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Defiant
- De: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrado por: Suzy Jackson
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
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Spensa made it out of the Nowhere, but what she saw in the space between the stars has changed her forever. She came face to face with the Delvers, and finally got answers to the questions she’s had about her own strange Cytonic gifts. The Superiority didn’t stop fighting for galactic dominance while she was gone, though. Spensa’s team, Skyward Flight, was able to hold Winzik off, and even collect allies to help with the cause, but it’s only a matter of time until humanity—and the rest of the galaxy—falls.
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Form Skyward Flight!
- De Anonymous User en 11-22-23
- Defiant
- De: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrado por: Suzy Jackson
Rocky start, but wonderful conclusion
Revisado: 11-26-23
What an amazing book, I can't wait to reread it. Brandon managed to tie every single plot thread, with both the themes and the plots, so nicely that it feels like a bow on a present. The start of the book was a little rocky, there was a lot of, "and then this" kinda scene transitions, but once the book picked up it really kept up.
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The Waking Land
- De: Callie Bates
- Narrado por: Erin Spencer
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
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Lady Elanna is fiercely devoted to the king who raised her like a daughter. But when he dies under mysterious circumstances, Elanna is accused of his murder - and must flee for her life. Returning to the homeland of magical legends she has forsaken, Elanna is forced to reckon with her despised, estranged father, branded a traitor long ago. Feeling a strange, deep connection to the natural world, she also must face the truth about the forces she has always denied or disdained as superstition - powers that suddenly stir within her.
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Enjoyable!
- De Joy en 06-08-23
- The Waking Land
- De: Callie Bates
- Narrado por: Erin Spencer
Overall Lacking
Revisado: 05-11-23
This book has a very loosely defined magic system. The main character kind of just does whatever magic is needed in the moment, despite other characters making a huge deal out of her never being trained. This alone wouldn't be too bad, but I just don't really care for the main character. I don't fully understand her motivations, because every time she considers why she does what she's doing she lands back on, "Well I don't like the Queen, but my father wants to takeover the country and that's bad because he's not the King."
There are also a lot of payoffs without much promise. Her meeting her mother for the first time in 14 years felt like it was supposed to be intensely emotional, but it just felt kinda hollow because the main character missing her mother wasn't ever really set up.
Last thing, the main character gets kidnapped from the palace, and then has witty banter with her captors who are physically restraining her from leaving, and I'm just not big on that trope. Witty banter is nice and all, but in these kinds of situations it just feels... weird.
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The Apollo Murders
- De: Chris Hadfield
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 15 h y 15 m
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NASA is about to launch Apollo 18. While the mission has been billed as a scientific one, flight controller Kazimieras "Kaz" Zemeckis knows there is a darker objective. Intelligence has discovered a secret Soviet space station spying on America, and Apollo 18 may be the only chance to stop it. But as Kaz races to keep the NASA crew one step ahead of their Russian rivals, a deadly accident reveals that not everyone involved is who they were thought to be. With political stakes stretched to the breaking point, the White House and the Kremlin can only watch as their astronauts collide.
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Was dubious at first but happily surprised
- De Brett Fluri en 10-17-21
- The Apollo Murders
- De: Chris Hadfield
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
Amazing Space Thriller
Revisado: 01-31-23
I wasn't sure what to expect when starting this book, other than that it was about another Apollo mission and there was likely going to be direct conflict. I was not disappointed at all.
This book was engaging from start to finish. I usually listen while at work and I even stayed late a couple days to reach a good stopping point. I cannot recommend this book enough.
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Project Hail Mary
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 16 h y 10 m
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Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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Bazinga
- De Davidgonzalezsr en 05-04-21
- Project Hail Mary
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
Phenomenal!
Revisado: 05-06-21
I loved Martian, and couldn't get behind Artemis. PHM was amazing from start to finish!
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Kingdom of Liars
- De: Nick Martell
- Narrado por: John Skelley
- Duración: 15 h y 52 m
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Michael is branded a traitor as a child because of the murder of the king’s nine-year-old son by his father David Kingman. Ten years later on Michael lives a hardscrabble life, with his sister Gwen, performing crimes with his friends against minor royals in a weak attempt at striking back at the world that rejects him and his family. In a world where memory is the coin that pays for magic, Michael knows something is there in the hot white emptiness of his mind. So when the opportunity arrives to get folded back into court, Michael takes it.
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Author shows promise but needs to work on a lot.
- De Kyle en 06-02-20
- Kingdom of Liars
- De: Nick Martell
- Narrado por: John Skelley
Not big on the narrator, but the story is good.
Revisado: 04-03-21
There are definitely some clunky scenes here and there, but overall I still enjoyed the book. I like the potential of the magic system and the societies that form around it.
I think that Martell could have played with how magic influences the society and how the society influence the magic a little bit more.
