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Red Metal
- By: Mark Greaney, Lieutenant Colonel Hunter Ripley Rawlings IV - USMC
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
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A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control over the world's hi-tech sector for generations to come. Pitted against the Russians are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy Pentagon job, a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father, a young Polish partisan fighter, an A-10 Warthog pilot, and the commander of an American tank platoon....
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Excellent listen!
- By Jose G. Meras on 07-19-19
- Red Metal
- By: Mark Greaney, Lieutenant Colonel Hunter Ripley Rawlings IV - USMC
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
Encore!
Reviewed: 10-25-22
No, seriously, when's the sequel coming out? It's been 3 years already!
No offense to the Grey Man, but this may have been your best work yet. I am very much a fan or the Grey Man series, but this was one of the best works of military fiction ever written, in my opinion, so I hope you will keep up the good work. Mr. Rawlings was outstanding as well, and his contributions are self-evident, throughout the work, and of the utmost value. Even so, for the China version, you might consider partnering with one senior retired military officer from each branch (Air Force, Army, Marines and Navy), which I think would produce an even more impressive sequel than the original. In which case, I encourage you to invite Mr. Rawlings back to represent the Marine Corps for the 2nd chapter in what I hope will be as many volumes as the Grey Man series itself.
Note that I said all branches. That means the Space Force too, but, of course, you'll probably have to find an active duty officer to assist with that, as I don't believe the Space Force has many retired senior officers available at this time. Space war should definitely make an appearance in the sequel. See also: "Ew 105: Space Electronic Warfare" by David Adamy.
I also encourage you to tap one additional subject matter expert: someone from military intelligence, who might assist you with developing a new character, known only as The Green Man.
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Leviathan Falls
- Expanse, Book 9
- By: James S.A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 19 hrs and 40 mins
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The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the 1,300 solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again.
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Awesome conclusion to an awesome series!
- By Kindle Customer on 12-01-21
- Leviathan Falls
- Expanse, Book 9
- By: James S.A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
A Strong Finish for a Series on Par with Asimov
Reviewed: 12-10-21
Well done on the last book, Authors. Every complaint I had about the earlier books was completely resolved in the final book. It is an unusual accomplishment to end a 9-book series with what may have been the best book in the series. I had feared that the Expanse could lapse into the same curse-of-the-sequel that even Asimov's Foundation series seemed to lapse into during the last few books of that series, so, it was beautiful to see not only among the best writing in the series, but also such a remarkable symmetry to the entire epic, and such a philosophical depth, with subtle yet penetrating references of not only modern times, but also the patterns across all of human history, and how all those patterns are likely to project far into the future. Even the notion of the 1300 worlds seeding the galaxy with human settlement is both a furtive, Muskian call to action, and a bit of a prophecy, of the likely frontier-nature of human settlement across the vast expanse of space, where, for the first time in many years, mankind may once again by either as connected or as separate as it wishes to be, where unity is possible, but division is always an option too, should unity ever become too over-bearing for any segment of humanity to willingly endure, as has always been human-nature, whenever an exodus was an option.
So, to conclude, Bravo. I look forward to seeing the last few books made into TV series, some years down the road...
If there is one thing Humanity needs today, it is an inspiring vision of what we can become if we set our minds to it, while staying true to our hearts and our consciences. But along with that, from time to time, we also need a cautionary tale of what we could become, if we forget the values that make us good, values and principles which, I believe, are innate in nature, timeless, carved into the very fabric of spacetime by the hand of the Deliverer of Big Bangs. Though hardly any of Humanity may agree on the exact interpretation of these carvings, there are few good people who deny their existence altogether. James Holden is not what most people think of when they think of Moses (much less Hari Seldon), and he would tell you himself, he's nobody's savior. Nevertheless, the future often rhymes, and its great protagonists tend to echo through history...
