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We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- Bobiverse, Book 1
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 106,069
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 97,215
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 96,978
There's a reason We Are Legion was named Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016: Its irresistibly irreverent wit! Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure. The first item on his to-do list: Spending his newfound windfall. On an urge to splurge, he signs up to have his head cryogenically preserved in case of death. Then he gets himself killed crossing the street. Waking up 117 years later, Bob discovers his mind has been uploaded into a sentient space probe with the ability to replicate itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ignore the Publisher's Summary! This is Amazing!
- By PW on 04-12-17
- We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- Bobiverse, Book 1
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Entertaining, but annoying
Reviewed: 11-08-23
It's a really fun idea, and there's a lot of interesting directions it could go, but some of it just gets to be annoying. Also, what's up with the brazilian? I feel like the author and narrator have never met a brazilian before. The character is portrayed as a cross between inigo montoya and speedy Gonzales. There's plenty of made up nations that would have made a lot more sense, but that's just one of the annoying parts of this book. I think it's still worth reading. It's not as good as it could be, but I will continue the series to see where it goes.
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The Time Traveler's Wife
- By: Audrey Niffenegger
- Narrated by: Fred Berman, Phoebe Strole
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,971
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,424
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,443
Clare and Henry have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was 36. They were married when Clare was 23 and Henry was 31. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my favorite books
- By Joey on 01-13-08
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- By: Audrey Niffenegger
- Narrated by: Fred Berman, Phoebe Strole
A little heavy
Reviewed: 10-25-23
This is a lot better than the movie, it's not as dark. It's still pretty heavy though. Almost an allegory of some diseases. It's not a feel good story, but it feels realistic. I like the character development, but the characters aren't that likable. They're a little pompous, criticizing high writing and classical music pieces. Also a lot of random German and French poetry, in their original languages. Then there's the highclass society loading the values of Marxist philosophy, it's a little sarcastic, but it's slightly obnoxious. The love story is touching and the tine traveling is interesting. I like the different look at time travel, out of control and more of a burden.
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Odd Thomas
- An Odd Thomas Novel (Odd Thomas, Book 1)
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 721
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 651
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 650
“The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Sometimes the silent souls who seek out Odd want justice. Occasionally their otherworldly tips help him prevent a crime. But this time it’s different. A stranger comes to Pico Mundo, accompanied by a horde of hyena-like shades who herald an imminent catastrophe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Odd all the way
- By Donna Rae on 10-10-23
- Odd Thomas
- An Odd Thomas Novel (Odd Thomas, Book 1)
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Great in every way
Reviewed: 10-13-23
This was very well narrated. The story was creative, it was whimsical, touching, and suspenseful. I really enjoyed it.
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The Hunt for Red October
- A Jack Ryan Novel
- By: Tom Clancy
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 12,730
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11,511
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Story5 out of 5 stars 11,458
Somewhere under the freezing Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision. The Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. The chase for the highly advanced nuclear submarine is on - and there’s only one man who can find her... Brilliant CIA analyst Jack Ryan has little interest in fieldwork, but when covert photographs of Red October land on his desk, Ryan soon finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek played by two world powers - a game that could end in all-out war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thank GOD you got a new narrator!
- By Andrew M. Niehaus on 08-24-18
- The Hunt for Red October
- A Jack Ryan Novel
- By: Tom Clancy
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Well written, not for me.
Reviewed: 10-11-23
I found the story boring. If there was ever a reason to use the word, "Aft", it was used. It was well read, and well written. There wasn't a lot of character development, just some back stories. It felt like a dramatic historical documentary. You really get to understand what it would be like to be on a submarine. The situations and settings were well described. If you want to feel what it would be like to be on a submarine, during the cold war, this book is for you. It's not for me.
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Odd Thomas
- You Are Destined to Be Together Forever
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
- Length: 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,991
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,654
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,637
Amid the dizzying rides, tantalizing games of chance, and fanciful attractions of a state fair, two teenage sweethearts on the cusp of life and love's pleasures find their way to a shadowy carnival tent brimming with curiosities. There, from the bizarre and enthralling Gypsy Mummy, a mechanized merchant of dreams and prognosticator of tomorrows, the young couple learns what fate promises for them. But fate, for Odd Thomas and Stormy Llewellyn, is something altogether different: full of dark corners, sharp edges, and things no seer or soothsayer could ever anticipate.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A nice little prequel!Not a whole book.Just right!
