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Antibodies
- De: Charles Stross
- Narrado por: Jared Doreck
- Duración: 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing when one of the great and the good is assassinated. You can kill a politician, but their ideas usually live on. They have a life of their own. How much more dangerous, then, the ideas of mathematicians? The announcement of the solution to the traveling salesman problem heralds the imminent destruction of humanity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Quite a ride..
- De Kindle Customer en 06-08-11
- Antibodies
- De: Charles Stross
- Narrado por: Jared Doreck
Not worth the time.
Revisado: 07-28-08
This story was horrible. It rambled incoherently and was rife with wild paranoia's that I suspect the author suffers from schizophrenia. I feel sorry for the narrator for having to try and comprehend what he was reading.
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The Road
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 6 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23,042
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17,995
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18,007
America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst this destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still, they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world of utter devastation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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ARE YOU CARRYING THE FIRE?
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 05-14-16
- The Road
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
A dark and bleak struggle for life.
Revisado: 05-22-08
Overall it's a good book. Interesting character development and the setting was believable. The dialog can get tiresome at times though - there's only so many times you can hear simple phrases repeated over and over ("That's OK", "I understand", "Okay", "I dunno", "Maybe", etc…), by the end of the book it feels like you've heard them a thousand times.
The story progresses at a nice pace and it's easy to become engrossed in their struggle, although their future is dark and bleak at best. The ending seemed rushed and lacked a sense of direction, but maybe the author couldn't stand the thought of the Boy ending up in someone's stew pot.
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Spin
- De: Robert Charles Wilson
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 17 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,799
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,353
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,361
One night when he was 10, Tyler stood in his backyard and watched the stars go out. They flared into brilliance, then disappeared, replaced by an empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Listen!
- De pems-integ-tests en 03-28-08
- Spin
- De: Robert Charles Wilson
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
Interesting Concept, weak story.
Revisado: 05-22-08
I wanted to like this book and it has a very interesting concept, but I found it extremely boring and would not recommend it. It took almost 2.5hrs before I started to gain interest in the story, but my interest quickly faded 30mins later. The whole book ebbed with deep lows and only minor high points (2 hrs before the next interesting story junction, which would last only a few minutes, etc...).
The character development is full of minutia and the characters themselves are extremely mundane. It felt to me that the story timeline was purposefully disjointed in a transparent attempt to distract the reader from noticing the tedious doldrums. I wonder if the author lacked the ability to flush out the theme of the Spin and fill more of the book with it. I can think of a few sci-fi authors that could've easily written three books based solely on the Spin concept and also included interesting, richly developed characters.
The glowing reviews about the book's introspective regarding the political and sociologic ramifications of the Spin aren't warranted because most of the time their usually simple paragraphs at best. After which much detail would again be devoted to the inane character plots.
The idea that the human race is currently at it's technological pinnacle and facing extinction because of over-population (which is depleting Earth's resources) seemed absurd.
It also seemed ridiculous that 100,000 years would pass before Earth or Mars would wait to contact each other (not to mention the amount of time that passed while the Martian ambassador was on Earth and still no asynchronous contact).
I'd personally recommend a Neil Gaiman book if you're looking for amazing character development and engrossing stories.
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Night of the Living Dead (Dramatized)
- De: John Russo, George Romero
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 55 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 78
An abandoned hilltop farmhouse. Seven desperate people, and a surrounding darkness ripped by bloodcurdling cries of anguish. A state of emergency has been declared: the unimaginable is happening in the night.
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1 out of 5 stars
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BOOOOO!!!
- De Linda B en 11-26-08
- Night of the Living Dead (Dramatized)
- De: John Russo, George Romero
- Narrado por: full cast
Not what I was expecting from a classic
Revisado: 04-03-08
A nice Dramatized version, but the voice of Ben just doesn't match the character at all. The reading is kind of fast and lacks any sense of horror or impending doom.
Foul language is used a lot, so you probably won't be able to listen to it if kids are around.
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A Colder War
- De: Charles Stross
- Narrado por: Pat Bottino
- Duración: 1 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 94
Here is a modern novelette in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. Imagine David Cronenberg directing Dr. Strangelove, based on a script by H. P. Lovecraft. Imagine an alternate history in which nuclear bombs are not the ultimate weapon, but instead are merely a stepping stone to eldritch technologies accessible through certain trans-dimensional forces first encountered in 1920s Antarctica, technologies that neither the United States nor the USSR can quite contain.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good story, Bad narration
- De Max Draco en 04-03-08
- A Colder War
- De: Charles Stross
- Narrado por: Pat Bottino
Good story, Bad narration
Revisado: 04-03-08
The narrator's decision to read this fast and without relaxation makes this a hard to enjoy book (mimics a 1940-50's army/news flick). The story is a nice HP Lovecraft twist, but listen to the sample first before you decide to buy. In fact I've listen to a couple of samples narrated by Pat Bottino and I think his reading style and voice are suitable for only certain characters.
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