A Small Percentage

A Dark Tale of Alien Invasion

De: Jim Cline

Narrado por: Donny Barton, Jim Cline, Dawn Seaman

Alien battle fleets converge on earth at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Technology and intrigue blend to form a graphic study of politics, morality, and the brutality of total war. A bitter, hard fought war is raging that ranges from the depths of interstellar space, to a nuclear Battle of the Atlantic, to savage assassinations, and Machiavellian usurpations of power and control.

For Mature Audiences Only: Explicit language and situational violence. Must be 18 years of age to purchase.

©2000 Timberwolf Press (P)2000 Timberwolf Press

Cats & Pigs in Space?

I chose to download "A Small Percentage," much against the dire warning and judgment of the other reviewers who indicated that the narration and sound effects were so dire. (More of that later) This Sci-Fi tale both horrified and intrigued me and kept me interested enough to complete it I'll probably have to listen again at some time in the future.

The brutality of the main characters is just beyond compare, I was seriously beginning to wonder how Jim Cline (The Author) managed to think up so many ways to dismember, mutilate and generally destroy a human being and most of the human race for that matter. For all that the author tries to deliver a strong moral message in that people in power are mostly corrupt, the "Bexsus" acting as both invaders and police who without hesitation destroy the corrupt and criminally minded. As the book starts to fade into repetition and subsequent boredom a new race of invaders rear their ugly pig like self's quickly proving to be the equal of the "Bexsus" in brutality, shear nastiness and a total indifference to the welfare of the human race. As I listened on in morbid fascination a new intriguing reality came to my attention and that is the one thing that really kept me interested and listening.

The most horrific Audible Book I have listened to date? Probably. I'm not normally a seeker of gratuitous violence or the macabre, this book gave me nightmares and for some reason bugged me for days after wards. If that's what the author intended then he sure succeeded with me.

Finally the narration, is a typical Timber Wolf Press production, overblown characters and on occasion ridiculous sound effects, personally I enjoy Timber Wolf?s "OTT" presentations, it seems to fit the "Pulp Fiction" character of the books they produce

Great Story Poorly Read

Whoever read the female parts needed to be fired (though they all are fired now as Timberwolf Press no longer exists). Male parts were great. They had one woman reading all the female parts who had a terrible Texas drawl - even when she was reading alien parts. Her voice was very wooden... and... sounded.... like.... she .... could.... not... read ... well...

Great Listen!

A very fine book. Before downloading the book I read some of the reviews here which were not so positive. But I still went ahead because I had just completed listening to DeathStalker series and was in the mood for some more alien related scifi advertures.
A small percentage turned out to be a great listen. The writing was well paced out and kept me interested through out. As you listen to the book you will feel yourself siding with the humans and the aliens alike.
Since the book was recorded in 1998 the sound dramatization is not that good. At times it is a bit crude but the story is so good you would not care.

Poor Performace

I agree with one other reveiwer,I enjoyed the story ,but some of the readers were very wooden,stilted and otherwise weak. If you can get passed the weak reading of some of the actors,the story itself is very good.I would have gave it 2.5 stars if I could have because of the perfomances.With good actors this would have been a 4 star book for the sci-fi fan

A+ story; C- readers

Ok, I went into this story having read all of the other comments. I'm glad that I decided to go for it since the story itself was great. It's a nice twist on the alien invades earth story, and the battles are awesome with all of the detail the hard sci-fi fan loves. The drawback is that when you're really getting into the story the readers let you down. It's really hard to listen to their wooden voices. It sounds like they were handed the script and just read it . . . no warm up, no grasping of the story, just a straight read.

So, I recommend this book for it's story, but not for it's reading. The reading won't stop you from listening, but it definitely does decrease the enjoyment.

Under Rated

This book held my attention. I found it a fascinating listening experience. A story once begun, you can't put down. Very good book.

Worst narration, but story not bad

I've probably listened to a couple hundred books since joining Audible some years back. There's no question in my mind that this is the most AWFUL audiobook narration of all time. The main narrator is not too terrible, but there is a female who reads like a 6 year old, with no grasp of the character or the story. There's another male reader who is pretty poor. And the sound effects are absurd. Especially the shrieks from the humans and pseudo humans every time they're wounded or killed. And the organ music is like an absurd parody of a 1930s horror broadcast. Still, I begrudgingly admit the story isn't all bad, and had enough twists to keep me listening to the end.

Good but not great, worth a listen

I have to agree that the production values leave a good bit to be desired. The sound effects step over the acting in a few, short spots and the acting itself is somewhat lacking. The story is less than stellar, but it is still a very enjoyable book for sci-fi fans. I never found myself bored while listening and will definitely listen to it again in the future. I think better production value and a little bit better acting would have greatly helped this book, if those had been better I would have given it 4 stars instead of 3. This is a good book for any sci-fi junkie, just looking for a little light-hearted action and adventure.

Spellbinding

I was not sure when I first bought the book because of all the politics towards the beginning of the book but as it turns out this book was so intriguing I could not put it down The farther I got into the book the more intrigued I was with it I like a lot of the characters especially a couple of the cat people and I especially like their solution to crime and the fact they got rid of all his self-centered corrupt moneygrubbing politicians around the world it was nice to think no matter what there would still be possible for kids to walk the street at night safe but it’s a shame that it would actually take something like that invasion to get the prime rate to drop down so low I feel sorry for several of the characters because you just got to know them and you were expecting them to be there throughout the whole book and then something happened and they were gone.I recommended this book to a couple of my friends and my brother. This book is well worth the listen

Have patience

This book starts out slowly but picks up steam as you figure out the relationships and what the plot is. I Really enjoy the multiple voices and sound effects this is the first audiobook I have listen to that used sound effects. Not a blockbuster but good enough to be entertaining.