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Review Date: 9/8/2006
Helpful Score: 1
Not one of Ellen Emerson White's best books, but even her lesser efforts are better than most people's best. Part of the scene where Dana is kidnapped and threatened reminded me of the scenes in Long Live the Queen and Tis the Season (#3 of Echo Company, which she wrote under the name Zack Emerson), but not in the way William Bernhardt plagarizing Long Live the Queen reminded me of that book. This was supposed to be the first of a series, but we still haven't seen Dana's first case with the detective agency she's supposed to join.
Review Date: 5/14/2007
This was a very disjointed book. The interviews were interesting but chopped up the way they were made for terrible flow. Brewer is not a strong writer but the events of May 1957 make up for that. It would have been nice to hear more of what happened on the Kansas side, since it focused on Brewer's neighborhood and the storm is named for the area. Everyone really seems to forget it wasn't just in Ruskin Heights. This book is okay but could have been much, much better.
Review Date: 6/28/2006
My 5th grade teacher recommended this and The Valley of Horses to our entire class in 1985. I borrowed them from my mom; I was the only one in class to attempt them after seeing how long they are. I have read the entire series every few years since then. This book is the best of the Earth's Children series so far.
Review Date: 11/6/2006
I love audio dramas and this is generally well-acted. The man who played Kir Kanos is very good, especially when he uses the dangerous, quiet voice. The story is decent and I would have liked to hear them adapt Crimson Empire 2, desite reading reviews of how it didn't live up to the promise of this part.
Review Date: 11/6/2006
There are some great stories in here with those funny twists that make his writing so good. Arte Johnson's voice is a trifle annoying, but maybe that's just me. Despite that, I listened over and over because Westlake's stories shine.
Review Date: 6/24/2006
I'm surprised his books do so well. They're formulaic and badly written. I hated this one. I heard he used to be an English teacher -- no wonder people lament the state of education if this is any indication. Plus, he does one of the things in all of his books that I really, really despise: the women, not matter how highly educated, are called by the first name; the men their last.
Review Date: 10/5/2006
A decent blend of new owner tips and trick instruction, depending on what you want to teach.
Review Date: 6/23/2006
Nicely illustrated, good story.
Review Date: 7/12/2006
The cover is great; the stories are okay.
Review Date: 6/28/2006
One of the better Star Wars books out there and a very good performance by Denis Lawson.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Live in Concert (Audiobook) (Abridged)
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Review Date: 6/28/2006
This is wonderful! Douglas Adams always did an excellent job of reading his own books for audio editions, but this live concert is even better. I loved the stories he told between passages from Hitchhiker's series.
Review Date: 7/1/2006
Helpful Score: 4
I love this book; of all of McCullough's books I've read, this is my favorite. Missy Wright is a drab, poor member of an extended family of very tall, blond Hurlingfords, who own most of the little Australian town of Byron. She lives with her mother and one of her aunts on the outskirts of town. She has brown hair and her family always dresses her in that color, a reflection of her colorless life. Then, a stranger moves to town and a mysterious relation who works in the local lending library who inspire Missy to try and change her life.
Review Date: 7/8/2006
Helpful Score: 1
Amusing answer to those stupid "rules" books that were so popular.
Review Date: 6/24/2006
This is why you should never get involved with a married man...
Review Date: 6/19/2006
Helpful Score: 1
I liked this book, but Mary Stewart has written many that are better. Samantha Eggar does a wonderful reading of the abridged book.
Review Date: 7/1/2011
The final book related to the Echo Company series (written under one of White's pseudonyms, Zack Emerson), this is about a nurse named Rebecca Phillips who served in Vietnam and the struggles she faces returning to her old life due to her experiences in the jungle and the hospital, and dealing with the problems that made her to join the Army in the first place. This is my favorite book by White and one of my favorite books in general. In Book 3 of Echo Company, Tis the Season, you see Rebecca before the chopper crash and her trip through the jungle. While not necessary to read it or the other Echo Company books about Rebecca's boyfriend Mike, it makes this book even better, especially when you know who Mike's friends are and see exactly what Rebecca went through. (Dragging herself through the jungle is awfully similar to Meg Powers dragging herself through the forest in White's Long Live the Queen.)
Rebecca (and Mike, sort of) is mentioned briefly a few times in some of White's other works (All Emergencies, Ring Super and one of those dreadful Santa Paws books she wrote as Nicholas Edwards) so one does get a small snapshot of what happened to her after she drives away at the end of the book.
Rebecca (and Mike, sort of) is mentioned briefly a few times in some of White's other works (All Emergencies, Ring Super and one of those dreadful Santa Paws books she wrote as Nicholas Edwards) so one does get a small snapshot of what happened to her after she drives away at the end of the book.
Review Date: 11/6/2006
Rene Auberjanois gives an excellent reading of this rather dull book. I loved Willow and was eager to find out what happened to everyone. However, my favorite characters were taken out of the story in the first chapter. It seemed to be a similar world to the movie world with radically different and tedious characters -- Claremont did a poor job of recreating the world, or Lucas just came up with another really bad idea (eg. the new trilogy of Star Wars films.) I didn't expect the same thing, but I did want to enjoy it.
Review Date: 6/28/2006
This is the weakest book to date in the Earth's Children series. Since there are several hundred characters, Ayla's story is repeated over and over and over. In addition to being repetitive, that many characters don't allow for much story or character development, even in these long books, especially when she crams in technical, societal, and herbal lore. It was predictable, as well.
One of the disturbing things, to me anyway, was the change in spelling of Willamar's name. (I went back and checked -- in the other books, his name is spelled Willomar.) It also looks like Auel is running out of names, as the last character introduced in the book has the worst one in the series.
One of the disturbing things, to me anyway, was the change in spelling of Willamar's name. (I went back and checked -- in the other books, his name is spelled Willomar.) It also looks like Auel is running out of names, as the last character introduced in the book has the worst one in the series.
Review Date: 11/6/2006
The story is rather weak but Kimberlin Brown's performance is excellent.
Review Date: 6/28/2006
This is an excellent audio drama adaption. I like that there are more than 10 people in the cast (and I recognized Skip Lackey's voice -- he plays Cay; I first saw him in the movie Once Bitten; Mark Feuerstein is in this as well, as Tott), unlike TotJ: Dark Lords of the Sith and the Dark Empire dramas.
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