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The Knight and Knave of Swords
- The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
- De: Fritz Leiber
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Neil Gaiman (introduction)
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser's journeys have taken them from one side of Nehwon to the other, facing life-risking peril at every turn. Now, in a set of stories that feature the adventurers on their own and together, they will face some of their most challenging obstacles. Against assassins, angry gods, and even Death himself, the duo must battle for their very lives.
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Goodbye, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser!
- De Katherine en 03-20-15
- The Knight and Knave of Swords
- The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
- De: Fritz Leiber
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Neil Gaiman (introduction)
Disgusting
Revisado: 08-29-22
Do not read it. I can only enjoy the series if I ignore this book. The rape scene in the previous book was bad enough, but the stuff in this book is much worse.
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The Wise Man's Fear
- Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 2
- De: Patrick Rothfuss
- Narrado por: Nick Podehl
- Duración: 42 h y 55 m
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My name is Kvothe. You may have heard of me. So begins a tale told from his own point of view - a story unequaled in fantasy literature. Now in The Wise Man’s Fear, Day Two of The Kingkiller Chronicle, Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero and learns how difficult life can be when a man becomes a legend in his own time.
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Well worth your time
- De Robert en 09-08-11
- The Wise Man's Fear
- Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 2
- De: Patrick Rothfuss
- Narrado por: Nick Podehl
Author lost the plot completely.
Revisado: 04-24-22
The first book lingered to long in one place, but the sequel just wandered off to nowhere in particular. We’re 2/3 of the way through the series and still don’t get any answers to the questions hinted at in the first 10 mins of the first book. It drags on so badly that Kvothe’s vendetta starts to feel childish and Dena starts to seem like far more trouble than she’s worth.
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Godborn
- Gods of Bronze, Book 1
- De: Dan Davis
- Narrado por: Alex Wyndham
- Duración: 15 h y 36 m
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It is 3000 BC. A hundred clans have been destroyed and thousands of people are dead. The Wolf God commands an inexperienced young warrior to hunt down the bloodthirsty demon horde. With a handful of his faithful spear-brothers and a heartbroken young seeress at his side, his quest will take him on a perilous journey through devastated lands. He may be the son of a god and a mortal woman, but he will need more than just his great strength to overcome the dark forces that stand in his way.
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Testosterone Fest
- De Elizabeth Jones en 09-10-21
- Godborn
- Gods of Bronze, Book 1
- De: Dan Davis
- Narrado por: Alex Wyndham
It’s like Conan, but less racist and sexist
Revisado: 02-05-22
Great to see a Bronze Age setting with such great archeological research behind it. It’s also great to see someone talking about Indo-European culture without being a low-key white nationalist (looking at you, Survive the Jive). Only annoying part is perpetuating the stupid trope that bows are girly weapons.
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Off Armageddon Reef
- Safehold Series, Book 1
- De: David Weber
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 29 h y 58 m
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Humanity pushed its way to the stars—and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out. Earth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild. But the Gbaba can detect the emissions of an industrial civilization, so the human rulers of Safehold have taken extraordinary measures: with mind control and hidden high technology, they've built a religion in which every Safeholdian believes, a religion designed to keep Safehold society medieval forever.
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Entertaining SciFi epic with a few flaws
- De A reader en 02-05-07
- Off Armageddon Reef
- Safehold Series, Book 1
- De: David Weber
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
Very long, adequately entertaining, and ultimately mediocre
Revisado: 09-26-21
The premise has a great deal of potential, but the author’s weak historical knowledge dooms his world to a bland eurocentrism. His misunderstanding of the few Chinese characters’ culture is laughable (he genuinely thinks that katanas and kendo are Chinese). The book is too long and has too many characters—most of the middle third of the book could be cut out without much loss. The premise also opens up discussion of transgender themes, but these are never explored. The author’s position of religion is also a puzzler: he talks about how terrible the Luddite colony’s engineered religion is and how it needs to be replaced by “real” faiths from the home world, and yet the colony’s religion is virtually identical to Catholicism barring a few superficial details.As a miscellaneous niggle, a polity ruled by a prince is called a principality, not a princedom.
Despite all of this, however, I did enjoy the book, though I won’t continue in the series. The characters and their interactions are genuinely interesting and nuanced, as is the maritime-themed struggle of liberalism against reactionism.
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Revelation Space
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 22 h y 12 m
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Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason.
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Defeated
- De Eoin en 07-15-12
- Revelation Space
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: John Lee
Nothing to get invested in
Revisado: 07-12-21
At no point in the story did I feel any sympathy with any of the characters I was supposed to be rooting for. Sylveste is a washed up narcissist blown about in a political struggle with little relevance to the story; Volyova is a sociopath in a crew of sociopaths so jaded and cynical that it’s a miracle they manage to function at all; and Khouri doesn’t appear to have any personality at all. Even the little areas that could build sympathy—Sylveste and Khouri’s marriages—are strangely bland and bloodless. I just didn’t care whether anyone in the narrative lived or died, and the setting was not given enough attention to make up for this.
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Iron Council
- New Crobuzon, Book 3
- De: China Mieville
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 21 h y 4 m
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It is a time of wars and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy city-state of Tesh and rioting on the streets at home are pushing the teeming city to the brink. A mysterious masked figure spurs strange rebellion, while treachery and violence incubate in unexpected places. In desperation, a small group of renegades escapes from the city and crosses strange and alien continents in the search for a lost hope.
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“we were, we are, we will be.”
- De Jefferson en 02-06-19
- Iron Council
- New Crobuzon, Book 3
- De: China Mieville
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
Miéville does not tolerate satisfaction in his audience
Revisado: 06-01-21
This book taught me that I need to break up with China Miéville as an author as badly as Cutter needs to break up with Judah Low as a lover—and for the same reason: he’s uncaring and self-righteous, and I love him.
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