
Star Marines
The Legacy Trilogy, Book 3
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Narrated by:
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David Drummond
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By:
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Ian Douglas
With the planet's fighting men and women deployed across the galaxy - battling in the noble cause of enslaved humanity - the insidious Xul have reached across space to devastate the unsuspecting Earth with asteroid fire. Without warning, a once-majestic world is reduced to near-rubble - and the very future of humankind is in dire jeopardy.
Interplanetary leaders are on the brink of abandoning Earth and its colonies to an overwhelming enemy. But Brigadier General Garroway of the Marine Interstellar Expeditionary Unit is unwilling to concede defeat - not as long as there's a single marine willing to give his or her life in defense of their embattled homeworld. The ultimate battle is about to be waged - with breathtaking new attack technology, an ancient code of courage, and the help of an ally race that once inhabited the Earth - in a war that will alter the universe forever....
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Good storry but the narrator needs help
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Exposition abounds
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getting much better
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Great book, mediocre narrator
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Nice Finish!
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I have read or listened to a number of books by Ian Douglas, and I had forgotten how he frequently goes into long discussions about things that do not seem to be necessary to the story. They are obviously interesting to Mr. Douglas as he provides a lot of information, but in a written book, you can simply skip large sections without losing the story or important content. This is harder with an audio book.
I like this story, but I only gave it a 3 because probably 10% could have been left out. The performance was OK, but not great.
I forgot Douglas's style
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Good book
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Let’s divert and discuss the origin of amphibious vehicles. Did you know Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the solar system? A character says “gung ho” and, yep, let’s stop and explain the origins of the phrase. You know what current day training is like? Well, “two millennia ago, a Jewish rider observing Roman legions … doing training exercises…”
The author has to stop and explain the provenance of each ship’s name, or every operation’s moniker. Why did they call it Operation C-Fire? Well, it’s so clever! Let me tell you about the play on words, and how C stands for ‘sea’ which comes from a particularly noteworthy sea floor… I kid you not.
All that devotion to the minutiae when what I really craved was characters with personality, clever dialogue, and emotionally charged scenes of military sacrifice.
Let’s stop and talk … a lot
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