Otherness and the Secret History.

Some of the story is told like a Young Adult novel and I guess in some ways that is what it was to be. There are plenty of 1980's references to go with Jack's fix it nature. You even meet Abe's uncle who has hired Jack at his antique curiosities shop in town where he teaches Jack about lock picking. Even Kate and brother Tom are part of the story which sets up the love-hate relationship demonstrated between the brothers in "Infernals." The pistachio payback is one of the earliest of Repairman Jack's fix it jobs as an adolescent.

Unfortunately I thought the narrator Alexander Cendese tried way too hard to make it sound like an episode of Scooby Doo. No Zoinks! But you will know it when you hear his voices for Weezie's brother and Jack's friend Steve. The depiction of Jack's brother Tom's eating corn and speaking was a bit monotonous. It did take away from the story for me, but only a bit.

Great story and I look forward to finishing the trilogy.

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An Origin Story for Repairman Jack

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-21-25

A young but confident Repairman Jack finally looks up Abe at the Isher Sporting Goods Store and finds some smuggling work. It doesn't take long for Jack to get mixed up in human trafficking that his honor will not allow him to walk away from without releasing the kids being led to an auction for traffickers.

I loved meeting Abe and Julio for the first time. There is plenty of Jack being Jack, but you can hear his innocence melt away. As part of a trilogy, it kind of just stops, so I am eager to pick up the next one in the series.

It is set in 1990, one year after Jack's mother was killed by the overpass assailant. Alexander Cendese does a great impression of Ray Liotta's narrative from Goodfellas. I really enjoy his voice. He has Abe's yiddish brogue along with Julio's Puerto Rican accent down cold. This is a great one to start up with Repairman Jack. He is simply one of the best characters in all of adventure fiction.

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Beyond the Great Rot and Ruin

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-17-25

It was great to merge storylines for Joe Ledger and the Tom Imura. You even get war canines that will seriously make you wonder how they stay fed without eating the undead. This is a great addition to the zombie apocalypse genre and Ray Porter is the only voice to bring it all together.

If you haven't read Jonathan Maberry, give it a try. The zombies are real, the bad guys rougher and the martial arts play-by-play is a huge part of the story. Effortless. Great characters.

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First Hand Apocalypse Account from Local Policeman

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-13-25

The perspective is somewhat unique in that a San Antonio PD officer, with a newborn son and young wife, must perform his duty to suppress the zombie outbreak. Part police protocol and another part survival story in a search to find his young family, the fight scenes are savage and brutal. Everywhere is chaos and a dimming hope of finding safety as a family. Another free purchase. Wade in to see if you like Joe McKinney's version of the zombie apocalypse.

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