James Evan Dickinson
- 24
- opiniones
- 4
- votos útiles
- 32
- calificaciones
-
The Winter King
- De: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 19 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The tale begins in Dark Age Britain, a land where Arthur has been banished and Merlin has disappeared, where a child-king sits unprotected on the throne, where religion vies with magic for the souls of the people. It is to this desperate land that Arthur returns, a man at once utterly human and truly heroic: a man of honor, loyalty, and amazing valor; a man who loves Guinevere more passionately than he should; a man whose life is at once tragic and triumphant.
-
-
Might be my favorite take on Arthur
- De Allen Young en 06-12-16
- The Winter King
- De: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
not truly unabridged
Revisado: 02-20-23
I bought the audible versions hoping to complete my previously incomplete experience with this series...and in the last seconds I was very disappointed...this claims to be unabridged but it misses about 3 minutes where the author discusses how they came about this story...the changes they made and why...without that little aside the book feels lacking.
the older version I had used Edmund Dehn as the narrator and...while his female voices always seemed like hags...his pronouncing of characters locations and items seemed so much better...
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Space: 1969
- De: Bill Oakley
- Narrado por: Natasha Lyonne, full cast
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
- Grabación Original
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Nancy Kranich (played by Emmy-nominated actress Natasha Lyonne of Russian Doll and Orange Is the New Black) is a night nurse on an orbiting space station. But Nancy hates her job, is sick of space, and longs to find adventure and a safe place to smoke cigarettes that won’t blow everyone up. But when Nancy gets caught up in an outer-space conspiracy involving President Kennedy, former vice-president Richard Nixon, and an intergalactic object that could change the course of history, she gets way more adventure than she bargained for.
-
-
Simply the Best Full-Cast Audio Book Ever!
- De Veritas en 07-09-22
- Space: 1969
- De: Bill Oakley
- Narrado por: Natasha Lyonne, full cast
fun alternative history
Revisado: 02-16-23
Pretty fun, pretty funny.
Personally I'm over good/bad/mediocre impressions of Nixon and Kennedy...those were the single worst parts of the audiobook/podcast/radio play...
The premise was fun, never for a second took itself too seriously and it was better for it. Very self aware...and sometimes worse for it.
Great cast...except for the aforementioned lame impressions.
At 5 hours and some change...it doesn't over stay it's welcome...but I doubt I need a follow up series.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
The Psychonaut
- The Psychonaut Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Tom G.H. Adams
- Narrado por: Tom Adams
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
How would it change your life if you knew what everyone else was thinking? Merrick Whyte has used such a talent to profit from the world of high finance and business mergers. He puts it down to psychology, the study of body language and good background research. But the game is about to change. Someone is seeking his skills for a different purpose - one that leads him into the clandestine world of the occult. After falling foul of the law, he learns that discerning between friend and foe is not an easy task, especially when reality gets turned upside down.
-
-
The rise of the Psychonaut
- De Raul en 05-31-18
- The Psychonaut
- The Psychonaut Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Tom G.H. Adams
- Narrado por: Tom Adams
Kinda The Matrix by way of the occult
Revisado: 02-12-23
A fine indie book. Kinda The Matrix by way of the occult. To be honest I thought it would be more about the actual magic system...instead it's one of those stories where our protagonist is already a master at portal magic right off the bat, once the secret society finally finds him. I definitely expected a different kind of "11th hour character reveal"...the one we got was like getting a complimentary slice of untoasted white bread with your meal...I didn't want it, but here it is, and it really didn't add to or detract from the whole...
The book is kinda horny...it's fine...if I weren't listening to the book I would have just skipped over the pages...that's just a personal thing.
The narrator of the audiobook had unique voices for every character and did a fantastic job...even if some of the accents were a little annoying when they had long bits of dialog.
I'm being too judgy...it's a fine book, it tells the story it wants to tell in a clear and sometimes cinematic way.
The villain's name is Sha-moan (not sure of the exact spelling...cause audiobook), and EVERY TIME the narrator said the antagonists name my ADHD brain repeated it like one of michael jackson's filler sounds...every time.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
The Neil Gaiman Reader
- Fiction
- De: Neil Gaiman
- Narrado por: Neil Gaiman, George Guidall, Lenny Henry, y otros
- Duración: 27 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Spanning Gaiman’s career to date, The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is a captivating collection from one of the world’s most beloved writers, chosen by those who know his work best: his devoted fans. A brilliant representation of Gaiman's groundbreaking, entrancing, endlessly imaginative fiction, this captivating volume includes excerpts from each of his five novels for adults—Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane—and nearly fifty of his short stories.