- By Stephanie S Briggs on 11-19-18
- Odd Thomas
- You Are Destined to Be Together Forever
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
If you look up Odd Thomas, this comes up
Reviewed: 09-23-23
I bought this before I noticed the subtitle and immediately tried to return it. Returns only apply to books purchased with credits. I believe this is intentionally misleading. The real Odd Thomas is available for preorder, but if you search Odd Thomas this comes up, without the subtitle.
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The Annals of the Heechee
- By: Frederik Pohl
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 477
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 437
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Story4 out of 5 stars 434
Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality, enjoying his life by flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people. But suddenly his decadent existence ends when an all-powerful alien race intent on the utter destruction of all intelligent life reappears after eons of silence, and threatens the lives of all heechee and humans.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing after its predecessors
- By Christian on 11-24-18
- The Annals of the Heechee
- By: Frederik Pohl
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Keeps getting better
Reviewed: 02-09-21
I was underwhelmed by the first books, but all of the sequels have been great
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Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
- By: Frederik Pohl
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 993
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 884
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 887
Frederik Pohl was on a streak when this Hugo Award-finalist novel was published in 1980. Now back in print after an absence of nearly a decade, this unique science fiction novel is as fresh and entertaining as ever. The story begins when the hero of Gateway finances an expedition to a distant alien spaceship that may end famine forever. On the ship, the explorers find a human boy, and evidence that reveals a powerful alien civilization is thriving on a transport ship headed right for Earth....
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5 out of 5 stars
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SHE SURPRIZES ME MOST WHEN I LEAST EXPECT IT
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-08-13
- Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
- By: Frederik Pohl
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Good, way better than the first book
Reviewed: 10-09-20
First book kinda sucked. This one was good. Better character development. It started out a little bad, but came around at the end. it veered away from the initial pedophilia it seemed to be leading up to, and I was gonna have to turn it off, if it went any further. But, it took a direction towards scifi instead of grown man fantasies of a 14 year old. This book was sci-fi, unlike the first one. That one was just a terrible story inside of a sci fi setting. This book actually deals with sci-fi themes, time travel, aliens, warmholes, spaceships, telepathy... It still goes into personal emotional struggles, like the first, but significantly more palatable.
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Gateway
- By: Frederik Pohl
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Robert J. Sawyer
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,934
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,419
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,429
When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he is...in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!
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5 out of 5 stars
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A human-focused SF classic
- By Ryan on 12-05-13
- Gateway
- By: Frederik Pohl
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Robert J. Sawyer
The story wasn't good.
Reviewed: 09-22-20
It was very boring, centered around one character who isn't that interesting. Not exactly science fiction, but takes place in a sci-fi setting. An indecisive person who, when he does make decisions, struggles to accept the decisions he has made. There is nothing unique or exceptional about this book. I'm not sure what qualified it to win awards. The narration was very well done.
The book follows a bitter angry man. If you want to capture that feeling of being stuck with a talkative depressed stranger, this is the book for you.
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Can't Hurt Me
- Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
- By: David Goggins
- Narrated by: David Goggins, Adam Skolnick
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 203,832
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 180,038
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Story5 out of 5 stars 179,440
For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare--poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a US Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force tactical air controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Opting for the book instead
- By S David on 12-24-18
- Can't Hurt Me
- Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
- By: David Goggins
- Narrated by: David Goggins, Adam Skolnick
Amazing, life changing story
Reviewed: 05-20-19
Amazing, life changing story. This book really changes the way you can think about life. It's well read, well, written. It's captivating.
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Born a Crime
- Stories from a South African Childhood
- By: Trevor Noah
- Narrated by: Trevor Noah
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 216,202
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 195,597
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Story5 out of 5 stars 194,629
In this award-winning Audible Studios production, Trevor Noah tells his wild coming-of-age tale during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa. It’s a story that begins with his mother throwing him from a moving van to save him from a potentially fatal dispute with gangsters, then follows the budding comedian’s path to self-discovery through episodes both poignant and comical.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book and perfect narration
- By MarilynArms on 12-15-16
- Born a Crime
- Stories from a South African Childhood
- By: Trevor Noah
- Narrated by: Trevor Noah
Brilliant!
Reviewed: 08-15-17
Well written, great stories, and very well told. I had already learned to appreciate Trevor Noah, but this took my respect to a new level.
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