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Axiom's End
- A Novel
- By: Lindsay Ellis
- Narrated by: Abigail Thorn, Stephanie Willis
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
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It's fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in first contact. Cora Sabino is doing everything she can to avoid the whole mess, since the force driving the controversy is her whistleblower father. Even though Cora hasn't spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the internet, the paparazzi, and the government - and with him in hiding, that attention is on her. She neither knows nor cares whether her father's leaks are a hoax and wants nothing to do with him.
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Short Circuit w Aliens?
- By Eric on 08-05-20
- Axiom's End
- A Novel
- By: Lindsay Ellis
- Narrated by: Abigail Thorn, Stephanie Willis
too YA for me--12 year olds might like it.
Reviewed: 08-17-20
Too bad about the narrators. Maybe it's the writing also--hard to tell if the whining and EXTREME delivery
is part of the story or the voice in which it was written. No pacing. No character development.
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Flight Behavior
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
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Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at 17. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she encounters a shocking sight: a silent, forested valley filled with what looks like a lake of fire. She can only understand it as a cautionary miracle, but it sparks a raft of other explanations from scientists, religious leaders, and the media.
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A poignant literary work of art.
- By criswithcurls on 02-08-13
- Flight Behavior
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
Why must the author also read?
Reviewed: 12-26-12
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
I love Kingsolver's books, but I wish she would let an actor read them. She is a fantastic writer, but aside from her memoir, why not let the stories be even more enhanced by a professional reader? Someone who can do male/female, young/old; someone who can transport and allow the listener to get completely transported into the story. I found myself often distracted by this; especially the attempts to do the Caribbean accent. I mean, she is fine, but why not have a great actor read a great book?
What did you like best about this story?
Issues of class, culture, the environment.
What didn’t you like about Barbara Kingsolver’s performance?
She isn't a professional reader; I wish she would let others read her books. It is fine to hear at a reading in a bookstore, but her voice just really bugged me. I only finished because I became wrapped up in the story, she is a great writer.
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A Hunger for the Infinite
- A Galactic Center Story
- By: Gregory Benford
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
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A Hunger for the Infinite, which first appeared in Robert Silverberg's Far Horizons anthology, is a novella that takes place in the universe of "The Galactic Center Saga", detailing a galactic war between mechanical and biological life. Here, the pilots had made it to True Center in order to destroy something, anything, important to the Mechs, but Paris had something else on his mind. A story of the Mantis, and the decline of humans beginning in 3600 AD.
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Haunting
- By Michale on 06-20-12
- A Hunger for the Infinite
- A Galactic Center Story
- By: Gregory Benford
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
couldn't finish it
Reviewed: 06-04-12
What disappointed you about A Hunger for the Infinite?
cardboard characters
Has A Hunger for the Infinite turned you off from other books in this genre?
no
What didn’t you like about Robin Sachs’s performance?
trying to work with such mediocre material wasn't a help.
What character would you cut from A Hunger for the Infinite?
ummm, can we start with the protagonist?
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I Rant, Therefore I Am
- By: Dennis Miller
- Narrated by: Dennis Miller
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
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Grammy Nominee for Best Spoken Comedy Album
Once again there's good news for those of us who rage at the evening news, shake our heads at Washington's business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom helplessly between political crises and sex scandals: Dennis Miller is back performing his fourth installment of hilarious observations, I Rant, Therefore I Am. More from Miller.
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For sophisticated tastes only
- By Glenn on 01-01-03
- I Rant, Therefore I Am
- By: Dennis Miller
- Narrated by: Dennis Miller
sad, sophmoric, self serving
Reviewed: 11-05-04
unless you like to hear a comic telling bad jokes and then laughing at them--since nobody else does--don't bother.
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The Light of Day
- By: Graham Swift
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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The author takes us inside George Webb's -a divorced ex-policeman turned private investigator- mind. For one day, we see what Webb sees and know only what his thoughts reveals. We learn about his childhood and the secret it forced him to carry; the last moments with his ex-wife; his fall as a cop; the ease with which he has turned his police skills to the demands of his new profession. And we learn how those demands have put him in a league with a client, a woman he has come to love.
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A wordsmith no doubt.
- By Mike on 09-29-03
- The Light of Day
- By: Graham Swift
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
The Light of Day
Reviewed: 08-10-04
Wonderfully written and perfectly delivered in audio format, this is one of my Top 5 Audible.com purchases ever. Witty, literate, and original in style and organization, this may not be suitable for those who prefer a stock plot, cardboard characters, and the reliable denouement at page 347 of a 375-page novel. This is short, exacting, delightfully crafted. There are few mystery/crime novels I'd read twice--and even fewer I'd listen to twice--but The Light of Day is entertaining on far more levels than the standard thriller/killer/legal tripe...The word play is clever, the lead character sympathetic/flawed/aware, and the flash-back/stream-of-consciousness thread is 100% seductive.
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