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My 316th audiobook - The Foundation is not for me

Revisado: 02-22-22

I've listened to lots of audiobooks, and this series is almost impossible to care about and be interested in. I've listened to other Asimov books, specifically "Pebble in the sky" and "The End of Eternity" and enjoyed them. I trudged through Foundation and, from the reviews, figured I must be missing something...So, I moved on to Foundation and Empire, and equally unimpressed and uninterested. The story bounces around and it's hard to really follow where it's going and care about the protagonists.

I came to the book after watching the Apple TV production, I will go back to watching that. The books have just too many spaghetti storylines to hold my interest. I just don't see how the story rates 5, 4, 3, or even 2 stars.

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Good Sci Fi but annoying dialogue.

Revisado: 01-04-21

Ok, this is my third Sigler book...
The Science Fiction is great, the tough guy dialogue is, well, stupid. Think Star Trek 4 when Spock tries to use colorful metaphors in the 20th Century. Sigler, Pleeeaaassseeee stop with the colorful metaphors! I love everything else but feigning a Bad Ass really doesn't work and actually detracts because it's so laughable (and not in a good way)-At least for me.

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Hillbilly Science Fiction

Revisado: 01-25-19

Good idea, bad execution.
Geeze, way too much politics. This tripe preaches a narrow-minded and shallow perspective of the world.

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Long, plodding, and after 26 hours I give up

Revisado: 08-09-18

I think I'm in the minority here. I just can't continue with this book due to the amount of ancillary characters and information that just fills time and space with no point to most of it. I've listened to over 100 audible titles, but this is one of the few I just can't stomach, it drones on, and on, and on, and on....

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I read both, Nic's genuine. David's pretentious

Revisado: 06-07-18

I loved it when David describes his feelings regarding Nic, but not the name dropping and spouting research - It's as if at times he is trying to convince the reader that meth really is the worst addiction someone could have. I found the research and interjections meaningless to his story. Example: At one point he unequivocally sites pot as a gateway drug - Really? I can see in David's writing how Nic would feel drawn to Star's or famous people.

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Best book since "The Martian"

Revisado: 01-19-17

I've not finished the book, but Chapter 10 on Skippy is just about the funniest thing I listened to since Andy Weir's "The Martian". Refreshingly different and performed really well. If you like Scifi and laughing, you can go wrong here.

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One of the worst Audible stories I've heard

Revisado: 01-18-16

Wow, this was just plain bad.
The exhaustive introspection of the main character is irritating to say the least. I feel like I have been dragged down into the mind of an anxiety tortured hoarder. I can't think of any reason for the way the character babbles on, agonizing on about every decision she makes. I remember yelling at the speaker - OMG just make a fricking decision. PLEASE! I can't think of a single character in the entire performance that I could give a rip about. I wish the author would have spent more time building the character, and less time gabbering on about her anxieties.
Also, if you're going to write a science fiction at least understand that interstellar travel isn’t measured in miles, get the distances right! I counted four times the character (who’s supposed to be an engineer) talks about traveling millions of miles to go to another planet (Uh, interstellar travel has to be measured in light years because of the distances involved). It’s like saying “I’m going Atlanta, a distance of millions of centimeters”.

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Meh..No desire to read the next book

Revisado: 04-03-15

There's nothing really bad about this book, but there nothing really good about it either. Excellent narration by Luke Daniels, but IMO the storey is, at best, mediocre.

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A rare combo of wit, sci-fi, action and suspense

Revisado: 03-03-15

This book is so well done you would think it actually happened. I applaud Andy Weir for having the ability to bring humor to sci-fi - Which is really rare in sci-fi books. I've read and listened hundreds of sci-fi, and I can't remember ANY that made me laugh like this book. If you are looking for aliens and ray guns you won't find it here, this is one man’s struggle to stay alive and get off Mars. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and couldn't put it down.

This is great science fiction, well written, well researched, and full of suspense.

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What a waste of time - Don't waste yours

Revisado: 12-01-14

Idiotic concept - Hey, we'll show you that you have no reason to hate and kill us....Then, we're all best friends...Kiss kiss.

Geez, what a bunch of bilge. Too bad we can't give negative scores.

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