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The Rosie Project
- By: Graeme Simsion
- Narrated by: Daniel O'Grady
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 263
A first-date dud, socially awkward, and overly fond of quick-dry clothes, genetics professor Don Tillman has given up on love, until a chance encounter gives him an idea. He will design a questionnaire to uncover the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker or a late-arriver. Rosie is all these things. She is also fiery and intelligent, strangely beguiling, and looking for her biological father - a search that a DNA expert might just be able to help her with.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It's OK
- By KJE on 06-01-19
- The Rosie Project
- By: Graeme Simsion
- Narrated by: Daniel O'Grady
Easy listing (like a quick read)
Reviewed: 05-13-22
Good narration, the character was endearing. Refreshing to be narrated by that unique perspective.
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Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 188,862
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 172,583
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Story5 out of 5 stars 172,030
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Bazinga
- By Davidgonzalezsr on 05-04-21
- Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Very enjoyable
Reviewed: 03-25-22
The narrator did an excellent job on this one, very believable that this is the character, like a good casting call in a movie.
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Superintelligence
- Paths, Dangers, Strategies
- By: Nick Bostrom
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,352
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 3,756
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,718
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful - possibly beyond our control.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Colossus: The Forbin Project is coming
- By Gary on 09-12-14
- Superintelligence
- Paths, Dangers, Strategies
- By: Nick Bostrom
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
A very in-depth (yet tidious) analysis of AI
Reviewed: 12-02-16
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
The first quarter of the book tells everything the author is trying to get across. After that I'm pretty sure Nick was being paid by the word by the publisher. Still, made it through and gained some new insight on the subject. To say that the writing style is ostentatious is an understatement. For example, where Nick Bostrom might write, "We as homo-sapiens who after many millennia have mutated an olfactory sense often repelled by the effluvium caused by one or more volatilized compounds commonly found containing chemical element with symbol S and atomic number 16, thus, find displeasure to this sensitivity when such elements are present in a polar inorganic compound of H2O, and therefore associate the noxious experience to a similarity of a spoiled domestic fowl's organic vessel containing the zygote in which the embryo develops."... or, as you and I may say, "That water smells gross, like rotten eggs."
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Inferno
- A Novel
- By: Dan Brown
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26,311
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23,554
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Story4 out of 5 stars 23,620
Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Formulaic and Hard to Finish....
- By Livia on 06-15-13
- Inferno
- A Novel
- By: Dan Brown
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
Entertaining
Reviewed: 08-29-16
A few unnecessary ostentatious tangents from Dan Brown, otherwise a good thrill and entertaining. Be prepared for a lot of academic filler that takes away from the plot.
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First They Killed My Father
- A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
- By: Loung Ung
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,227
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,096
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,091
One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Brutal, Heartbreaking
- By Gillian on 01-27-15
- First They Killed My Father
- A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
- By: Loung Ung
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Gripping and personal account of the Khmer Rouge
Reviewed: 04-07-16
What did you like best about this story?
Having visited Cambodia and toured some historical sites, this story offers an important perspective to the genocide, bridging the event with the people who experienced it first hand.
Any additional comments?
A must for people who plan on visiting Cambodia. Since it's such a recent moment in history, the effects of the even ripple to today.
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