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Bart

Beamsville, Ontario, Canada | Member Since 2007

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  • 6 reviews
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  • 605 titles in library
  • 33 purchased in 2013
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  • The Innocent: A Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 14 mins)
    • By David Baldacci
    • Narrated By Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (2015)
    Performance
    (1601)
    Story
    (1608)

    Will Robie may have just made the first - and last - mistake of his career.... It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable: He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people.

    Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a 14-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway....

    andrea says: "I Hope There's a Sequel!!"
    "Good Solid Action"
    Overall
    Performance
    Story

    This was a good solid book. Everything I expect from David Baldacci. I know many are complaining about the sound effects but honestly I only noticed them because people pointed them out. Yes it's a bit different with the effects but the book takes you in and it just becomes a part of the whole experience. Hope there are more books with these characters in the future.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Trikon Deception

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 31 mins)
    • By Ben Bova, Bill Pogue
    • Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki
    Overall
    (11)
    Performance
    (11)
    Story
    (10)

    In the future as Bova here imagines it, Earth is an ecological nightmare, and humanity may well go the way of the dinosaurs. But overhead orbits salvation. A vast metallic island in space, the Trikon station conducts genetic research too risky to be done on earth - research that could save the planet.

    John I Scanlon says: "Editing, What's Editing?"
    "Good Mystery"
    Overall
    Performance
    Story

    A decent story with some fun characters though the technology seems dated. An overall good standalone novel and mystery. Doesn't need any sequels and not Bova's best but worth listening to if you're a Bova fan.

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • Battle Station: Star Force, Book 5

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 43 mins)
    • By B. V. Larson
    • Narrated By Mark Boyett
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (652)
    Performance
    (605)
    Story
    (606)

    In Battle Station, Kyle Riggs faces new challenges, new alien fleets, and learns the secrets behind the war he has been fighting for years. In the fifth book of the Star Force Series, the Eden system is in humanity's grasp, but can they keep it? Star Force is weak after a long war, and many yearn to go home. Knowing the machines will return with a new armada eventually, Riggs seeks a more permanent solution. Along the way, worlds are won and lost, millions perish, and great truths are revealed.

    William says: "Non-stop Sci-Fi Action"
    "Furthers Story Line Well!"
    Overall
    Performance
    Story

    This book picks up the action well and keeps it going. Adds well to the story line and fills in many needed points. Ends without a major cliffhanger that will bother you all through the wait to the next book. Some real fun twists in this book and some of the usual characters from the previous books are missing for much of the book giving a break to the hero's comical love life. Over all a good solid book and addition to the series.

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • Midst Toil and Tribulation: Safehold Series, Book 6

    • UNABRIDGED (28 hrs and 30 mins)
    • By David Weber
    • Narrated By Kevin T. Collins
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (304)
    Performance
    (279)
    Story
    (276)

    After centuries of stasis, the island kingdom of Charis began to defy the edicts of the Church of God Awaiting - egged on, some say, by the mysterious warrior-monk Merlin Athawes. Now, in the wars and intrigues that have cascaded from Charis's declaration of independence, the populous Republic of Siddermark is sliding into chaos.

    Professor says: "Stop changing Narrators!!!!!!!!!!!!"
    "Good book bad reading."
    Overall
    Performance
    Story

    The book is quite good and fills in the story as expected but I couldn't get over the reading itself. I think this is the third narrarator in this series and that's livable but what isn't is that he couldn't be bothered to listen to previous books and keep all the pronunciations the same. All the character names, realm and city names are so misspronunced it's difficult to follow the story. It seems disrespectful for a narrator to take on a reading like this without doing some research and to pretty much completely wreck the book. All I know is I couldn't get past it and that I'm very dissapointed.

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • The Sam Gunn Omnibus, Volume 1

    • UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 53 mins)
    • By Ben Bova
    • Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Janice Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, and others
    Overall
    (70)
    Performance
    (11)
    Story
    (11)

    A hero without peer or scruples, Sam Gunn has a nose for trouble, money, and women - though not necessarily in that order. A man with the ego (and stature) of a Napoleon, the business acumen of a P. T. Barnum, and the raging hormones of a teenage boy, Sam is the finest astronaut NASA ever trained and dumped. But more than money, more than women, Sam Gunn loves justice. (And he really does love money and women.)

    Bart says: "Great Stories"
    "Great Stories"
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    I found these stories to be fun and well written, although the short story setup was a surprise. Gunn is just a great character and the stories are both clever and fun to listen to. Both volumes were worth listening to and add a good amount of plot to the infamous Sam Gunn always being mentioned in many of the other Grand Tour books. I enjoyed these stories very much.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Cally's War: Legacy of the Aldenata

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 23 mins)
    • By John Ringo
    • Narrated By Marc Vietor
    Overall
    (243)
    Performance
    (136)
    Story
    (138)

    Cally O'Neal, from Ringo's best seller Hell's Faire, stars in this New York Times best seller - a fast-paced interplanetary adventure that finds the trained killer locked in a battle to reclaim her lost soul.

    john says: "Better than the reviews"
    "Amusing and entertaining!"
    Overall
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    I thought the book was pretty well done. It was not all that racy and it was pretty amusing. I would point out that the things Cally does kept the storyline where it needed to be with the type of role her character has taken on. Far too many people complained about it being explicit but it would seem that this was simply the wrong type of book for them rather than any problem with the book itself. The main thing I enjoy about John Ringo's writing is the directness and allowing the books to go to the place they need to rather than placating political correctness. The world is what it is and though the story is fiction much of Cally's behavior is well within the ugly realities of life.

    2 of 3 people found this review helpful

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