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Other Minds
- The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
- By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how subjective experience crept into being—how nature became aware of itself. As Godfrey-Smith stresses, it is a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared.
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Mischief and Craft
- By Darwin8u on 08-10-17
- Other Minds
- The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
- By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
Interesting subject well told research and hypothesis
Reviewed: 09-18-24
Intriguing throughout without velvet falling into the doldrums of a bad biology class, this is a book that just about any lay person interested in the formations of consciousness can enjoy and learn from.
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Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
- By: James Luceno
- Narrated by: Daniel Davis
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
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Darth Plagueis: one of the most brilliant Sith Lords who ever lived. Possessing power is all he desires. Losing it is the only thing he fears. As an apprentice, he embraces the ruthless ways of the Sith. Darth Sidious: Plagueis’s chosen apprentice. Under the guidance of his Master, he secretly studies the ways of the Sith, while publicly rising to power in the galactic government, first as Senator, then as Chancellor, and eventually as Emperor. as Chancellor, and eventually as Emperor.
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See Episodes I-III in a whole new light!!!
- By kalei on 11-09-12
- Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
- By: James Luceno
- Narrated by: Daniel Davis
My favorite Star Wars novel
Reviewed: 08-15-24
Thrilling and fun, and once again important to the future of Star Wars stories. If you haven’t yet read this, make the time for it now!
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Best Served Cold
- By: Joe Abercrombie
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 26 hrs and 29 mins
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There have been 19 years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march, heads roll and cities burn, and behind the scenes bankers, priests, and older, darker powers play a deadly game to choose who will be king.
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Who Cares?
- By Shark Likes on 02-17-18
- Best Served Cold
- By: Joe Abercrombie
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
Amazing how he can write a solo story & keep the stakes as high as his epic trilogy
Reviewed: 06-22-24
Great story well told, can’t wait to see this world adapted on screen. Mansa is a great addition to the roster & Shivers gets so much growth here from his origin in the First Law Trilogy.
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Energy Follows Thought
- The Stories Behind My Songs
- By: Willie Nelson, David Ritz, Mickey Raphael
- Narrated by: Willie Nelson, Ethan Hawke
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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From his earliest work in the 1950s to today, Willie looks back at the songs that have defined his career, from his days of earning $50 each to his biggest hits, from his less well-known songs (but incredibly meaningful to him) to his concept albums. Along the way, he also shares the stories of his guitar Trigger, his family and “family,” as well as the artists he collaborated with, including Patsy Cline, Waylon Jennings, Ray Charles, Merle Haggard, Ray Price, Dolly Parton, and many others.
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Willy the Philosopher
- By John on 12-14-23
- Energy Follows Thought
- The Stories Behind My Songs
- By: Willie Nelson, David Ritz, Mickey Raphael
- Narrated by: Willie Nelson, Ethan Hawke
Willie is a Treasure, and Here He’s opened up the chest!
Reviewed: 05-12-24
Great songs, even better stories behind them. Powerful narration from Hawke is not a substitute for Willie but a fitting voice to drift away on the words.
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Last Argument of Kings
- By: Joe Abercrombie
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 27 hrs and 4 mins
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Logen Ninefingers might have only one more fight in him - but it's going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the king of the Northmen still stands firm, and there's only one man who can stop him. His oldest friend and his oldest enemy: It's time for the Bloody-Nine to come home.
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Anti-Genre within the Genre
- By Joe Kraus on 05-08-17
- Last Argument of Kings
- By: Joe Abercrombie
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
What an amazing finish to an outstanding story!
Reviewed: 05-01-24
Thoroughly satisfying. Abercrombie gets world building & character creation like no one else. I can’t wait to read the further books in this universe.
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Before They Are Hanged
- By: Joe Abercrombie
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 22 hrs and 39 mins
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The second novel in the wildly popular First Law Trilogy from New York Times best seller Joe Abercrombie. Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It's enough to make a torturer want to run - if he could even walk without a stick. Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country. Crown Prince Ladisla is poised to drive them back and win undying glory.
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Can't stand to hear the word grimace' any more.
- By Max on 08-29-17
- Before They Are Hanged
- By: Joe Abercrombie
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
Abercrombie writes characters like no one else!
Reviewed: 04-15-24
Just amazing people, fully formed on the page, that we get to live vicariously through. Fantastic fantasy writing top to bottom.
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The Blade Itself
- By: Joe Abercrombie
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 22 hrs and 15 mins
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Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he's on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian - leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, Captain Jezal dan Luthar has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules.
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Characters drive the story. The Narrator rocks!
- By Brian Alsobrook on 11-01-16
- The Blade Itself
- By: Joe Abercrombie
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
Outstanding Character development shines above all else
Reviewed: 04-01-24
Abercrombie (and Pacey) can make you fall in love with a character in just a page or two. Truly outstanding character development throughout this sprawling novel. Bring on the next adventure.
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Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
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Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
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This classic deserves better
- By Matthew Salvo on 07-01-21
Complicated Beginning to an Amazing Saga
Reviewed: 03-23-24
Great performances across the board from the voice talent, all anchored by the amazing Simon Vance!
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Tom Lake
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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So incredibly boring
- By Rhonda Morrison on 08-05-23
- Tom Lake
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep’s narration
Reviewed: 03-04-24
Beautiful story about how life never moves in a straight line but one thing does lead to another. If you’ve ever been on stage, especially in summer stock, this will have a special meaning to you.
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Flowers for Algernon
- By: Daniel Keyes
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for mentally challenged adults. But all of this is about to change for Charlie. As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Charlie's brain. They hope the operation and special medication will increase his intelligence, just as it has for the laboratory mouse, Algernon.
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Walk with a Swagger
- By Tim on 05-30-14
- Flowers for Algernon
- By: Daniel Keyes
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
A book that has haunted me since I first read it in junior high, a performance worthy of that memory
Reviewed: 10-07-23
Excellent performance of what is a challenging role. Charlie is many things over the course of this journey and the narrator was up to playing them all. Bravo.
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