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Dungeon Crawler Carl
- A LitRPG/Gamelit Adventure
- De: Matt Dinniman
- Narrado por: Jeff Hays
- Duración: 13 h y 31 m
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A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth - from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds - collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot.
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A refreshing take on apocalyptical LITRPG
- De Rhexas en 03-01-21
- Dungeon Crawler Carl
- A LitRPG/Gamelit Adventure
- De: Matt Dinniman
- Narrado por: Jeff Hays
Glorious merging of the Hunger Games and Hitchhikers Galaxy.
Revisado: 05-08-24
The pacing is great, the characters are entertaining, dialogue is funny without being too cheesey. One of the better litrpg I've read.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 1
- De: Matt Dinniman
- Narrado por: Jeff Hays
- Duración: 13 h y 31 m
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The apocalypse will be televised! You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game show. That’s what. Join Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, as they try to survive the end of the world—or just get to the next level—in a video game–like, trap-filled fantasy dungeon.
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A refreshing take on apocalyptical LITRPG
- De Rhexas en 03-01-21
- Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 1
- De: Matt Dinniman
- Narrado por: Jeff Hays
Glorious merging of the Hunger Games and Hitchhikers Galaxy.
Revisado: 05-08-24
The pacing is great, the characters are entertaining, dialogue is funny without being too cheesey. One of the better litrpg I've read.
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The Devil's Hand
- A Thriller
- De: Jack Carr
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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It’s been 20 years since 9/11, two decades since the United States was attacked on home soil and set out to make the guilty pay with their lives. In the shadows, the enemy has been patient - learning, and adapting. And the enemy is ready to strike again. A new president offers hope to a country weary of conflict. He’s a young, popular, self-made visionary…but he’s also a man with a secret.
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Masterfully Written!!!!
- De shelley en 04-14-21
- The Devil's Hand
- A Thriller
- De: Jack Carr
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
The weakest entry in the series so far.
Revisado: 06-09-23
Ray Porter gives a great performance as always. Unfortunately this entry into the series just falls flat for me. James Reese feels like a side character in his own series. He doesn't have any demons to overcome or any personal story arc to speak of this time, Everyone is the exact same at the end of the story as they are at the beginning. it doesn't do anything at all with the revelations about his father at the end of the last book.
The action lacks the emotional weight of the former books tension. I found myself only half listening and zoning out during the climax, not a great sign. Carr tries to weave a narrative that at some times uses almost exact descriptions of real life figures (Eric Prince, founder of Blackwater) as villains, but simultaneously writes about a political environment that is completely fabricated. COVID still happened, but instead of Biden we have a strong war hero democrat president from California who wants to avenge 9/11. It creates a feeling of unreality that only serves to break my suspension of disbelief.
Ultimately you could probably skip this one, I love the series but it might not be worth the run time. No major plot changes that affect his future happen that couldn't be summed up in a few paragraphs in the next title.
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Into the Real
- TransDimensional Hunter, Book 1
- De: John Ringo, Lydia Sherrer
- Narrado por: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Duración: 18 h y 12 m
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Lynn Raven may be the boss master of WarMonger 2050 with her online persona of "Larry the Snake", but when the CEO of Tsunami Entertainment personally asks her, as a favor, to beta test a new augmented-reality game, she has to face her greatest fear: going outside and dealing with, ugh, people.
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Hunters Ready!
- De EchoSniper en 11-30-22
- Into the Real
- TransDimensional Hunter, Book 1
- De: John Ringo, Lydia Sherrer
- Narrado por: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
It's an early 2000s Cheerleader movie but sci-fi.
Revisado: 04-28-23
I'm a huge John Ringo fan, even his weirder books are interesting. It has been a while since he has really written himself though, instead I assume he is writing a general outline and handing it off to someone else. His dialogue is always compelling, but instead the dialogue in this story just feels flat. This story is a beat by beat highschool girls sports movie. Frumpy self conscious girl who actually isn't frumpy after all, has a hidden talent, rallys a group of geeks, a training montage, then go to the championship, etc...
