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Sourdough
- De: Robin Sloan
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3
Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers close up shop, and fast. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A story about our society, told through bread
- De Peter en 06-19-18
- Sourdough
- De: Robin Sloan
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
A story about our society, told through bread
Revisado: 06-19-18
Robin somehow manages to tell a captivating story entirely about bread. But also about the modern dreams,:making it big, working at a hip start up, discovery both scientific and about one self. It summarizes all the current problems with food industry, and all the varied solutions. The miracle is that all of this is told between the lines of a story about a young woman moving to a new state. If you liked penumbra you'll like this. It follows the same patterns, has the same key ingredients.
This book will make you want to go for a walk in san fransisco, bake bread, and make new friends.
Are you still reading this? Just get it now!
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Anathem
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, y otros
- Duración: 32 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,379
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,977
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,988
In celebration of the week-long, once-in-a-decade rite of Apert, the fras and suurs prepare to venture outside the concent's gates - opening them wide at the same time to welcome the curious "extras" in. During his first Apert as a fra, Erasmus eagerly anticipates reconnecting with the landmarks and family he hasn't seen since he was "collected". But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the perilous brink of cataclysmic change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Joe en 12-04-09
- Anathem
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, Neal Stephenson
The flavor of time, philosophy and curiosity
Revisado: 05-09-18
You know how large old stone buildings make you feel Time? The after taste of intelligence you get after hearing a clever philosophical explanation? How really good Sci fi makes your mind grow? This book does all of that. It's part mystery and Sci fi, part a coming of age story, part examination of earth's history. None in the way you expect.
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Anathem
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, y otros
- Duración: 32 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,973
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,542
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,551
Fraa Erasmus is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the "Saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities, and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs, bloody violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I love Neal, but Good lord... ugh!
- De SpiderGrrl en 10-08-19
- Anathem
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, Neal Stephenson
The flavor of time, philosophy and curiosity
Revisado: 05-09-18
You know how large old stone buildings make you feel Time? The after taste of intelligence you get after hearing a clever philosophical explanation? How really good Sci fi makes your mind grow? This book does all of that. It's part mystery and Sci fi, part a coming of age story, part examination of earth's history. None in the way you expect.
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The Long Earth
- De: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
- Narrado por: Michael Fenton Stevens
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 299
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 275
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 276
The Western Front, 1916. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? Madison, Wisconsin, 2015. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive - some said mad, others dangerous - scientist when she finds a curious gadget: a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a potato. It is the prototype of a life-changing invention....
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2 out of 5 stars
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World and not Character Building
- De Amy W en 06-28-12
- The Long Earth
- De: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
- Narrado por: Michael Fenton Stevens
Great, unusual escapism.
Revisado: 05-16-13
Would you consider the audio edition of The Long Earth to be better than the print version?
The narrator enhances the characters written by the authors. This alone makes the audio edition worth looking into. To bad audible only sells licenses and not real audio files.
What did you like best about this story?
What if you could have an entire world to your self? What if the nature of the universe was explained out there? What if the world might end soon? I enjoyed the grand escapism. I enjoyed the realism. No conflict is avoided in The long Earth. All the exploiters, terrorists, mafiosos, shady traders and super cops are thought of and included. The end of scarcity is not the end of problems.
To me this is what makes this read great for younger and older readers.
Of course there are also some great characters and themes to explore. Witty dialogue to enjoy, and philosophical labyrinths to navigate.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No. No book should be devaoured whole. What are you, an animal? Do you eat apples whole? Do you not cram the whole box of choclates in all at once without even removing the plastic?
Still, I have to admit it was tempting.
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