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The Biology of Belief
- By: Bruce H. Lipton Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Bruce H. Lipton Ph.D.
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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Since the publication of The Biology of Belief, Dr. Bruce Lipton has received widespread acclaim as one of the most accessible and knowledgeable voices of "new biology". The science is called epigenetics a revolutionary field that shows us how the energy of consciousness is as important in shaping life on earth as DNA and chemistry.
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Audiobook or speech?
- By Jay on 05-19-12
- The Biology of Belief
- By: Bruce H. Lipton Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Bruce H. Lipton Ph.D.
Absolutely worth the time. Game changer
Reviewed: 05-26-21
If you really want to understand why nothing works, why all your efforts to improve yourself dont work. If you want to understand why you are who you are. Read this book.
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The Sparrow
- By: Mary Doria Russell
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
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A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: To make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end.
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Superbly Written and Thought-provoking
- By Jim N on 08-15-12
- The Sparrow
- By: Mary Doria Russell
- Narrated by: David Colacci
Heartrending illumination of a night of the soul
Reviewed: 08-25-20
Let me say first off, I am happy that I read this book, and will no doubt read/listen to this book several times.
It is not your typical sci-fi book at all, is not a fast-paced adventure and it certainly is not an off-world fantasy tale.
It is however, an extremely rewarding listen, well performed, and educationally enriching story.
If you enjoy beautifully crafted writing, well rounded research, multidimensional characters, intriguing plot lines, you will find all of that in this story.
What I did not expect to find was the depth with which I identified with some of the characters, the windows into my own soul that it opened and the exposure of so many unanswered questions in my heart.
Having just completed my first listen, this is all I can currently say...
Words fail me as I have just completed listening to this book - I fear I will have to come back to this review at a later time to complete my thoughts, when my heart is not so raw and my soul not so besieged.
However, I'll write that which I'm able to at this time.
Beautifully written with a gentle gift of wordsmithing, by an author broadly exposed to excellent literature covering centuries of the written arts, and an acute understanding of the Jesuit soul. Her talent feeds your soul while at the same time destroying your heart as you live through the suffering of the characters you come to love and appreciate.
The raw sorrow mingled with hope I feel right now is evocative of another book I read in the mid 70's, (coincidentally also sub-named after the sparrow, "when a sparrow falls"), the English title of a French book, "The Ice People" - also about a space ship, the Antarctic and an advanced sentient species.
As someone raised deeply and devoutly religious, and having later turned away from all concepts of religion, due partly to deep suffering and unanswered pain, much like the main character in this story, I find myself re-examining the thesis of my previous conclusions.
I will today begin listening to the sequel to this book, "Children of God", and hopefully I will glean greater understanding of, or at least adequate answers to, the questions raised in "Sparrow".
I suspect that both of these books aught to be packaged together in one volume, as they cannot be read separately from each other.
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Children of Earth and Sky
- By: Guy Gavriel Kay
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
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From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find vengeance for her lost family. That same spring, from the wealthy city-state of Seressa, famous for its canals and lagoon, come two very different people: a young artist traveling to the dangerous east to paint the grand khalif at his request - and possibly to do more - and a fiercely intelligent, angry woman posing as a doctor's wife but sent by Seressa as a spy.
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Deep Echoes of the Sarantine Mosaic
- By Sarah on 05-13-16
- Children of Earth and Sky
- By: Guy Gavriel Kay
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
Enjoyable story
Reviewed: 10-23-19
Light reading, and but sweet and enjoyable...
Certainly not in the plane of Tolkien or Neal Stephenson... But a nice interlude.
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Reamde
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 38 hrs and 29 mins
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations - whether he’s reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future (Snow Crash), or both (Cryptonomicon).
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Not perfect, but worth a listen.
- By ShySusan on 10-01-11
- Reamde
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
The first of the Dodge stories
Reviewed: 10-16-19
This story is basically Book one of the Dodge stories, the next being Reamde, and also the 2nd of the Waterhouse Saga, but is as different to those as night is to day - and I loved it even more than the four STEPHENSON volumes previously read.
These characters have become my friends and family and I'll miss them dearly if I don't meet them again.
This author continues to blow me away in astonishment at the depth of his imagination and the uncanny "programmers" ability to track various threads in the multi-dimensional world, or "code", he has created.
