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Significantly better than the last one. So a bunch of crazy stuff happens, Luke Skywaker tries to fight a big bad guy and has to become "allies" with Sith in order to work together to eliminate a mutual enemy, or do they? returnreturnSome in-depth reporting continues to shed light on the worst stuff in the galaxy and slaves being to revolt, partially based on what the Sith do. returnreturnAnd as in every other book in this series, what's going on back in Corresaunt is actually more interesting than Skywalkers fantastic off world journeys. returnreturnA legal battle continues and leads to so some strange allies there too.

By far the worst book in this otherwise fantastic series. Luke and Ben Skywalker end up on a planet of "force using witches" and end up in some tribal war that doesn't really seem to fit in the rest of the series story line. Also it seems to have a real "Episode I" feel to it, in that it explains a bunch of things that really don't need to be explained, and the explanation really just ruins the story. returnreturnI haven't finished the series so maybe something will come back to make this book a necessity, but as of now I recommend skipping this one, it doesn't keep attention and it doesn't say much. As with other Star Wars audio books the "cinematography" of the audio book production is fantastic.

This book was excellent for what it is. returnreturnIt is a novel of a "dystopian" future, almost a Communist Atlas Shrugged, where the government is so small people cannot tell which one of these guys is the US Government President. returnreturnIn many ways this "dystopia" really is a libertarian paradise. Some things are a little unbelievable, like everyone having to take the last name not of their family, but of the corporation they work for, and IBM being the leader in home computers by out rewards pointing Apple, and evidentially the only religion that still exists in the LDS church, but all in all its a good laugh more than anything else. returnreturnIn the end, however, it may be a sign that we should have listened to the Anarchists...returnreturnHighly recommended whether you agree with the socialist author, that capitalism will ruin the world if left to continue as it has, or you agree with me, that government will ruin the world if the market isn't allowed to work, or you happen to agree with most of the world that says we're screwed anyway.

Like the movie, the third part of the book was by far the worst. It gets really long winded and preachy at the end. This is particularly evident by the approximately three disks it takes just to record John Gault's speech. A speech completely antithetical to religion in general and to Catholicism and the doctrine of original sin in particular. returnreturnThe beginning of Part III was somewhat entertaining, even challenging based on the "love" that James Tagert and Sheryl "express." returnreturnThroughout all three parts, including this one, it is more and more clear that Any Rand is an ugly old hag who is upset that men don't love her for her mind, and she makes up a protagonist who is the envy of all the powerful men, Gault, Reardon, and DiConnia, because of her beautiful mind. Sorry that real life sucks for you. returnreturnBetween the hatred of religion, and the lustful portions of the characters, I am really amazed at the number of "conservative" Republicans I have heard recommend that this book be required reading for public school. It makes me wonder if they've ever actually read it, or they just heard that its about the power of the free market and small government, and they know its so long they'd never actually read it, so they better force someone else to. returnreturnThe first two parts were good, so I guess you have to read the last part to get the whole story. I had hoped the ending would be better than the movie, but it may be even worse because Gault's speech is even longer, and the tail end, the epilogue, ends with a new central plan, just now run by the "right" people.

This audio book was good. Carter has a unique perspective on the middle east turmoil as a born again Christian, a liberal politician, and the individual who almost single handedly negoited the only long lasting peace agreement between Isreal and an Arabic nation. returnreturnHe begins with a very brief history of the region, from biblical times, to the safe haven from Nazi Germany, to today.returnreturnHe went through all the various players, from the KJews, to the Palestienians to others throughout the world. returnreturnreturnUnlike myself CRter gives great respect to the United Nations, but that's not enough for me to ignore all he says. The title is certainly meant to be controversial but the innerspring of the book are much more middle ofbthe road and shows how we all can work together. returnreturnBut particularly foe American Christians that have been conservative PRO isreafrom the pulpit, it may be surprising to realize how many Palestienians are Christians and how the local government treats them so second class citizens. returnreturnHamas has been listed as a terrorist organization by the United.S. Government, even though they provided social services before anything resembling a Palestienians state existed,and they've been democratically elected. It made me wonder how many other governments would label the GOP as a terrorist organization if given the chance.returnreturnWhile I am still a firm believer that the Holy Land needs a No State solution, Carters work provides good insight regardless of your political or religious persuasion and I recommend it in audio or dead tree format.returnreturnThe book makes references to several maps, which obviously I can't do on audio, though the audio book indicates that the latter CD includes electronic resources such as a map, but I didn't bother putting it in my PC to verify.

the story continues, part two focuses on the continuing afair between dagny and rearden. In addition James falls in love with a capitalist who works at the drug store. She thinks that Tagney knows real cqpitalism bit if its communism at its point. The government passes additional laws that noone understands, and thus leads to our being impossible for businesses to make ends meet, makes people not trying, their are no jobs we learn who really made the motor and who us John Gault and then savvy ribs off to give someone win get terrains stop, the citation purposely killed lots of people to above disappointing governor.also the smut that is Rand. She readily us pay that men don't live get for her mind even though she's ugly, other than that good story.

