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Exodus: The Archimedes Engine
- Exodus: The Archimedes Engine, Book 1
- By: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 30 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Forty thousand years ago, humanity fled a dying Earth. Traveling in massive arkships, these brave pioneers spread out across the galaxy to find a new home. After traveling thousands of light-years, one fleet of arkships arrived at Centauri, a dense cluster of stars with a vast array of potentially habitable planets. The survivors of Earth signaled to the remaining arkships that humanity had finally found its new home among the stars.
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The 2024 Six Star Winner !
- By C. Hartmann on 09-22-24
- Exodus: The Archimedes Engine
- Exodus: The Archimedes Engine, Book 1
- By: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrated by: John Lee
Very long, too many characters and subplots
Reviewed: 10-16-24
Almost 1000 pages and the story is… to be continued. The ending was not satisfying. It did not wrap up the story. I was not sufficiently ranged to read book 2, and so there it is. On the plus side, the universe is compelling enough to explore in shorter novels. I just don’t care where the story arc goes from here.
I was listening to the novel as an audiobook so I kept googling for an index of character as I lost track of who is who and needed reminders. There is a dramatic persona chapter in the beginning but it is not practical as a character lookup.
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The Environmental and Genetic Causes of Autism
- By: James Lyons-Weiler PhD, Richard E. Frye - foreword
- Narrated by: Wyntner Woody
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
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To make this groundbreaking audiobook, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler combed through the past fifty years of published research on autism, exploring subjects such as genetic variation, mechanisms of neurotoxicity of metals and pesticides, and the central and combined roles of each in causing autism.
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Wrong title
- By medawar@panix.com on 12-21-18
Wrong title
Reviewed: 12-21-18
The first several chapters of the book revolve around the premise that vaccines are bad they contribute to autism and FDC is mismanaging vaccines. If I’d known this book is about making the cases against vaccines, I would not have bought it. I really wanted to know about the wider topic of the relationship between environment, genetics and Autism Spectrum Disorder. I will continue skipping chapters until I get to one that does not talk about vaccines.
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