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Service Model
- De: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrado por: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,957
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,809
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,809
Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away. Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another banger from Tchaikovsky
- De J. C. Amos en 06-09-24
- Service Model
- De: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrado por: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Loved this!
Revisado: 01-01-25
Briliant! This is the best book I read or listened to all year. Adrian Tchaikovsky's narration was the cherry on top.
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City of Illusions
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 944
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 749
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 755
He is a full-grown man, alone in dense forest, with no trail to show where he has come from and no memory to tell who or what he is. His eyes are not the eyes of a human. The forest people take him in and raise him almost as a child, teaching him to speak, training him in forest lore, giving him all the knowledge they have. But they could not solve the riddle of his past, and at last he has to set out on a perilous quest to find his true self - and a universe of danger.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Quest For Falk, A Discovery For Me
- De Mimi en 09-22-09
- City of Illusions
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
Good book
Revisado: 04-08-23
Another good story from Ursula Le Guin. Steven Rudnicki does a terrific job at narration.
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Surface Detail
- A Culture Novel
- De: Iain M. Banks
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 20 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,833
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,582
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,576
Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right, she will need the help of the Culture....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Devestatingly superior
- De Steven en 11-21-10
- Surface Detail
- A Culture Novel
- De: Iain M. Banks
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
Another masterpiece
Revisado: 10-21-13
Any additional comments?
This was as good as any of Banks' Culture series. Peter Kenny is as great a narrator as Banks is as a writer.
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Matter
- De: Iain M. Banks
- Narrado por: Toby Longworth
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
- Versión resumida
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't Buy this Abominable Abridgement
- De Jim Sabshin en 05-06-12
- Matter
- De: Iain M. Banks
- Narrado por: Toby Longworth
Beware! This is the ABRIDGED version
Revisado: 09-03-13
What would have made Matter better?
If this review were a Culture spaceship it would be called the "GSV Not What I Was Expecting". I should've looked before I bought. I've been on an Iain Banks binge lately. I bought this just because of his name. The abridgment of the story takes a lot of Banks' great writing away. I left completely disappointed. It would've been better if I skipped purchasing this recording.
What three words best describe Toby Longworth’s performance?
Not Peter Kenny [but not a bad performance]
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Matter?
The problem is that too much was cut.
Any additional comments?
Don't buy this. If you're a fan of Iain Banks you'll most likely walk away as disappointed as I was. If you're new to Banks and the Culture series this isn't a good introduction at all. Try one of the unabridged novels. Consider Phlebas is a great place to start.
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The Dream of Perpetual Motion
- A Novel
- De: Dexter Palmer
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 40
Imprisoned aboard a zeppelin that floats above a city reminiscent of those of the classic films Metropolis and Brazil, the greeting card writer Harold Winslow is composing his memoirs. His companions are the only woman he has ever loved, who has gone insane, and the cryogenically frozen body of her father, the devilish genius who drove her mad.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A dual delight.
- De Robert A. Karski en 10-08-10
- The Dream of Perpetual Motion
- A Novel
- De: Dexter Palmer
- Narrado por: William Dufris
Ponderous
Revisado: 05-16-10
This book was disappointing. It seemed to be an endless series of monologues. Don't waste your time.
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