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Star Corps
- Book One of The Legacy Trilogy
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
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In the future, Earth's warriors have
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- DocJim
- 05-17-14
OK story, quite different (or weird) in many spots
The first thing I would like to say is I thought David Drummond did a wonderful job of narration.
Ian Douglas is one of my favorite authors. The Star Carrier series truly stands out and I have pre-ordered the next book in that series.
Star Corps starts out well. Earth as a space faring species with no FTL travel. Very interesting when it is used (Ian Douglas is good at it).
THEN, as the battle begins, we suddenly get a Wiccan religion thrown in. Huh? It is a completely made up religion (Wikipedia " It was developed in England during the first half of the 20th century and it was introduced to the public in 1954 by Gerald Gardner, a retired British civil servant.")
The battles continue and are well written and narrated. But it seems that every myth known on Earth has it origins in space. While Stargate used that theme a bit, they did not attribute EVERY myth to visitors and even had a rebellion thousands of years before Christ.
According to the epilogue, the rest of the series will be looking at other mysteries and myths by Marine Expeditionary Forces.
I guess I like Sci-Fi that is futuristic, and not based on myths or needs chaplains for 72 different religions including ones more inventive than the myths they seem to explore.
I am not sure I will listen to the rest of the series to see if my thoughts are true. Oh, I have written negative reviews before. They always get thumbs down votes. Not sure why.
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- Derek
- 06-12-15
Narration ruined it for me
Would you try another book from Ian Douglas and/or David Drummond?
I will be staying far away from Ian Douglas from now on. His writing was sub par in a genre with many authors that are not that good.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Imagine an overly enthusiastic news reporter's voice. Now imagine every character sounding just like that.
Any additional comments?
I made two attempts to listen to this book but never made it more than two hours in before disgust forced me to stop.
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- Grace Ausley
- 05-16-13
Middle-Road Military Sci-Fi
If you're looking for some space marine war action just for entertainment purposes, then this does a pretty decent job of it.
The book is heavily focused on action, as you would expect, with little in the way of character development. The character who turns out to be the main character did have some time devoted to his backstory, and he does grow as a marine during the process of his first mission and the main conflict. There isn't really much more to say. It's chock-full of action, with enough violence to satisfy pretty much the most voracious appetite.
Like most, I didn't care for the narrator at all. He did a decent job with some of the accents, but his regular narration voice was just not pleasant to the ears. I hate to say that about someone, but it's just there. I don't think he's really suited for audiobooks.
This book didn't meet my expectations, and there was plenty of adult language and content. I don't plan to follow the rest of this particular series.
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- Jim "The Impatient"
- 03-29-14
SIR, I, I, SIR
PAIN IS THE FEELING OF WEAKNESS LEAVING YOUR BODY.
Military Sci-Fi is not my forte, but I like to delve into other genre's from time to time, because I believe a good writer can successfully write about anything and you will enjoy it. I made it farther through this military Sci-fi then any other and believe fans of this type of story will love it. This has lots of futuristic gadgets, implants, creatures, and shoot-em-up scenes.
NUTS TO BUTTS, MAKE THE MAGGOT IN FRONT OF YOU SMILE.
What I liked the most was boot camp. I thought the narrator did an excellent drill instructor. At one point he told me I was in Company 1099 and I better not forget that. I then found myself committing Company 1099 to my memory. In other books of this bent, written by some famous authors, there are long sections on taking guns apart and explaining each piece to the reader. This did not have that and I preferred it that way. I still did not get into the story and have not found the author that can draw me into Military Sci-Fi, although Douglas came closer then anybody else.
The narrator has taken some huge hits by some reviewers and was liked by others. It seems that if you are extremely knowledgeable in the subject, then he miss pronounces enough names to make him irritating. I, not knowing enough, really enjoyed his work.
MARINES ARE TROUBLE SHOOTERS, THEY SEE TROUBLE, THEY SHOOT IT.
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- Andy Lee
- 02-17-22
Story A+, narration awful
The story is outstanding, definitely on par with the rest of the series. The narrator character voices were terrible, missing the context of the story to the extent that the narration was utterly unpalatable.
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- Gabe
- 01-26-22
One of my feel good books
I absolutely love it, I read it when I was younger and found it again on here, as far as the narrator like everyone is saying, I personally don’t see the issue, but that’s my opinion. He seems to know military lingo a bit. (He said corpsman correctly so that’s a giant big check in my book). A lot of narrators who do military scifi always seem to goof up and disconnect me from the story with their obvious lack of using google and research, but not this guy. He isn’t Ray Porter, but that’s okay. I really don’t see how he is annoying.
The story is fun, expansive and techy.even if you can do the narrators voice, but the real book!
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- Quinn Dover
- 11-02-20
Terrible narration
This book is great, the narrator is trash, disappointing and tough to listen to. He knows these are Space Marines and not customer service employees right ?
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- Dennis Jameson
- 04-21-20
First Class SciFi
The technical concepts are mind blowing. The milieu detailed. The action rousing. Couldn't ask for better entertainment.
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- Douglas A Lamb
- 04-02-19
Scratch Drumond from any list
Couldn't finish listening. Worst performance/reading ever. Had read the book years ago and loved it.
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- Gerald
- 03-02-13
WORST NARRATION I HAVE YET TO HEAR
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
No one is going to enjoy this book if they have ever spent anytime as or around a Marine. I like the story, and I have loved the other books in this cycle but Mr. Drummond ruined this for me. A tip to any voice actor out there, learn the pronunciation of the lingo. Lejeune, is not pronounced LEJURNE, there is no invisible R! Lejeune is pronounces le-joon. As for UHRAH , there is no leading H! As for the range and inflection of the reader, its almost as bad as his pronunciation.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
PRONUNCIATION learn the lingo of the group the book is aimed at.
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