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Doomed
- De: Chuck Palahniuk
- Narrado por: Sophie Amoss
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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After a botched Halloween ritual, Madison Spencer, the snarkiest dead girl in the universe, finds herself trapped in Purgatory, otherwise known as Earth. The upside: She is no longer subject to physical limitations (she can pass through doors and walls). The downside: Well, she’s still dead.
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Chuck has written better…
- De Jeffry R. Sommers en 04-13-23
- Doomed
- De: Chuck Palahniuk
- Narrado por: Sophie Amoss
Control-Alt-Disappointing
Revisado: 05-20-23
Spoiler Free Review. I REALLY wanted to like this as it is the second of a divine comedy trilogy. I earnestly enjoyed Damned. I am a conflicted optimist. So Damned worked for me. This story is supposed to be a version Purgatory. So it's a retelling of all of the antihero Madisons predead sins and defining moments. There are nearly a 100 chapters in this book. It's so staccatoed that it is distracting. The author makes some of the scenes incredibly grotesque that it's laughable and slapstick yet not entertaining it just feels repetitive. As a reader, I am not sinking into the story. I found that I was constantly having to corral my thoughts and suspend my disbelief. when the story got too "dumb" I had to stop and say to myself this place Madison is in is supposed to be not hell and not heaven and those are the lenses the reader should be absorbing the book. This book was just eh and kept imbibing it hoping that the end would find redemption. FAUX SPOILER ALERT. It control-alt-fails.
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The Silence of the Lambs
- De: Thomas Harris
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
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A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname—Buffalo Bill—is stalking women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the FBI Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter—Hannibal the Cannibal—who is kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
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Much more than the movie
- De 9S en 07-03-11
- The Silence of the Lambs
- De: Thomas Harris
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
Solid Pick
Revisado: 11-13-22
this was a fantastic audiobook. often times i will get an audiobook and then start to weigh if the book is better or worse than the show or movie. it is rare for a book to be so good that itself is fantastic and only make you like the movie even more. if you liked the movie...get this book. you will not be disappointed.
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Dr. Katz: The Audiobook
- De: Jonathan Katz, Laura Silverman, H. Jon Benjamin, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 32 m
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The doctor is back with a whole book of sessions from guests like Jon Hamm, Louie Anderson, Susie Essman, Gilbert Gottfried, David Mamet, Wanda Sykes, Marc Maron, Reggie Watts and a slew of others.
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Just beautiful!
- De Oscar Slovak en 08-16-18
Bzzzt...audible your 1033 review is here...
Revisado: 12-20-21
there were definitely some parts that had me laughing. I really could feel the improvisation in this reading vs when I watched the show. it was pretty good. perfect to make me temporarily forget the idea that I was slowly commuting to work
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Leviathan Falls
- Expanse, Book 9
- De: James S.A. Corey
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 19 h y 40 m
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The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the 1,300 solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again.
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Awesome conclusion to an awesome series!
- De Kindle Customer en 12-01-21
- Leviathan Falls
- Expanse, Book 9
- De: James S.A. Corey
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
Not the best...but a solid ending.
Revisado: 12-06-21
There was actually a point in this book I got teary eyed and sniffling during my more I g commute.. So the writing could be pretty powerful. I've always liked the how the authors I included quotes from other books with the meanings sort of lost to time...but alluded and foreshadowed things. Perhaps this was just really heavy handed referencing that history repeats itself but...it's a characteristic of the writing I've come to I really enjoy.
I also like how character motivations were blurry. Sometimes good people do bad things. Sometimes the good thing is not always the right thing. Also how "bad" guys can sometimes do the right thing.
The whole thing kinda took a
Game Of Thrones turn towards the end. And if it wasn't for the epilogue I'd say the ending kinda stunk. Like...if Zephram C. said...you know what warp speed is just too dang fast.
In the begining I kinda felt like Jefferson Mays was phoning it in....but he found his stride an hour or two into the story.
I liked it enough. A decent slightly melancholy. ending for a great series.
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Ready Player Two
- A Novel
- De: Ernest Cline
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday’s vaults, waiting for his heir to find it, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous - and addictive - than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest - a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who’ll kill millions to get what he wants.
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Heartbreakingly Disappointing and Insulting
- De Marcus Haynes en 11-28-20
- Ready Player Two
- A Novel
- De: Ernest Cline
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
Just press Alt-F4
Revisado: 12-08-20
I really enjoyed the last book. Quite a bit. I listened to it at least 4 or 5 times. Usually while doing something that did not actually require me closely listening to it. Washing dishes. folding laundry. driving to work. I learned that the more I listened to RP1 the worse the book became. How Cline built characters, pretty vapid dialogue. The more I read this book...the older and "lamer" I felt.
RP2 is terrible. It starts essentially right were the last book ended. Except... It threw away much of what the characters learned in the last book. They are shells of what they were in the previous book. Often times they were just mouth pieces for some pieces of trivia or tidbit about some bit of pop culture. These bits you realize quickly are only important because some old white guy thinks that a younger person ought to worship because he worships it.
