Red Rising, Book 6By: Pierce BrownNarrated by: Tim Gerard ReynoldsSeries: Red Rising, Book 6Length: 30 hrs and 8 mins Spoilers I walked into Light Bringer expecting the conclusion of the series and felt personally backstabbed when I discovered that it was only the first half of the ending. I understand why the story needed more…
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Dark Age
By: Pierce BrownNarrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Moira Quirk, James Langton, Rendah HeywoodSeries: Red Rising, Book 5Length: 33 hrs and 58 mins Brutally beautiful. Dark Age was a hard book to read, and by the end I felt almost exhausted by it. Yet that exhaustion was part of what made the book so…
Means of Ascent
The Years of Lyndon JohnsonBy: Robert A. CaroNarrated by: Grover GardnerSeries: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 2Length: 22 hrs and 8 mins The Means of Ascent takes the qualities revealed in the first volume and follows them toward their nearly inevitable conclusion. Johnson wants the United States Senate, and Caro shows a man willing…
The Path to Power
The Passage of PowerThe Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 4By: Robert A. CaroNarrated by: Grover GardnerSeries: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 4Length: 32 hrs and 45 mins Reading The Path to Power and The Means of Ascent back to back was extraordinarily revealing. Together, they begin the story of a man consumed by the…
Alexander Hamilton
By: Ron ChernowNarrated by: Scott BrickLength: 35 hrs and 58 minsRelease date: 12-26-04Language: English Chernow’s prose is beautiful, and he makes an enormous amount of history remarkably easy to follow. I have read numerous books about this era, with Hamilton appearing significantly in many of them, so this biography did not overturn my understanding of…
The Strength of the Few
The Strength of the FewHierarchy, Book 2By: James IslingtonNarrated by: Euan MortonSeries: Hierarchy, Book 2Length: 31 hrs and 10 mins Another beautiful entry in the series. I loved the direction Islington took this one and the way he twisted things away from where I thought they were going. I do not have a lot more…