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The Guns of the South
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- Length: 24 hrs and 51 mins
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Publisher's Summary
January 1864: General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equipped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower. Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking - and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantities to the Confederates. The name of the weapon is the AK-47.
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- Tami A.
- 10-28-16
Loved the book but...
This has been a favourite of mine since I bought my first copy in 1992. I love the storyline and how the author works out the plot lines. I also love how Lee deals with the oddity of time travel with the greatest of ease. It might've been interesting to see how he would've marveled at the modern world had he had the chance to see it.
I did NOT care much for the performance. While he did make effort to have the characters speak with the proper enthusiasm, he mispronounced simple words, all the characters sounded the same, and the reading of the story outside of the characters speaking was very dull and monotonous. Many times during long spells of just story, I found myself nodding off. I would not recommend this for listening to while driving.
I WOULD listen to it again, as it's a favourite of mine but please let me know if you ever get someone who knows how to read and make a book come alive for the listener to perform this title.
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- Max
- 06-27-17
Narrator is just awful
I loved this book when I was a kid. I saw the other reviews about people complaining about the narration being bad. They are all correct. It was like listening to an audio book when audio books first came out. Ironically near the end of the book, like the last freakin chapter, they started doing different voices for characters. I really struggled to finish this and won't ever try to listen to it again.
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- Chris
- 07-11-17
Good
The narrator was good, his southern accents were convincing, albeit his Afrikaner accents not so much (in fairness that's a tough accent for most).
I liked the storyline but couldn't understand why the AWB didn't just travel to the Transvaal. The South African Republic existed at the time, and they would've made more logical allies. Anyway a good and enthralling story nonetheless.
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- Elie M.
- 04-09-17
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Good Story, very slow at times. Halfway decent narrator, good intonations, good and clear effort. The only problem with the narrator is that every voice sounds relatively the same. Literally every voice!! Also the book is very slow at times, throughout the middle. Otherwise I liked it.
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- KMoore
- 02-08-21
Questionable
Its a little bit of slimy feeling to root for Robert E Lee. Also it seems improbable that Lee would turn out to be an abolitionist. When I read this the first time (a decade ago maybe), I really enjoyed it. Now I think it glorifies the Confederacy. I can't endorse this book anymore, even though I love many of Turtledove's other books.
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- Ted Uptmore
- 08-20-18
Great story, meh narrator
Great and very interesting novel. My only complaint was that the narrator was a bit quiet but not doing characters voices and the lack of an attempt at in Afrikaaners accent nor much of a more varied southern accent for the various characters other than giving them each a voice (just nitpicking there tho, you can tell exactly who's speaking even if there was no "said Forrest/Nate/Robert/etc")
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- USMC0931
- 04-22-17
Amazing book, the narrator is not so great
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
The narrator has a speech problem with words that end in S. He whistles at the end of every S word. It's extremely annoying until you just start to tone it out, or maybe he stops doing it.
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- Jay Quintana
- 05-21-21
History, both speculative and revisionist
Even though there's time travel and the South's armed with AK-47s, this reads like hard speculative fiction. It feels like this could have happened. The South could have had the armaments advantage. And the time travel aspects have more to do with people in the 1860s seeing the future, than people from the future travelling back to the 1860s. This is a long novel about how the war was won and how the Confederacy governed thereafter. Because it tries to be as realistic as possible, the story is less than gripping at times. Also, while not shying away from the horrors of slavery, its views of the Confederacy are not as critical as it could and probably should be. The claim that Robert E. Lee was not pro-slavery is questionable at best. I'm reviewing the book as a book and will save the argument about whether it's okay to romanticize the South for another forum. I found this interesting at times, too long at times, but ultimately, a worthwhile listen.
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- Wayne Hughes
- 04-24-17
inconsistent pronunciarion
the narrator mispronounced words such as "invalid." said "Curtis" instead of "Custis." a marginal performance.
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- Matt Mastorovich
- 11-24-19
Much too long
Not quite what I was expecting. Much too long, and unnecessary drawn out. I can’t recommend this book.
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- Steve Downing
- 09-30-17
Guns of the South
The title and cover of this book tells you exactly 'what-if' scenario you're getting. Harry Turtledove clearly put a lot of research into this book. The level of detail is high and informs the greater narrative the story follows. Some of the characters we follow are historical heavy-hitters and it's fascinating to follow this speculation on how they might have reacted to the balance of the American Civil War falling in favour decisively for the Confederacy.
I've heard better narrators; I've heard worse. This one interprets - what I suspect are - commas in the text too heavily, so that some sentences are read in a peculiarly stop-start style. Also the narrator's sole voicing for the characters in the book strays dangerously close to Elmer Fudd.
Still, a competent reading of a very interesting idea. Worth a punt.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-10-21
narrator was brilliant
amazing genre.
been searching for a book like this for a long time. narrator switched characters with ease.
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- Keiran U.
- 08-02-20
Great listen
a really great look at how The South could have flourished with a Sci-Fi twist
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- jeanluc
- 05-13-19
American civil war but not as we know it Jim
Read this book some years ago and loved it. Have only just finished the audio, just superb. The narration was flawless, the polished Southern accents a joy to listen to. Full marks to Harry Turtledove and Paul Costanzo. I would love to listen to Lee At The Alamo, please, please!
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-27-18
Harry Turtledove at his best
Time travel and the Confederate Army sounds too far-fetched to believe, but it is written in a completely believable manner, very enjoyable book with a great plot and realistic ending.
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- Steve Hocking
- 03-31-18
Interesting idea
This story has at its heart and interesting idea but ultimately is over long and over indulgent. The pace is slow but evokes the time and place well.
I enjoyed the story but ultimately it felt like a labour more that anything else.