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The Richard Jackson Saga, Volume I

By: Ed Nelson
Narrated by: Fred Berman
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Contains books one and two of the Richard Jackson Saga, a coming-of-age adventure series.

The Beginning, book 1

Coming-of-age stories do not have to be full of teenage angst; they can be fun and lighthearted. Follow our young hero as he goes through life in the late 1950s, adventure after adventure, large and small. All you have to remember is that they are all true, give or take a lie or two....

Starting in the summer before his freshman year, the story follows him through his high school life. He finds fame and fortune as an inventor, and wealth in Hollywood as he searches for a girlfriend (...wealth and fame prove far easier to obtain than girls).

The School Days, book 2

Rick in the first semester of the ninth grade. Using the lessons he learned on the road, he makes a serious start on becoming an excellent student. However, he still has to navigate the pitfalls of the Homecoming Dance, Sadie Hawkins Day, and other dangerous encounters with the fair sex. His thoughts of being a football star take him nowhere; he finds that chasing a little white ball around a field can be fun, and that being a hero is not all it is cracked up to be.

©2019 Ed Nelson (P)2020 Podium Audio Coming of Age Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction Fiction Feel-Good
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Well written, interesting, heartwarming book. Also, with some historical information and characters and a little romance all rolled into this wonderfully written book. Well worth sharing and I look forward to finding more from this author and narrator.

Interesting and Historical Fiction

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This 14 year old boy has incredible adventures, and the author does a magnificent job bringing historical literature and figures into the story. Ricky/Rick is looking to do the right thing, be helpful and honest, and runs into amazing people.. John Wayne, Elvis, Ike, Queen Elizabeth... holy cow, what's next??

very interesting, an honest boy who has incredible adventures

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Nothing... but feel good. I'm so tired of war dystopia and conflict. this book is like a great vacation.

Similar to, but Better than Forest Gump

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I have read, and re-listened to this series, several times, and still enjoy the narrator and the coming of age story. I always get a kick out of the people and Easter eggs that the story presents in this alternate history story.

I love his series.

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The narrator reminds me of a young Casey Kasim from the radio and most likely could voice a mean Shaggy from Scoobie Do. The MC frequently reads books as his night winds down and the oblique reference are fun to try and figure out what was read. It has enough historical references that makes me want to see what figures are are real and what are make believe. Context clues that are missed the first read though are ah-ha moments during the second listen.

Over all a series that will make it into my re-listen selection.

Exciting ride

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It was hard to finish. Very contrived. Would be a great teen book (ie Judy Bloom for boys).

Meah but enjoyable.

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