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Decent!

Revisado: 05-30-23

It was either too long or too short, I can't decide which. There were a lot of great ideas! It just feels like too few of them went anywhere, and the setting (dying earth) calls out for something spookier. Adrian Tchaikovsky's style is much more suited to space opera, dramas of sweeping grandeur and minute detail, academic precision, etc... but for a story like this? What might have been thrilling, eerie, suspenseful, in the hands of the author and the narrator, seems dry.

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The American Nocturne

Revisado: 11-07-22

A spiritual predecessor of Denis Johnson, Ray Bradbury, Steven Millhauser, George Saunders and a thousand others, Anderson's shadow -- cast in the yellow pool of a neighborhood streetlight, at 3:30 AM -- looms large over the American literary landscape. Guidall does his prose a great justice, coloring with his deliberate pace and musical lilt the landscape with grays and oranges like Edward Hopper. A triumph.

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The best audiobook, full stop.

Revisado: 04-05-22

A toweringly brilliant novel, rendered with painstaking and loving care by an enormous cast of tremendously talented performers into the single finest audio drama of the young century thus far. You may think I am being hyperbolic, but I would invite you to look at my other reviews, which are often characterized as being too critical of passable-to-good performances, and then judge for yourself if I am the kind of person who regularly goes out of their way to heap rapturous praise on mediocre work.

I'm serious: there is not a better audiobook than this one.

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The worst culture novel is still pretty darn good

Revisado: 02-19-22

I get what Banks is doing here -- the point he's making is well taken, even if it's not the cheeriest insight humanity ever dreamed up -- and it's stylistically and structurally audacious and I think if I'd felt any affection for any of the characters outside of our ostensible protagonist, a Special Circumstances applicant and erstwhile princess, it might have worked better for me. Still, Banks' writing is never anything short of a joy to read, and even the worst Culture novel is still a Cuture novel.

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Read by a robot

Revisado: 10-12-21

I ended up buying a physical copy and reading it myself, the reader was so bad.

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Great Novel, Amazing Performance

Revisado: 09-27-21

I've been a fan of Stephen Graham Jones for a long time, and I've always enjoyed his prose style, but he's done something special in this book. Jade is one of the most unique and wonderful characters I've ever spent time with, and Cara Gee brings her to vibrant life with her performance.

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China Mieville + John Lee = Perfect Audiobook

Revisado: 07-17-19

One of the best novels of the last century, read by the best narrator alive.

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Fantastic story.

Revisado: 09-08-18

I'd like to preface this by saying that I enjoyed the audiobook enough to track down the actual print version and read it through, and it's a fantastic story. Martha Wells' portrayal of the main character, a semi-autonomous semi-human security cyborg that calls itself "Murderbot," is delivered in plain, unornamented prose, befitting of the character. (I suspect the character is at least partially informed by people on the autism spectrum, which is an interesting choice.) The narrative is a fun, speedy whodunit that resolves somewhat abruptly if not unsatisfactorily.

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