So. Much. Pop. Culture. It's like there was an stadiumful of anxiously waiting fandoms and he had to nod to all them at least once and recognize them. But then on another level was Cline calling out many "woke" topics. But rather than sort of nodding to them so the reader can acknowledge that they shared this information, Cline would spend several sentences or passages expounding the topic to demonstrate he KNEW this. Except, by expounding it like this only makes you more aware that the character and author kinda don't know these things at all and are parroting back something they JUST learned.
It felt like there was an editor that recieved the manuscript read the cover, winked, then handed back the book. There were alarm bells in the beginning. I should have listened to them but the momentum of the previous book made me HOPE it would get better. It failed.
Great job by Wheaton though. Maybe not as nuanced as the first one. Maybe a little better than his reading of Armada. Perhaps he knew that this book was garbage and his heart was not in it.
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The Dispatcher
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Zachary Quinto
- Duración: 2 h y 18 m
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Zachary Quinto - best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes - brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi. One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know.
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IT'S HARD TO GET MYSTICAL ABOUT YOUR JOB
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 10-05-16
- The Dispatcher
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Zachary Quinto
Better than Red Shirts.
Revisado: 08-21-20
Zachary Quinto nailed this. Good voices without being hackneyed. Subtle things where to put a breath. Laughing in character. Sighs. Even a handclap. It was great.
The story was just enough fiction in what could seemingly be reality. No 4th wall breaking which I hated in Red Shirts.
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Auberon
- An Expanse Novella
- De: James S. A. Corey
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 2 h y 25 m
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Auberon is one of the first and most important colony worlds in humanity's reach, and the new conquering faction has come to claim it. Governor Rittenaur has come to bring civilization and order to the far outpost and guarantee the wealth and power of the Empire. But Auberon already has its own history, a complex culture, and a criminal kingpin named Erich with very different plans. In a world of deceit, violence, and corruption, the greatest danger Rittenaur faces is love.
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Tight, Clean, Pure Expanse Perfection
- De Vincent Jeffries en 12-04-19
- Auberon
- An Expanse Novella
- De: James S. A. Corey
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
pretty good. not the best.
Revisado: 12-05-19
great job by the narrator Mays as usual. was hoping for some real gut punch dynamic or character implosions but I just did not feel like that happened. but Ill settle for what I got. I like how the author calls back other characters. I listened to this book and now I want to relisten to the series and everything in order.
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Doctor Sleep
- A Novel
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 18 h y 34 m
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Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special 12-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted fans of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.
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Because the Past Defines the Present
- De Cynthia en 09-28-13
- Doctor Sleep
- A Novel
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Will Patton
a pretty decent book
Revisado: 04-26-19
This is my third listen of this book. Admittedly. it's better than the first listen....worse than the second listen. If that makes any sense.
I'd say the weakest part of this book is and will always be King attempting to write from the POV of a child. Or worse...when King writes one character attempting to think in the POV of child. Ironically, it is....to put in the parlance of today's youth. "Cringy."
The reader is wonderful. You could tell he read parts of the book several times because he made the script his own. He knew the right words to emphasize. He knew when to speak fast and when to ad lib some of the flourishes. like when a character might blurt something, shout something in anger, or laugh part of their dialogue.
all in all. it's a good book and I recommend it..
I just might be done with re-listening to it.
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Gods of Risk
- An Expanse Novella
- De: James S. A. Corey
- Narrado por: Erik Davies
- Duración: 2 h y 34 m
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As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, 16-year-old David Draper is fighting his own lonely war. A gifted chemist vying for a place at the university, David leads a secret life as a manufacturer for a ruthless drug dealer. When his friend Leelee goes missing, leaving signs of the dealer's involvement, David takes it upon himself to save her. But first he must shake his aunt Bobbie Draper, an ex-marine who has been set adrift in her own life after a mysterious series of events nobody is talking about.
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Great story! Weird narrator..
- De bryan c. en 03-29-17
- Gods of Risk
- An Expanse Novella
- De: James S. A. Corey
- Narrado por: Erik Davies
meh.
Revisado: 03-04-19
Meh. This book does very little to provide a depth or background to Bobbie Draper that I could not correlate already from the novels. The churn definately adds some depth to Amos. this one...not so much. It does add some depth and understanding to the climate and politics on Mars which play into the very end of Cibola. but again...not crucial.
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Cibola Burn
- The Expanse, Book 4
- De: James S. A. Corey
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 20 h y 7 m
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The fourth book in the NYT best-selling Expanse series, Cibola Burn sees the crew of the Rocinante on a new frontier, as the rush to colonize the new planets threatens to outrun law and order and give way to war and chaos. Enter a new frontier. "An empty apartment, a missing family, that's creepy. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. This is bad juju. Something wrong happened here. What you should do is tell everyone to leave".
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Book has been renarrated by Jefferson Mays-Thanks!
- De fandel69 en 03-16-17
- Cibola Burn
- The Expanse, Book 4
- De: James S. A. Corey
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
Still will prolly be better than the show
Revisado: 02-28-19
Someone described that Corey is getting a little formulaic. I'd have to agree. The book is good. I enjoyed it. But it bad guys and good guys all seem to be cut from their same respective cloths.
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