I wanted to read this after Francis was elected Pope and people on both the left and the right claimed that Francis would be bade because of how he reacted to liberation theology during the social class struggle of the 70s/80s in Argentina. The right saying he too closely embraced it, the left saying he did not embrace it. returnreturnSo what is it? Instead of letting other people tell me I figured I'd let them tell me themselves. Well let me tell you, this book is certainly written at a level intended for educational intellectuals and not for activists on the ground and parishioners in the pew. I'm not a dumb guy but most of this was way over my head. I was disappointed in the amount of citation that still didn't say anything. returnreturnThe last two or three chapters probably could have been the whole book. As the author spends most of his time trying to prove that Jesus would be against capitalism because...insert some lofty intellectual reason here. returnreturnWhile I agree the class struggle is real, and I agree that the church cannot pretend it doesn't exist, shunning traditional values and theology to focus on overturning corporatism is not a solution. We should care for the poor, and we should love our neighbor ,that includes loving those who oppress us. Its not an excuse to do nothing, as the author insists. It is a direction to be careful and love. returnreturnProbably worth reading if you are interested in such topics, but it won't bring you closer to Christ nor bring those around you to the right hand of the Lord. I think those are more important and if we focus there a life of forgiveness and caring will happen.

I was greatly disappointed by this audio book. Like many of my reviews of audio books, this is definitely one that makes a lot more sense as a book. There are a lot of references to particular websites that are just not convenient to write down while you are driving, nor memorable enough to not need to write down. Also I always prefer audio books read by the author regardless, but this is even worse than regular as Clark Howard has a famous radio voice. Perhaps it's a licensing agreement with his broadcaster? returnreturnWhen I first go serious about fixing personal finances I thought Clark Howard was so much more reasonable than Dave Ramsey. After taking FPU I've been attempting to follow Dave's advice relatively successfully. Getting this audio book reminded me why I was so unsuccessful trying to follow Clark before. Like using every credit card you have at least once every 6 months, and never closing a credit account. The advice may work for some, but for me I cannot resist the temptation. If you want an audio book on Personal Finance I recommend some of Ramsey's stuff, if you want the kind of specific recommendations this has, you'll probably get at least as good of results by just going to ClarkHoward.com that is kept up to date. But if you really want a hard copy reference of a bunch of web links, than it may be useful to get a hard copy of this and keep it.

This Audiobook was pretty good. Llike the other audio books I have listened to of Rand's work it includes an "introduction" that completely ruins the book. I would recommend skipping it, but as usual it is not as easy to do as it should be (why can't this intro be a separate CD, or provide instructions to "skip to track 15 to avoid possible spoilers"? returnreturnThe story was written in 1957 and set "in the not too distant future" So I guess its a hypothetical 1960s? returnreturnAt firt I really loved this story. An epic that occurs in a real world situation of corporate America and the battle between competitors and the government and the unions. The "flash back" to the relationship between Dagny Taggart and Francisco d'Anconia lead me to believe that this may be the first novel I've ever read where the sex scenes were tasteful and necessary to the development of the story, however the inclusion of the affair between Hank Rearden I feel the need to change my opinon of that. returnreturnFor the most part the CD changes where examplirery. Not just the "This story is continued on disc 8" but more importantly the story steemed to get to a perfect transition point with the end of each CD. I thought this was on purpose, until "Part I ended in the middle of disc 15 of a 16 disc set. Why not just let that be the end, particularly if you are turn Disc length throughout? returnreturnAll in all a good story and I'm look forward to the rest.

Abyss was FANTASTIC. The best part was it lead me to fall in love with Han Solo all over again. The Grandfatherly persona has taken a slight edge off the old man, Every interaction he has with Leia brought a smile to my face, even though my life was quite serious. Also the completely separate storyline of the Sith finally interacts with the Jedi, though from the ending I'm not sure how long that will be. returnreturnAs usual with Star Wars audio books the "cinematography" was amazing.

