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Sourdough
- A Novel
- De: Robin Sloan
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,230
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,016
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,016
Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers quickly close up shop. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her—feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Read the print version if you are from SF Bay Area
- De Julie en 10-07-17
- Sourdough
- A Novel
- De: Robin Sloan
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer
A fun story, nothing too serious just a fun read... But
Revisado: 12-01-18
As with Sloan's other novel, Sourdough is a great light read, easy to follow, amenable to being picked up after long gaps of time.
However, the killer here was Plummer's consistent and atrocious pronunciation of common place names and words. Whoever edited this reading was asleep at the wheel...
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Combat-Ready Kitchen
- How the U.S. Military Shapes the Way You Eat
- De: Anastacia Marx de Salcedo
- Narrado por: C.S.E Cooney
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 42
You probably don't realize that your supermarket is filled with foods that have a military origin: canned goods, packaged deli meats, TV dinners, cling wrap, energy bars…the list is almost endless. In fact, there's a watered-down combat ration lurking in practically every bag, box, can, bottle, jar, and carton Americans buy. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo shows how the Department of Defense Combat Feeding Directorate plans, funds, and spreads the food science that enables it to produce cheap, imperishable rations.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Agonizing.
- De Amazon Customer en 06-11-19
- Combat-Ready Kitchen
- How the U.S. Military Shapes the Way You Eat
- De: Anastacia Marx de Salcedo
- Narrado por: C.S.E Cooney
Kinda meh
Revisado: 09-18-15
The subject matter is fascinating, well researched, and presented in a cohesive, engaging manner...if you can get past the tinfoil-hat conspiracy undertones and liberal snark. Unfortunately, Cooney's style and tone only serve to amplify the snark making this a tough listen.
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Secondhand Souls
- A Novel
- De: Christopher Moore
- Narrado por: Fisher Stevens
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,909
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,387
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,385
Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone - or something - is stealing them. No one knows where they are going or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death merchant Charlie Asher is just as flummoxed as everyone else.
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3 out of 5 stars
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a snarky slapstick sequel to A Dirty Job
- De withherownwings en 09-24-15
- Secondhand Souls
- A Novel
- De: Christopher Moore
- Narrado por: Fisher Stevens
A worthy sequel and classic Moore.
Revisado: 09-18-15
A worthy sequel and truly a great listen. Moore delivers again with the continued adventures of Charlie and the gang and Fisher does a fine job of bringing the characters to life.
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When Gadgets Betray Us
- The Dark Side of Our Infatuation With New Technologies
- De: Robert Vamosi
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 9
Technology is evolving faster than we are. As our BlackBerry devices, tablets, and digital capabilities become more and more complex we understand less and less about how they work. we no longer read the instruction manual before powering on, and we demand intuitive interfaces that get us up and running right away. But how many of us actually stop to think about potential threats to our privacy?Our passports broadcast our personal information and could allow terrorists to target us by nationality.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting to tin-foil hat paranoid in a blink.
- De Kam en 07-05-11
- When Gadgets Betray Us
- The Dark Side of Our Infatuation With New Technologies
- De: Robert Vamosi
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
Interesting to tin-foil hat paranoid in a blink.
Revisado: 07-05-11
I really wanted to like this book, I really did...
The premise is good, but the author goes from providing reasonable conclusions in the first few chapters to wild flights of fancy and paranoia as the book goes on. At times, he seems to format chapters solely to ridicule or make derisive comments about a particular individual's conclusions or opinions; I did not expect balance from this book but a little bit of reasoned analysis would be nice.
The text is peppered with all matter of acronyms (many of which are incorrectly defined ) in an attempt to sound informed or perhaps build credibility with the reader. This may be okay in print, but it makes listening to the book incredibly tedious.
I'm sure the author meant well but this concept was badly executed....give it a pass...
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