Jeffrey C Drywater
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Action Park
- Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park
- By: Andy Mulvihill, Jake Rossen
- Narrated by: Michael Satow
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Often called "Accident Park", "Class Action Park", or "Traction Park", Action Park was an American icon. Entertaining more than a million people a year in the 1980s, the New Jersey-based amusement playland placed no limits on danger or fun, a monument to the anything-goes spirit of the era that left guests in control of their own adventures - sometimes with tragic results. Action Park is the first-ever unvarnished look at the history of this DIY Disneyland, as seen through the eyes of Andy Mulvihill, the son of the park's idiosyncratic founder, Gene Mulvihill.
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Fascinating, but lacking in substance
- By That Guy From the Video Store on 09-05-20
- Action Park
- Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park
- By: Andy Mulvihill, Jake Rossen
- Narrated by: Michael Satow
Entertaining and Fun
Reviewed: 07-25-24
I never knew about the park when I was young, I wish I had. I would have gone in a minute. A place that respects people enough to let them make their own decisions. The narrator did a fantastic job, the book was well written, both entertaining and funny while also being informative. I enjoyed every minute of it.
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Exo-Hunter
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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One thousand years later. Humanity has left Earth behind and is rapidly expanding throughout the galaxy under the banner of The Union, a white supremacist government who racially ‘purified’ the human race hundreds of years in the past. Living on the fringe of this twisted Fourth Reich society, Dark Horse - the only Black man in the Union - commandeers a vessel and scours the galaxy for his missing teammates under the guise of an Exo-Hunter, seeking out exo-planets to satiate the Union’s need for colonization.
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achievement unlocked: "Infinite" level awesomeness
- By Jeffrey and Melissa Potter on 02-18-21
- Exo-Hunter
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Felt Rushed?
Reviewed: 03-05-22
I mean no disrespect to the author - I have greatly enjoyed many of his other books, but this one felt like it was rushed out the door and patched together. It was as if large chunks of the story were discarded, making the story and character development seem incomplete at times, random at others.
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A Confederacy of Dunces
- By: John Kennedy Toole
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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The hero of John Kennedy Toole's incomparable, Pultizer Prize–winning comic classic is one Ignatius J. Reilly, an obese, self-absorbed, hapless Don Quixote of the French Quarter, whose half-hearted attempts at employment lead to a series of wacky adventures among the lower denizens of New Orleans.
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Well Done
- By Jon on 09-18-05
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- By: John Kennedy Toole
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
I Did Not Expect To Like This, But... "Oh My God!"
Reviewed: 02-12-22
I try not to read too many reviews or too much about any book because I want to go in with as little preconceptions as possible. I don't want to be waiting for some specific part of the story that someone gave away in a spoiler or even let anyone else's opinion spoil what will eventually become my own opinion. That said, after reading a little about this book, I was curious but pretty sure that it was the type of book that I would not like. I was very wrong.
I laughed out loud more times that I could have counted. The narrator was simply amazing and did almost every character perfectly. The story might seem mundane, but reading it was fascinating and fun. The author brilliantly tied the lives of so many of the characters together in a way that was mostly unpredictable, bizarre and hilarious. I'm not a "professional reader" like a college professor or cafe house elitist, I am just an average person who reads anything from space operas to LitRPGs, but I found this book truly magnificent. I enjoyed every word.
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The Salvage Crew
- By: Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
- Narrated by: Nathan Fillion
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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An AI overseer and a human crew arrive on a distant planet to salvage an ancient UN starship. The overseer is unhappy. The crew, well, they're certainly no A-team. Not even a C-team on the best of days. And worse? Urmahon Beta, the planet, is at the ass-end of nowhere. Everybody expects this to be a long, ugly, and thankless job. Then it all goes disastrously wrong. What they thought was an uninhabited backwater turns out to be anything but empty.
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Rats, I got sucked in and wasted a credit
- By unknown on 01-31-21
- The Salvage Crew
- By: Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
- Narrated by: Nathan Fillion
Starts At The Top Of A Hill And Only Goes Down
Reviewed: 11-20-20
I was quickly engaged in the story, finding it funny and interesting, but it started slowing down about a quarter of the way in and by the last quarter of the book, I was ready for it to be over. Fillion does a great job and should consider doing more books, but I found the story just sort of wandered off into the distance and never found its way back.
