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Every Last Drop
- A Novel
- De: Charlie Huston
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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It’s like this: a series of bullet-riddled bad breaks has seen rogue Vampyre and terminal tough guy Joe Pitt go from PI for hire to Clan-connected enforcer to dead man walking in a New York minute. And after burning all his bridges, the only one left to cross leads to the Bronx, where Joe’s brass knuckles and straight razor can’t keep him from running afoul of a sadistic old bloodsucker with a bad bark and a worse bite. Even if every Clan in Manhattan is hollering for Joe’s head on a stick, it’s got to be better than trying to survive in the outer-borough wilderness.
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I Love Joe Pitt
- De Clydene en 10-25-10
- Every Last Drop
- A Novel
- De: Charlie Huston
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
More narrative, less speeches, maybe a ray of hope
Revisado: 12-31-24
Still not done with this title but I am running out of enthusiasm. Maybe it stands out more in an audio book, but the level of exposition revealed through constant tedious speeches is wearing me down. It’s like Bond films, when the evil genius has Bond tied to a chair and reveals all the details of his plot, only that happens in every chapter. And so many of these vampire leaders speak I the same, stilted way. Ironically Joe Pitt himself is terse to a fault. At one point I think he wishes he could puncture his eardrums rather than having to listen to someone and I totally get it.
The other thing is that I know noir characters can never have a happy ending, but having Joe Pitt suffer so much again and again is trying. Can’t anything work out for him?
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The Devil You Know
- De: Mike Carey
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
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Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stomping ground. It may seem like a good ghostbuster can charge what he likes and enjoy a hell of a lifestyle, but there's a risk: sooner or later he's going to take on a spirit that's too strong for him. When Castor accepts a seemingly simple ghost-hunting case at a museum in the shadowy heart of London, what should have been a perfectly straightforward exorcism is rapidly turning into the Who Can Kill Castor First Show, with demons and ghosts all keen to claim the big prize.
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Horror combined with misogynistic characters
- De Diana en 01-11-19
- The Devil You Know
- De: Mike Carey
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
Great story, wrong narrator
Revisado: 03-21-23
My first Mike Carey book and I enjoyed the story, although be aware it does center around violence against women, but is not gratuitous in its descriptions.
A couple of times the changes in time can be confusing. As a novel introducing the main character, there are a certain number of flashbacks.
Kramer is a great narrator but I’ve only heard his nonfiction reads so it was a bit jarring to hear him read this book. His voice is quite distinctive. But the bigger issue is that he’s not from the UK. He does one of those clipped mid-Atlantic accents and it comes in and out. I would think Felix Castor would have a very definite regional London accent. I can’t imagine why they picked Kramer for this book.
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Doomsday Book
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Jenny Sterlin
- Duración: 26 h y 20 m
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For Oxford student Kivrin, traveling back to the 14th century is more than the culmination of her studies - it's the chance for a wonderful adventure. For Dunworthy, her mentor, it is cause for intense worry about the thousands of things that could go wrong.
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Timely, beautiful, terrible and haunting
- De mudcelt en 11-02-09
- Doomsday Book
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Jenny Sterlin
Good story, marred by defects
Revisado: 07-13-20
I will be brief as others have covered much of my complaints.
First of all, if you are looking for coronavirus escapist fantasy, this is the wrong book. I won’t spoil it but trust me.
The book could have been 25% shorter with very little effort, as a lot of the tension is artificially drawn out with tied up phone lines, missed calls, or people who are sick and can’t pull it together enough to utter a couple of sentences.
The whole world of time travel existing in a university environment is kind of hard to swallow. And the mismatch of technology in the rest of the world really sticks out. Time travel, but you can’t take your phone with you.
But what is truly unbearable are the characters like William’s mother, or Agnes when she is being churlish, or Mr. Gilchrist. You really get sick of hearing them arguing or whining. It’s probably even worse in an audio book. Probably a testament to Jeremy Sterlin’s work as reader that I was ready to strangle Hermoine and the rest of the lot.
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Escape from Virtual Island
- An Audio Comedy
- De: John Lutz
- Narrado por: Paul Rudd, Jack McBrayer, Sue Galloway, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
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In the year 2038, there’s only one destination that can play host to the world’s wealthiest adventure seekers: the Pengalaman Island Resort and Virtual Reality Theme Park. Located on a private South Pacific island, guests here live out their wildest fantasies in custom-made virtual reality simulations while also enjoying the usual amenities of an exclusive five-star getaway. All is relatively breezy until famed billionaire and avid guest, Mr. Wagner, goes missing within a virtual simulation. His only hope? A daring rescue led by Derek Ambrose and his ragtag search party.
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Story is a Bit Stupid
- De Jeffrey veals en 04-03-20
- Escape from Virtual Island
- An Audio Comedy
- De: John Lutz
- Narrado por: Paul Rudd, Jack McBrayer, Sue Galloway, Jane Krakowski, Jason Sudeikis, Seth Meyers, Kenan Thompson, Olivia Wilde, Rachel Dratch, Henry Winkler, full cast
Avoid at all costs
Revisado: 05-24-20
Great cast, horrible script. Seems pretty clear Jack McBrayer's part was written for him, since it is really only maybe 5 degrees off from his "30 Rock" character, but personally I don't want to hear or see him playing the same character.
Wasted talent. Unfunny jokes. One of the characters had an odd way of saying things, always getting common sayings a little wrong. Not once was it amusing. Maybe the coronavirus has killed my sense of humor? Perhaps, but getting to the end of this was a chore. At one point I was so sick of people screaming at each other that I almost gave up. I wish I had.
I think there is a distinct way you have to approach non-visual comedy and this wasn't it.
Waste of the people trapped in virtual reality conceit. Really, if you want to see an interesting story along those lines, you could probably find it in "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Or, "Ready Player One."
I like Henry Winkler--see his latest work on Barry for sure--but really have to wonder why they had to have a name actor for his short part. Couple other parts were like that, too. Of course, Hollywood does the same thing with voiceover, still....
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Change Agent
- De: Daniel Suarez
- Narrado por: Jeff Gurner
- Duración: 15 h y 2 m
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New York Times best-selling author Daniel Suarez delivers an exhilarating sci-fi thriller exploring a potential future where CRISPR genetic editing allows the human species to control evolution itself. On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle - and his transformation begins....
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Still wrapping my head around it...
- De Christopher en 04-23-17
- Change Agent
- De: Daniel Suarez
- Narrado por: Jeff Gurner
Speculative thriller with flimsy plot
Revisado: 09-29-17
I bought CHANGE AGENT on an impulse based on Audible rankings/suggestions.
People can argue all day long about genres, but for my money this isn't science fiction. It's a speculative thriller. Kind of thing you might get from a Chricton or Dan Brown. If that's your bag, then you'd probably like this. I guess I should have been tipped off by the NYT bestseller descriptive.
There is a ton of futurist tech in this book and it's all introduced and explained in the most laborious way. Autonomous cars, phablets, retina-reading projectors that do away with screens--it's everywhere and in your face. Way overexplained.
The characters often speak in stilted language, and I found many plot elements and developments hackneyed. The technological developments are more believable than the plot that is based on them. The villain is about as believable as a Bond villain, which is to say, not very.
The reading by Jeff Gurner saves the book, in my mind. He does a capable job with a number of accents.
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