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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
- By: Diogenes Laertius, Pamela Mensch - translator, James Miller - editor
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 28 hrs and 33 mins
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This anthology is a miscellany of maxims and anecdotes that generations of Western readers have consulted for edification as well as entertainment ever since Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, first compiled in the AD third century, came to prominence in Renaissance Italy. To this day, it remains a crucial source for much of what we know about the origins and practice of philosophy in ancient Greece.
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Could be worse ....
- By Mohad Cheridi on 01-31-19
Terrible narration.
Reviewed: 01-25-19
The narrator sounded absolutely nothing like what I would expect any of the philosophers described in this work to sound like. This one flaw has turned a classic work to ruins.
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Medea
- By: Euripides
- Narrated by: Jared Ristau-Hernandez
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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The Medea, in spite of its background of wonder and enchantment, is not a romantic play but a tragedy of character and situation. It deals, so to speak, not with the romance itself, but with the end of the romance, a thing which is so terribly often the reverse of romantic. For all but the very highest of romances are apt to have just one flaw somewhere, and in the story of Jason and Medea the flaw was of a fatal kind.
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Had To Read For School, So I Listened Instead
- By HH on 11-14-16
- Medea
- By: Euripides
- Narrated by: Jared Ristau-Hernandez
Who's line is it anyway?
Reviewed: 09-20-17
This play is excellent, as are most of Euripides other works, and the narrator performs fairly well. However, this is not a book. It is a play. The performance is extremely confusing, because the same narrator is reading everyone's lines, unlike a play where each character's lines are supposed to be read by a different person. Sometimes audible narrators attempt to compensate for the terrible performance decision by changing their voice and announcing the name of the speaker each time a different character starts speaking. There is no substitute for a full cast and a different performer for each character, but this narrator sounds the same no matter who is speaking and never announces the name of the speaker, making it impossible to know who is saying what unless you are reading along with the play, which kind of defeats the purpose of an audiobook. This performance is a terrible disservice to one of the best playwrights in history, thereby tarnishing an otherwise extraordinarily beautiful perf
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Bacchae
- By: Euripides
- Narrated by: Arthur Grey
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
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The Bacchae is concerned with two opposite sides of human nature: the rational and civilized side, which is represented by the character of Pentheus, the king of Thebes, and then there is the instinctive side, which is represented by Dionysus. This side is sensual without analysis, it feels a connection between man and beast, and it is a potential source of divinity and spiritual power.
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Worthy of Dionysus
- By AP on 08-24-17
- Bacchae
- By: Euripides
- Narrated by: Arthur Grey
Worthy of Dionysus
Reviewed: 08-24-17
What was one of the most memorable moments of Bacchae?
The moment the King of Thebes loses his wits and succumbs to the will of God.
Have you listened to any of Arthur Grey’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
No
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes
Any additional comments?
The previous rating of "awful" given unjustly by another reader is worthy only of scorn and mockery, in my opinion. The narrator did quite well, considering the fact that he performed the whole play by himself, while most of the characters were women. This is somewhat authentic though, since the Greeks themselves cast men to play the roles of women. The one improvement I would suggest regarding the performance is that there be separate narrators for each character if another attempt is made, so that the performance will be more like a real play and less like the reading of a play by one man, in which case the announcement of the names of each character before their lines are read could be omitted. As for the plot, it was exceptional, of the highest quality, far superior to almost everything written in our day. Bacchae teaches a timeless lesson of the peril of tyranny and excessively stern rule, full of wisdom and insight into the nature of society, politics and human nature. Each and every person of authority would be wise to listen carefully and to heed these verses carefully as they bear rule, lest they share the fate of Pentheus. Furthermore, every city and town should perform this work for the enjoyment and benefit of their citizens and leaders, adopting the teachings of Euripides as their own, so that perhaps in time we too may be worthy to create original works that rival those of antiquity, far surpassing the trivial superficiality of our modern day Hollywood flicks which shall ring hollow throughout the ages in comparison.
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