Greg Capra
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Mountains According to G
- By: Geraint Thomas
- Narrated by: Joe Leat
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Cycling fans obsess about climbs and big mountains. They love reading about their tests and tribulations, and they love to ride them - a cricket lover can never bat at Lord's, or a football supporter score at Wembley, but any rider can take on the challenge of an iconic mountain. There have been fine books about the big climbs before but never from the voice of an elite GC winner, taking you inside what these climbs really feel like, where the attacks come, where the pain kicks in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastically entertaining and insightful
- By Greg Capra on 06-17-23
- Mountains According to G
- By: Geraint Thomas
- Narrated by: Joe Leat
Fantastically entertaining and insightful
Reviewed: 06-17-23
What’s great about this book is the insight into some of the biggest climbs; it’s technical and yet poetic. It’s also presented in such a way that it feels as if it’s a collection of short stories rather than one continuous novel.
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Extraterrestrial
- The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
- By: Avi Loeb
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,172
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,013
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,009
In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our inner solar system, moving so quickly that it could only have come from another star. Avi Loeb, Harvard’s top astronomer, showed it was not an asteroid; it was moving too fast along a strange orbit, and left no trail of gas or debris in its wake. There was only one conceivable explanation: the object was a piece of advanced technology created by a distant alien civilization.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Decent but the title shouldn't make you buy it
- By jiulio margalli on 01-27-21
- Extraterrestrial
- The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
- By: Avi Loeb
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Imagination is key to progress
Reviewed: 07-11-21
What this book informs us about is not that this “UFO” is in fact extraterrestrial, but rather closed mindedness to the possibility of things we do not understand will in fact limit our ability to truly understand their reality.
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