As an old - time programmer from as far back as punch card days of yore, thru the time of 3rd generation languages like Pick, Revelation and Universe, buoyed up by such as Linux and Unix, and with incantations like WYSIWYG and GUItize, and then on to the "New" coding tools of C++, HTML, RedHat, etc, and so far from where we began, I wonder whether Neal Stephenson may not have trodden a similar path to mine?
I almost feel as though the writer is myself, and I'm creating a new world, vicariously, through HIS amazing gifts and talents.
THANK YOU, NEAL STEPHENSON, for this gift!
I'm now moving on to my next book in your stable, my Horse number 5, as I ride your imagination to a visionary world that has always existed in my soul, but is brought to life by yours.
I must add a word for the Narrator, who truly can make or break an authors work... OUTSTANDING!
A vast array of voices that never confuse or tire one - without the Narrators talent, all of NEAL STEPHENSON's stories could become a labyrinth of characters, fast leaving you behind in a quagmire of confusion.
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Cryptonomicon
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 42 hrs and 44 mins
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Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.
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Be careful!
- By Jeffrey Wieseman on 11-07-10
- Cryptonomicon
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: William Dufris
Prequel to the Dodge and Waterhouse Saga's
Reviewed: 10-16-19
This story is the prequel to the novel, "Reamde", and "Fall, or Dodge in Hell" .
It is also, in my experience so far, the start of the Waterhouse Saga, but is as different to those volumes as night is to day -
These characters have become my friends and family and I'll miss them dearly if I don't meet them again.
This author continues to blow me away in astonishment at the depth of his imagination and the uncanny "programmers" ability to track various threads in the multi-dimensional world, or "code", he has created.
As an old - time programmer from as far back as punch card days of yore, thru the time of 3rd generation languages like Pick, Revelation and Universe, buoyed up by such as Linux and Unix, and with incantations like WYSIWYG and GUItize, and then on to the "New" coding tools of C++, HTML, RedHat, etc, and so far from where we began, I wonder whether Neal Stephenson may not have trodden a similar path to mine?
I almost feel as though the writer is myself, and I'm creating a new world, vicariously, through HIS amazing gifts and talents.
THANK YOU, NEAL STEPHENSON, for this gift!
I'm now moving on to my next book in your stable, my Horse number 8, as I ride your imagination to a visionary world that has always existed in my soul, but is brought to life by yours.
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Cryptonomicon
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 42 hrs and 44 mins
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In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the US Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detachment 2702 - commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe - is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. In the present, Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia....
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Two thirds through and quit
- By Joshua on 06-20-16
- Cryptonomicon
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: William Dufris
Prequel to the Dodge and Waterhouse Saga's
Reviewed: 10-16-19
This story is the prequel to the novel, "Reamde", and "Fall, or Dodge in Hell" .
It is also, in my experience so far, the start of the Waterhouse Saga, but is as different to those volumes as night is to day -
These characters have become my friends and family and I'll miss them dearly if I don't meet them again.
This author continues to blow me away in astonishment at the depth of his imagination and the uncanny "programmers" ability to track various threads in the multi-dimensional world, or "code", he has created.
As an old - time programmer from as far back as punch card days of yore, thru the time of 3rd generation languages like Pick, Revelation and Universe, buoyed up by such as Linux and Unix, and with incantations like WYSIWYG and GUItize, and then on to the "New" coding tools of C++, HTML, RedHat, etc, and so far from where we began, I wonder whether Neal Stephenson may not have trodden a similar path to mine?
I almost feel as though the writer is myself, and I'm creating a new world, vicariously, through HIS amazing gifts and talents.
THANK YOU, NEAL STEPHENSON, for this gift!
I'm now moving on to my next book in your stable, my Horse number 8, as I ride your imagination to a visionary world that has always existed in my soul, but is brought to life by yours.
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Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
- A Novel
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 31 hrs and 48 mins
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In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia. One beautiful autumn day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong.
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This is TERRIBLE
- By Ron on 06-20-19
- Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
- A Novel
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Book 2 of Reamde, 3 of the Waterhouse Saga
Reviewed: 10-11-19
This story is basically Book Two of the previous novel, Reamde, 3 of the Waterhouse Saga, but is as different to those as night is to day - and I loved Fall even more than the two volumes prior.
How I wish for A Book Four? (... I suspect that as I explore the remaining unread volumes, I'll find they're all related?)
These characters have become my friends and family and I'll miss them dearly if I don't meet them again.
