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Marsbound
- De: Joe Haldeman
- Narrado por: Liza Kaplan
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime - they're going to Mars. Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppressive authority figures to rebel against.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Meh.
- De Wes Parker en 03-19-09
- Marsbound
- De: Joe Haldeman
- Narrado por: Liza Kaplan
Poor Narration, Awkward Sex Scenes
Revisado: 02-05-19
I'm only halfway in and it's just not grabbing me, but the reason I felt it needed a review is that the narration is pretty mediocre and the sex scenes just strike an odd tone. The narrator is just "ok" for the main character and truly awful for most side characters; making them sound like the badly voiced Simpsons characters. What struck me as off about the story, besides its overall lackluster pace, is that the sex scenes are written about a barely adult teenage female romanced by a 30 something pilot, all of which is written in way more explicit detail than I needed to hear from a 65 year old male writer. So far, scenes that could've been left at brief overviews and still delivered the needed plot points have been broken out in strangely detailed terms describing positions and specific sexual acts taking place that just come across as weirdly unnecessary detail. All in all, I will finish it and hope for the best, but its not impressing me at the halfway point.
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Ready Player One
- De: Ernest Cline
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 15 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 260,467
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 240,988
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 240,502
In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I’m sorry I waited so long to read this book.
- De Julie W. Capell en 05-27-14
- Ready Player One
- De: Ernest Cline
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
Wil Wheaton is Unbearable
Revisado: 04-24-17
I loved this book and have listened several times, each of which reminds me how much I dislike Wil Wheaton's overacting and smarmy mannerism. I was prompted to finally write a brief review here because my GF is listening to some of my audiobooks and quit on this one because of it which is a shame because again, its a great book.
Audiobook producers: please don't let him ruin any more narration.
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Fool's Quest
- Book II of the Fitz and the Fool trilogy
- De: Robin Hobb
- Narrado por: Elliot Hill
- Duración: 33 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,552
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4,146
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,131
The harrowing adventures of FitzChivalry Farseer and his enigmatic friend, the Fool, continue in Robin Hobb's triumphant follow-up to Fool's Assassin. But Fool's Quest is more than just a sequel. With the artistry and imagination her fans have come to expect, Hobb builds masterfully on all that has gone before, revealing devastating secrets and shocking conspiracies that cast a dark shadow over the history of Fitz and his world - a shadow that now stretches to darken all future hope.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What's with the Fool's weird accent?
- De M. Casale en 08-11-15
- Fool's Quest
- Book II of the Fitz and the Fool trilogy
- De: Robin Hobb
- Narrado por: Elliot Hill
Solid Story, Weak Narrator
Revisado: 04-27-16
I wish they wouldn't use this narrator. He does well enough with some characters, especially those most heavily used, but chooses odd accents that have no relation to how the book is physically written. Half of his side characters get obnoxiously sniveling voices like a Disney interpretation of a greedy merchant and his main character gasps and exclaims breathlessly in an overdramatic fashion constantly. Never mind that he made side characters speak in odd German and Norse sounding accents for no reason.
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World War Z
- An Oral History of the Zombie War
- De: Max Brooks
- Narrado por: Max Brooks, Alan Alda, John Turturro, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10,872
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,446
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,454
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of 30 million souls, to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet.
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2 out of 5 stars
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needs to be unabridged
- De Catherine en 11-17-08
- World War Z
- An Oral History of the Zombie War
- De: Max Brooks
- Narrado por: Max Brooks, Alan Alda, John Turturro, Rob Reiner
Elevates the "Audiobook" to an artform of its own.
Revisado: 09-14-11
As a novel this book takes zombies to a place they haven't been as a storytelling medium since the days of Romero's "Night of the Living Dead". The walking dead serve Brooks as a backdrop for glib social commentary on the state of humanity and keen observation on just what our civilization, or its loss, means to us as a species.
As an audiobook, "World War Z" separates itself from the crowd by being more than a simple oral rendition of the source material. The audio book brings an ensemble cast of voices to the table and truly brings to life each and every character with personality no one actor could achieve for the entire book alone. Despite being abridged, the audiobook captures the heart and horror of the original novel.
In short, if you read it and haven't heard it, then get the audio, if you heard it but want more, read the book, and if you haven't done either buy them both and make a long weekend of it; I promise you won't be disappointed.
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