Michael Kingman definitely needs some work, but to me it seems more like he is just trying to do his best but keeps making all of the wrong choices, and I can relate to that on some levels.
Some of the dialogue is a little clunky. A lot of, "I am going to kill you when I get the chance," but that never really seems to be fulfilled.
I was not a fan of the narrator. I don't have a very good memory (part of what drew me to this book) and I rely alot on the narration to keep track of who is who, but Skelley seems to only have 3 or 4 different voices that all sound generally the same.
Just got the second book, I can't wait to see how the story, the author, and the narrator grow.
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Interview with the Robot
- De: Lee Bacon
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins, Ellen Archer, Josh Hurley, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
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Eve looks like an ordinary 12-year-old girl, but there’s nothing ordinary about her. She has no last name. No parents or guardian. She’s on the run from a dangerous and secretive organization that will stop at nothing to track her down. And most astonishing of all: she’s a robot, a product of Eden Laboratories. When Eve discovers the truth, she realizes everything she thought she knew about herself is a lie. Eve manages to escape, fleeing the lab, the only home she’s ever known.
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Good Short Listen
- De Ronnie en 01-07-20
Not how AI works
Revisado: 02-21-20
The overall story wasn't too bad, I was intrigued by what was going on and entertained throughout. It bothers me though that the author seems to not know what artificial intelligence is. If a robot can't hold a conversation in an online chatroom, it also won't be able to hold a conversation with its programmers, yet from the very beginning Eve is talking to people in complex and meaningful ways.
Later on when Eve is interacting with people from the outside world, the author shows Eve having social anxiety, which I think was an ok expression of a robot not knowing how to act infront of people, especially new ones,but I don't think that it would be as pronounced as this. Maybe if a robot is this complex it will end up like that, but I have a hard time imagining it.
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Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds
- De: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It's his hallucinations who are mad. A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. However, to contain all of this, his mind creates hallucinatory people - Stephen calls them aspects - to hold and manifest the information. Wherever he goes, he is joined by a team of imaginary experts to give advice, interpretation, and explanation. He uses them to solve problems...for a price. Then a company hires him to recover stolen property - a camera that can allegedly take pictures of the past....
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Audiobook content list
- De Logan en 11-13-18
- Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds
- De: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
Amazing
Revisado: 02-21-20
Wow this book was good. I never thought I could grow attached to hallucinations.
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Artemis
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Rosario Dawson
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.
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A ferrari with no motor
- De will en 11-18-17
- Artemis
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Rosario Dawson
Different than expected
Revisado: 01-15-18
This review contains spoilers
The Martian is my favorite book, and I was very excited for this book. Going into this book, I loved hearing about all of the possible science going into a colony on the moon. Hearing about the character was a little disappointing though. The main character, Jazz, is a smiggler who never gets in trouble for her actions. Even at the end of the book, after she had almost killed everyone on the moon, she wasn't punished and somehow everyone loved her.
As far as the performance, Rosario Dawson started out well, but I soon discovered that her 'male voice' seems to simply be her talking so quietly I can hardly hear her. I listen to my books while driving, and I had to have the volume in my car all the way up just to hear Jazz's dad talking.
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Dracula [Audible Edition]
- De: Bram Stoker
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 27 m
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The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.
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IS THAT NOT SO?
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-05-15
Confusing Narration
Revisado: 09-18-16
I thought that having multiple narrators would make this book more fun, but it just made things confusing. One character didn't have one voice, they had many different voices. Depending on who was narrating, any character would have a different voice, accent, and tone, which made it difficult to keep track of who said what. For instance the narrators for Mina Harker, John Seward, and Jonathan Harker all had a different voice for Van Helsing, and he had his own voice as well. This made things more confusing than interesting.
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Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
- (20th Anniversary Edition), The Thrawn Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Timothy Zahn
- Narrado por: Marc Thompson
- Duración: 13 h y 9 m
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Five years after the Death Star was destroyed and Darth Vader and the Emperor were defeated, the galaxy is struggling to heal the wounds of war, Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting twins, and Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of new Jedi Knights. But thousands of light-years away, the last of the Emperor’s warlords - the brilliant and deadly Grand Admiral Thrawn - has taken command of the shattered Imperial fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the New Republic....
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It's about time!
- De Ryan en 09-06-11
- Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
- (20th Anniversary Edition), The Thrawn Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Timothy Zahn
- Narrado por: Marc Thompson
Sound Effects
Revisado: 08-13-16
I was surprised to hear sound effects when I first started this book. I was skeptical, but very happy with how they were used. They really give a whole new feel to the way audiobooks work. It really feels like you're a part of what's going on, from wookie howls to the sounds of traffic. And the story is great, it ties in perfectly with the movies (well, before Force Awakens came out that is). Disney really shouldn't have gotten rid of all the canon. A perfect sequel in my opinion. Amazing book overall, most certainly would recommend.
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