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Rhythm of War
- Book Four of the Stormlight Archive
- De: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrado por: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
- Duración: 57 h y 26 m
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After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar’s crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move. Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin’s scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation. The arms race that follows will challenge the very core of the Radiant ideals.
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Meh - boring
- De Louis en 11-22-20
- Rhythm of War
- Book Four of the Stormlight Archive
- De: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrado por: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
Not the best of the series, but still excellent
Revisado: 03-22-25
This is my 3rd read through/listen to. My only critique is that there were large sections that felt like they moved at a snails pace. Character development was clearly being explored but it felt very much expositional rather than action driven. But this internal character development may have been loved by others. It was otherwise well written, just not for me. His other books are almost all 4.5-5 stars. However, I think a reminder that a 4 is still excellent literature even if surpassed by his other work is in order.
As always, the v/o is perfection.
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The Dark Tower I
- The Gunslinger
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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In the first book of this brilliant series, Stephen King introduces listeners to one of his most powerful creations: Roland of Gilead, The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland tracks The Man in Black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New York named Jake.
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LIKE A DULL AX THROUGH A CALF'S BRAIN
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 01-14-16
- The Dark Tower I
- The Gunslinger
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: George Guidall
A little unsatisfactory, but good
Revisado: 09-22-24
V/O was fantastic!
The world building was wonderful and so was the prose. The story itself, though intriguing at the start, felt like it flatlined at the end. Didn’t leave me wanting more or feel satisfied as an encapsulated part of the greater story.
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Fourth Wing
- Empyrean, Book 1
- De: Rebecca Yarros
- Narrado por: Rebecca Soler, Teddy Hamilton
- Duración: 21 h y 22 m
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Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.
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Erotica with Dragons
- De Trev en 05-13-23
- Fourth Wing
- Empyrean, Book 1
- De: Rebecca Yarros
- Narrado por: Rebecca Soler, Teddy Hamilton
Twilight in a high fantasy world.
Revisado: 10-09-23
Just as the title says. Bad romance novel in a high fantasy environment and all the things that come with. Laden with exposition, passive or deus ex machina solves to problems that keep the narrative far less interesting as it could be, and predictable storyline. Literally mapped out the general interactions the main love interest would have through out after the time the main character first laid eyes on him. Literally hit every trope hit in succession. There were moments it felt like it might be becoming something good, but they were always dashed time and time again. It felt like this was a new author struggling to find what they want to write.
If that is your jam, harlequin-esk romance novels, this book is for you. If you are an epic fantasy fan looking for your next series to fall in love with, this is not it.
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Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
- De: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer, Kate Reading
- Duración: 22 h y 31 m
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An all-new Stormlight Archive novella, Edgedancer, is the crown jewel of Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, the first audiobook of short fiction by number New York Times best-selling author Brandon Sanderson.
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Where to Find It (chapter #'s for stories)
- De V. Smith en 07-25-18
- Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
- De: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer, Kate Reading
Solid all the way around!
Revisado: 09-21-23
Great Voice Actor and Narrator!
Exciting and fun stories that truly flush out Sanderson’s world. The only downside: NOW I NOVELS ABOUT THESE WORLDS!!!!
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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
Narrator best part!
Revisado: 07-13-23
The voice actor has come a long way in 4 years. The first book in this “trilogy” was….difficult….to listen to. But the VO actor was so GOOD in this one! Well done!
The skill of the author, however, is so perplexing. Some sections are wonderfully and skillfully written. Others are laugh out loud ridiculous and contrived. It feels like two people wrote this. One: a skilled fantasy writer. The other: a horny mid-20 something who has had nothing but unhealthy relationships with women.
And his understanding of his own characters is so off, particularly his main character. Often making completely out of the blue and random feeling decisions from “clever” and “intelligent” people that actively are trying to think things through. Often these “decisions” are clearly written simply to cause conflict or escalate a situation for….reasons…with no over arcing purpose for character development or well thought out story progression.
I will read the third when…if… it comes out, but I would say: if you have a list of books to read, don’t make this series a priority. And if one dimensional, poorly written female characters (with a few exceptions in the adem sections and moments with Ari) as well as severely unhealthy/moderately mentally abusive romantic relationships is a trigger for you…you should skip this “trilogy”.
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The Name of the Wind
- Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1
- De: Patrick Rothfuss
- Narrado por: Nick Podehl
- Duración: 27 h y 55 m
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This is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man's search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend.
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Not sure why the reviews are so polar opposite.
- De Aaron Altman en 06-28-09
- The Name of the Wind
- Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1
- De: Patrick Rothfuss
- Narrado por: Nick Podehl
Better for Teenage to early 20s readers
Revisado: 07-07-23
Though there were many fantastic and enthralling parts, the author uses “interludes” that interrupt the best parts of the story. Pulling you all the way out when he was so successful at pulling you in. The best parts are the longest stretches without interruption. Had he eliminated the flashbacks to present altogether, the story would be more successful.
