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Gateway
- Expeditionary Force, Book 18
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4,312
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,144
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4,144
Disaster. There was no other word to describe how Operation Olympic had changed in a flash from a triumph to the worst failure the Merry Band of Pirates had ever experienced. A failure that meant the fight was over. Unless the Pirates could perform a miracle, without Skippy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Storyline is worn out.
- By Blue Beetle on 05-08-25
- Gateway
- Expeditionary Force, Book 18
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
More of the same. Uninspired and repetitive.
Reviewed: 06-03-25
it's basically the same book as the last 17, just with minor differences. I assume it's supposed to be a sci-fi comedy, but every joke falls flat. If shiny beer can, filthy monkey, or meat-sack weren't funny the first 5,000 times, they don't fare better in book 18. No reason to buy book 19.
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Deception
- The Great COVID Cover-Up
- By: Rand Paul
- Narrated by: Joe Louis
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 258
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 238
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Story5 out of 5 stars 238
COVID-19 was deadly, but the real killer was the coverup, led by America’s most durable medical bureaucrat—a man for whom the truth was too often expendable. Senator Paul makes a powerful case that funding dangerous bioengineering in a totalitarian country is madness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not so much a book for today...
- By Mermaid on 10-15-23
Great information but repetitive
Reviewed: 01-06-25
Great COVID information but very repetitive and defensive. Could have been edited down to a shorter book.
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Eminent Domain
- By: Victoriano Cárdenas, Warren Langford
- Narrated by: Ama Zathura, Antonio Marquez, Ruben Muller, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 1,186
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,096
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 1,089
Loretta Pacheco has a cool job at an electric car company. Her life finally seems headed in the right direction. But in a flash, it all starts to fall apart. What were the strange voices she heard as she lay injured by the side of the road? Why, exactly, did two young boys disappear all those years ago? And what is this strange sound in her head?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Language
- By Diane Hancock on 11-06-21
Awful. Only listened to 20 minutes.
Reviewed: 07-21-24
Dramatic reading really slows down story. Very hard to hear due to background noises, echos, and lack of compression. The story completely lacked interest after 20 minutes, so stopped and deleted.
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Captivate
- The Science of Succeeding with People
- By: Vanessa Van Edwards
- Narrated by: Vanessa Van Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,190
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,646
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,614
Do you wish you could decode people? Do you want to know exactly what to say to your boss, your date, or your networking partner? You need to know how people work. As a human behavior investigator, Vanessa Van Edwards studies the hidden forces that drive our behavior patterns in her lab—and she's cracked the code. In Captivate she shares a wealth of valuable shortcuts, systems, and behavior hacks for taking charge of their interactions at work, at home, and in any social situation.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Eh
- By Dale on 04-30-17
- Captivate
- The Science of Succeeding with People
- By: Vanessa Van Edwards
- Narrated by: Vanessa Van Edwards
"Hack" your new acquaintances - They won't mind
Reviewed: 07-19-24
If you like the overused and trite word "Hack" then this audiobook is for you. I'll bet I heard Vanessa say "hack" 500 times. Honestly, this audiobook was a struggle to get through. On a positive note, the author seems to be data and test driven, more than a little OCD, and a rather irritating. Her lengthy list of suggested conversation starters would not attract the people I know, or would want to know. Quite the opposite. Might work at a Renaissance Fair. The audiobook frequently referenced attached PDFs which I can't view while driving or weed whacking. I'm sure some people will get something out of this hack book, but not me.
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Vicarious
- By: Rhett C. Bruno
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton, Katherine McNamara
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,816
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,618
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,616
In High Earth, digital entertainment is everything. Shows. Virtual worlds. Simulations - there’s something for everybody in a city where working for a living has been rendered obsolete by technological advancements. Even a short walk outside to visit with others is no longer necessary. Just load into the network and you can be with anyone, anywhere. For Asher Reinhart, nothing compares to Ignis; a live reality show that pushes human beings to their very extremes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fastest read ever!
- By Willis Burns on 04-13-21
- Vicarious
- By: Rhett C. Bruno
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton, Katherine McNamara
Not so good and sloppy writing
Reviewed: 05-06-24
This is a rip off of The Truman Show, rewritten as science fiction by somebody who knows very little about science. Earth has so much water that people can only live only a tiny mountain top called High Earth. Who knew that glaciers held so much water? We have thousands of glaciers taller than Mount Everest, right? Need to rescue somebody from an asteroid/space station orbiting the Earth? Just launch a rocket and slam into it at full speed. You'll be fine if you're harnessed tightly in the back. A massive amount of kinetic energy never hurt anybody.
