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Poster Girl
- De: Veronica Roth
- Narrado por: Anna Caputo
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 375
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 327
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 328
What's right is right. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan—she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation. Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked in the Aperture, a prison on the outskirts of the city. And everyone else, now free from monitoring, went on with their lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Little bit preachy, but still very good.
- De Kindle Customer en 10-23-22
- Poster Girl
- De: Veronica Roth
- Narrado por: Anna Caputo
Just okay
Revisado: 09-18-23
For the story: I didn’t love it, didn’t hate it. It was a good idea, but I think it was lacking some things. It didn’t make me feel anything. I would have liked to have more information on the Delegation to contextualize people’s hatred of it more; there is obviously the constant surveillance, and some murders, but it didn’t feel like enough. There were several moments that were too convenient, sort of “deus ex machina” type stuff. Even aside from that though, something about the writing was just not quite there for me.
As far as the narrator, I don’t think she was a good choice for this one. She didn’t really “fit the role,” you know? Not edgy enough, I guess.
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Project Hail Mary
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 16 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 193,114
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 176,618
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 176,066
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bazinga
- De Davidgonzalezsr en 05-04-21
- Project Hail Mary
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
New favorite
Revisado: 12-29-21
I so thoroughly enjoyed this in every way, it is now up there in my top favorites. Loved the story, and Ray Porter’s narration was amazing; he really brought it to life.
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The Last Thing He Told Me
- A Novel
- De: Laura Dave
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58,324
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50,800
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50,652
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The worst book I have ever heard
- De Amazon Customer en 05-14-21
- The Last Thing He Told Me
- A Novel
- De: Laura Dave
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
Pretty good
Revisado: 06-15-21
I’d say 3.5 stars. It was an interesting enough story, but a little anti-climactic. I don’t regret it. And the narrator was good.
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The Queen's Gambit
- De: Walter Tevis
- Narrado por: Amy Landon
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18,152
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 16,256
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16,192
Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of 16, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I can't listen to it.
- De Kindle Customer en 10-26-20
- The Queen's Gambit
- De: Walter Tevis
- Narrado por: Amy Landon
Story was okay; narration was bad
Revisado: 01-01-21
First, the narrator:
This audiobook was exactly the reason I was hesitant about getting into audiobooks. The narrator’s, er...interpretation was robotic at best, and cartoonish at worst. My initial impression was that it sounded like it was being narrated by a speech to text program. Then she got to the secondary characters...the men all had a vaguely “adult Bart Simpson” sound, or like a woman actively mocking a man rather than just trying to sound masculine.
And the female characters weren’t much better. They’re the type of voices you imagine someone using when reading a silly story to a child, not a serious book for adults. And, all the foreign characters had the same, bad, exaggerated, vaguely Eastern European accent. (Even the Mexicans.)
The main character’s voice was fine, but devoid of emotion; and I would venture to say that even serious people who don’t smile a lot still speak with somewhat varied intonation. I recall only two or three times she spoke with any kind of variation in tone at all, even though she was described, at times, as laughing and giggling, so she obviously wasn’t a robot. Regardless, I got used to that; the male characters I could not get used to, and cringed every time their lines came up...which is often, in a book about chess.
Now, the story:
It was pretty interesting, and I might have enjoyed it more if I had read it rather than listened to it, but there were aspects I didn’t care for. There are some gratuitously vulgar parts toward the beginning, to the tune of an older child sexually molesting a younger one. I suppose he was trying to set the scene for the type of environment she was growing up in, but it seemed unnecessarily detailed, and not really crucial to the story...And then the offending character is usually described in a favorable light. I don’t know, seemed rather poor taste to me.
In any case it’s only a small part at the beginning.
I found the story overall interesting enough to keep listening, but I think I would have been very bored if I had no interest in, or knowledge of, Chess, considering the long amount of time he spends describing the games in detail.
The main character isn’t overly likable a lot of the time, but I don’t think a main character necessarily has to be...real people aren’t always likable, even if they are otherwise interesting.
Anyway, I’d recommend reading this one yourself. Or, if you don’t want to read lots of chess game descriptions, maybe just watch the show. (Although I haven’t seen that yet to know if it’s better.) Edit: Have now seen the show. It is better.
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