Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Ranger School : Discipline, Direction, Determination
Jimmy Blackmon · 2021
🎙 Narrated by Jimmy Blackmon (author-narrated; Tantor Media production)
75/100
👍 Worth It
This one puts you right in the mud and misery of Ranger School, and Jimmy Blackmon earns every leadership lesson he shares along the way — it's authentic, endorsed by real military brass like McRaven and Dempsey, and never feels like it's selling you something. It leans niche and jargon-heavy if you're not into military stories, but for the right listener it's a genuinely inspiring gut-check. And since Blackmon narrates it himself, you get his voice exactly as he lived it — worth the listen.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: good Author-narrated, which reviewers frame as adding authenticity; no independent audio-performance reviews found.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness75
Craft & writing72
Originality62
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers72
Age-fit88
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict75
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