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The Genius Plague
- De: David Walton
- Narrado por: Nick Thurston
- Duración: 14 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 206
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 184
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 184
In this science fiction thriller, brothers are pitted against each other as a pandemic threatens to destabilize world governments by exerting a subtle mind control over survivors. Neil Johns has just started his dream job as a code breaker for the NSA when his brother Paul, a mycologist, goes missing on a trip to collect samples in the Amazon jungle. Paul returns with a gap in his memory and a fungal infection that almost kills him. But once he recuperates, he has enhanced communication, memory, and pattern recognition.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing idea poorly executed
- De RJPF en 10-14-17
- The Genius Plague
- De: David Walton
- Narrado por: Nick Thurston
the main character was horrible
Revisado: 04-03-18
Good premise. Interesting idea. But the character development was horrible. First, the NSA is an intelligence agency. WHY IS THIS KID TELLING EVERYONE he works for the NSA? It's supposed to be secret. WHY IS HE TELLING EVEN THE PEOPLE HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE WATCHING? That makes no sense.
In the book the protagonist goes up to some girl and basically starts divulging classified information he shouldn't be. Like... WHY. It wasn't even relevant to the plot. At all.
Like don't get me wrong. The concept itself was very interesting. But the protagonist was absolutely CLUELESS. I found myself screaming at the protagonist while listening to the audiobook in traffic because his actions were so nonsensical. And the other people in the cars around me probably thought I was crazy.
And then the ending doesn't make a lot of sense either. I don't want to give away spoilers. So I won't. But the ending doesn't quite fit the premise.
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An Oath of Dogs
- De: Wendy N Wagner
- Narrado por: Amy Finegan
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 14
Kate Standish has been on the forest-world of Huginn less than a week, and she's already pretty sure her new company murdered her boss. But the little town of mill workers and farmers is more worried about ecoterrorism and a series of attacks by the bizarre, sentient dogs of this planet than a death most people would like to believe is an accident. That is, until Kate's investigation uncovers a conspiracy which threatens them all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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murder mystery on a mysterious planet
- De private en 10-02-19
- An Oath of Dogs
- De: Wendy N Wagner
- Narrado por: Amy Finegan
I kept waiting for it to get good but it didn't.
Revisado: 01-28-18
It started off ok. But it just kept getting weirder and weirder. There were too many characters, and they weren't memorable enough to differentiate one from the other. I couldn't keep track of all of them after a while.
A lot of the plot points didn't really add up either. Especially the ending. Like, that was a major let down. Like they build it all up to "we're taking down the bad guys" and then they just get prescribed new meds and everything is ok even though they don't take down the bad guys.
Overall the book wasn't very original. I know I can't really get into how it wasn't original without spoilers so
spoilers
a planet where what you believe turns true - been done #ForbiddenPlanet #LikeTenEpisodesOfStarTrek
an outsider who moves to a small town to escape an over-industrialized earth and encounters locals that turn into dogs at night - been done
small town people with ridiculously bad ideas about the environment but the hero somehow learns to get along with them despite disagreeing with them and doing NOTHING to help fix things - been done
people who break the curse by doing the right thing - been done
oh and that robot you see in the cover art? THERE'S NO ROBOTS IN THIS BOOK
honestly I would've returned this but by the time I decided it was bad I was already a third of the way in and my conscience bugged me about doing that so I finished it
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Year Zero
- A Novel
- De: Rob Reid
- Narrado por: John Hodgman
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,539
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,206
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,201
Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it's a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. And boy, do they have news. The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on humanity's music ever since "Year Zero" (1977 to us), when American pop songs first reached alien ears. This addiction has driven a vast intergalactic society to commit the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Performance by Hodgman
- De Robert en 08-15-12
- Year Zero
- A Novel
- De: Rob Reid
- Narrado por: John Hodgman
Wacky. Whimsical. Mildly Interesting.
Revisado: 01-23-18
What did you like best about Year Zero? What did you like least?
This book was cute. It was very wacky and I'm not sure how much I liked that.
What does John Hodgman bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
The reader was a good performer.
Did Year Zero inspire you to do anything?
no.
literally no.
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