That being said, the sci-fi element is very intriguing and I wish they cut about half of the book out in order to focus on that element instead of the social insecurities of a sixteen year old girl. I don't know if the twist at the end was supposed to be a twist, it was pretty clear even in the first chapter. Hell even the books description says it is similar to Enders Game, anyone familiar with that story will already understand the nature of the game everyone is playing.
I ended up finishing the story because I was really looking forward to finally getting a clear reveal that wasn't just obviously placed hints that no character really ever acknowledges. I'm interested enough that I'll probably read the next one, but be aware this is probably not what you would expect just from the description. Think "Slice of Life" Sports anime, rather than a 'save the world' science fiction. Then majority of this book is an extremely insecure girl with body issues navigating highschool bullies, building healthier relationships, and gaining confidence in herself through her hard work and talent.
Hopefully the next book takes a hard turn in that direction. This is packed with John Ringo Militarisms, and even has the obligatory awful music references. Nightwish I think in this one. As always I find them endearing.
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A Hymn Before Battle Part 2
- Legacy of the Aldenata
- De: John Ringo
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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With Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the Galactic Federation offers help to the backward humans - for a price. You can protect yourself from your enemies, but God save you from your allies!
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Scratches a Starship Troopers Itch
- De Nick en 03-07-23
- A Hymn Before Battle Part 2
- Legacy of the Aldenata
- De: John Ringo
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
Scratches a Starship Troopers Itch
Revisado: 03-07-23
Ringo is obviously a huge fan of Heinlein and nails everything in this that made me so enamored Starship Troopers. Novel, not the films. Unlike some other books I've read this is very much its own unique thing and doesn't copy homework so to speak. Not many SF writers are able to nail down the geopolitics and socioeconomics that would be affecting events in a real event and then add in liberal helpings of Kipling and *chefs kiss* love it.
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First Platoon
- A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
- De: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Annie Jacobsen
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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This is a story that starts off close and goes very big. The initial part of the story might sound familiar at first: it is about a platoon of mostly 19-year-old boys sent to Afghanistan, and an experience that ends abruptly in catastrophe. Their part of the story folds into the next: inexorably linked to those soldiers and never comprehensively reported before is the US Department of Defense’s quest to build the world’s most powerful biometrics database, with the ability to identify, monitor, catalog, and police people all over the world.
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An eye opener
- De Amazon Customer en 01-19-21
- First Platoon
- A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
- De: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Annie Jacobsen
Terrifying
Revisado: 10-28-21
At certain points I felt like I had whiplash from how severely the subject matter would change when switching from the subject of FBI biometrics to foot patrols in Afghanistan. The aspect of this book that gave me chills was just how invasive and totalitarian this technology is, while simultaneously being unreliable for it's stated purpose. I would have been more interested in a hyper focused work about that specifically. The narrative regarding the 1st platoon and the LT seems tangential to that critical topic. It was this look and how biometrics are being utilized as a weapon that convinced me to read this in the first place. The entirety of the 1st platoon narrative makes the point that these systems are flawed and it is possible to corrupt them. It makes sense however that 1st platoon is the focus as it seems to be the author's inciting factor for this entire topic. As always I am astounded by Annie Jacobson's ability to conduct what I would call forensic journalism. Worth a read if you are concerned about the increase of omnipresent surveillance in an increasingly technological society, or as Jacobson describes it, "the digital and genetic penopticon."
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Tiger by the Tail
- Paladin of Shadows, Book 6
- De: John Ringo, Ryan Sear
- Narrado por: Jeremy Arthur
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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After saving America from Middle Eastern terrorists, even Mike Harmon and the Keldara could use a vacation. Of course, the Kildar's idea of a vacation includes taking down pirates in the Singapore Straits. But when he finds computer chips designed to run nuclear reactors in the pirate booty, Harmon has a new mission thrust upon him - discover how bottom-feeding thieves got their hands on top-secret technology. The chips are headed for newly democratic Myanmar, a country vital to American interests in the region. Now Harmon finds himself in a desperate race to learn who stole the chips and why.
