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Penric's Fox
- A Novella in the World of the Five Gods (Penric and Desdemona, Book 3)
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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Some eight months after the events of Penric and the Shaman, Learned Penric, sorcerer and scholar, travels to Easthome, the capital of the Weald. There he again meets his friends Shaman Inglis and Locator Oswyl. When the body of a sorceress is found in the woods, Oswyl draws him into another investigation, and they must all work together to uncover a mystery mixing magic, murder, and the strange realities of Temple demons.
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Great story but $/minute ratio unattractive
- By Kenneth on 07-08-18
- Penric's Fox
- A Novella in the World of the Five Gods (Penric and Desdemona, Book 3)
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
As always...
Reviewed: 04-21-18
LM Bujold’s storytelling is second to none, regardless of the setting or plot. “Penric’s Fox” is a wonderful listen! Grover Gardner does a superb job, too!
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Artemis
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Rosario Dawson
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.
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A ferrari with no motor
- By will on 11-18-17
- Artemis
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Rosario Dawson
Good techno-thriller
Reviewed: 12-26-17
Starts off a little slow, but it hits a point where you can’t put it down. Like “The Martian”, Weir builds the science into the story, integrating it very well. It took me a while to really care about the protagonist, but Weir does a really good job of seeing things from her perspective. Dawson does an excellent job reading, and her voices and accents are great.
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The Spaceship Next Door
- By: Gene Doucette
- Narrated by: Steve Carlson
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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When a spaceship landed in an open field in the quiet mill town of Sorrow Falls, Massachusetts, everyone realized humankind was not alone in the universe. With that realization everyone freaked out for a little while. Or almost everyone. The residents of Sorrow Falls took the news pretty well. This could have been due to a certain local quality of unflappability, or it could have been that in three years the ship did exactly nothing other than sit quietly in that field, and nobody understood the full extent of this nothing the ship was doing better than the people who lived right next door.
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Another fun Sci Fi read with an Excellent Reader!
- By bluestatereader on 12-30-16
- The Spaceship Next Door
- By: Gene Doucette
- Narrated by: Steve Carlson
Kept me involved, and great ending
Reviewed: 11-03-17
Started off kinda slow, creating the full tableau. As things picked up, I wasn’t sure I was going to stick with it - solely because of the plot devices. Not a fan of the genre that was invoked, but the excellent narrator and writing kept me. And then the denouement started and I was glad I hung in there!
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Columbus Day
- Expeditionary Force, Book 1
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
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We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved.
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WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 01-04-17
- Columbus Day
- Expeditionary Force, Book 1
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Good stuff.
Reviewed: 04-13-17
Well written, fast-paced, and humorous. A little heavy on the "lucky guy at the right place at the right time" literary mechanism, but if you take that in stride, it's a fun read! Really good treatment of alien species and structures. I don't think I'd read anything that lays out contact with multiple aliens in quite the same way.
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Old Man's War
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce—and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding. Earth itself is a backwater.
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Fun and Witty Military Sci-Fi
- By M. Spencer on 10-21-12
- Old Man's War
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: William Dufris
Third listen...
Reviewed: 05-11-16
I've read this book at least five times, and just finished my third or fourth listen to the audio book.
That pretty much sums it up, I think!
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How to Get Free Government Grant Money for Almost Anything
- How to Get Free Government Grants and Money
- By: Danielle Green
- Narrated by: Alicia Bordon
- Length: 50 mins
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There’s nothing more exciting than free money, and in the following audio, you’re going to learn how to get all the free money you’ll ever need! The U.S. government alone gives out over $300 billion dollars in free money and services every single year to American taxpayers. In addition, there are billions extra given away by private businesses and foundations. Any of this money could be rightfully yours; you just need to know where to find it and how to get it!
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Good high level guide
- By billkcy on 06-18-16
- How to Get Free Government Grant Money for Almost Anything
- How to Get Free Government Grants and Money
- By: Danielle Green
- Narrated by: Alicia Bordon
Good start.
Reviewed: 08-11-15
Good starting point for searching for grants. Helps break through the fog of mystery surrounding the process. A little light on details, but it's a short book!
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Ready Player One
- By: Ernest Cline
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
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In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself.
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I’m sorry I waited so long to read this book.
- By Julie W. Capell on 05-27-14
- Ready Player One
- By: Ernest Cline
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Good stuff.
Reviewed: 08-06-15
Of course, I'd date myself if I said that I remember the first time I played a Space Invaders game in a pool hall - before there were video arcades, or that my first computers (apart from the mainframe) were a Vic-20 (precursor to the Commodore 64) and an Apple II.
So the book was a fun romp through some nostalgia. But Mr. Cline did a fine job writing a fun adventure and describing a hesitant hero. Wil Wheaton breathed life into the reading (as he often does), and made this a very enjoyable read. Though I've listened to it three times now, I keep going back to it, and can't put it down!
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