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Mark

mcdebaca50

Mission Viejo, CA USA | Member Since 2010

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  • 16 reviews
  • 36 ratings
  • 161 titles in library
  • 35 purchased in 2013
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  • Executive Power: Mitch Rapp Series

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 3 mins)
    • By Vince Flynn
    • Narrated By George Guidall
    Overall
    (1460)
    Performance
    (1040)
    Story
    (1036)

    Returning from a covert mission, Mitch Rapp was publicly hailed by the president for his role in the fight against terrorism. After years of working in the shadows, Rapp was caught in the media spotlight - and marked for death by virtually every terrorist in the world. Now a CIA advisor, Rapp is ready to battle terror far from the front lines. But when a Navy SEAL team in the Philippines is ambushed, all evidence points to a leak within the U.S. State Department. And a greater threat lurks....

    Dan says: "Fast paced thriller(s)"
    "Another great listen"
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    Two stories intertwined that make it impossible to put down! Great for the drive from California to New Mexico.

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume I: Visions of Glory 1874-1932

    • UNABRIDGED (41 hrs and 24 mins)
    • By William Manchester
    • Narrated By Frederick Davidson
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (513)
    Performance
    (218)
    Story
    (218)

    Winston Churchill is perhaps the most important political figure of the 20th century. His great oratory and leadership during the Second World War were only part of his huge breadth of experience and achievement. Studying his life is a fascinating way to imbibe the history of his era and gain insight into key events that have shaped our time.

    Wolfpacker says: "Superb - Review of Both Volume I & Volume II"
    "The first part of the best Churchill Biography"
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    William Manchester is one of the great writers of our time and does the most extensive and readable biography of one of the most important individual of the 20th century.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Roads: Driving America's Great Highways

    • UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 30 mins)
    • By Larry McMurtry
    • Narrated By George Guidall
    Overall
    (30)
    Performance
    (10)
    Story
    (11)

    Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry sets out in Roads on an automotive odyssey exploring America's highways and the culture that has grown up on either side of them. Crisscrossing America in search of the present, the past and himself, McMurtry's route is also his destination.

    Todd says: "Gave it a shot...could put it down..."
    "Best real travel book I've heard"
    Overall
    Performance
    Story

    I know many of the places that he is described and they made me want to revisit them. I especially wanted to get the book about the old cowboy and found it on Amazon and have read it very good read and the book itself on travel was exceptionally well-written.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Frontiersmen: A Narrative

    • UNABRIDGED (30 hrs and 29 mins)
    • By Allan W. Eckert
    • Narrated By Kevin Foley
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (218)
    Performance
    (164)
    Story
    (166)

    The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from crimes committed back east. In the beautiful but deadly country which would one day come to be known as West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, more often than not they left their bones to bleach beside forest paths or on the banks of the Ohio River.

    Whitney says: "A Masterpiece for History Novel Enthusiasts!"
    "If you love the Frontier History listen!"
    Overall
    Performance
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    Very informing and loaded with history, would have liked more on Simon and Daniel Boons relationship but overall a great story.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Leaving Cheyenne

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 6 mins)
    • By Larry McMurtry
    • Narrated By John Randolph Jones
    Overall
    (54)
    Performance
    (20)
    Story
    (21)

    As the world enters a new century, three teenagers forge a future for themselves on the wild Texas grasslands: Gideon Fry, torn between going his way and following his father's footsteps; Johnny McCloud, whose restless spirit finds its solace traversing an open range; and Molly Taylor, the woman they both love. Rugged, bold and volatile, the three of them come of age in this tender and intimate novel of the heart.

    Molly-o says: "Excellent, simple story"
    "A bit disapointing"
    Overall
    Performance
    Story

    I have always enjoyed McMurtry's books but was disappointed in this one. I may have wanted more.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 36 mins)
    • By William Manchester
    • Narrated By Barrett Whitener
    Overall
    (243)
    Performance
    (77)
    Story
    (79)

    From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth, the Renaissance.

    Wallen says: "Ruined by the narrator"
    "One of my top 5 books of all time"
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    Manchester relates the time between the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the events that have shaped our world with the most compelling and objective perspective of history I have ever read!

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Extreme Measures: A Thriller

    • UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 7 mins)
    • By Vince Flynn
    • Narrated By George Guidall
    Overall
    (2437)
    Performance
    (847)
    Story
    (860)

    Mitch Rapp and his protege, Mike Nash, may have met their match. The CIA has detected and intercepted two terrorist cells, but a third is feared to be on the loose. Led by a dangerous mastermind obsessed with becoming the leader of al-Qaeda, this determined and terrifying group is about to descend on America.

    F says: "Kickass Thriller - With Politics!"
    "My first Rapp book"
    Overall
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    I am really excited after listening to my first Flynn book. A frind recommended this when he found out I liked Daniel Silvas books. I now have a favorite series to look forward to listening too.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Roughing It

    • UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 25 mins)
    • By Mark Twain
    • Narrated By Peter Berkrot
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (26)
    Performance
    (14)
    Story
    (16)

    This humorous travel book, based on Twain's stagecoach journey through the American West and his adventures in the Pacific islands, is full of colorful caricatures of outlandish locals and detailed sketches of frontier life. Roughing It describes how the narrator, a polite greenhorn from the East, is initiated into the rough-and-tumble society of the frontier.

    Barry says: "Roughing It Is the Best Twain Book"
    "One of my 5 favorite books of all time."
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    I read this many years ago and loved it. I have heard it on tape and now thru Audible. It is narrated so well that you can see Twain re-telling his story. I have listened to it once a year for many years, on long road trips with my adult children and laughed from begining to end. We discuse the prose and style of Twains writting and always come up withe new appreciation for this, in my opinion, Americas best author.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Down Sonora Way (Dramatized)

    • UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 2 mins)
    • By Louis L'Amour
    Overall
    (3)
    Performance
    (1)
    Story
    (1)

    Chick Bowdrie and Tensleep Mooney, a tough, wily, Wyoming cowhand, are locked in a stalemate with nothing between them but 60 yards and a Winchester.

    Then a wounded man, a woman, and two bedraggled kids appear in the distance, and just behind, the large dust cloud that means Apaches.

    Mark says: "Not well done"
    "Not well done"
    Overall
    Performance
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    The dramatized version was very poorly done and not a recommendation, unlike the book which was good.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Mountain Valley War

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 1 min)
    • By Louis L'Amour
    • Narrated By Jason Culp
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (34)
    Performance
    (31)
    Story
    (30)

    Holed up in a cabin in the Idaho hills, the mysterious man who called himself Trent wasn't looking for trouble. It came looking for him. A trigger-happy kid named Cub Hale emptied his gun into an unarmed man. Then he came swaggering after Trent. The girl who ran the gambling hall tried to get him to hightail it. But Trent wasn't buying. Even in that forsaken back country, he knew when a man had to speak with his shooting iron.

    Skaught says: "Same story as The Man Called Trent"
    "Good L'Amour read as always"
    Overall
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    Got the book on download in audible and another good listen for L'Amour fans as he always comes thru!

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful

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