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Rage
- By: Bob Woodward
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
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Woodward, the number-one international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trump’s head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans.
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Knock-down, drag-out
- By LEE on 09-15-20
- Rage
- By: Bob Woodward
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Well Written & Stays Neutral Until The Epilog
Reviewed: 09-25-20
I thought that Woodward did an excellent job of presenting Trump in as neutral was as possible, letting the reader make their own determination and for their own opinions. At the very end, he does provide his own opinion, but up until that point, he does well to stay neutral. I enjoy getting an understanding of the people around Trump and learning how government really works on the inside as opposed to what is taught in textbooks. Petkoff does an excellent job as narrator, as he did in Fear. I found both books informative and enjoyable.
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Dry
- By: Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman
- Narrated by: Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Schusterman, Jenni Barber, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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The drought - or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it - has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t take long showers. Until the taps run dry. Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation; neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. And when her parents don’t return and her life - and the life of her brother - is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she’s going to survive.
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Worth any readers time!
- By ~☆Ashelina☆~ on 10-13-18
A Little Hard To Swallow
Reviewed: 02-19-20
I found that the story was difficult to believe. I understand that this is fiction, but the things that happened and the short time in which they happened combined with the state of the world around the area in which the story focuses made it difficult to suspend my disbelief. Too much time spent rolling my eyes as things just seems so absurd. I don't consider the entire book a waste of time, there were entertaining characters and the book was performed well. Just the story was not that enjoyable for me.
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Yesterday's Gone: Season One
- By: Sean Platt, David Wright
- Narrated by: Chris Patton, Brian Holsopple, Ray Chase, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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Can humanity Survive what it never saw coming? On October 15 at 2:15 a.ms Earth vanished. A scattered few woke alone in a world with no rules, other than survival at any cost. A journalist wanders the wretched reality of an empty New York, searching for his wife and son. A serial killer must hunt in a land where prey is now an endangered species. A mother shields her young daughter from danger through every terror-filled breath.
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Idk how it got such rave reviews!? horrible!!
- By Kate+4 on 05-26-18
- Yesterday's Gone: Season One
- By: Sean Platt, David Wright
- Narrated by: Chris Patton, Brian Holsopple, Ray Chase, Maxwell Glick, Tamara Marston, R.C. Bray
Too Many Questions, Not Enough Answers
Reviewed: 10-14-18
While the performances were fantastic, the story left me with a lot of unanswered questions and I don't think I'm willing to sit through another fifteen hours to maybe get the answers. I'm sure the opinions vary on the story, and don't get me wrong, I finished the book and for the most part, I enjoyed it. I just thought it left a lot of loose ends. Too many things left unfinished in what feels like a deliberate attempt to get you to keep going in the series, which is fine - television does this sort of thing all of the time - but what always seems to happen is another season of more questions than answers.
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Immortal at the Edge of the World
- The Immortal Series, Book 3
- By: Gene Doucette
- Narrated by: Steve Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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In his very long life, Adam had encountered only one person who seemed to share his longevity: the mysterious red-haired woman. She appeared throughout history, usually from a distance, nearly always vanishing before he could speak to her. In his last encounter, she actually did vanish - into thin air, right in front of him. The question was how did she do it? To answer, Adam will have to complete a quest he gave up on 1,000 years earlier, for an object that may no longer exist.
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Stumbled onto an absolute find!
- By Jon on 03-08-19
- Immortal at the Edge of the World
- The Immortal Series, Book 3
- By: Gene Doucette
- Narrated by: Steve Carlson
I Hated That It's Over!
Reviewed: 03-27-17
Who was your favorite character and why?
Adam. I just enjoyed his casual manner.
Have you listened to any of Steve Carlson’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
The first book that I listed to by Steve was The Spaceship Next Door and while I enjoyed that book very much I thought his performance was mediocre. However, after listening to the three Immortal series I came away with a much better impression of Steve and his performance. It changed my opinion if his narration for the better. I think he did a great job on this series.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
A very casual listen / read with humor. The stories were light but the characters were fantastic. My only extreme reaction was finding out that the fourth book of the series was not available on Audible.
Any additional comments?
Audible - get the fourth book - NOW.
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