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Blues Brothers: The Arc of Gratitude
- De: Dan Aykroyd
- Narrado por: Dan Aykroyd
- Duración: 1 h y 56 m
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Elwood Blues (aka Dan Aykroyd) is on another mission—to tell the full story of how two young actors went from blues lovers to Blues Brothers. In this fascinating audio documentary Aykroyd “gets the band back together”, taking listeners on a road trip through time—from late nights in the early days with John Belushi at Dan’s speakeasy in Toronto, to working with blues legends Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and Ray Charles on The Blues Brothers movie, through the founding of House of Blues, the Blues Brothers 2000 sequel, and beyond.
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You had to be there
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 07-26-24
- Blues Brothers: The Arc of Gratitude
- De: Dan Aykroyd
- Narrado por: Dan Aykroyd
Loved this short book and interviews
Revisado: 12-31-24
I simply Could not have loved it more.
“Thanks man, I needed that.”
Fantastic movie, music and influences on my life.
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The Olympian Affair
- The Cinder Spires, Book 2
- De: Jim Butcher
- Narrado por: Euan Morton
- Duración: 20 h y 23 m
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For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of airships for defense and trade. Now, the Spires hover on the brink of open war. Everyone knows it's coming.
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Another wonderful book!
- De The Warped Weaver Kathy en 11-08-23
- The Olympian Affair
- The Cinder Spires, Book 2
- De: Jim Butcher
- Narrado por: Euan Morton
Excellent follow up to a unique series
Revisado: 04-01-24
I enjoyed the first book for its novelty more. I can anticipate that this second book is going to setup a whole lot more in future books for this series.
Love Jim Butcher’s books and evolution as a writer in general.
This series seems crafted with a lot of lessons learned in a way that really creates a unique series mixing scifi and fantasy. The setting is on par with the Shamar’s series but the close personal focus on primary characters gives this possiblyb more heart.
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High-Opp
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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EMASI! Each Man a Separate Individual! That is the rallying cry of the Seps, the resistance force engaged in a class war against the upper tiers of a society driven entirely by opinion polls. Those who score high, the High-Opps, are given plush apartments, comfortable jobs, every possible convenience. But those who happen to be low-opped live crowded in warrens, facing harsh lives and brutal conditions.
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Deep State? Inevitable.
- De Robean en 12-07-20
- High-Opp
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
Good throughout last paragraph was awesome
Revisado: 11-07-23
Frank Herbert’s amazing philosophy and story pacing done very well….
Maybe not a Dune level book but quite good for a stand alone novel/novella.
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Cowboy Bebop: A Syndicate Story
- Red Planet Requiem
- De: Sean Cummings
- Narrado por: Pun Bandhu
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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The year is 2061. The Red Dragon Crime Syndicate is king, and for all those lucky enough to be members of this crime family, life is damn good. Well, not for everyone.... For two entry-level gangsters in Tharsis City, Mars, life in the Syndicate isn’t quite all guns and glamour. That’s right. Long before they were mortal enemies, Spike Spiegel and Vicious were just two friends clawing their way up the crime ladder and trying to have a little fun while doing it. But when an opportunity to pull a job for their boss arises, it’s make-or-break time.
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Why call it cowboy bebop
- De Alexis Salkin en 12-08-21
- Cowboy Bebop: A Syndicate Story
- Red Planet Requiem
- De: Sean Cummings
- Narrado por: Pun Bandhu
Decent backstory novel
Revisado: 12-28-22
If you have seen the Netflix series then this will read like backstory. There is a great deal of character development for the 2 primary characters from the show, Fearless and Vicious.
There is a significant amount of world building background for Mars as well.
The plot is ok, reads sort of like a serial from the three musketeers with 2 different timelines of the characters as preteens and then as early twenty somethings.
While the timeline reading order of this might be tempting to go with this first, I’d stick with the Netflix series first, then come back for this. The Netflix series show is tighter and better developed and yet this is still very entertaining too.
It does not include most of the supporting characters from the Netflix series.
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Alita: Battle Angel
- The Official Movie Novelization
- De: Pat Cadigan
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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Based on manga by Yukito Kishiro, this official audio novelization to the 2018 science-fiction film, Alita: Battle Angel, features a female cyborg rescued from the scrap heap by a scientist in the 26th century.
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Light Entertainment
- De William en 03-13-19
- Alita: Battle Angel
- The Official Movie Novelization
- De: Pat Cadigan
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
The movie + inner thoughts
Revisado: 12-16-22
This is just like the movie in almost every way, the only difference is that it includes the thoughts of many of the characters which adds to the backstory of them as well.
I don’t believe there are any additional scenes or anything like that in this book, but the reactions and thoughts do you add a new flavor to it.
There is may be also a strange juxtaposition where Alita gets her new body and transitions immediately from being a teenager to a woman and the weirdness that that brings up for the doctor and the nurse observing us. The movie doesn’t really mention that and that scene is a little different in the book versus the movie.
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The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent
- De: Larry Correia
- Narrado por: Adam Baldwin
- Duración: 2 h y 3 m
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Have you ever seen a planet invaded by rampaging space mutants from another dimension or Nazi dinosaurs from the future? Don't let this happen to you! Rifts happen, so you should be ready when universes collide. A policy with Stranger & Stranger can cover all of your interdimensional insurance needs. Rated "Number One in Customer Satisfaction" for three years running, no claim is too big or too weird for Tom Stranger to handle.
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Someone owes me a new keyboard
- De Aimee M en 05-24-16
Very funny first few chapters make it worth it
Revisado: 12-13-22
Lots of very funny set ups and jokes. Performance was excellent, sort of a one person Naked Gun like spoof.
