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John

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  • Born to Win: Find Your Success Code | [Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar]
    Born to Win: Find Your Success Code
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    Born to Win: Find Your Success Code

    • UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 31 mins)
    • By Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar
    • Narrated By Andy Andrews
    Overall
    (82)
    Performance
    (71)
    Story
    (71)

    Zig Ziglar’s Born to Win, compresses four decades of life-changing tools and practices into one inspiring, concise, easy-to-use format for people who want to grow and improve the whole spectrum of their lives now!

    Celia says: "YES YES YES!"
    "Rehash of Zig's older material plus Jesus Christ"
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    Zig admits early on that he is getting older and chances are that this is his last book. In this book Zig passes the mantle of leadership to his son, Tom Ziglar. Zig also mentions that this book is the best of everything that he has learned over the years. It is a rehash of his previous material that is very good for new listeners or seasoned listeners that need a review. For over thirty years I have seen Zig perform live and read or listened to his books. It is unfortunate that his message over the years has become excessively Christ oriented and religious. Zig has always credited his success to his becoming a Born Again Christian. However his relationship with Christ is excessively pushed in this book. If you enjoy crediting everything that happens to you to Jesus Christ then this is the book for you. If not then skip this one and get a book from earlier in his career.













    2 of 3 people found this review helpful
  • Shadows Fall | [Simon R. Green]
    Shadows Fall
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    Shadows Fall

    • UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 58 mins)
    • By Simon R. Green
    • Narrated By Kevin Stillwell
    Overall
    (22)
    Performance
    (20)
    Story
    (20)

    Considered by the author to be his finest work yet, this is a novel of realistic detail, heartfelt emotion, and dazzling imagination that builds a world listeners won't want to leave and spins a tale they won't want to end. In a town of amazing magicks, where the real and the imagined live side by side and the Faerie of legend know the automatons of the future, Time sees all - but even he cannot escape the prophecy of James Hart's return, which can only mean the death of Shadows Fall.

    John says: "A wild ride with Simon R. Green"
    "A wild ride with Simon R. Green"
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    Excellent book and a wild ride! I have listened to all of the author's Nightside books as well as his Secret Histories. I was expecting the same writing style in Shadows Fall and a continuation of the descriptions of Shadows Fall as described in the Nightside books. For the first two chapters I did not think much of the book or the reader because I was expecting a Nightside connection that was not there. By the third chapter the book and the reader became excellent. I was totally drawn in and couldn't stop listening. I listen in my car and found myself inventing places to go just so I could listen to the book. The readers range of voices and characters is amazing and it is easy to tell the characters apart by the voices. He does male voices, female voices and accents.

    All of Simon R. Greens books have some horror and violence tempered with tongue in cheek humor to soften it. Not so in this book. This book is more Simon R. Green meets Stephen King. The book does contain Greens's usual whimsical characters but once it gets going the horror and violence are unrelenting and graphic. If nothing in the Nightside series has disturbed you then you will be fine with this book. Highly recommended for the Simon R. Green fan. Also recommended if you have never listened to Green as the book stands on it's own.

    Minor Spoiler Ahead!

    If you are a Christian who offends easily do not buy this book, I'm sure an offended Christian listener will post a review going into more detail but I will not.

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet | [Andrew Blum]
    Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
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    Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 25 mins)
    • By Andrew Blum
    • Narrated By Andrew Blum
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (66)
    Performance
    (62)
    Story
    (63)

    Almost everything about our day-to-day lives - and the broader scheme of human culture - can be found on the Internet. But what is it physically? And where is it really? Our mental map of the network is as blank as the map of the ocean that Columbus carried on his first Atlantic voyage. The Internet, its material nuts and bolts, is an unexplored territory. Until now. In Tubes, Andrew Blum goes inside the Internet's physical infrastructure and flips on the lights, revealing a fresh look at the online world we think we know.

    John says: "Don't listen to this while driving"
    "Don't listen to this while driving"
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    The author has turned what is the most important, complex and useful structure of our times, the internet, into a boring and dull book. He is a shining example of my most authors should not read their own material. He reads in a monotone with no vocal variety to make his subject marginally interesting. If you are prone to sleep while driving do not listen to this book in the car. You may get in an accident.

    Make no mistake the material could make a fascinating book, just not this one. The author tells of the first communication between two people over the fledgling internet. It should have all the drama of the first words between Bell and Watson but unfortunately it does not. This is described in the same dull manner that the author describes the journey to the various iconic internet places and buildings. The train, countryside, streets, signs and other tiny, inconsequential details are minutely described.

    The book, actually, could be mislabeled. For those interested in narrative travelogues it could be a very good listen, but then they probably are not looking for a technical book about the workings of the internet. And those looking for a nuts and bolts book on how the parts of something as vast as the internet fits together into its whole are not looking for a travelogue description of it. That is the problem with this book. It is trying to appeal to two very different audiences and winds up appealing to none.

    5 of 5 people found this review helpful

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