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Halting State
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: Robert Ian MacKenzie
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 380
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 310
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Story4 out of 5 stars 312
The year is 2012, and China, India, and the United States are waging an infowar for economic domination. With innocent gamers mere pawns in the hands of electronic intelligence agencies, programmer Jack Reed is tasked with ferreting out the plot of those who would gladly trade global turmoil for personal gain.
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5 out of 5 stars
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2 Smart Books Well Worth the Listen - Great Reader
- By C. Hartmann on 01-08-12
- Halting State
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: Robert Ian MacKenzie
POV its only flaw
Reviewed: 07-28-17
This would have been absolutely amazing if Stross had only used 1st or 3rd person. Addressing the reader personally makes it harder for me to stay in the story.
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Needful Things
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King
- Length: 25 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,494
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,381
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,361
Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and desires: a prized baseball card, a healing amulet. In addition to a token payment, Gaunt requests that each person perform a little "deed", usually a seemingly innocent prank played on someone else from town. These practical jokes cascade out of control, and soon the entire town is doing battle with itself. Only Sheriff Alan Pangborn suspects that Gaunt is behind the population's increasingly violent behavior.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Please! No Distracting Keyboard Music
- By Andrea on 04-23-16
- Needful Things
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King
A digitized antique
Reviewed: 07-20-17
The story was decent, but the production of the performance is distracting. There's annoying music over the end and start of each chapter, and vexing occasional sound effects, too. Several times, when one character is coming on stage, there's a revving engine sound. There's no reason to play that while we're commuting.
This needs to be re-read by a professional narrator, without any time consuming extras added in.
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Mr. Monster
- John Cleaver, Book 2
- By: Dan Wells
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 445
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 387
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 388
In I Am Not a Serial Killer, John Wayne Cleaver saved his town from a murderer even more appalling than the serial killers he obsessively studies. But it turns out even demons have friends, and the disappearance of one has brought another to Clayton County. Soon there are new victims for John to work on at the mortuary and a new mystery to solve. But John has tasted death, and the dark nature he used as a weapon - the terrifying persona he calls "Mr. Monster" - might now be using him.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Animal Torture Ruins This Story
- By KBakken on 02-15-13
- Mr. Monster
- John Cleaver, Book 2
- By: Dan Wells
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Thank you for replacing the reader.
Reviewed: 07-24-15
Finally, after the horrible reader for the _I Am Not a Serial Killer_, the second in the trilogy has a narrator worthy of the author and his work.
Dan Wells writes compellingly of a young sociopath, battling his own inner monster while also fighting supernatural horrors, one in the first book, and now another in the second.
An amazing read with a poignant and touching performance.
The tales of John Wayne Cleaver are easily among those I'll return to when I'm tired and stressed and want to reread, not to read something new.
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I Am Not a Serial Killer
- John Cleaver, Book 1
- By: Dan Wells
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 825
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 686
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Story4 out of 5 stars 688
John works in his family's mortuary and has an obsession with serial killers. He wants to be a good person but fears he is a sociopath, and for years he has suppressed his dark side through a strict system of rules designed to mimic "normal" behavior. Then a demon begins stalking his small town and killing people one by one, and John is forced to give in to his darker nature in order to save them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great, if visceral book, terrible narrator.
- By Digital Prophet on 03-31-10
- I Am Not a Serial Killer
- John Cleaver, Book 1
- By: Dan Wells
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
Great story with a very weak performance
Reviewed: 07-20-15
I recommend this title, but for the writing, not the performance. The reader narrates with strange emphasis, with emotional tone all over the place, as if every word was read in isolation, unconnected to the words that happened to precede or secede it.
I had read the book before, but wanted to reread on commutes, so I got this audiobook. I really wish they'd hired a narrator worthy of the book and its author.
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