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The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition
- By: Margaret Atwood, Valerie Martin - essay
- Narrated by: Claire Danes, full cast, Margaret Atwood, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36,270
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32,716
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32,618
After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women. Offred, now a Handmaid tasked with the singular role of procreation in the childless household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost everything, even her own name.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wait! It Mightn't Be What You Think--
- By Gillian on 04-05-17
Not full cast. Book is Haunting and Riveting!
Reviewed: 07-11-17
Book is must read. However, it is not full cast. The whole narration is very well done by Claire Danes.
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,972
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,314
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,277
From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.' For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work.
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4 out of 5 stars
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You'll never look at public shaming the same way
- By Megan Gunter on 04-02-15
- So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
Interesting
Reviewed: 05-19-17
I liked most of the examples, ideas and conclusions. Towards the end, it felt like it was getting off track, but it came back again and ended very well.
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27,199
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 23,575
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23,407
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best seller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun But With A Couple O' Caveats--
- By Gillian on 02-22-17
- Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Must Read for all Homo Sapiens!
Reviewed: 05-18-17
Amazing Ideas, described very simply. If anything, the book could have been slightly shorter because some things were repetitive. But overall, it's mind blowing!
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A Man Called Ove
- By: Fredrik Backman
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 69,433
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63,131
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63,049
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon - the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell". But behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Laughed and I Cried
- By Bill on 08-22-15
- A Man Called Ove
- By: Fredrik Backman
- Narrated by: George Newbern
Sweet Story!
Reviewed: 05-04-17
Really likeable characters. Writing is humorous and emotional when it needs to be. Liked the first half more than the second half.
Didn't like the narrator that much. His voice went quite on certain notes if sentences, which was annoying. Specially when there is background noise from the environment I am in.
Overall would recommend.
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For We Are Many
- Bobiverse, Book 2
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 72,773
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 66,274
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 66,071
Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe. Bob and his copies have been spreading out from Earth for 40 years now, looking for habitable planets. But that's the only part of the plan that's still in one piece.
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4 out of 5 stars
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THE FECAL MATTER HAS HIT THE ATMOSPHERIC PROJECTOR
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-03-17
- For We Are Many
- Bobiverse, Book 2
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Pretty Good Continuation of the story
Reviewed: 04-27-17
What does Ray Porter bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Yes, The narrator is great. He adds some flair to the pronunciations that are enjoyable for this kind of not-so-serious book.
Any additional comments?
If you like the first book, you'll like this one, too.
Pros: all the good stuff from the first book. Personalities of different Bob's, exploration of new terrain, solving new problems etc
Cons: Way too many Bob's. Sometimes, I had to go back to figure out which Bob belonged where. And even though all Bobs' personalities are supposed to be different, overall they were not so different, which made it kinda boring. I wish the book was a tad bit longer and focused more on the main Bob's: Bob-1, Howard, Ryker, and Bill.
Looking forward to book 3!
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Death's End
- By: Cixin Liu, Ken Liu - translator
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 28 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,510
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,917
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,889
Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to coexist peacefully as equals, without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of the best trilogies I have ever listened to
- By Patrick on 10-17-16
- Death's End
- By: Cixin Liu, Ken Liu - translator
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
Great ideas, boring and useless characters
Reviewed: 04-13-17
Loved the ideas and concepts. Hated the characters as they were nothing more than lifeless vehicles for the concepts to be explained.
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The Dark Forest
- By: Cixin Liu, Joel Martinsen - translator
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17,524
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15,502
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15,491
This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking listeners to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion - in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A New Favorite
- By averageconsumer on 08-14-15
- The Dark Forest
- By: Cixin Liu, Joel Martinsen - translator
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
Great story. Not so great narration.
Reviewed: 04-04-17
Narration wasn't as good as the first book. Shouldn't have changed.
The overall story had few gaps and loopholes here and there but overall it was very interesting. It is filled with fantastic concepts. Worth reading just for the thought provoking ideas.
Spoiler alert :
I wish less time had been spent on Luo Ji's romantic endeavors in the beginning. Also pace was sometimes very slow and story felt unorganized. Certain threads were left and never discussed again, like what happened to Hans's imprinted 50,000 soldiers. Should have been more consice.
Overall great followup to the Three Body problem.
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