
The Human Division
Old Man's War, Book 5
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Narrated by:
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William Dufris
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John Scalzi
Following the events of The Last Colony, John Scalzi tells the story of the fight to maintain the unity of the human race.
The people of Earth now know that the human Colonial Union has kept them ignorant of the dangerous universe around them. For generations the CU had defended humanity against hostile aliens, deliberately keeping Earth an ignorant backwater and a source of military recruits. Now the CU’s secrets are known to all. Other alien races have come on the scene and formed a new alliance - an alliance against the Colonial Union. And they’ve invited the people of Earth to join them. For a shaken and betrayed Earth, the choice isn't obvious or easy.
Against such possibilities, managing the survival of the Colonial Union won’t be easy, either. It will take diplomatic finesse, political cunning…and a brilliant "B Team", centered on the resourceful Lieutenant Harry Wilson, that can be deployed to deal with the unpredictable and unexpected things the universe throws at you when you’re struggling to preserve the unity of the human race.
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You don't have to have read the previous Harry Wilson books to enjoy this one because the episodes are very self-contained and self-explanatory. Indeed, the one flaw in this collection is the redundancy that comes from assembling stories each of which was written so that it could stand alone. That means that the same background material often gets repeated. You will, however, want to read whatever Scalzi writes next in this universe because the episodes end just as new threats and mysteries are revealed. I can't wait to find out where he takes us.
Reader William Dufris interprets Scalzi's sarcastic and amusing characters exactly as I would have imagined them, so kudos on the performance as well.
Not quite a novel, more than a set of stories
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A good time listening to this book.
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next. It was nice to see the world from Harry's POV. Counting the days till my next credits.
A bunch of shorter stories strung together
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4.5 A great collection of stories
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Fun follow-up to the old man's war saga
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
This last book in the Old Men's War series is a cliff-hanger with Scalzi's usual, tongue-in-cheek humor as performed brilliantly by Bill Dufris. Unfortunately the plot line jumps around way too much, and its inordinate amount of the pulp was difficult to swallow. I know he's trying to make it more interesting by giving lots of snippets and flashbacks/flashforwards, but I found this device frustrating and confusing. Still, I would recommend.What was one of the most memorable moments of The Human Division?
I liked the action-packed cliff-hanger ending, and am waiting to see what happens in the next book...What about William Dufris’s performance did you like?
Excellent. He switch-a-roood the voices of a characters during a couple of dialogues, but that is understandable, given the great many characters, the length of the novel, and the fun way Dufris represents them.Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
No extreme reactions, just a happy, entertained snigger every now and then.Classic Scalzi, but the story jumps around too much
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Solid series
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Great books, as others mentioned a lot of the inbetweens are skippable. I really hate when audible changes a narrator and I will often stop listening to a series when they do. I didn’t listen to Zoe’s tale more for this reason than any other. Though the reviews were awful anyway. The main books in the series are great, this is no exception.
William Dufris is amazing
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he said
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could have used a more aggressive edit
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