OYENTE

Dennis Jameson

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Undying Mercenary is comfort food for the mind.

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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: 04-02-25

When a new book comes out I clear the decks, pause whatever I'm listening to turn on, tune-in, and drop out. When an alien refers to the McGill Creature the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. And let the story unfold and the games begin. Larson is a gifted story teller but as good old McGill would say this series takes the cake. And as I say after every book in the series, this is the best one yet, and it is--until the next one. This one is special in that it doesn't end on a cliffhanger, but rather on an expanding (exploding?) horizon for the storyline of the McGill Creature! I just hope it doesn't take a year until the next volume. As for the narrator, Mark Boyett, he owns the story. Boyett literally breathes life into the story. I rewind just to listen to Boyett as much as I do to savor the last plot twist. Mark really sounds like he enjoys the story. Sometimes the suprise, even delight (relish?) sounds so genuine I expect to hear a chuckle. Well I find myself laughing out loud. Should be a new category, like SciCom!

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#1 Book on French in Nam

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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: 03-24-25

Also covers early days of our involvement. Fall was both an academic as well as a field researcher and his perspective is both factual and descriptive. This book along with Michael Herr's "Dispatches" are the 2 greatest works of non-fiction regarding the realities of war in Vietnam. they both had in common the drive not just to report on conditions in the field but from the field as well.

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Too Short

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-16-25

Ends not on a cliffhanger, but the ending is rather arbitrary, with no resolution of the main story, after a lengthy detour. if it takes less than 2 years before the next installment, a is forgiven. I don't like the feeling of being g trifled with. Elizabeth Klett's narration is perfectly delightful. There is something so delicious about the British female voice.

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Superficial Survey

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

Revisado: 02-21-25

Covered a lot of territory, and concentrated eclusily on the male kings and higher clergy. Started by apologizing for the lack of records regarding female participation to be able include them. But it turns out there were in fact numerous references, because their participation could not be ignored. in any case text concentrated exclusively on kings (Queens and consorts) and upper clergy. Nothing about minor lords and the retainers and peasants, and nothing about how anyone lived and interacted, commererce was largely ignored other aknoweldge sometimes were more prosperous than othets. Very little about surviving Britons, and even less about Anglo-Saxon homelands and what caused some to migrate and others to stay in Germany. There was a real disconnect between the ultra-haves, the haves and have nots. It left me with more questions than answers. Narration was good.

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Back At Last

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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: 02-11-25

It had been so long I wasn't sure if the stories hadn't run out. Didn't end on a cliff hanger, but sure seemed like a segway into more stories. It's been like waiting for the next Murderbot story to drop--forever! Narration was excellant, went back to listen to some parts I had gotten distracted from and it was always a pleasure to hear Marc Vietor.

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Outstanding Story, Problematic Narration

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

Revisado: 02-09-25

The story is factually correct about what we know of Caesar, the fictional part is layered by the author's experience as both a Marine Grunt and a SNCO. While profanity is Roman the sentiments are those of a Gunnery Sergeant. The narrator is English and the voice he uses for Caesar and others, sounds like his tongue is too large for his mouth, think of a more measured Daffy Duck. It's both prissy and posh. It is incongruous from what we know of Caesar. Prissy and posh delivered with a mouthful of tongue doesn't make Caesar sound like someone the legions would have performed such heroic and unsurpassed deeds for. There was no command voice only caricature. Caesar comes off as a pettyfogging bureaucrat, not a seasoned leader of grizzled veterans.

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Comfort Listening

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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-07-24

Tony and Anne Hillerman's books are special. They are, however, unlike any mystery, crime or police procedurals I've listened to or read. My tastes run to Mike Herron (Slow Horses), Mark Greaney (Gray Man), Nelson DeMille (John Corey), Michael Connelly (Bosch, Lincoln Lawyer), Linda La Plante (Jane Tennison), you catch my drift, but these books about the Navajo Tribal Police Officers (Leaphorn, Chee, Manuelito) are really opposite in pacing, cultural intrigue, belief system and bureaucracy, than the aforementioned authors and a few others (such as Michael Stephen Fuchs and B.V.Larson) whose most recent works I can't wait to listen too (even halting whatever I am listening to, to make way). The Hillerman Books I hold onto and wait for that special time when I want to go somewhere away from the modern world, and techno troubles, and go somewhere contemporary where life is lived at a walking pace, and technology has not entirely supplanted detective work. It's not fantasy and it's not the past--just a completely different set of equations. It's like chicken soup for the mind! The Navajo reservation is spread out over Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico, and interspersed are other Native American Reservations (Ute, Zuni, Apache, Comanche, and Hopi) each with their own tribal customs, taboos, laws, councils and police, not to mention the interspersed county and state governments and police jurisdictions, and superimposed over all this hodge-podge of competing jurisdictions is the FBI. (Even John Scalzi, in his wildest imagination, couldn't have invented such a tangled bureaucratic wonderland.) No, these books are to be savored. They aren't for everybody--my wife finds them boring, but then she has a hard time following the other books on my most wanted list--she likes Baldacci, Patricia Cornwall, Sue Grafton, which I find repetitious and sometimes over the top seeking more outlandish situations, to superimpose on the same plot. If you want to read something out of the ordinary, but not outlandish, and learn a lot about American History and Native American ethos you might be pleasantly surprised. Unsurprisingly it bears little resemblance to the TV Series, which is more like Starsky and Hutch in a man bun, with full tilt Hollywood rock 'em sock 'em, run roughshod over the respect for and attention to detail of the books. Just sayin' . . .

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Start Slow, but Roars to a Conclusion.

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

Revisado: 11-30-24

Started off slow, even lugubrious, had to put down for awhile. Then the next chapter started off with the comfortable feel of a workmanlike Connelly police procedural, then about half way thru the story was kicked into hi-gear. By the end it was full tilt boogie. Very engaging and even more satisfying. Maddie Bosch got to spread her wings, as her old man declines. the ensemble performance was well done, but the voice of Detective Ballard was especially good. All together a satisfying and worthwhile listen. I was sorry to see it end.

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Very Good

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 11-27-24

Held my attention to the end. Almost passed, glad I didn't. Amazon optioned the book, hope the series maintains the flavors, cultural differences and geographical contrasts. The narrator kicked it up a notch, hope she narrates the next book which I can't wait to listen too.

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Re-Read

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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: 11-07-24

Reminded me how much I like the Harrington series. I'm listening to them again!

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