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Gideon's Sword
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
There is only one reason I finished this...
I was trying to find an audiobook to listen to on my long commute and I just couldn't find a good narrator. There are certainly great books I will never enjoy because of bad narrators (or that annoy me despite others loving the narration...).
John Glover does a great job and made it worth a listen. I didn't listen for the story as it just wasn't very good.
This book is for action fans. Unbelievable action. This is over top BS even more than Bond stories and if that's your thing great. Its not mine. But it was ok until it got to prostitute.
***SPOILERS*** Basically he pays her to work for him in a non sexual way and then she whines and whinges because he doesn't explain what it is he is actually doing.
She seems to fall in love in the 6 hrs they spend together and then curses him and says he is treating her like crap because he wont tell her his secrets. WTF. Mental case! Get out of there!
But nope he "uses" her again and develops feelings for her after a few more hrs and loads more whinging so much so that when she is killed by the bad guy he decides not to use CIA backup but to go up against a professional assassin in a two go in, one comes out battle to the death for revenge that he KNOWS and admits will likely end in his own death!
Jesus, he must have known her for 10 hrs and most of that time she was annoying as hell and he decides to throw his life away...aggghhh. This alone lost it a star.
Don't forget the explanation of why they use this guy instead of trained CIA operatives. Because the computer said so. WTF there is a magical simulation that can calculate every possible action a person could take and calculate that random Gideon will come out on top while everything else they could do (teams of highly trained spec ops, drones, special agents ect) will end badly.
Massive load of crap!
I was trying to find an audiobook to listen to on my long commute and I just couldn't find a good narrator. There are certainly great books I will never enjoy because of bad narrators (or that annoy me despite others loving the narration...).
John Glover does a great job and made it worth a listen. I didn't listen for the story as it just wasn't very good.
This book is for action fans. Unbelievable action. This is over top BS even more than Bond stories and if that's your thing great. Its not mine. But it was ok until it got to prostitute.
***SPOILERS*** Basically he pays her to work for him in a non sexual way and then she whines and whinges because he doesn't explain what it is he is actually doing.
She seems to fall in love in the 6 hrs they spend together and then curses him and says he is treating her like crap because he wont tell her his secrets. WTF. Mental case! Get out of there!
But nope he "uses" her again and develops feelings for her after a few more hrs and loads more whinging so much so that when she is killed by the bad guy he decides not to use CIA backup but to go up against a professional assassin in a two go in, one comes out battle to the death for revenge that he KNOWS and admits will likely end in his own death!
Jesus, he must have known her for 10 hrs and most of that time she was annoying as hell and he decides to throw his life away...aggghhh. This alone lost it a star.
Don't forget the explanation of why they use this guy instead of trained CIA operatives. Because the computer said so. WTF there is a magical simulation that can calculate every possible action a person could take and calculate that random Gideon will come out on top while everything else they could do (teams of highly trained spec ops, drones, special agents ect) will end badly.
Massive load of crap!