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Recursion
- A Novel
- De: Blake Crouch
- Narrado por: Jon Lindstrom, Abby Craden
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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At first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. But the force that’s sweeping the world is no pathogen. It’s just the first shock wave, unleashed by a stunning discovery - and what’s in jeopardy is not our minds but the very fabric of time itself. In New York City, Detective Barry Sutton is closing in on the truth - and in a remote laboratory, neuroscientist Helena Smith is unaware that she alone holds the key to this mystery...and the tools for fighting back.
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Mixed Feelings
- De Breezybealle en 06-12-19
- Recursion
- A Novel
- De: Blake Crouch
- Narrado por: Jon Lindstrom, Abby Craden
Amazing creative science fiction
Revisado: 09-21-24
A unique science fiction thriller that leaves you guessing and is always unpredictable. The plot is emotionally exhausting at times, and there may be times where you want to stop, but you'll be glad you see it through.
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Human After All
- De: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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Freeman is a genius with an uncommon mixture of memory, intelligence and creativity. He lives in a worldwide utopia, but it was not always so. There was a time known as the Grind—when Freeman’s people lived as slaves to another race referred to simply as “Master.” They were property. But a civil rights movement emerged. Change seemed near, but the Masters refused to bend. Instead, they declared war. And lost. Now, the freed world is threatened by a virus, spread through bites, sweeping through the population.
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MUCH better than expected!
- De Mike Naka en 05-04-14
- Human After All
- De: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
Finally good sci-fi with a unique plot
Revisado: 02-18-24
At first, I was concerned that this is yet another zombie work of fiction, but the story is so unique and so well performed all the way to the final five minutes of the book. I think it may have been possible to use another plot device than zombification, but it overall doesn't detract from the story. The author does a good job at leading you down a direction and then surprising you with some truly unique aspects of the story. The vocal performance was excellent.
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Project Hail Mary
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 16 h y 10 m
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Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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Bazinga
- De Davidgonzalezsr en 05-04-21
- Project Hail Mary
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
One of the best Sci Fi on Audible
Revisado: 01-22-23
No spoilers in this review. The writing by Andy weir and narration by Ray Porter are so closely connected, you would think that Ray was the narrator in mind when this book was published for Audible. The character development is superb. the science is amazing, and frankly you really feel for the characters. All told, an amazing book!
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Eminence
- Angel of Camden, Book 1
- De: Keith A. Pearson
- Narrado por: Beau Thomas
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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A bear-like man leaves a pub just before last orders—a man you’d much rather regard as a friend than an enemy. But, to Roland Raynott, Clement is most definitely the enemy. Minutes later, Clement is lying dead in a rain swept alley as Roland Raynott scurries away.
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Clement’s introduction and the story line.
- De Lisa en 04-12-25
- Eminence
- Angel of Camden, Book 1
- De: Keith A. Pearson
- Narrado por: Beau Thomas
Disappointing effort from Pearson (Light spoilers)
Revisado: 12-17-22
I'm a long-time listener of Keith A. Pearson's time-travel audiobooks and have left 5-star reviews for tremendous listens such as "Tuned Out", "The '86 Fix" and the conclusion "Beyond Broadhall". Pearson is at his best with sympathetic and flawed protagonists facing a pre-midlife crisis and unraveling personal and professional lives given a 2nd chance or new perspective by a time travel experience. We care about the supporting characters, details are fascinating and meticulous, and the conclusions are satisfying even when bittersweet.
This unfortunately cannot be said for "Eminence". It features a protagonist in Patrick Finch we don't care about and who’s feeble eccentricities aren't endearing. The second protagonist and anti-hero, Clement, comes across as violent street thug who serves as a "life coach" to Patrick. Their interactions are sometimes odd and Clement's responses to life in 2022 from being transported from 1975 are so muted that you forget about this "fish out of water" context, which turns what wants to be a reverse time-travel story into a weak buddy road trip adventure.
Eminence takes place in the American South focusing on the Atlanta, Georgia area and south Alabama. I live in Atlanta, and Pearson's research regarding the details into neighborhoods and suburbs are not well done. Patrick rents a B&B on Auburn Avenue, in Atlanta's "Sweet Auburn" historic district. Patrick can't find a coffee shop or restaurant in walking distance which is implausible given what 2 minutes on Google Maps will indicate. Pearson inserts the KKK into the story to make the kidnapping antagonist family even more evil that they are. This seems to have been added to justify Clement's severe beating of some of the antagonists as without the KKK connection, the violence wouldn't have been justified. I'd suggest to Pearson that if he's going to set a story outside his native England, that he find some assistant story editors actually from the place where the story is set. This might avoid nearly everyone Patrick speaks with having a drawl right out of Deliverance.