-
-
52 Bits of Awesome
- De Southard en 08-11-21
- The Neil Gaiman Reader
- Fiction
- De: Neil Gaiman
- Narrado por: Neil Gaiman, George Guidall, Lenny Henry, Leon Nixon
a best of album
Revisado: 10-09-22
fantastic collection of Gaiman short stories. nothing new in here... but I don't mind. I only wish this came with his blurb about the short stories
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Fairy Tale
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Seth Numrich, Stephen King
- Duración: 24 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a horrific accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from that shed.
-
-
A Boy and his Dog at the end of the World
- De Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com en 09-06-22
- Fairy Tale
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Seth Numrich, Stephen King
I was hoping for a better book
Revisado: 09-21-22
The first 10 hours, I was on cloud 9...I had a big honkin King book and plenty of time to enjoy the hell out of it... then something happens in the narrative and the next 10 hours just hit a wall...it took forever to get through because I didn't care at all about what was happening...it probably could have taken up a third of the time, of structured differently.
one thing that annoyed me about the book...with all it's talk about love for the Art of Storytelling and the Origins of the Old Stories...this book should have been much more clever. From the hands of STEPHEN KING, a connoisseur of literature, a GOD among writers, King who reinvented horror, who redefined characters...the most adapted living/modern author...I thought this was gonna be a mega layered exploration of Fairy Tales and Fantasy tropes, a story with a meta story threaded within and without the story of Charlie.
it's stupid to criticize someone's art for not being what YOU wanted it to be, I'm guilty of it. I just thought it would be more clever than it ended up being.
at the end of it all...it's (modern) King...and I'll still read anything he puts out. there are far worse ways to spend 20~ hours, and worse ways to spend money.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Lost Gods
- A Novel
- De: Brom
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 14 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Fresh out of jail and eager to start a new life, Chet Moran and his pregnant wife, Trish, leave town to begin again. But an ancient evil is looming, and what seems like a safe haven may not be all it appears. Snared and murdered by a vile, arcane horror, Chet quickly learns that pain and death are not unique to the living. Now the lives and very souls of his wife and unborn child are at stake. To save them, he must journey into the bowels of purgatory in search of a sacred key promised to restore the natural order of life and death.
-
-
Reminiscent of Orpheus & Eurydice
- De Eslynn en 10-31-18
cool premise
Revisado: 09-12-22
felt like mid-tier Stephen King.
cool purgatory imagery.
I thought this book was much older...finding it came out in 2016 was kind of a shock..m
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
The Prestige
- De: Christopher Priest
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose each other. In the course of pursuing each other's ruin, they will deploy all the deception their magician's craft can command. Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences.
-
-
One of a Kind.
- De Andrew en 06-22-07
- The Prestige
- De: Christopher Priest
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
Movie was better
Revisado: 08-31-22
I was excited to read this book, as I have fond memories of the movie…Last year I read Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, I really enjoyed the movie years ago when i saw it, and still managed to enjoy the book! The Prestige on the other hand didn’t deliver an experience comparable to the movie.
A quick note about the audiobooks narrator, Simon Vance, I've enjoyed him in plenty of other books, and he does a fine job here... except his females just don't work...was this done early in his career? i know i've heard him do a better job in more recent books...
Prestige’s structure is 80% unnaturally written journal entries. If I were an average joe existing in the world this book presents, and I came upon one, or both of the main characters journals my thought wouldn’t be “AVAST, what a mysterious and haunting tome of inner demons and struggles I hold in my hand!! Surely the authors of such a tormented volume would wish to hold their books forthwith”. Rather I'd read the first page and think “is their life a story? Because these aren’t how anyone writes in a journal, they are plot points being told…how boring”
The book lamely withholds details so they can be revealed later on when the plot demands we re contextualize something or need to be told of a reveal… maybe this was intentional…I believe the intent was to set up the whole book like a magic trick and have the end reveal BE the prestige of the meta magic trick. But there was zero showmanship by the characters, the “misdirection” is withheld details that are “but what you didn't know”’d to the readers further down the line. It’s almost as if this book was on rails… like a disney ride, just watching things lifelessly motioned out before you.
