Shakedowners

Shakedowers Series, Book 1

De: Justin Woolley

Narrado por: Grant Cartwright

Duración: 8 h y 47 m

Resumen del Editor

Some starship captains explore strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilizations. Some lead missions of discovery through wormholes to the other side of the galaxy. Then there's Captain Iridius B. Franklin, someone who spent too long seeking out strange new bars and new alien cocktails.

After graduating bottom of his class at Space Command Academy, Iridius Franklin hasn't had the glamorous career he envisioned - instead he hauls cargo ships full of mining waste, alien land whale dung, and artificially intelligent toy dogs across the stars.

Iridius does have talent, though - he is exceptionally good at breaking starships. So, when not hauling freight, he is captain of a shakedown crew, a skeleton crew used to test newly constructed ships for faults before the real crew takes over.

While on a routine shakedown mission aboard the FSC Gallaway, soon to be pride of the Federation Fleet, Earth is attacked by an unknown alien life-form. With the galaxy in chaos, Captain Iridius B. Franklin finds himself, unqualified, understaffed, and completely unprepared, in command of the most advanced starship in the galaxy.

Now, he just needs to not break it.

©2021 Justin Woolley (P)2022 Tantor

Easy to like

Quirky fun and not to serious. Sure there's always something to improve on but this works fine for me.

meh

its good. but mostly based upon witty humor and random reference comedy. gove it a shot.

A great action packed book finally

This has been a great book from cover to cover. I hope to listen to the second book really soon and I hope it keeps riding.

Romping good fun

Such fun! If you like John Scalzo, you'll like this.

My only beef is with the reader mispronouncing "ensign". Really irritating.

Good story

A good solid story. Not Shakespeare, but very good. The narrator does an excellent job.

Smart and silly fun

Good fun that stays within the smart (versus childish) humor. I’m looking forward to the second book

Light quirky sci fi Firefly esque

Outcasts crew on an old ship. Captain almost got kicked out of the academy, pilot is a brilliant but cocky wildcard, engineer can make anything out of junk parts… we all know the trope but it’s lots of fun.

It’s fine I guess

This book is OK. It is not as good as Barry Hutchinsons space team, but it is OK. If you have nothing else to read, these books are fine.

good stuff!

Funny and fun with some fun pop culture references. The only distraction is a few unusual pronunciations by the narrator. All in all, I'm eager for more!

Story like Adams's hitchhikers guide, but worse

Hitchhikers guide to the universe with less stakes and more short term memory issues. A case example why military has intelligence requirements and standards for recruitment. Space swashbuckler is not intelligent, brings a virus that spells doom to the planet to Earth - like, come on, - even irl in 20th century isolation wards and quarantine procedures were in place (in civilized America, not so much in the communist hell pit of the USSR) for returning to Earth from the space.



Story doesn't present itself seriously so why would readers take it seriously. If Shakedowners offered solid characters or motives, or novelty in this genre then the ever less serious action sequences could be excused, but as it is, Douglas Adams original trilogy offers all the good and much less of the bad that Shakedowners suffers from. As for sci-fi, only fiction is present, and beyond being a randomly selected setting the space force aspect is thrown outboard for the farcical comic story. Similar but worse to such movies as Monty Python, series Black Udder, both of which accomplish what Shakedowners does but much better.

Conclusion: 1/5. Listened on Audible included in plus catalogue. Narrated by: Grant Cartwright.
No originality, utterly whimsical and clownish. Got nothing to do with the sci-fi. Terrible value for the length of the book - 2.45 $/hour ( 21.49$ / 08 hrs 47 mins ).

Values:
Terrible: >1.66 $/hour
Bad: 1 - 1.66 $/hour
Good: <1 $/hour
Dream: 0.4 - 0.27 $/hour