Mission, the star of the reality show Ignis: Live! gleams the stars and position of Earth for the first time but admits she can't place her location because she doesn't know much about astrology. Yup, I rewound several times and heard correctly: Astrology, not astronomy.
Wil Wheaton did a great job of narrating, and Katherine McNamara was fine narrating the star Mission, though a little too sexy with her soft vocal fry voice, but was awful with cringeworthy narrating of Craig Helix, the creator of the show Ignis: Live!
Overall Vicarious was meh, with a really bad, disappointing ending.
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Yearbook
- By: Seth Rogen
- Narrated by: Seth Rogen, full cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,228
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8,871
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,811
Hi! I’m Seth! I was asked to describe my audiobook, Yearbook for websites and shit like that, so...here it goes!!! Yearbook is a collection of true stories that I desperately hope are just funny at worst, and life-changingly amazing at best. (I understand that it’s likely the former, which is a fancy “book” way of saying “the first one.”) I talk about my grandparents, doing stand-up comedy as a teenager, bar mitzvahs, and Jewish summer camp, and tell way more stories about doing drugs than my mother would like.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good until it turned political
- By atk0623 on 05-20-21
- Yearbook
- By: Seth Rogen
- Narrated by: Seth Rogen, full cast
Woke nutcase
Reviewed: 12-19-23
This audiobook started out non-political but that didn't last. It's the white supremacists who are antisemitic? Like all those conservative white supremacist ivy league college presidents condoning calls for the genocide of Jews?
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Holly
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Justine Lupe, Stephen King
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 11,480
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,548
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Story4 out of 5 stars 10,546
When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency, hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly Gibney is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just passed away. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny’s desperate voice makes it impossible to turn her down. Meanwhile, mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. But they are also harboring a shocking, unholy secret.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Investigations in the time of Covid
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 09-05-23
- Holly
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Justine Lupe, Stephen King
COVID! COVID! COVID!
Reviewed: 09-18-23
If you read fiction for a temporary escape, this book isn't for you. It's all about COVID-19, and every new strain is more deadly than the last. By the time of this review, a single cough could kill half the planet. Hospitals are overflowing from MAGA Republican antivaxers dying in the hallways. Fortunately if you're around somebody who's been double vaxed you can't get COVID, so take your mask off, especially indoors. Like I said, it's fiction. COVID and Trump aside, the story is weak and predictable. SK has lost his writing chops.
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Twain’s Feast
- By: Audible Originals
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 12,036
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,917
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Story4 out of 5 stars 10,868
Mark Twain, beloved American writer, performer, and humorist, was a self-proclaimed glutton. With the help of a chef and some friends, Nick Offerman presents the story of Twain’s life through the lens of eight of Mark Twain’s favorite foods.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Audible Recycling
- By Greg Hill on 11-17-18
- Twain’s Feast
- By: Audible Originals
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
Couldn't finish this NPRish dribble
Reviewed: 08-12-23
I've always been interested in Mark Twain and food so this audiobook seemed like a natural fit. Instead it was an NPR-like documentary with frequent uninteresting sidetracts and a lot of racial handwringing. I tried but couldn't finish it. This audiobook is most likely aimed at snowflakes who own a lot of cats.
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15,832
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13,882
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13,873
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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2 out of 5 stars
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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
Could have been good
Reviewed: 05-13-23
This book has the clunky utilitarian prose of a Haruki Murakami novel, but without the brilliance. The characters are boring and the dialog is unrealistically Woke, even in the dialog from before the turn of the century. Really difficult to get through and unrewarding.
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The Terminal List
- A Thriller
- By: Jack Carr
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 57,903
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 52,561
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52,367
On his last combat deployment, Lt. Cmdr. James Reece's entire team was killed in an ambush that also claimed the lives of the aircrew sent in to rescue them. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming, Reece discovers that this was not an act of war by a foreign enemy but a conspiracy that runs to the highest levels of government. Now, with no family and free from the military's command structure, Reece applies the lessons that he's learned in over a decade of constant warfare toward revenge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Make way for Jack Carr!!!!
- By shelley on 03-08-18
- The Terminal List
- A Thriller
- By: Jack Carr
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Lots of clichés
Reviewed: 04-20-23
Simple one-dimensional characters, full of clichés and excessive boring details. More testosterone than intellect.
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