Jorge I. Figueroa
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Nexus
- A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI—a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world.
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Painfully boring
- By 80s Kid on 09-18-24
- Nexus
- A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
Yuval might as well be baptized as Cassandra
Reviewed: 11-18-24
Yuval takes his time to explain his warning, he admits humankind and AI might evolve in a completely different path, and doesn't forget to mention that USA and China having different technologies and different networks might make them unrecognizable to the other half, but, as we know, as we have witnessed, humanity is too far gone
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The Bacta War
- Star Wars: Legends(Rogue Squadron, Book 4)
- By: Michael A. Stackpole
- Narrated by: Marc Thompson
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
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After her attempt to strike at the heart of Coruscant with a deadly virus, the sinister Ysanne Isard sets her sights on destabilizing the New Republic by seizing its medicinal bacta production. Under the guise of a mere power struggle between corporations on the planet Thyferra, the imperial mastermind has taken control of one of the galaxy's most precious resources. The heroes of Rogue Squadron are desperate to liberate the planet, and free prisoners trapped by Isard, only to find their plans foiled by the politics of the New Republic, which is set on assigning the squadron elsewhere.
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Please continue!!!!!
- By Jesse on 11-02-22
- The Bacta War
- Star Wars: Legends(Rogue Squadron, Book 4)
- By: Michael A. Stackpole
- Narrated by: Marc Thompson
enjoyable after all these years
Reviewed: 08-26-24
these books are almost 30 years old, Star Wars came and went again after the sequels, but these are still entertaining and even with all the deux ex machina Stackpole uses, you get immersed in them, I only wished that the books ventured with the music to all of the other properties, even the ones that John Williams didn't write
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The Krytos Trap: Star Wars Legends (Rogue Squadron)
- Star Wars: Rogue Squadron—Legends, Book 3
- By: Michael A. Stackpole
- Narrated by: Marc Thompson
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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The Rebels have taken the Imperial headquarters world of Coruscant, but their problems are far from over. A killer virus called Krytos is spreading among the population and fomenting a counterrevolution at the heart of the New Republic. At the same time, Rebel hero Tycho Celchu is on trial for treason, accused of murdering his comrade and fellow pilot Corran Horn.
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more unabridged legends!
- By Ryan Conrad on 08-19-22
- The Krytos Trap: Star Wars Legends (Rogue Squadron)
- Star Wars: Rogue Squadron—Legends, Book 3
- By: Michael A. Stackpole
- Narrated by: Marc Thompson
Deus ex machina is Stackpole's engine
Reviewed: 07-26-24
suspension of disbelief is needed to enjoy fiction, twice as much with this books, too many lucky accidents
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Shadow Hunter
- Star Wars Legends (Darth Maul)
- By: Michael Reaves
- Narrated by: Sam Witwer
- Length: 10 hrs
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After years of waiting in the shadows, Darth Sidious is taking the first step in his master plan to bring the Republic to its knees. Key to his scheme are the Neimoidians of the Trade Federation. Then one of his Neimoidian contacts disappears, and Sidious does not need his Force-honed instincts to suspect betrayal. He orders his apprentice, Darth Maul, to hunt the traitor down.
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More Legends recordings, please.
- By brian on 08-02-22
- Shadow Hunter
- Star Wars Legends (Darth Maul)
- By: Michael Reaves
- Narrated by: Sam Witwer
thoroughly enjoyable
Reviewed: 06-15-24
This book was written a while ago but the performance really keeps it fresh and vital
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Crimson Climb
- By: E. K. Johnston
- Narrated by: Olivia Hack
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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Qi’ra listened to the dreams and promises of a boy with a reckless smile, only to be torn away from him and returned to the White Worms gang while Han made his way to freedom. Now freedom seems like a luxury she can’t afford while she concentrates on survival and despairs of ever leaving Corellia. But her fortunes seem to turn when a representative of the crime syndicate Crimson Dawn plucks Qi’ra from captivity and brings her to the syndicate’s leader, the mysterious and mercurial Dryden Vos.
