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Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon
- De: Matt Dinniman
- Narrado por: Joe Hempel
- Duración: 20 h y 9 m
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Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon. Survival horror. One of the most brutal, most terrifying full-immersion games ever made. A place where fantasy characters such as elves and dwarves clash with technology, where giant monsters roam the hills, entrusted with protecting the gates of heaven from the demons who would tear it all down. A game where one plays the last of the battlefield surgeons: a healer tasked with keeping the behemoths alive at all costs. But on this server, they don't care about the game. They've come because of the game's most unique feature: full pain.
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Not for the faint of heart or weak of mind.
- De Matrin Zachs en 05-28-20
- Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon
- De: Matt Dinniman
- Narrado por: Joe Hempel
not the fun kind of shocking
Revisado: 04-13-23
As a fan of Matt Dinneman's other work, this one unfortunately missed the mark for me. It was not fun enough to be a romp, not impactful enough to be a drama, and I didn't care enough about the characters to make the painful bits anything but a slog.
Framing the story as an "isekai" style narrative removed any reason for me to care about any characters except our main duo, leaving huge swaths of narrative as the book equivalent of listening to my brother describe Dark Souls lore. Directly telling me, the reader, that all the characters are computer simulations immediately saddles the author with the incredible task of making me care about them anyways, and in this case the author did not achieve the impossible.
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Network Effect
- De: Martha Wells
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
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You know that feeling when you’re at work and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot. Come for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable AI you’ll listen to this century.
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I Hope You Remain Unmurdered
- De pondo en 05-06-20
- Network Effect
- De: Martha Wells
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free
great as always
Revisado: 11-11-22
I have re-listened to this book at least five times, and it's great every time.
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The Alloy of Law
- A Mistborn Novel
- De: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world....
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Pleased, yet wanting more...
- De T en 11-11-11
- The Alloy of Law
- A Mistborn Novel
- De: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
A lighter BrandoSando
Revisado: 06-16-22
Mr. Sanderson often writes absolute cinderblock novels filled with lore, complex and interwoven plots, flawless world building, incredible action, and gutwrenching drama. I love them. But sometimes, you just want to watch a cowboy named Wax launch himself through a building like a wrecking ball. While indulging in slightly lighter world building, plots, drama, and lore. When I'm 20 chapters into one of the cinderblocks and my emotional center is exhausted, I come back here and I reread these novels for the joy of actually being able to finish a book in two days flat.
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The Grief of Stones
- Book Two of the Cemeteries of Amalo Trilogy
- De: Katherine Addison
- Narrado por: Liam Gerrard
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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Celehar’s life as the Witness for the Dead of Amalo grows less isolated as his circle of friends grows larger. He has been given an apprentice to teach, and he has stumbled over a scandal of the city—the foundling girls. Orphans with no family to claim them and no funds to buy an apprenticeship. Foundling boys go to the Prelacies; foundling girls are sold into service, or worse. At once touching and shattering, Celehar’s witnessing for one of these girls will lead him into the depths of his own losses. The love of his friends will lead him out again.
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Fantastic book
- De am en 10-28-23
- The Grief of Stones
- Book Two of the Cemeteries of Amalo Trilogy
- De: Katherine Addison
- Narrado por: Liam Gerrard
strongly character-focused
Revisado: 06-16-22
Like other books in this series, The Grief Of Stones is strongly focused on the emotional and spiritual journey of the protagonist, and is less concerned with trimming out scenes that are not directly related to the central plot. It thoroughly kept my attention all the way through but some aspects of the book feel like a series of short stories centered on a theme rather than a single story unit. Depending on your reading preferences, this could either be a positive or a negative for you.
That said, the main plot of the story is compelling, Addison's writing is excellent as always, the cast of characters are well-developed and complex, the narration was great, and I highly recommend this book series for folks that like character-driven plots that demonstrate fascinating world building. I do not recommend this novel to my dad, who likes action-filled plot-centric novels and doesn't care as much about the internal emotional journey of the protagonist.
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Something
- Full Murderhobo, Book 1
- De: Dakota Krout
- Narrado por: Christian J. Gilliland
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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Luke is an apprentice leather worker, training with his family to one day take over the business. He and his friends Andre, Taylor, and Zed have known each other forever, and swear that nothing will ever tear apart their friendship. Then the Royal Decree comes. With the Dynasty of Dogs invading, and strange monsters appearing in the Hollow Kingdom, a draft has been implemented. Everyone 17 or older is required to be tested for "Potential". If they have it, they will join the mysterious and renowned Ascender Corps. If not, they will be drafted into the Legion as a forced recruit.
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Ridiculous
- De John en 11-04-20
- Something
- Full Murderhobo, Book 1
- De: Dakota Krout
- Narrado por: Christian J. Gilliland
boring, obnoxious, and dumb
Revisado: 05-21-22
When I saw a book with "murderhobo" in the title, I thought I was in for a romp. A gore-fest. The literary version of what happens when I introduce a slightly annoying NPC to my D&D group. That is not what I got. What I got is the equivalent of listening to a 13-year-old describe the lore behind Magic The Gathering. There were literal pages of exposition hidden under the barest veneer of "let me describe the way the world works to my dumb sister", and that's before we get to video-game-land.
Once we transition out of the shallow, barely-thought-out pseudo-medieval world into video-game-land, we have LITERAL HOURS of the author describing the experience of grinding in a video game. Through the POV of the least likeable, bland, undeveloped characters you will ever meet. I am a solid four hours in and I cannot take it any more.
I'm giving this book two stars because it never pretends to be something it's not. If your best buddy in middleschool wrote a dumb story where you and all your friends beat up monsters and he delivered that story to you in 2-page installments written in perforated notebook paper with little illustrations in the margins, and you've been jonesing to replicate that experience, this is the book for you.
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