Tom Hager
- 7
- reviews
- 20
- helpful votes
- 12
- ratings
-
Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27,300
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 23,671
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23,503
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.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
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
Shallow, facile, unconvincing
Reviewed: 10-24-17
Harari's a good writer buI had to stop listening, the science was so sketchy, the conclusions so overstated. Sad!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
The Dark Tower III
- The Waste Lands
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 25,157
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 22,705
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 22,621
In this third volume, several months have passed, and Roland's two new tet-mates have become trained gunslingers. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta's two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more balanced personality of Susannah Dean. But while battling The Pusher in 1977 New York, Roland altered ka by saving the life of Jake Chambers, a boy who - in Roland's world - has already died. Now Roland and Jake exist in different worlds, but they are joined by the same madness.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Good narrator, good story, bad production
- By ibillinsly@gmail on 09-19-17
- The Dark Tower III
- The Waste Lands
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
Gawdawful
Reviewed: 06-20-17
I had to stop listening after about half the book. Part of the blame is the author's -- this is the most cliched, flabby, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink writing I've ever read from King. He needed an editor who would stand up to him. And part goes to the narrator -- Muller's annoyingly breathless, "every sentence is a climax" reading is just unbearable. Oh yeah, and then there's King's borderline racist depiction of a black character, complete with "Dat's da truf, you mutha!" level dialogue. Just awful.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Book of Numbers
- By: Joshua Cohen
- Narrated by: Kirby Heybourne
- Length: 22 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 34
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 32
-
Story3.5 out of 5 stars 32
When the enigmatic billionaire founder and CEO of Tetration, the world's most powerful tech company, is diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, he hires a failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. This tech mogul, known only as "Principal", takes Josh deep into his own mind, and outlines the history of Tetration, which started by revolutionizing the search engine and later ventured into smartphones, computer manufacturing, and the surveillance of American citizens.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Ignore the reviews. A funny and engrossing book.
- By Susan C. S. on 07-13-15
- Book of Numbers
- By: Joshua Cohen
- Narrated by: Kirby Heybourne
As like....
Reviewed: 08-07-15
As like being cornered by an over caffeinated undergrad compsci major/religious studies minor who just HAS to braindump everything he wikied that day and how it's all, like, part of a pattern.....
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
The Human Age
- The World Shaped by Us
- By: Diane Ackerman
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 56
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 48
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 50
Our finest literary interpreter of science and nature, Diane Ackerman is justly celebrated for her unique insight into the natural world and our place (for better and worse) in it.In this landmark book, she confronts the unprecedented fact that the human race is now the single dominant force of change on the planet. Humans have "subdued 75 percent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strung lights all across the darkness."
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Pleasant Light Ramble, with an Unsettling Point
- By Michael on 02-22-15
- The Human Age
- The World Shaped by Us
- By: Diane Ackerman
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
A tedious ramble
Reviewed: 01-30-15
Disjointed and shallow. It's as if your well-meaning grandmother developed a late-life enthusiasm for sustainability, and excitedly told you about every article she runs across. The science is superficial, and at least some of the ideas she presents have been proven impractical. Worse, Ackerman never uses one word where ten will do. Her plummy style -- every noun modified, preferably at length, often by a sometimes-beautiful, sometimes strained simile or metaphor -- became so irritating I couldn't finish the book. For beginners in the field only.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
3 people found this helpful
-
The Son
- By: Philipp Meyer
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Shepherd, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,834
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,271
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,272
Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching examination of the bloody price of power, The Son is a gripping and utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American west with rare emotional acuity, even as it presents an intimate portrait of one family across two centuries. Eli McCullough is just twelve-years-old when a marauding band of Comanche storm his Texas homestead and brutally murder his mother and sister, taking him as a captive.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Five Stars for the Lone Star, The Son, & Meyer
- By Mel on 06-04-13
- The Son
- By: Philipp Meyer
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Shepherd, Clifton Collins Jr.
Great Book, Great Readers
Reviewed: 08-16-13
Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Will Patton is the perfect reader for Eli McCullough. He is the highlight among a very strong cast for this book -- my favorite audiobook of all time.
Any additional comments?
I have listened to it twice, which I have never done for any other audiobook.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Bad Monkey
- By: Carl Hiaasen
- Narrated by: Arte Johnson
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,475
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 2,183
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 2,188
Andrew Yancy—late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office—has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly Health Inspector gig (it’s not called the roach patrol for nothing).
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Flame-out fail
- By Lars on 06-16-13
- Bad Monkey
- By: Carl Hiaasen
- Narrated by: Arte Johnson
Bad Arte
Reviewed: 07-05-13
Would you try another book from Carl Hiaasen and/or Arte Johnson?
Amusing book, horrible reading.
Would you be willing to try another one of Arte Johnson’s performances?
The problem is not with Hiasson's lightweight comedy, but with Arte Johnsons fingernails - on - the - blackboard - bad reading. I finally decided to be amused rather than annoyed by his attempts (and non–attempts) at accents and his weird rhythms, and so was able to listen to the end. But I'll avoid any Arte in the future.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Serena
- By: Ron Rash
- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 916
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 732
-
Story3.5 out of 5 stars 742
The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the North Carolina mountains to create a timber empire, vowing to let no one stand in their way, especially those newly rallying around Teddy Roosevelt's nascent environmental movement.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Subtle Genius
- By David Shear on 08-21-13
- Serena
- By: Ron Rash
- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Good story, wrong reader
Reviewed: 05-12-12
What didn’t you like about Phil Gigante’s performance?
Phil Gigante was a bad choice for narrating this multi-character story set in North Carolina. His rural southern accents were often caricatures, but the major problem was his voicing for women. Serena sounded like a drag queen imitating an evil aristocrat, and Rachel -- a very strong female character -- sounded developmentally disabled. For me, the reading almost ruined a good book.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
7 people found this helpful