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Run
- A Novel
- De: Andrew Grant
- Narrado por: Jon Lindstrom
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 37
Marc Bowman, a highly successful computer consultant and software designer, walks into his job at a major tech company one morning only to find himself fired on the spot, stonewalled by his boss, and ushered out of the building. Then things get worse: An explosive argument drives his wife away and a robbery threatens to yank a million-dollar idea - and his whole future - out from under him. In a matter of hours, Marc has gone from having it all to being sucker-punched by fate.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don’t waste your time.
- De Amazon Customer en 05-28-20
- Run
- A Novel
- De: Andrew Grant
- Narrado por: Jon Lindstrom
Don’t waste your time, money, or credit
Revisado: 01-08-24
Where to start? What’s positive about this book? Essentially nothing. The pacing is awful; you have to get almost halfway through it before things sort of get interesting, but even then, it slows or peters out into boring bad dialogue. The characters are one-dimensional. Predictable. Forgettable. Even the main character isn’t likeable. There are small kernels of something, but the author never goes where you hope it will; it’s almost like he’s intentionally choosing a different direction in hopes of making you second guess things. This one’s a stinker; don’t waste your time.
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Woken Furies
- De: Richard K. Morgan
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 22 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,587
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 3,586
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,522
Richard K. Morgan has received widespread praise for his astounding 25th-century novels featuring Takeshi Kovacs, and has established a growing legion of fans. Mixing classic noir sensibilities with a searing futuristic vision of an age when death is nearly meaningless, Morgan returns to his saga of betrayal, mystery, and revenge, as Takeshi Kovacs, in one fatal moment, joins forces with a mysterious woman who may have the power to shatter Harlan's World forever.
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1 out of 5 stars
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"On Harlan's World...
- De Danyal en 09-29-08
- Woken Furies
- De: Richard K. Morgan
- Narrado por: William Dufris
Good book messed up by poor production.
Revisado: 08-06-19
To start with, Morgan does a fine job with the third installment of the Takeshi Kovacs series: we get a lot of his pre-Envoy history, the rise and fall of Quellcrist Falconer, etc., through flashback and recollection, interesting side-effects of the cortical stack technology and the ability to be in virtual environments, and more.
But it's also pretty clear that the producer & narrator never read the previous two novels (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels) in the series before doing this one. In the previous two, Morgan makes it very clear in the prose that Kovacs' last name is pronounced with the Hungarian ending (ˈkovaːt͡ʃ), even to the point of Takeshi noticing when other characters mispronounce it with the Germanic ending ('kovaks). Morgan doesn't write this into Woken Furies, even though he does write that Harlan's World was settled by a mix of Japanese and Russian/Eastern European colonists. All the names should be pronounced as such, but Dufris keeps going with the Germanic; every time I hear it in the novel--which is frequent, as you might expect with the main character--it's jarring. I wish Audible would reproduce this with Todd McLaren, the narrator from the previous two.
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