This author continues to blow me away in astonishment at the depth of his imagination and the uncanny "programmers" ability to track various threads in the multi-dimensional world, or "code", he has created.
As an old - time programmer from as far back as punch card days of yore, thru the time of 3rd generation languages like Pick, Revelation and Universe, buoyed up by such as Linux and Unix, and with incantations like WYSIWYG and GUItize, and then on to the "New" coding tools of C++, HTML, RedHat, etc, and so far from where we began, I wonder whether Neal Stephenson may not have trodden a similar path to mine?
I almost feel as though the writer is myself, and I'm creating a new world, vicariously, through HIS amazing gifts and talents.
THANK YOU, NEAL STEPHENSON, for this gift!
I'm now moving on to my next book in your stable, my Horse number 6, as I ride your imagination to a visionary world that has always existed in my soul, but is brought to life by yours.
I must add a word for the Narrator, who truly can make or break an authors work... OUTSTANDING!
A vast array of voices that never confuse or tire one - without the Narrators talent, all of NEAL STEPHENSON's stories could become a labyrinth of characters, fast leaving you behind in a quagmire of confusion.
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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
- A Novel
- By: Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard, Shelley Atkinson, Laural Merlington, and others
- Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
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From best-selling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world.
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Exceptional voice cast, unconventional format
- By Jesse on 07-03-17
- The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
- A Novel
- By: Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard, Shelley Atkinson, Laural Merlington, Joe Barrett, Will Damron, Luke Daniels
A philologist of the first degree.
Reviewed: 10-04-19
Very Tolkien - like world creation... Stunning philology!
If you start this book and struggle with boredom for a while... HANG IN THERE! You soon hit a point where the plot opens up and does an about face, blowing you away!
I've listened to three of this author's works in the last three weeks (100+ hrs) and have been stunned by his world creation, so similar to Tolkien - high praise indeed!
A philologist of the first degree.
I'm posting the same review on all three... Be patient - it's worth the wait.
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Anathem
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, and others
- Length: 32 hrs and 25 mins
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Fraa Erasmus is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the "Saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities, and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs, bloody violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community.
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I love Neal, but Good lord... ugh!
- By SpiderGrrl on 10-08-19
- Anathem
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, Neal Stephenson
Very Tolkien - like world creation... Stunning
Reviewed: 10-04-19
Very Tolkien - like world creation... Stunning philology!
If you start this book and struggle with boredom for a while... HANG IN THERE! You soon hit a point where the plot opens up and does an about face, blowing you away!
I've listened to three of this author's works in the last three weeks (100+ hrs) and have been stunned by his world creation, so similar to Tolkien - high praise indeed!
A philologist of the first degree.
I'm posting the same review on all three... Be patient - it's worth the wait.
I must add a word for the Narrator, who truly can make or break an authors work... OUTSTANDING!
A vast array of voices that never confuse or tire one - without the Narrators talent, all of NEAL STEPHENSON's stories could become a labyrinth of characters, fast leaving you behind in a quagmire of confusion.
KUDOS to you all!
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Anathem
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, and others
- Length: 32 hrs and 26 mins
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In celebration of the week-long, once-in-a-decade rite of Apert, the fras and suurs prepare to venture outside the concent's gates - opening them wide at the same time to welcome the curious "extras" in. During his first Apert as a fra, Erasmus eagerly anticipates reconnecting with the landmarks and family he hasn't seen since he was "collected". But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the perilous brink of cataclysmic change.
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Excellent
- By Joe on 12-04-09
- Anathem
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, Neal Stephenson
Very Tolkien - like world creation... Stunning
Reviewed: 10-04-19
Very Tolkien - like world creation... Stunning philology!
If you start this book and struggle with boredom for a while... HANG IN THERE! You soon hit a point where the plot opens up and does an about face, blowing you away!
I've listened to three of this author's works in the last three weeks (100+ hrs) and have been stunned by his world creation, so similar to Tolkien - high praise indeed!
A philologist of the first degree.
I'm posting the same review on all three... Be patient - it's worth the wait.
I must add a word for the Narrator, who truly can make or break an authors work... OUTSTANDING!
A vast array of voices that never confuse or tire one - without the Narrators talent, all of NEAL STEPHENSON's stories could become a labyrinth of characters, fast leaving you behind in a quagmire of confusion.
KUDOS to you all!
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