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Daniel da Cruz (1921–1991)

Autor de The Ayes of Texas

19 Obras 695 Miembros 5 Reseñas

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Series

Obras de Daniel da Cruz

The Ayes of Texas (1982) 179 copias
Texas On the Rocks (1986) 134 copias
Texas Triumphant (1987) 97 copias
Boot (1987) 82 copias
F-Cubed (1987) 82 copias
The Grotto of Formigans (1980) 53 copias
Mixed Doubles (1989) 41 copias
Vulcan's Hammer (1967) 7 copias
Fire Kill (1976) 4 copias
The Landfall Finesse (1975) 3 copias
The captive city (1976) 3 copias
Double Kill (1973) 2 copias
Sky Kill (1974) 1 copia
Deep Kill (1974) 1 copia
American Watercolors (1986) 1 copia
S - Waffen (1993) 1 copia
The Pipe Dream Finesse (1975) 1 copia

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico
da Cruz, Daniel
Nombre legal
da Cruz, Daniel, Jr.
Fecha de nacimiento
1921-11-17
Fecha de fallecimiento
1991-01-05
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Oxford, Ohio, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento
Falls Church, Virginia, USA

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Reseñas

As I sink more & more into senility (no longer precociously so), I might just read more & more bks like this. Actually, I enjoyed it just fine. I have a deep affection for stories like this, the stories written by authors who'll probably never be popular like Michael Crichton is b/c their plots are just a little too silly.. or cheesy.. or ridiculous. The plots that're based more in imagination & fancy than they are on the latest technological blah-blah. A helicopter containing a stolen army payroll crashes near a jungle & some underground insectoid/humanoid creatures swarm over it, people get taken into their queendom, there's fighting, spicy dialog, love interest. It's all good-natured fun.… (más)
 
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tENTATIVELY | Apr 3, 2022 |
I liked the first couple of books in the series, but did not care for this one much.
There was some good cloak & dagger stuff, although it was not as interesting to me as the straight-forward "down with the Russkies" adventure of the first in the series, but I didn't like the principle characters, and thought the McGuffin unwieldy.

The science foundation was intriguing but iffy.
½
 
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librisissimo | Feb 10, 2018 |
I read Boot coming from the vantage point of a mom sending her son off to the Marine Corps. I found it very interesting and enlightening for me as I followed along on my son's journey. (Yeah, I'm that kinda mom, I'm afraid, rfmagui.) I haven't read Making the Corps by Ricks, but know his work from coverage of the military since that time for the media and he seems to have an excellent understanding of it all. I'll have to check out Making the Corps.
 
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MauraSatchell | 2 reseñas más. | Jul 16, 2015 |
Agree with Schmerguls that Making the Corps is a better book. I'm partial to Boot because I was the Assistant Series Commander of one of the Series that he covers and am mentioned in the acknowledgments.
 
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rfmagui | 2 reseñas más. | Jul 13, 2010 |

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Obras
19
Miembros
695
Popularidad
#36,412
Valoración
½ 3.7
Reseñas
5
ISBNs
25
Idiomas
1

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