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Starter Villain
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,722
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,283
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,277
Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Volcanic Lairs, Death Rays & Cats… Oh My! 😼
- By C. White on 09-19-23
- Starter Villain
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Neat story, was hoping for more depth
Reviewed: 11-10-23
Overall loved the idea of talking cats and dolphins being involved in a super villain plot. But there was not much to the super villain part of it, more like just what you would imagine unscrupulous ultra rich people doing if they had to deal with the passing of a will to someone with no wealth who they didn’t like and felt entitled to.
Cool concept, but would have been a better listen if the reader had put more effort into varying their voice more for all of the characters. Some characters got a good sense of variation but others, including the two main characters, had absolutely no variation at all.
I would not recommend this as an adult read, but I guess the description should have told me that too. What can I say though, I like sci-fi and I like cats…
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The Mountain in the Sea
- A Novel
- By: Ray Nayler
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 587
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 512
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Story4 out of 5 stars 510
Rumors begin to spread of a species of hyperintelligent, dangerous octopus that may have developed its own language and culture. Marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching cephalopod intelligence, will do anything for the chance to study them. The transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where the octopuses were discovered, off from the world. Dr. Nguyen joins DIANIMA’s team on the islands: a battle-scarred security agent and the world’s first android.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable and interesting
- By AudioReader on 10-10-22
- The Mountain in the Sea
- A Novel
- By: Ray Nayler
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Should make a movie out of this
Reviewed: 07-18-23
Great book, wish someone would make a movie based on it because it is super fascinating and original.
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The Ministry for the Future
- A Novel
- By: Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrated by: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,604
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,121
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,114
The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us - and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great ideas, uneven narration
- By depthpsychologist on 12-09-20
A must read for anyone concerned with climate change
Reviewed: 07-11-21
This book does an amazing job of covering the financial and political hurdles in the way of developing an effective climate policy. Politicians who care about the planets well being (if there are any) and people who want to drive change for environmental health would benefit greatly from this book.
It also has insight on some really good ways of how social media could be leveraged to help both the users of social media as well as the environment.
Will be reading again and taking more notes, and will also be sharing with people who I are interested in changing policies to help save our planets ecosystem.
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North Pole, South Pole
- The Epic Quest to Solve the Great Mystery of Earth’s Magnetism
- By: Gillian Turner
- Narrated by: Cat Gould
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Why do compass needles point north - but not quite north? What guides the migration of birds, whales, and fish across the world's oceans? How is Earth able to sustain life under an onslaught of solar wind and cosmic radiation? For centuries, the world's great scientists have grappled with these questions, all rooted in the same phenomenon: Earth's magnetism. Over 2000 years after the invention of the compass, Einstein called the source of Earth's magnetic field one of greatest unsolved mysteries of physics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story of the science and history of earth’s magnetics
- By jesse on 10-13-20
- North Pole, South Pole
- The Epic Quest to Solve the Great Mystery of Earth’s Magnetism
- By: Gillian Turner
- Narrated by: Cat Gould
Amazing story of the science and history of earth’s magnetics
Reviewed: 10-13-20
After being led down a rabbit hole of recommended reading by Elon Musk and completing the foundation series, by Issac Asimov, I began searching for a book about magnetics, but in particular, earth’s magnetic poles. That is how I came to find this gem of a book.
You will indeed gain a great history lesson from this, and learn just how much the study of earth’s magnetic fields has influenced where we are, technologically, and where we are going.
Surprisingly, there are very few audio books that focus on this topic, so I can only hope that Gillian Turner will decide to write a sequel to carry on from where she left.
This book is seriously so cool...
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The Disappearing Spoon
- And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
- By: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,236
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,951
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,960
Reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before. Not only is it one of man's crowning scientific achievements, it's also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession. The infectious tales and astounding details in The Disappearing Spoon follow carbon, neon, silicon, and gold as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison, and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Book, Great Narration, But...
- By Henny Button on 09-18-10
- The Disappearing Spoon
- And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
- By: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Great combination of science and history!
Reviewed: 02-19-13
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes.
What did you like best about this story?
Learning the obscure history behind each element.
What does Sean Runnette bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
I can listen while on road trips!
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Sorry, thats just not my style..
Any additional comments?
Highly recommend it!
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