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The world building!
- By Anna Caroline Palmer on 12-31-24
- Crimson Climb
- By: E. K. Johnston
- Narrated by: Olivia Hack
thoroughly enjoyable
Reviewed: 01-22-24
miss hack has a great time found the voice of Dryden, and E.K. had the time of her love creating dialogue for Dryden and Kira.
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The Bomber Mafia
- A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times best sellers including Talking to Strangers and host of the podcast Revisionist History, uses original interviews, archival footage, and his trademark insight to weave together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in Central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard. As listeners hear these stories unfurl, Gladwell examines one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.
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Listen to the same story on his podcast for free
- By Dustin on 04-28-21
- The Bomber Mafia
- A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Malcom always delivers
Reviewed: 01-09-24
how does he do it?, this time he selects a figure, questions it, contrasts it and then reddens him
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The Fourth Turning Is Here
- What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End
- By: Neil Howe
- Narrated by: Neil Howe
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
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Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500 years, they’d uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting roughly 80 to 100 years, the length of a long human life, with each cycle composed of four eras—or “turnings”—that always arrive in the same order and each last about 25 years. The last of these eras—the fourth turning—was always the most perilous, a period of civic upheaval and national mobilization.
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A little baffled
- By John Coleman on 07-18-23
- The Fourth Turning Is Here
- What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End
- By: Neil Howe
- Narrated by: Neil Howe
We should all take a minute to listen to this
Reviewed: 11-29-23
Even if we were to be sceptic, this is an interesting theory and presented in a toughful manner.
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Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars
- By: Sam Maggs
- Narrated by: Sean Kenin Elias-Reyes
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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Cal Kestis has built a new life for himself with the crew of the Stinger Mantis. Together, Cal’s crew has brought down bounty hunters, defeated Inquisitors, and even evaded Darth Vader himself. More important, Merrin, Cere, Greez, and faithful droid BD-1 are the closest thing Cal has had to a family since the fall of the Jedi Order. Even as the galaxy’s future grows more uncertain by the day, with each blow struck against the Empire the Mantis crew grows more daring.
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Narrator and writing problems
- By Skyler on 03-07-23
- Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars
- By: Sam Maggs
- Narrated by: Sean Kenin Elias-Reyes
expectations are the killer of Joy
Reviewed: 04-24-23
The performance was very good, sometimes one misses the ones with full cast, but they also tell shorter stories. this was is about a few days in the lives of the Mantis, is not requisite listening, and will probably be forgotten soon.
but the hate it is getting due to the romance in it, unbelievable
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- A Novel
- By: Gabrielle Zevin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
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Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have heard before.
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This book sucked the life out of me
- By RMan on 08-08-22
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- A Novel
- By: Gabrielle Zevin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
all the feels
Reviewed: 01-22-23
why is she treating us like this, I was hooked and ended up listening to it almost in one sitting
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Wedge's Gamble
- Star Wars Legends: Rogue Squadron, Book 2
- By: Michael A. Stackpole
- Narrated by: Marc Thompson
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
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Sleek, swift, and deadly, they are the X-wing fighters. And as the battle against the Empire rages across the vastness of space, the pilots risk both their lives and their machines for the cause of the Rebel Alliance. Now they must embark on a dangerous espionage mission, braving betrayal and death on the Imperial homeworld to smash the power of a ruthless foe! It is the evil heart of a battered and reeling Empire: Coruscant, the giant city-world from whose massive towers the Imperial High Command directs the war.
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Awesome!
- By Jake the Movie Geek on 04-06-22
- Wedge's Gamble
- Star Wars Legends: Rogue Squadron, Book 2
- By: Michael A. Stackpole
- Narrated by: Marc Thompson
Marc Thompson nació para hacer esto
Reviewed: 01-14-23
these were old books is never had read, but now I am hooked, Marc Thompson is a master, and the production values are really high, I only wished they used music from all the available sources, there's tons of atar wars music now
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