Old Man's Destiny

Old Man's Apocalypse, Book 3

By: AJ Newman

Narrated by: Wayne Mikel

Jeff has created a stable community in the middle of a cesspool, but are his troubles over?

Sanderson’s army is still running rampant south of the new community in northern Alabama. Chaos, hunger and gangs still plague the country. The group grows in numbers and skills when Jeff discovers two compatible groups nearby. His small town is growing and this violates his belief that survival depends on keeping a low profile, but life is comfy and going well. His group works diligently to hide the expanding compound but can they be successful?

©2022, 2023 Anthony Newman (P)2023 Anthony Newman

A Sorry State of Production

Let me explain; in the first of this series the main character is 58 years old. I think I've got that right. The narrator of the second and third books in this series make him sound like he's nearly to old to speak clearly. This seems inappropriate as I'm 6 years older and my voice doesn't wobble and tremble and neither do my friends 20 years my senior. It's annoying to continually think-past this, it seems wrong. I really enjoyed the story but it's hard to endure the repeated words, repeated sentences and inappropriate mannerisms that the Narrator Wayne Mikel applied to the main character in this wonderful story. There are obvious mistakes in the recording that occur a bit to often. I won't be re-listening to this in the future but I would still recommend the series because the story presents hope where only sorrow should grow.

WARNING!

Listen, I am a Newman fan, ok? I find his no nonsense 1950s John Waynish look on life ..entertaining. His look on women and their love life is kinda fun - though pretty adolescent - too.

My beef is with whoever chose Wayne M to perform the ‘Old Man’-series. The performance is laughably bad. It is not so much the faults along the way, the repeating of sentences just read, the weird and apparently unending string of memory losses (that DO allow the main character to fool around with any and all women and their sisters, cousins, mothers, whatever…), no, by far it is the idiotic decision to let the main protagonist change voice(!!!) in the last book:

Holy hell, that sudden Good Ole Boy appalachian whine (did Wayne M. (who MUST be a personal friend otherwise this would never have happened) take helium before reading?? It drives the listener up the proverbial wall.
FAIL, friends. Horrible fail.

Newman’s other books are way above this ruined mess.
Avoid the last two book in the series at all costs.