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Nuclear Dawn: The Post-Apocalyptic Box Set
- The Complete Apocalyptic Survival Thriller Series
- De: Kyla Stone
- Narrado por: Stacey Glemboski
- Duración: 36 h y 57 m
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Tough-as-nails Dakota Sloane has spent her life running from the past. A man haunted by secrets, Logan Garcia has only one goal: to drink himself into oblivion. When a bomb detonates over Miami, utter anarchy erupts. Dakota knows of a safe house deep in the Everglades, but she needs Logan's help to survive the chaos. But the radiation isn't the only threat. At every turn, deadly foes are determined to stop them. As a diabolical conspiracy emerges, Logan and Dakota must prepare for the fight of their lives against an enemy more powerful than they could ever imagine.
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- De AmazonSux en 11-29-21
- Nuclear Dawn: The Post-Apocalyptic Box Set
- The Complete Apocalyptic Survival Thriller Series
- De: Kyla Stone
- Narrado por: Stacey Glemboski
Predictable and formulaic, with surprising depth, occasionally.
Revisado: 03-28-25
Stone reaches deep and brings richness to her characters at times. Her storylines are fairly predictable and formulaic, and somehow gripping enough to keep me reading through The Edge of Collapse and Nuclear Dawn. This one, Nuclear Dawn, carries some timely messages about the state of the world, particularly the U.S., that we would do well to contemplate.
The book has its share of literary gaffs - Stone would do well to consider another editor, if one of her aims is good writing. Sentences that would have gotten her C in 7th grade English have slipped past - perhaps, giving the benefit of doubt, they’re intended to be left in to maintain a homey lack of intellectual elitism? In any case, they were a little jarring to me. But not frequent enough that I found them hard to overlook.
Factually, Stone is well researched, mostly. On the tech side she’s done her homework, not giving out with many cringe-worthy oopsies. I did wonder, toward the end, if she has actually visited the Everglades, at the point where she mentions one of our protagonists suffering the “icy waters” and the “freezing winds”…
All that said, I did enjoy both the series mentioned above very much. They definitely had my fight-flight reflexes going to the point where I needed to yell at the characters like a kid in a scary movie: “DON’T GO INTO THE BASEMENT, YOU IDIOT!!” And found myself tearing up at some of the rare and precious sweetnesses sprinkled here and there.
So thanks, Kyla Stone - I look forward to more!
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The Dispossessed
- A Novel
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Don Leslie
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
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Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.
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One of my favorite novels of all time
- De Isaac en 10-09-10
- The Dispossessed
- A Novel
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Don Leslie
Definite Keeper
Revisado: 07-19-23
Started this series out of order, with The Left Hand of Darkness - which I loved so much I scurried back here to begin at the beginning and soak up the whole delicious tale.
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Red Country: Booktrack Edition
- De: Joe Abercrombie
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
- Duración: 19 h y 53 m
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Red Country: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old stepfather Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own. And out in the lawless Far Country the past never stays buried.
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Music is annoying and distracting
- De T.J. Boots en 03-25-20
- Red Country: Booktrack Edition
- De: Joe Abercrombie
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
Masterful work, in every particular.
Revisado: 08-28-22
Thanks to Tim Ferris for the recommendation - I hadn’t come across Mr. Abercrombie’s work previously. Usually more of a hard-science sci-fi reader. But I’m awfully glad to have found him! Use of language, characters with truth in every one, storylines of gold, that are familiar, but not predictable.
This is the seventh or eighth I’ve listened to of his, and they do not grow old, for all the aforementioned reasons, but not least thanks to Steven Pacey’s voice! There is a master of the art and craft of voice acting of ever there was one.
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