Machine Learner

Wild story

Revisado: 02-09-25

The writing is very strange. It takes a bit to get used to the style but it's extremely enjoyable. I feel I'll listen to it again later and understand totally different things. Excellent world building. And the narration is absolutely on point - Jonathan Davis never ceases to amaze

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Awesome world building

Revisado: 02-04-25

Good mixture of hard sci fi, with some fantastical elements, world building, politics, anthropology, this story has it all... If you can suspend disbelief and enjoy it as a nerdy power fantasy story, it's an amazing start to a great series.

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Memorable story

Revisado: 02-04-25

This was quite a unique and memorable take on the Alien franchise. I came for the sci fi horror but stayed for the societal world-building underpinning the narrative. The narrator was awesome as always, love this guy except when he does that whiny teenager accent... still a 10/10 for me

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Actually great

Revisado: 06-16-23

Very rare to read a book that does so well balancing hard sci fi with what I'd call "sci fi nerd fan service" (for lack of a better spoiler free way to describe it). The narrator is somehow believable and "scientific" while telling a story that seems fantastical. You can tell it's strongly rooted in the rules of the real world, but it doesn't hold the author back from creatively applying those rules.

As for the story itself, jeez, what a rollercoaster.

Great story, great narration, great production. You'll wanna read this one up to the end.

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Excellent story & narration; poor audio quality

Revisado: 02-03-21

The story was amazing, I was instantly drawn into the quirky dystopian cyberpunk world. Just like any good sci fi the main plot had at least some grounding in reality/history, and extended it with a classic yet original sense of techno-futurism. There was just the right amount of mordant wit and irony to not spoil the realism.

As usual Jonathan Davis did a flawless job narrating this one. Unfortunately the recording was awkwardly low fidelity, it sounds like it was encoded in a low bitrate mp3 in the early 2000s. It was pretty annoying at first although it didn't take long for me to get so caught up in the story that I didn't notice it anymore. Still, considering that this is such a classic of cyberpunk literature, there's no excuse not to update the audio file to a better encoding from the master tapes or at least from a CD version.

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Pretty good but story fell off about 3/4 through

Revisado: 04-23-20

I was enjoying this book and its insight into Tarkin as a character. I liked how it didn't really make him likeable but still enjoyable to read from his perspective if that makes sense. But in the latter portion the story just tapered off. And the buildup to the climax/ending were just anticlimactic.

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Good as an intro to modern Chinese history

Revisado: 10-14-19

Narrator was great, very pleasant and at least made an effort to pronounce Chinese names correctly.

Whether or not you support China's path, you should be aware of it.

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So damn good

Revisado: 11-13-18

As for the story, it was a hero's journey like I haven't read since Ender's Game. I won't spoil anything but I loved how the author didn't use random stupid mistakes by the main characters to senselessly and randomly further the plot.

The narrator was absolutely spot-on. Accents were perfect, no cringey try hard voices, everything sounded so natural. Even the singing parts were powerful.

Downloading the sequel right away instead of waiting for next month's credit. Never done this before, it's that good. Listen to this one, fam.

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Better than the anime

Revisado: 11-04-17

Loved the anime, and the book is even better. it doesn't drag on nearly as bad. My only gripe is the narrator trying to do special voices and accents for every character. It's really cringey. Note to narrators, just read characters in your normal voice.

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Challenging even for radical minds

Revisado: 04-18-17

Every so often I come across a book that changes the way I see the world. I'm still seeing the same things in the media, but now I have a constant awareness of the potential missing facts in a story. It won't eliminate the box, but it should help you think outside of it.

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