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Dueling the Dragon
- Adventures in Chinese Media and Education
- By: Abdiel LeRoy
- Narrated by: Abdiel LeRoy
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
China - Superpower or basket case? You decide! A wide-eyed expat is detained by Beijing cops and told to sign a false confession. Will he make it out of China alive? Dueling the Dragon is a great adventure story, but this one, here narrated by the author, just happens to be true! With a journalist's eye and lively wit, LeRoy exposes the deep levels of corruption tearing at China's social fabric. You will learn of college students sold into slavery, media suppression of pollution reports, and persecution of a broadcaster just trying to do his job.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Great from LeRoy
- By Amy's Bookshelf Reviews on 09-29-19
- Dueling the Dragon
- Adventures in Chinese Media and Education
- By: Abdiel LeRoy
- Narrated by: Abdiel LeRoy
Voice and Story
Reviewed: 11-12-24
Abdiel’s China biography is both entertaining and insightful on a certain era in the development of China that will never be seen again. Those years between developed and developing was a unique time in the country and Abdiel voices it from the ground floor. Not as a politician or economic specialist but a foreigner on the ground. Well written and perfectly voice. Strong recommend.
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The Secrets of Catspraddle Village
- By: Callie Browning
- Narrated by: Callie Browning
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
A grisly murder without a suspect. A bizarre love triangle. A philosopher moonlighting as a garbage man who gets a gun put to his head every Tuesday morning.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Immersive storytelling and use of language
- By Nameless on 09-03-24
- The Secrets of Catspraddle Village
- By: Callie Browning
- Narrated by: Callie Browning
Immersive storytelling and use of language
Reviewed: 09-03-24
Highly Recommend to anyone of Caribbean descent or not. It’s a human story that reaches beyond cultural boundaries but at the same time is so rich with detail the genuineness of storytelling can transport readers to her world.
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Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 124,940
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 107,802
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 107,691
Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This classic deserves better
- By Matthew Salvo on 07-01-21
As advertised
Reviewed: 06-22-24
The book is good. I think I need to reread, re-listen, there's a lot going on and it's very dense. So much to it. But I liked what I read.
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Pushing Ice
- By: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,402
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,735
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,742
2057. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. And they're good at it. The Rockhopper is nearing the end of its current mission cycle, and everyone is desperate for some much-needed R & R, when startling news arrives from Saturn: Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, has inexplicably left its natural orbit and is now heading out of the solar system at high speed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Proof that a good story doesn't require a trilogy
- By Jesse on 01-14-12
- Pushing Ice
- By: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrated by: John Lee
Interesting Ideas—Disconnected
Reviewed: 05-06-24
Good character work in this one. Like the Bella/Stephlana relationship. Tye story also goes from big to bigger to biggest, but doesn’t offer any answers in the end. Also the jump from space miner to (SPOILER) seems a big too large a leap. Too many ideas it feels like. I also didn’t understand how many humans there were to continue civilization. That bugged me a bit.
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By the Light of Dead Stars
- Beyond the Lost Coast, Book 1
- By: Andrew Van Wey
- Narrated by: Tom Jordan
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 242
When tragedy shatters 13-year-old Zelda Ruiz’s adolescence, she retreats with her uncle Mark to the bucolic town of Greywood Bay. But nothing can prepare them for the malignant terror that has long coveted these lands.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Troubled town torn apart by its secrets
- By Lori on 07-03-23
- By the Light of Dead Stars
- Beyond the Lost Coast, Book 1
- By: Andrew Van Wey
- Narrated by: Tom Jordan
Very Very Good Hidden Gem
Reviewed: 04-11-24
Damn near perfect, the writing, just word to word, metaphors/similies/allusions is amazing, powerful, and not purple at all. Great character development, not just for the leads but the side characters as well--very strong. The story/pacing/development is great and maybe a centimeter away from perfect. Thanks Mr. Van Wey.
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One Puzzling Afternoon
- By: Emily Critchley
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 235
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Story4 out of 5 stars 208
It is 1951, and at number six Sycamore Street, fifteen-year-old Edie Green is lonely. Living with her eccentric mother and her mother's new boyfriend, she is desperate for something to shake her from her dull, isolated life. So when the popular, pretty Lucy Theddle befriends Edie, she thinks all her troubles are over. Even though Lucy has a secret, one Edie is not certain she should keep. Then Lucy goes missing. Now in 2018, Edie is eighty-four and still living in the same small town, when one afternoon she glimpses Lucy Theddle, still looking the same as she did at fifteen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such a poignant story
- By Candi Miller on 12-21-23
- One Puzzling Afternoon
- By: Emily Critchley
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre
So very good.
Reviewed: 03-22-24
One of the best I’ve listened to in a long time. There is a 15 word minimum.
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Children of Time
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Mel Hudson
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39,549
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36,027
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35,956
Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A very pleasant surprise
- By Simon on 06-17-17
- Children of Time
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Mel Hudson
Intelligent spiders
Reviewed: 02-19-24
Interesting ideas. Didn’t blow me away though. Characters weren’t too interesting. No big surprises. Word word word.
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