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Supercarrier
- The Ixan Prophecies Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Scott Bartlett
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,083
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 997
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 998
Captain Keyes is loved by the public but hated by Command. He captains the UHS Providence, an aging supercarrier and the last human ship not dependent on dark tech - technology humanity has used to rule over the galaxy since barely defeating the Ixa in the First Galactic War.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Liberal Indoctrination Run Amok
- De Tranque en 08-06-17
- Supercarrier
- The Ixan Prophecies Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Scott Bartlett
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
Worth reading
Revisado: 01-24-18
As always Mark Boyett did a fantastic job.
Story was interesting but felt like it had some holes in it when compared to other recent SF I have read - nothing to make me drop the book but did kind of break the suspension of disbelief.
I felt the captain was not written well. We are set up to believe that he is a great captain but then makes a bunch of rudimentary mistakes. Holds his crew responsible but then does those same things himself. Overemotional, etc. I have a hard time seeing a person with these tendencies making it as far as he did or being as successful as he was supposed to be.
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Roughing It
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 15 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,219
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,090
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,082
In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West. Roughing It is a hilarious record of his travels over a six-year period that comes to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales. Twain reflects on his scuffling years mining silver in Nevada, working at a Virginia City newspaper, being downandout in San Francisco, reporting for a newspaper from Hawaii, and more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The wild humorist of the West
- De Tad Davis en 01-02-12
- Roughing It
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
Grover Gardner is fantastic
Revisado: 11-22-17
I cannot think of Twain without thinking of Gardner. Fantastic story and fantastic job at reading.
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Seveneves
- A Novel
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Mary Robinette Kowal, Will Damron
- Duración: 31 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25,457
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23,258
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 23,251
A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Odd narrator choice
- De Josh Mitchell en 05-30-15
- Seveneves
- A Novel
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Mary Robinette Kowal, Will Damron
Hard to describe
Revisado: 07-15-16
The moon is hit by some sort of object that fractures it leading to an exponential breakup and an eventual hard shower of rock onto the Earth. This story focuses on the survival of humanity by building an orbiting colonly over a period of two years to ride out 5k years of unusable Earth.
The story progresses well with the world banding together to solve the problem. Just when everything is looking good Hillary Clinton shows up and gets mad that people are not bowing to her. She builds a faction and this splits the surviving humanity into two groups, when her group runs away so she can lead it in unison it ends up killing nearly all of the non-hillary faction. Her faction goes on to radiation poisoning, starvation, and cannibalism. 95% of the remainder of humanity in space dies from these two events.
She goes on to want to rejoin the groups and make peace and ends up killing off all but seven.
Hillary Clinton goes down as one of humanity's seven greatest heroes for her actions.
I cannot explain this book any other way.
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Warship
- Black Fleet Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Joshua Dalzelle
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14,057
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 13,042
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12,988
In the 25th century, humans have conquered space. The advent of faster-than-light travel has opened up hundreds of habitable planets for colonization, and humans have exploited the virtually limitless space and resources for hundreds of years with impunity. So complacent have they become with the overabundance that armed conflict is a thing of the past, and their machines of war are obsolete and decrepit. What would happen if they were suddenly threatened by a terrifying new enemy?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good delivery of a very mediocre story
- De John en 04-19-16
- Warship
- Black Fleet Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Joshua Dalzelle
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
Classic space opera
Revisado: 06-09-16
This is my first experience with this author and I am impressed. I am happy with the lack of sex in this book compared to its contemporaries. I have been looking for a good action SF to read to my kids at night and this will be a good intro into the genre.
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The Innocents Abroad
- Or, The New Pilgrim’s Progress
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 18 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,492
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,326
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,325
In June 1867, Mark Twain set out for Europe and the Holy Land on the paddle steamer Quaker City. His enduring, no-nonsense guide for the first-time traveler also served as an antidote to the insufferably romantic travel books of the period.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Twain's Hidden Gem
- De Cynthia Franks en 05-08-12
- The Innocents Abroad
- Or, The New Pilgrim’s Progress
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
greatest among equals
Revisado: 12-10-15
A mind for sarcasm is necessary to enjoy this work. Those easily triggered need-not apply.
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Pillar to the Sky
- De: William R. Forstchen
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 15 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 516
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 473
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 469
Pandemic drought, skyrocketing oil prices, dwindling energy supplies, and wars of water scarcity threaten the planet. Only four people canprevent global chaos.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A big disappointment
- De Mike From Mesa en 01-12-15
- Pillar to the Sky
- De: William R. Forstchen
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
Amazing
Revisado: 11-06-15
If we do not build a pillar, we will die on this rock. We are at a dead end. At some near point in the future we will be unable to find the resources we need to complete a project like this, and once that happens we are no different than a person confined to a retirement home. Waiting for the unyielding end. Doing a project like this will be much easier if we do it while we still have oil.
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