Whatever. Clearly this book was lightning in a bottle at the time it came out…and with my hindsight glasses on I’m not seeing what the big deal is…but this book came out in 1995 a year that gave us Lost World, Rose Madder, Wicked… TEN notable fantasy series released their first installments in that year (Golden Compass, Warlord Chronicles, Farseer Trilogy, Abhorsen…) HOW DID THIS BOOK STAND OUT?? It's the 82nd most popular book that year.
The greatest magic trick in The Prestige is how a mediocre book was turned into a movie 20~ years after being published, being directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale (3 years before The Dark Knight demolished box office records)... not to mention an amazing supporting cast (Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, David Bowie, Scarlett Johansson…)
I’m always baffled when I have so much to say for something I didn’t enjoy, especially since it’s entirely subjective…
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Anything
- Full Murderhobo, Book 2
- De: Dakota Krout
- Narrado por: Christian J. Gilliland
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Luke is a straightforward man. There are only a few things he wants in life: Levels, things to fight to gain levels, and finding Cookie, so he can fight things more efficiently. Yet, the other members of his team are ready for some relaxation, and fun in the sun. After all, there should be huge perks that come with stopping an invasion in its tracks. But surprisingly, being famous for making the Kingdom wealthy and powerful has its downsides. Namely, there is now a huge price on their heads. The Four soon find themselves searching for a way to pit their power against the world.
-
-
okay but lacking
- De Benjamin en 03-14-22
- Anything
- Full Murderhobo, Book 2
- De: Dakota Krout
- Narrado por: Christian J. Gilliland
more of the same
Revisado: 08-02-22
very similar to the first book, pretty identical pros and cons.
one thing this genre seems to suffer from is the ridiculous over powered character(s)...Luke is insanely OP...but that seems to be the prevailing flavor of Lit-RPG.
I feel confident that I'll be checking out all future installments of this series...
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Meet Me in Another Life
- A Novel
- De: Catriona Silvey
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Two strangers in a foreign city, Thora and Santi meet in a chance encounter. At once, they recognize in each other a kindred spirit - someone who is longing for more in life than the cards they’ve been dealt. Before their friendship can blossom, though, a tragic accident cuts their story short.
-
-
Half way through, it’s an arduous read.
- De coppercent7 en 07-29-21
- Meet Me in Another Life
- A Novel
- De: Catriona Silvey
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
a better take on the Many Lives Lived genre
Revisado: 07-27-22
I started this book a few months back but i wasn't quite ready for it, so i waited. started it again mid-July... i still wasn't quite ready for it but I decided now was when i was gonna read it.
I was gonna be content if this book was just a series of short stories about 2 people fallin in or out of love with different seasonings each time... that woulda been pretty cool... just a bunch of un-connected ways these two meet or fall apart. Fortunately this book does have a plot that intends to make each story relevant.
this is a fun book with an interesting premise...and one that was executed well!
at the very end...the author seemed to do a lot of {this is how it was...BUT ACTUALLY this is how it is...but now we see THIS is how it is..and actually THIS is how it's over}. suffice to say I felt a bit whiplashed by the end and would have enjoyed a more solid ending where things didn't need to be surprised into place.
the audiobook narrator did a fantastic job!
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Drugged: The Science and Culture Behind Psychotropic Drugs
- De: Richard J. Miller
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In Drugged, Miller takes listeners on an eye-opening tour of psychotropic drugs, describing the various kinds, how they were discovered and developed, and how they have played multiple roles in virtually every culture. Drugged brims with surprises, revealing the fact that antidepressant drugs evolved from rocket fuel, highlighting the role of hallucinogens in the history of religion, and asking whether Prozac can help depressed cats. Entertaining and authoritative, Drugged is a truly fascinating book.
-
-
Interesting reading but heavy on the biochemistry
- De Scott en 06-28-14
good book poor audiobook
Revisado: 07-27-22
well researched, with a pacing more interesting than a textbook.
sadly this is mostly just a textbook without the pictures. (is there a PDF? I haven't looked). a book like this is interesting and invaluable...but as an audiobook it would only serve to assist the reading of the physical book.
I would use a book like this to just read quick chapters here or there...it was very hard to just get lost in the narrative! LOL.
I appreciated the neutral stance towards recreational drugs!
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña