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Rebel World
- Undying Mercenaries, Book 22
- De: B.V. Larson
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
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Things have gone bad among the colonies. Insurgents are building alien-hybrid armies and planet-killing weapons, threatening to upend the fragile balance of power in Province 921. There's not only trouble in the province—the Core Worlds are igniting as well. The Mogwa have asserted claims upon the Imperial Throne, causing their rivals to move against them. Earth's Hegemony and the rebels are pulled into a conflict that could tear the galaxy apart.
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It's AI slop
- De Jeffrey Graw en 04-07-25
- Rebel World
- Undying Mercenaries, Book 22
- De: B.V. Larson
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
Undying Mercenary is comfort food for the mind.
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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Street Without Joy
- The French Debacle in Indochina
- De: Bernard B. Fall
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 13 h y 10 m
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In this classic account of the French war in Indochina, Bernard B. Fall vividly captures the sights, sounds, and smells of the savage eight-year conflict in the jungles and mountains of Southeast Asia from 1946 to 1954. The French fought well to the last, but even with the lethal advantages of airpower, they could not stave off the Communist-led Vietnamese nationalists, who countered with a hit-and-run campaign of ambushes, booby traps, and nighttime raids. Defeat came at Dien Bien Phu, in 1954, setting the stage for American involvement and opening another tragic chapter in Vietnam's history.
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In 1964 this was our Vietnam textbook
- De Mike en 05-31-13
- Street Without Joy
- The French Debacle in Indochina
- De: Bernard B. Fall
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
#1 Book on French in Nam
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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A Brief, Interminable Peace
- Alexis Carew, Book 7
- De: J.A. Sutherland
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Klett
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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After years of service in the Royal Navy, Lieutenant Alexis Carew finds herself adrift—physically and emotionally—on her homeworld of Dalthus IV. Haunted by injuries and political intrigue from her last mission, Alexis struggles to reclaim the precision and strength that once made her a formidable officer. But even the peace of a quiet retreat proves elusive when shadowy threats from her past resurface. Summoned by the Queen herself, Alexis is thrust back into the heart of interstellar danger and royal politics.
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Alexis Carew is BACK!!
- De Amazon Customer en 04-21-25
- A Brief, Interminable Peace
- Alexis Carew, Book 7
- De: J.A. Sutherland
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Klett
Too Short
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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The Anglo-Saxons
- A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 - 1066
- De: Marc Morris
- Narrado por: Roy McMillan
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these people across the next six centuries. It explains how their earliest rulers fought relentlessly against each other for glory and supremacy, and then were almost destroyed by the onslaught of the vikings.
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"Pretty Good"
- De Stephen en 05-30-21
- The Anglo-Saxons
- A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 - 1066
- De: Marc Morris
- Narrado por: Roy McMillan
Superficial Survey
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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Always Legion
- Galaxy's Edge: Order of the Centurion, Book 7
- De: Jason Anspach, Peter Nealen, Nick Cole
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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With his team cut off from all support, Dav falls back on his Legion training to keep those around him alive. But when he forges an alliance with a stranded Legion squad and planetary natives looking to stand up to those seeking to topple their government, an opportunity to save the small planet presents itself...if Dav and his ragged team of outnumbered and outgunned warriors can survive long enough to take it.
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Pure kill them first
- De Brian T. Warthen en 11-24-23
- Always Legion
- Galaxy's Edge: Order of the Centurion, Book 7
- De: Jason Anspach, Peter Nealen, Nick Cole
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
Back At Last
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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Marching with Caesar: Civil War
- De: R.W. Peake
- Narrado por: Simon Burdett
- Duración: 27 h y 21 m
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In the third volume of the critically acclaimed Marching with Caesar series, Titus Pullus and his friends in the 10th Legion are called on to serve as the agents of change as their general, Gaius Julius Caesar singlehandedly changes the Roman Republic to Empire.
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Loved this
- De mojolewis en 03-26-25
- Marching with Caesar: Civil War
- De: R.W. Peake
- Narrado por: Simon Burdett
Outstanding Story, Problematic Narration
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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Lost Birds
- A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel
- De: Anne Hillerman
- Narrado por: Jessica Matten
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child’s blanket.
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More complicated plot line.
- De Bill B en 05-17-24
- Lost Birds
- A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel
- De: Anne Hillerman
- Narrado por: Jessica Matten
Comfort Listening
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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The Waiting
- Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch, Book 6
- De: Michael Connelly
- Narrado por: Christine Lakin, Titus Welliver, Madison Lintz
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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Renée Ballard and the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the city of angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles. Meanwhile, Ballard’s badge, gun, and ID are stolen.
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Too Political and Preachy! Is there a story here?
- De jason f mccullough en 10-17-24
- The Waiting
- Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch, Book 6
- De: Michael Connelly
- Narrado por: Christine Lakin, Titus Welliver, Madison Lintz
Start Slow, but Roars to a Conclusion.
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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The Spy Coast
- A Thriller (The Martini Club, Book 1)
- De: Tess Gerritsen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber, Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong. These days, she’s living quietly on her chicken farm, still wary of blowback from the events that forced her early retirement. But when a body turns up in Maggie’s driveway, she knows it’s a message from former foes who haven’t forgotten her. Maggie turns to her local circle of old friends—all retirees from the CIA—to help uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why.
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OUTSTANDING!!!!
- De shelley en 11-01-23
- The Spy Coast
- A Thriller (The Martini Club, Book 1)
- De: Tess Gerritsen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber, Brittany Pressley
Very Good
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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Changer of Worlds
- Worlds of Honor #3
- De: David Weber, Eric Flint
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson, Victor Bevine, Lauren Fortgang, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
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Lady Dame Honor Harrington - starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess - has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore against all comers. Along the way, she has become the legend known as "the Salamander" from her habit of always being where the fire is hottest... and also a national best seller.
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Honor Harrington Universe Book 10
- De Professor en 10-17-12
- Changer of Worlds
- Worlds of Honor #3
- De: David Weber, Eric Flint
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson, Victor Bevine, Lauren Fortgang, L. J. Ganser
Re-Read
Revisado: 11-07-24
Reminded me how much I like the Harrington series. I'm listening to them again!
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