Alex’s parents are prominent archaeologists with the British university. Alex has grown up traveling all over the world on archaeological research with her parents and has been trained by them to be the best. Yet Alex has been traumatized by the death of her mother on an expedition and has not left home since. Until..
Review from The Ministry for the Future →
One of the best books I read in 2020. Should be required reading for everyone.
Review from Terror →
I’ve read it multiple times and listened to it multiple times. Love it and will listen to many more times.
I purchased because of Ezra Klein recommendation and I recognize the importance of this title. However the voice chops of various readers is not consistent. As with many titles, it seems there was insufficient oversight regarding pronunciation of words, voice quality, speed of reading/narrator and acting (overacting/412). Was there a producer in the house? My..
Bad Luck Charlie The Dragon Mage, Book 1 By: Scott Baron Narrated by: Gary Bennett I loved the Daisy series so much but this one was not anywhere close to being as good. No humor, boring in places, ugh! Lots of action but not fun or exciting action! Narration was fair.
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This book is a mixture of “The Martian” “John Carter from Mars” and some generic fantasy/sci-fi tropes. The pacing is strange in places, and the narration is flat: the guy just can’t do voices. To be honest, I probably shouldn’t have liked this book as much as I did. But it was *fun.* In terms..
warning not as advertised if your thinking space pirates and dragons with a cool dude saving the universe this is not it . its all about him being a slave and being a whiney chunk of crap
There is an amazing cast of narrator’s that bring the many threads of this story to life. 22 hours went by super fast.
The book is a great – a compelling look at near future. The performances, though sometimes good, are sometimes bizarre caricatures, with mispronounciations throughout (diaspora as die-uh-SPORE-uh, Kerala as care-AH-lah, Army Corps of Engineers as Army “corpse” of Engineers, etc.). And some narrators add almost cartoonish levels of “emotion,” making it sometimes feel like a..
Review from Bad Luck Charlie →
I enjoy the style and the feel of the book and story. Getting the next one now