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Coming Home
- By: Jack McDevitt
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 288
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Story4 out of 5 stars 250
Thousands of years ago, artifacts of the early space age were lost to rising oceans and widespread turmoil. Garnett Baylee devoted his life to finding them, only to give up hope. Then, in the wake of his death, one was found in his home, raising tantalizing questions. Had he succeeded after all? Why had he kept it a secret? And where is the rest of the Apollo cache? Antiquities dealer Alex Benedict and his pilot, Chase Kolpath, have gone to Earth to learn the truth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Respectable, double action mystery sci-fi
- By Michael G Kurilla on 12-22-14
- Coming Home
- By: Jack McDevitt
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
Needs a different narrator!
Reviewed: 04-13-15
This is another solid Benedict novel by McDevitt. It's not the best, but certainly not the worst. A must read for sci fi fans and readers of the series. The biggest failing was the narrator. She made several choices for voices that did NOT work, and I found myself constantly having to adjust the volume to cope with her vocal range, which gets very soft and hard to hear and then borders on shouting. I would get another McDevitt book, but not another Van Dyck narration.
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Silver Screen Fiend
- Learning About Life From an Addiction to Film
- By: Patton Oswalt
- Narrated by: Patton Oswalt
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,425
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,207
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,203
New York Times best-selling author, comedian, and actor Patton Oswalt shares his entertaining memoir about coming of age as a performer and writer in the late '90s while obsessively watching classic films at the legendary New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles. Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakeable addiction. It wasn't drugs, alcohol, or sex. It was film.
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5 out of 5 stars
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For Patton Oswalt fans and stand-up fans.
- By Brian on 02-19-15
- Silver Screen Fiend
- Learning About Life From an Addiction to Film
- By: Patton Oswalt
- Narrated by: Patton Oswalt
Fun view into Oswalt's mind
Reviewed: 04-13-15
This is an entertaining memoir with a few laughs and lots of reflections. For fans of cinema and biographies, it's a good pick. For folks who like the author's standup and don't care to take it any further, it's not what you're looking for.
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