A Time to Die (Macmillan UK Audio Books)

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Summary: incredible
Review: a time to die;;;one of the most beautiful books i've ever read...i've read everyone of his books, some twice.....some even three times and it's always the same: overwhelming! i even went to africa for a month!!

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Summary: It is an awful little piece.
Review: Aaargh! Oh God how I love to hate (and hate to love) this book. In its over-machoism, its super-human characters and its impossibly pathetic erotic scenes this novel really is horrible. I can't stand it! Then why did I give it a rating of 5? Well, it does deserve a 1 for the afore-mentioned reasons, but...it is also one of the most thrilling books I have ever read, it really is a page-turner, the suspense keeping intense throughout every page. And for this it deserves a 10. So I figured I'd compromise with a 5. By the way, in "London Fields" the narrator Sam keeps mentioning that he's reading a book that sounds very much like this one and he refers to it as "an awful little piece of &@34!;. I wonder if it's the same book?

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Summary: Great action
Review: Another great Courtney novel Mr. Smith!!! But you left us hanging on the,"cliff " so to speak. What happens with Sean and Claudia? Is there another adventure in the waiting or have I not read it?

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Summary: racist
Review: I picked this one up for a long train journey last week. Got half way trough it and probably would have finished it despite the predictable, boring schoolboy plot. However what really put me off the book and the author were the racist views he expresses through his (white) african heros. It didn't surprise me to learn subsequently that smith is a South African who supported the Apartheid regime there.

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Summary: Grande Wilbur!!!
Review: Me hice adicto a la serie de los Courtney desde aquel regalo de cumpleaños de Moreen.

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Summary: Flashes of brilliance put an implausible ending
Review: Mr Smith's greatest gift as an author is his insight and experience of Africa and it's inhabitants combined with the capacity to tell a really good tale. Here, once again, he doesn't disappoint. It was rather a disappointment to me however at the end, after seemingly taking the time to think through situations and scenarios, that he offered such an implausible demise for the chief villain. It left me with a lesser opinion of the book.

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Summary: Flashes of brilliance put an implausible ending
Review: Mr Smith's greatest gift as an author is his insight and experience of Africa and it's inhabitants combined with the capacity to tell a really good tale. Here, once again, he doesn't disappoint. It was rather a disappointment to me however at the end, after seemingly taking the time to think through situations and scenarios, that he offered such an implausible demise for the chief villain. It left me with a lesser opinion of the book.

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Summary: Ethnocentric
Review: No half-measures with Mr. Smith. The antagonist is black, bisexual and communist. Africa is a chaos except where Europeans or their descendants or remained in power.
The plot is Rambo-style and action packed to an implausible and even boring degree.
Entertaining, but o while away the time without further expectations.
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No hay medias tintas con el Sr. Smith: el antagonista es negro, bisexual y marxista. África es un caos generalizado, excepto en donde los europeos o sus descendientes permanecen en el poder.
El argumento es está tan colmado de acción al estilo "Rambo" que se vuelve inverosímil y hasta aburrido.
Entretenido, pero para pasar el rato sin mayores pretensiones.

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Summary: Top 10 book with ease
Review: The book flawlessly manages to keep you glued to the pages.
Sean Courtney is simply one of the best characters around.
It's almost up there with River God and is an exelant book for any adventure loving reader

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Summary: racist
Review: This is an interesting book of Africa, you learn about the land and the people there, but how many times can a person trick or be tricked by the same person? At the end of the book he left many things at the air, for example: you really don't know what happened with the hunt company of Sean Courtney and other things.