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Block Forever
- By: Ryan Kalil
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story5 out of 5 stars 13
NFL All-Pro Ryan Kalil is about to take the conversation about football to the next level.
Block Forever is giving NFL fans an insider’s look at the game through the eyes of the greatest players and personalities of all time.
Host Ryan Kalil talks the biggest game of the week with top players, coaches, and former pros from across the league. He tackles topics like the players’ psyches, sports betting, playing through pain, being a leader, and how to deal with combative teammates.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great insight.
- By RJC8 on 11-09-22
A great perspective for an interviewer.
Reviewed: 11-30-22
Huge fan of Ryan and thoroughly enjoying his interviews. It has been great having a lineman's perspective asking the questions.
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Persepolis Rising
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 20 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 19,803
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 17,703
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17,636
The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times best-selling Expanse series - now a major television series.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beginning of a new story
- By Michael G Kurilla on 12-17-17
- Persepolis Rising
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
Good but flawed entry to a great series
Reviewed: 07-31-18
I am a big fan of the series and have read all the novels and novelas. This entry was enjoyable but not my favorite nor my least favorite. The authors continue to excel in their ability to create exceptional narrative (and Jefferson Mays continues his series of terrific performances) and are very good to great with plot. I feel the setting scope and size is getting away from the authors though. Earlier novels' character viewpoints felt right and aligned with the reader in the face of the large but covert conspiracy taking place. But now events seem so much larger than the characters (or at least some of the newer pov characters) and their perspectives seem... Inadequate. For example, Drummer reminds me more of a student body president and not arguably the premier head of state in all humanity. Which leads me to my biggest criticism: Characterization. Many of the characters did not feel legitimate. For example, see Drummer above, and Singh was totally unbelievable as a senior officer in a Spartan-esque military that feeds soldiers that fall asleep on duty to the protomolecule. The majority of the first act was introducing or reintroducing pov characters. The first few chapters felt like a repeated formula: Here is character X. He or she is either a psychopath or a flawed hero who is wrestling with insecurity but finds comfort with his or her love of Y and here are some of those relationship's tender idiosyncrasies. Rinse and repeat with the next character. It really made the first act a hard read, but once the story got going, it was much more enjoyable. Also, while I liked that the setting moved forward by three decades to advance the story, it seemed like the characters took a time machine to get there. Except for a failed marriage or so, the main characters seem identical to who they were in the final chapters of the previous novel. It feels jarringly artificial.
Critical points aside, the Expanse is still a great series and I very much recommend the series to anyone who enjoys sci-fi or political conspiracy genres.
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