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Not remotely part of the series
- De Jason en 02-09-16
- Tiger by the Tail
- Paladin of Shadows, Book 6
- De: John Ringo, Ryan Sear
- Narrado por: Jeremy Arthur
Doesn't have the same magic.
Revisado: 03-17-21
This entry to the series was not nearly as captivating as the others. The pacing is inconsistent and the stakes never rise high enough to create any real tension. I found myself distractedly zoning out during what I'm sure we're supposed to be critical story beats. My main criticism is that the story is mostly "and then" instead of "but, therefore." The romp around the south pacific just wasn't as interesting as the operations in the Balkans and in the Caucasus.
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Black Tide Rising
- De: John Ringo, Eric Flint, John Scalzi, y otros
- Narrado por: Tristan Morris, Tanya Eby
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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The news that humanity had been dreading for ages had come true. Zombies are real. Worst of all, we created them. The apocalypse was upon us, and every man, woman and child had to answer a simple question of themselves: "What do we do now?"
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I DON'T LOOK GOOD IN A FEZ
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 07-13-16
- Black Tide Rising
- De: John Ringo, Eric Flint, John Scalzi, Dave Klecha, Sarah A. Hoyt, Jody Lynn Nye, Michael Z. Williamson
- Narrado por: Tristan Morris, Tanya Eby
Good for an anthology. Doesn't compare to the main
Revisado: 01-27-21
I didn't enjoy the style of some of the writers, and I found myself zoning out during some. This gives some interesting views of other characters. We learn the circumstances of the fire and brimstone preacher on the radio, as well as a different viewpoint of the fall of New York. What makes this series so excellent is it breaks the mold of post apocalypse and especially zombie stories. For the most part the guest stories feel like generic post apocalypse horror, and they did not capture the element that makes Black Tide so good. At it's core, it is not a survival story, it is a story about building a future to live in. That is what keeps me eagerly turning the page so to speak.
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The Last Centurion
- De: John Ringo
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 16 h y 16 m
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In the second decade of the 21st century, the world is struck by two catastrophes: a new mini-ice age and a plague to dwarf all previous experiences. Rising out of the disaster is the character known to history as "Bandit Six", an American Army officer caught up in the struggle to rebuild the world and prevent the fall of his homeland - despite the best efforts of politicians, both elected and military.
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Enjoy the story and forget the politics
- De Lindsay en 01-28-11
- The Last Centurion
- De: John Ringo
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
Somewhat of a rebuke of Atlas Shrugged
Revisado: 01-21-21
For those who have read Atlas Shrugged, there is a very similar global economic disaster here. instead of the "heroes" celebrating a moral victory as they leave the world to die without them, this book is a celebration of the the uniquely high trust American culture. it's a story of disaster but also of the types of good people that rises in response, to help their fellow neighbors.
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Galaxy in Flames
- The Horus Heresy, Book 3
- De: Ben Counter
- Narrado por: Toby Longworth
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
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Having recovered from his grievous injuries, Warmaster Horus leads the triumphant Imperial forces against the rebel world of Isstvan III. Though the rebels are swiftly crushed, Horus' treachery is finally revealed when the planet is razed by virus bombs and Space Marines turn on their battle brothers in the most bitter struggle imaginable.
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Fantastic
- De Nicholas Stenkamp en 11-10-17
- Galaxy in Flames
- The Horus Heresy, Book 3
- De: Ben Counter
- Narrado por: Toby Longworth
Needs to be equalized.
Revisado: 09-24-20
The volume varies wildly. There are parts I could barely hear on full volume with headphones.
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