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Purist Textbook

Revisado: 04-30-20

It reads like a textbook. There is some good content about the early history of house but it’s presented as a list of facts so it feels like listening to a Wikipedia article being read to you. I was expecting stories and antidotes which bring you intimately into what it was like being part of that scene and what it took to make the music.

The authors only likes early original house music. The book only covers the house up to the late 90’s and spends the last 5-10 mins of the book bashing anything that came after saying things like Big Room house is preset driven, the scene had bad Molly (like the quality of a drug defines the quality of the music?) and Avicii is “cornball”. The only exception he makes is deep house is good because it’s similar to early house.

It’s a quick listen so you may absorb some facts but I’m personally going to look for something with more depth and less bias to it.

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Wow

Revisado: 01-09-17

I stayed up late several nights because I couldn't stop listening to this book. The story is very suspenseful and very creative and all the references to 80's trivia made it fun and playful. I got hints of a Neal Stephenson influence from the humor and dystopian view of the future, human nature and the role of technology in people's lives.

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Good story

Revisado: 11-25-15

The Stone Man was a good entertaining book, but will not make my top 5 favorite books list. It's worth listening to, as it's a unique, interesting story, and has some suspense. For me what makes it only a 4 star is I couldn't fully empathize with any of the characters, and the ratio of debating over moral dilemma vs actual story unfolding was higher than I'd like - at least for this story. I recommend listening to the book. Others may feel differently than me, as reviews are ultimately subjective, but I anticipate a lot of people will like it, but not be blown away.

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Cool, Crazy and Intricate

Revisado: 10-30-15

Snow Crash lays out a humorous and satirical vision of the near future that is not that far off the direction you could imagine the world going in. Stephenson is so creative with all his quirky and interesting characters, and the pace of the story feels almost manic at times that you feel you're on a wild adventure just listening along. I laughed several times out loud at some of the sarcastic comments characters made. He has a very hip writing style and it's a very cool mystery that ends up being very intricate and made me end up feeling "this is so cool, how did he think of this?!"

Johnathan Davis is one of the best narrators I've listen on Audible so far. His range of voices, accents and "attitudes"' is very dynamic and gives a distinct personality to each character so you really feel like you're listening to different people talking. Plus he's able to do female voices well which I notice some other narrators with deep voices have trouble pulling off.

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Future based political saga

Revisado: 09-11-15

Foundations is a pretty fascinating political saga taking place in the far future amongst the many planets of a single galaxy. In general, I find the themes of different sci-fi stories ending up somewhere on a scale between a focus on the intricacies of a fantastical or futuristic world, and a focus on the human interactions and politics that take place in that fictional world. Foundations definitely leans more thirds the latter. In a very fascinating way though. It takes place over hundreds of years with some pretty long term and far reaching concepts. Just know that you'll be witnessing more clever maneuvering of power during grandiose historic events rather than mind blowing futuristic technology or concepts.

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Great Vision and Great Story

Revisado: 07-14-15

Wow, this book has just become one of my all time favorites. I plan to listen to it or read it again. I'm only just now getting more into Sci-Fi, but I was not only impressed by the vision of the future as Gibson saw it in 1983, but the vibe he conveys and how interesting and suspenseful the story is. In the forward Gibson mentions similarities with Blade Runner, with it's murky, misty China town portrayal, and though the vibe is similar and it deals with similar themes, Neuromancer's story and characters are leagues better. The story proceeds like a mystery with each unrevealing blowing your mind, and you can't wait to figure out what happens next.

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