Good bit of political humor, slightly biased but still funny.
This one will probably age out fast.
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Snow Crash
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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Neal Stephenson is a blazing new force on the sci-fi scene. With the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, he has "vaulted onto the literary stage." It weaves virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility - in short, it is the gigathriller of the information age.
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A solid sci-fi novel
- De Brent en 02-05-03
- Snow Crash
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
This is a perfect book and story in addition predicting so much of the future since 1992
Revisado: 12-12-22
I have listened to this book over and over for more than twenty years. It’s one of the main reasons why I started my audible subscription (with an Otis) and during the slow years, why I kept my library.
This recording is a little old and aspects of the recording quality might not match expectations of current standards. It was not a match of standards when it came out and that lends itself to helping suspend disbelief and hear this through a lends of a different time and place as opposed to the opposite.
The story is told primarily through two main characters with important small chapters from other characters. And a couple of terrific chapters from the view point of a very good doggy.
The two main characters are male and female and presented in that order. The female view point written by a male author thirty or more years ago is not perfect by a long shot and yet it is light years ahead of it’s time and mostly holds up in the present. The male view of female views of male failings and limitations on the other hand might be relatively accurate still.
This is arguably a book that will stand the test of time better than any other Stephenson book despite the fact that ‘Reamde’ is an even better story and ‘Crypronomicon’ is an even better historical fiction story.
Snowcrash holds up like The Wizard of Oz (running strong for over 150 years) or the serial The Three Musketeers or Aladdin and the forty thieves or The Hobbit and LOTR. Harry Potter might hang in there as well. The Altered Carbon Trilogy might fall into place hear someday as well although it’s story may not be quite as tight and refined as Snowcrash.
All of these stories include great stories and great visualizations that transport a reader with every chapter.
It is impossible to read this book and not note the connections to both modern day technology (much of which was inspired by this book from pre AOL 1992) but even more by historical events still unfolding and in line with this book capturing a world where viral information and viral viruses become intertwined together.
With my most recent reading I only just noticed the connections this book lays out of the former KGB and the Russian Orthodox Church overthrowing Russia and working to do the same in America and the rest of the world.
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The Terrorizers
- De: Donald Hamilton
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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The survivor of a plane crash wakes up in a hospital in Canada, his memory a blank. Then in walks Kitty, a gorgeous woman, who tells him that he is Paul Madden, a photographer and her fiancé. Not bad. Except that a man on the phone keeps calling him Matt Helm. Things don’t add up. This can only mean trouble....
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The Bourne Inspiration?
- De D en 01-31-20
- The Terrorizers
- De: Donald Hamilton
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
Possible Jason Bourne inspiration
Revisado: 11-10-22
Interesting but one of the clunkier stories in this series.
Mysogyny a little less in this one and main characters racism a bit higher
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The Intimidators
- The Matt Helm Series, Book 15
- De: Donald Hamilton
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
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It was a double mission this time: First, to terminate a top-notch enemy agent. Second, to locate the missing fiancee of a Texas oil millionaire, lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Somehow these two cases were connected, but it wasn't clear how until more high-profile types disappeared. They weren't dead, just part of a deadly little game....
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Bermuda Triangle mystery!
- De RJ en 09-14-21
- The Intimidators
- The Matt Helm Series, Book 15
- De: Donald Hamilton
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
Starts with the old weirdness and character flaws ends better
Revisado: 10-31-22
There are times when this series does some interesting and maybe unique things with the plot twists.
But just when you think the character is developing, he sort of back tracks.
There are times when the main characters sexism and racism and homophobia needlessly reassert and in a tone like that of a grumpy old man chasing kids off his lawn.
The geek out on ‘high tech’ concepts like boating through narrow channels while up on a plane is noticeably from earlier times and yet interesting too.
The new college back story for Matt Helm described during this book is interesting as well and makes me wonder how much Lee Child might have directly or indirectly been influenced by the character in what almost seems like a Jack Reacher genesis scenario, maybe Matt Helm was a distant uncle or cousin of Reacher’s father.
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The Menacers
- Matt Helm, Book 11
- De: Donald Hamilton, Claire Bloom - director
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 5 h y 34 m
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Matt Helm is puzzled. He’s been sent to Mexico to investigate the sighting of a flying saucer, but Helm doesn’t believe in little green men. Then his Russian opposite number is shot in her hotel, but who did it? And why are the Mexican cops acting so tough? Time to track down the redhead who called in the sighting and get to the bottom of the case.
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as i fight 🐱
- De Alan C. en 02-14-17
- The Menacers
- Matt Helm, Book 11
- De: Donald Hamilton, Claire Bloom - director
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
A half dozen books in and the plots feel modernish
Revisado: 10-16-22
There is still a good bit of sexism, mysogny and racism. This book adds homophobia although at the time in the sixties and until about 1992, homophobia was cooked into the intelligence community in policy and security for background reasons.
This book however delves into ufo conspiracy theories in a fresh (2022 view looking back at the late sixties) way. Even though I was born shortly after the period of this book, I’ve never before encountered this take on how ufo lore might have been used on both sides to make each other look bad politically and regionally throughout central and maybe South America too.
While the early books in this series were turned into Dean Martin comedies, I have to wonder just how much these later books which are less post war bodice rippers and more modern intrigue and even who done its… how much these later books actually got read.
Must have been some market for them to keep getting published but I’m not sure how much these plot topics received more play, recycling and development.
It feels like finding fiction maybe lost to the ages.
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