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Slingshot
- The Starchild Series, Book 1
- By: Robert G. Williscroft
- Narrated by: Trenton Bennett
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall2.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story3 out of 5 stars 15
Slingshot is a love story - about a man, a woman, another man, another woman, some gender bending...and a machine, the largest ever built. It is an adventure - about following a dream, the ocean-deep, outer space. Slingshot is about constructing the first space launch-loop, stretching 2,000 km between Baker and Jarvis Islands in the Equatorial Pacific. It's about high finance, intrigue, unlimited ambition, heroism, fanaticism, betrayal...and about opening space to the common person.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Detailed descriptive and precise wordsmithing
- By Midwestbonsai on 01-23-17
- Slingshot
- The Starchild Series, Book 1
- By: Robert G. Williscroft
- Narrated by: Trenton Bennett
Do NOT waste your money
Reviewed: 11-30-20
I did not get far into this book before wanting to figuratively throw it across the room, and I've only felt that way about one other book in my nearly 60 years.
It starts with a completely gratuitous shark attack. Not too long after, there is ANOTHER gratuitous shark attack. Apparently every time anyone dives and there are sharks around, they immediately attack.
The men are barely described, but they are from every part of the planet. Only one per location so as to artificially diversify the cast as much as possible. Every one of them is more or less a stereotype.
The few women are all tall, "lithe" (the author LOVES this word) and model-gorgeous.
The author spends much time proving that he understands technical subjects, e.g. scuba diving. The text practically screams "LOOK AT ME I KNOW ALL ABOUT DIVING!!"
I just couldn't face any more. Out of the >1000 Audible titles I've purchased, this is the only one I wanted to return, but alas I bought it over a year ago.
Your average college freshman could out-write this person.
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Evil Eye
- By: Madhuri Shekar
- Narrated by: Nick Choksi, Harsh Nayyar, Annapurna Sriram, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32,689
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29,895
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29,762
Pallavi is an aspiring writer living in California. Her mother, Usha, is thousands of miles away in Delhi - and obsessed with finding her daughter a husband. In Madhuri Shekar’s ingenious Evil Eye, hilarious back-and-forth via phone and social media takes a shocking, supernatural twist when Pallavi meets the perfect man - leading to a climactic showdown that will leave listeners on the edges of their seats.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Holy Crap!
- By Avid Reader on 05-03-19
- Evil Eye
- By: Madhuri Shekar
- Narrated by: Nick Choksi, Harsh Nayyar, Annapurna Sriram, Bernard White, Rita Wolf
Wow
Reviewed: 07-07-20
Just excellent across the board. I cannot recommend this highly enough. Story, performance both top notch
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Midst Toil and Tribulation
- Safehold Series, Book 6
- By: David Weber
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 28 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,058
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 1,887
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,883
Once the Church of God Awaiting dominated all the kingdoms of Safehold. Then, after centuries of stasis, the island kingdom of Charis began to defy the edicts of Mother Church—egged on, some say, by the mysterious warrior-monk Merlin Athrawes, who enjoys the Charisian royal family's absolute trust. What vanishingly few people know is that Merlin is the cybernetic avatar of a young woman a thousand years dead, felled in the war in which aliens destroyed Earth...and that since awakening, his task has been to restart the history of the long-hidden human race.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I'm losing hope.
- By ShySusan on 09-24-12
- Midst Toil and Tribulation
- Safehold Series, Book 6
- By: David Weber
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
Worst. Narrator. Ever.
Reviewed: 11-04-15
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
How much did you save by hiring the worst narrator? The worst! Everything is breathy and dramatic and really dramatic and really really dramatic! When he does something as utterly mundane as announcing the location for the action at the beginning of a chapter, e.g. "Palace of Tellisberg, Kingdom of Charis" it's as if he's watching the Hindenberg go up in flames.
And let's not even start on how every narrator for the first 5 books (all 3 narrators) pronounce "Charis" as kar-is, but this idiot pronounces it as chair-is.
Some cynical producer said, "Hey, if they've listened to the first 5 books, they'll listen to the 6th book no matter how bad the narrator is. So let's go bottom-of-the-barrel and save the money." It is extremely disrespectful to loyal listeners.
I've only listened to about 15 minutes of the book and I'm already this disgusted. And I'm not one of those "oh no they changed the narrator I hate this" people; I'm quite willing to entertain changes in narrators during a book series.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
omg see above. I guess Kevin Collins works for cheap, because he's listed as the narrator for 188 Audible titles. I, for one, will NEVER buy another book for which he is the narrator. I've listened to perhaps 2000 audiobooks and he is the worst narrator I've ever encountered.
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