Even introducing it as a story being told by the main character to properly get down an autobiography is a weaker form of story telling. Here we are. Knowing everything is generally alright. I think the author tried to portray a broken man, but he attempted to do so while still making him seem very much a Kvoth-Sue still. Which didn’t mix well.
The main character is also portrayed as this 160+ IQ person. Except when his IQ is 12 and the answers are staring him directly in his face and he doesn’t see them for….reasons. Options and solves even a country bumpkin can easily see.
And don’t even get me started on Denna. Tries to portray some sort of sympathy for her, but is just straight a terrible person and weak. I wanted her so very much to be a bada** to balance the main character.
Narration: seems new to the field. (Though this very well might have been recorded in 2007, so the VO actor might be much better now). Moderately trained in dialects, but felt like a high school student reading a text book for the first half of the book.
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The Skeleton Crew
- How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases
- De: Deborah Halber
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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The Skeleton Crew provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmes-wannabes who race to beat out law enforcement-and one another - at matching missing persons with unidentified remains. In America today, upwards of forty thousand people are dead and unaccounted for. These murder, suicide, and accident victims, separated from their names, are being adopted by the bizarre online world of amateur sleuths.
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I Don't Understand
- De Hannah Wallner en 08-07-18
- The Skeleton Crew
- How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases
- De: Deborah Halber
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
Started compelling, ended wonderfully, looooong road inbetween
Revisado: 12-12-20
The first 2-3 chapters were wonderfully written and interesting. The last 4-5 were great! The rest of the book could have easily been condensed into 3-4 and, likely, even 2-3 chapters. It would have lost nothing and kept interest running through the whole book. I fell asleep or left it running by accident when I removed my headphones during the middle 1/2 to 5/8ths of the book, rewound it a 1/2 hour or hour, only to find I had only missed 1-2 necessary pieces of information and maybe 5-10 minutes of compelling pros.
My advice: pay attention at the beginning and end, but put the middle 9-10 chapters on background noise while you do chores.
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Warbreaker
- De: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 24 h y 56 m
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In the world of Warbreaker, each person is born endowed with the power of one Breath―which can be sold and collected by others, then used to Awaken objects and even corpses to do their bidding. A few individuals who die in glory return as gods, with the power of thousands of Breath, but no memory of their mortal lives―and are enthroned in the Court of Gods in Hallandren’s capital. To Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris, the abuse of Breath and the claim of the Returned to be gods are repugnant blasphemy.
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My Favorite Sanderson Yet
- De Carol en 09-10-17
- Warbreaker
- De: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
Excellent!
Revisado: 11-17-20
Is superb for the first 2/3 of the book, then gets just a tad slow, but has a phenomenal and fast paced last few chapters!!! A must listen!
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The Man from the Train
- The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
- De: Bill James, Rachel McCarthy James
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 17 h y 4 m
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Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.
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Repetitive and Frustrating
- De Heather L. en 02-22-18
- The Man from the Train
- The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
- De: Bill James, Rachel McCarthy James
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
Very interesting, but a bit dense
Revisado: 08-21-19
I understood and appreciated the authors intent (particularly in his desire to pay homage to those accused of the killers crimes), but the depth he pursues this often caused me to tune out and got in the way of the story.
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First King of Shannara
- The Shannara Series, Prequel
- De: Terry Brooks
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 19 h y 15 m
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In this prequel to The Sword of Shannara, in which many details of the Four Lands' history are revealed, Druids, horrified by the misuse of magic, have eschewed it in favor of science. But Bremen the Druid studies magic, and becomes an outcast on its account. Bremen discovers that an invincible army of trolls are fast conquering all that lay to their south. Before them come the Nazgul-like Skull Bearers, disfigured and transformed Druids who have fallen prey to the dark arts.
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A True Pleasure
- De K & L MITCHELL en 08-23-08
- First King of Shannara
- The Shannara Series, Prequel
- De: Terry Brooks
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
The voice actor. Woof.
Revisado: 03-04-19
Read originally as a 6th grader, came back for a listen and nostalgia. Almost stopped listening 4 or 5 times. If scott brick is the narrator for the next few books, I will buy a hard copy and reread instead. His style reminds me of a grandiose classically trained actor. Very presentational and over the top. Like the actor loves listening to the sound of his own voice. Zero emotional connection to what is happening. More trying to force you to feel his own importance through his words. Woof. Story was meant for a teen (the prelude trilogies connected well with me as an adult, however), but this was expected, so not a big deal.
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