Like the other books in the Minisiers "World of Ds9" this book contained two distinct stories by different authors, and one was significantly better than the other. in this case the Story by DeCandio about Ferginar was fantastic. The descriptions about the world seldom seen on T.V. was great the story of Quark trying to once again weasel his way into the Negus's favor, why still standing by the idea that Rom is an idiot is hilarious. The "relationship" between he and Ro Lauren develops well and is worth 5 stars on its own.

Unlike the others in the series the less good story is not horrible. George is getting better, but he went from one extreme to the other. The last "re-launch" title he wrote had like 90 chapters in it, this one has only 7. The story focuses mostly off site at the new "changeling home-world" The descriptions of the changeling lifestyle outside of being as a solid leave something to be imagined, and that imagination didn't do well for me. Also, some of the ideas don't seem quite in line with what we know of the Changelings from T.V. such as the founders having belief in their own god. The secondary story focuses back in the alpha quadrant and mostly on the station is where the real interest is, certainly they are setting us up for a T'arnatar focused story to come, one that the relaunch serious desperately needs. At least twice we are led to believe that one of beloved characters dies, do they? Well, I won't let that out, and I'm not sure if George does either. This story probably deserves a 3 on its own, leading the book to a 4 star.

This audio book was not very good. It may have been poorly translated from Spanish, but I am uncertain. returnreturnIt is basically just a conversation between then a Cardinal from Burnouses Ares Argentina (now Pope Francis) and an Argentinian Rabbi. And by basically I mean completely. No additional information, not even a "He said '...' and then he said '...'...." The two readers have voices that are not internally dissimilar which makes following which character is speaking difficult. returnreturnThe first several discs were a whole lot of really non-important stuff. Don't kill people. Abortion is bad. Don't hate the would be mother, hate the murderous "doctor" etc. returnreturnOne thing that is clear, is that Pope Francis is not the "most Progressive Pope in history" that the liberal media tries to show us. Such lines as "I disagree every child deserves the right to a female mother and a male father" are far from the 'guy to bring homosexuals to Catholicism' that MSNBC tries to proclaim. returnreturnThe most interesting part was the fairly anarchist view point that the would-be pontiff declares on some political aspects such as voting saying that even though voting is compulsory in Argentina the last time he voted was in the election for Raúl Alfonsín which would have been 1973 saying that it isn't worth the effort necessary to vote. returnreturnThere are some other references that assume the reader to have a bit of knowledge about Argentinian history. There is almost enough to make me want to learn more, but its just not quite interesting enough to make me want to pass that threshold. returnreturnAll in all if this type of thing is something that you would be interested I recommend getting the dead tree and leave the CD Player alone for this one. If you want to know the Pontif better, there are likely better choices you can make to do so.

I was disappointed by this book as it was not what I was expecting. It is primarily a text book, which I somewhat gathered, but there was almost no discussion of the overarching ideas, and instead nearly solely on the minutia of Calculus problems regarding determining the solutions of such. returnreturnIf that is what you want, more modern texts are likely better (as they frequently come with software etc. to assist with it) still looking for a good layman's introduction to the topic. If you can make recommendations please do so.

A fantastic continuation in the Fate of the Jedi series, and a fantastic audiobook presentation "cinematically" from LucasBooks. returnreturnIt flows much more quickly than did the previous title, that almost lead me to not continue the series. While there are still a lot of questions around what the relationship to the other time/space of the Sith "Omen" the title speaks of the adventures of Luke/Ben with Tater Row, and the adventures of Han/Leah back on Corcacant make we wonder, will we break out in Civil War (again?) or will the bureaucrats and the Jedi ever be able to work together. I can't wait to see what happens next. returnreturnThe only downside I Have to say it that the author seems obsessed with telling us about the "caf" drinking habits of her characters. I think Golden had a few too many cups of coffee while writing.

Like the last book in this series there are two separate stories by two separate authors. Also like the last book one is really good and one is not. The first story takes place on Trill and focuses on the aftermath of the parasites attack from Unity and political and civil turmoil that resulted. It was incredibly entertaining, and like Left Hand of Destiny there is some great back story with one entirely unbelievable scene.returnreturnThe second story focusestakes place on Bajor and focuses in the Sisko family in their new home. The author tries really hard to be creative but in the end its nearly 300 pages to tell us that Jake Sisko has a new love interest, and she tries to give us a surprise ending. I am looking forward to see how other Start Tek authors take the story, but on its own it wouldn't be worth reading.