The production of the character voices is also weak. Simple things are both annoying and sloppy which should never had made the final recording. Awkward mispronunciations of Atlanta major roads (Piedmont Avenue) and the town of Macon, GA pronounced in the French-like Maison rather than like Bacon. This is to be blamed on production rather than voice actor Beau Thomas. Saying this, Thomas' American South accents are inconsistent and overly thick and hinder much of the character definition for local people in the story. His delivery is very fast and thus turning your listening speed over 1.00x is not recommended. Thomas' emotions finally appear in the final three chapters and come on so suddenly that it sounds like Thomas himself must have just experienced a traumatizing event before recording.
In the end, we don't care about Patrick, we're unimpressed with Clement, and the payoff announces itself 3/4th of the way through the book leaving us surprised when the narration finally gets out of the flatline from the prior 30+ chapters.
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The Great Bridge
- The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 27 h y 24 m
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This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nation's history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge rose out of the expansive era following the Civil War, when Americans believed all things were possible.
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An Historian and not a Novelist
- De Tim en 06-01-12
- The Great Bridge
- The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
Amazing story of the Brooklyn Bridge
Revisado: 11-27-22
Loved the book in paperback and the audio rendition as well. The narration is a bit old style in that it's not a performance of the individuals featured, but more of a narrative style, which lessens the impact somewhat.
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Time and Again
- De: Jack Finney
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 17 h
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Transported from the mid-twentieth century to New York City in the year 1882, Si Morley walks the fashionable "Ladies' Mile" of Broadway, is enchanted by the jingling sleigh bells in Central Park, and solves a 20th-century mystery by discovering its 19th-century roots. Falling in love with a beautiful young woman, he ultimately finds himself forced to choose between his lives in the present and the past. A story that will remain in the listener's memory, Time and Again is a remarkable blending of the troubled present and a nostalgic past....
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Best time travel novel; my very favorite audiobook
- De Mark en 04-08-12
- Time and Again
- De: Jack Finney
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
Great time travel historical romp after slow start
Revisado: 08-06-22
Set in what was then current time of 1970, the story really picks up after the contemporary first third of the book is done. The actual book has photos and sketches not available in the audio book but which is worth a look.
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A Page in Your Diary
- De: Keith A Pearson
- Narrado por: Michael Troughton
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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In May 1987, Jackie Benton received a heartbreaking phone call from her boyfriend, Sean Hardy, bringing an end to their five-year relationship. He’d fallen for a fellow student at Exeter University. Sean and Jackie would never see each other again. Thirty-three years later, Sean returns to his home town. There, he inadvertently discovers what became of Jackie Benton.
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Another grand slam from Keith A Pearson
- De sharon en 04-22-25
- A Page in Your Diary
- De: Keith A Pearson
- Narrado por: Michael Troughton
Sub-par story with many recycled elements
Revisado: 05-30-22
I'm writing this review without spoilers, and it was a disappointment compared to Pearson's past work. We know he loves the 80s, so some 80s pop culture and political references are expected. what feels lazy, however, are the same elements of what happens when someone goes back in time, that is betting on sports to get spending money complaining about technology that is no longer available, complaining about the economy and "Thatcher's Britain". Sean, the protagonist is not an especially sympathetic character. I found it hard to care whether he was successful or not in his other story arcs. his continuing reference to his time travel as "Coma Land", just wasn't very believable. production was also weak, with frequent, very obvious voice-over corrections usually at different volume or tone. The narrator doesn't do the story any favors though as you just don't feel the intensity in scenes. that should be more "in the moment". it feels as if the narrator is retelling the story from 10 years ago, there's just no emotional weight to the intense experiences he's describing. I'm still a Pearson fan, but I'll need to be more careful in the future before I buy any more audio books of his.
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The Apollo Murders
- De: Chris Hadfield
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 15 h y 15 m
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NASA is about to launch Apollo 18. While the mission has been billed as a scientific one, flight controller Kazimieras "Kaz" Zemeckis knows there is a darker objective. Intelligence has discovered a secret Soviet space station spying on America, and Apollo 18 may be the only chance to stop it. But as Kaz races to keep the NASA crew one step ahead of their Russian rivals, a deadly accident reveals that not everyone involved is who they were thought to be. With political stakes stretched to the breaking point, the White House and the Kremlin can only watch as their astronauts collide.
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Was dubious at first but happily surprised
- De Brett Fluri en 10-17-21
- The Apollo Murders
- De: Chris Hadfield
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
Great voice acting. Better science than fiction.
Revisado: 04-09-22
I wanted to like the book better than I ended up liking it. The walk through the Apollo program and the science that supported the missions was outstanding. SPOILER ALERT - The author spent a lot of time with character development with Kaz, but he ended up being just a supporting character. Once the action starts moving quickly, there were just too many loose ends and unrealistic scenarios to put all within Chad as the bad guy. Chad ends up coming off as both a sociopath in a misogynistic idiot, and that personality getting through the US space program in the early 1970s would never have happened. There was virtually no backstory on Chad at all, and you're left wondering why the author spent so much time developing Kaz. This being said, I enjoyed the science and overall would recommend the book. Ray Porter is outstanding with his voice acting as usual.
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