W. Demis
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All the Names They Used for God
- Stories
- By: Anjali Sachdeva
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Zainab Jah, Will Damron, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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In a secret, subterranean world beneath the prairie of the Old West, a homesteader risks her life in search of a safe haven. A workman in Andrew Carnegie's steel mills is turned into a medical oddity by the brutal power of the furnaces. A young woman created through genetic manipulation is destroyed by the same force that gave her life. With her distinctive blend of magical realism, science, and poetic prose, Anjali Sachdeva demonstrates a preternatural ability to laser in on our fears, our hopes, and our longings in order to point out intrinsic truths about society and humanity.
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Astoundingly fresh and just so GOOD
- By Dana on 07-20-18
- All the Names They Used for God
- Stories
- By: Anjali Sachdeva
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Zainab Jah, Will Damron, Jorjeana Marie, MacLeod Andrews
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Reviewed: 09-21-19
...too bad. That’s how these stories are. They all seem to set up for some kind of big finish- or at least an interesting finish- and yet they fall flat in a frustrating, lackadaisical, unapologetic nothingness. The stories would be interesting if they had any kind of point or even simply a destination. But they just end.
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Sand: Omnibus Edition
- By: Hugh Howey
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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We live across the thousand dunes with grit in our teeth and sand in our homes. No one will come for us. No one will save us. This is our life, diving for remnants of the old world so that we may build what the wind destroys. No one is looking down on us. Those constellations in the night sky? Those are the backs of gods we see.
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New world, not as compelling as Wool
- By Ríonach on 03-30-14
- Sand: Omnibus Edition
- By: Hugh Howey
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
The Reviews are Right!
Reviewed: 12-11-17
I read the reviews. I saw they were pretty negative. But I had just wrapped up reading the Wool/Shift/Dust series for the second time and figured how could such an amazing author really produce such poor work. Surely these reviews just didn’t “get it” or something... Nope. They are not wrong.
The book narrative is so very different from Wool/Shift/Dust. Sentences are short and staccato, almost as if Trump himself wrote them. There seems to be a pressing need to recap the last three sentences on every fourth sentence. And most annoyingly there is a child’s book like need to “bang, bang, bang” out phonetic sounds throughout the whole thing. This is a VERY different writing style comparably- almost impossible to believe Howey wrote it. Such a shame too as the story idea seemed interesting and novel.
While the curious might think, “I hear you, but maybe *I* will get it,” just as I thought. No, this really is a skip.
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The Snowman
- A Harry Hole Novel
- By: Jo Nesbø, Don Bartlett
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
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Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. Around its neck is his mother’s pink scarf. Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter he’s received and the disappearance of Jonas’s mother - and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall. As his investigation deepens, something else emerges: he is becoming a pawn....
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many layered thriller
- By Anita on 05-20-11
- The Snowman
- A Harry Hole Novel
- By: Jo Nesbø, Don Bartlett
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
Outstanding!
Reviewed: 10-04-17
It's a murder mystery, suspense, and thriller that actually *IS* all of those things! I was on the edge of my seat the entire story. Really exceptional book; I will be checking out more from this author!
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Keepers of the Light
- The Broken Prophecies, Book 1
- By: SA McClure
- Narrated by: Alex Moore
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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Since the Wars of Darkness 300 years ago, the kingdoms of Szarmi and Lunameed have had only a fitful peace. Now, as the tension between them continues to grow, there is only one secret hope: that the broken prophecies of old will be fulfilled. Amaleah Bluefischer, Princess of Lunameed, must determine whether she is destined to save the world. But how can she save anyone when everything around her seems to be collapsing?
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Strong, intriguing story
- By W. Demis on 08-08-17
- Keepers of the Light
- The Broken Prophecies, Book 1
- By: SA McClure
- Narrated by: Alex Moore
Strong, intriguing story
Reviewed: 08-08-17
I found the story captivating and found myself making time to listen. I didn't really enjoy the narrator and often found her distracting, but the story line kept pulling me back in. A great read, and I'm looking forward to the next book!
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The Shack
- By: William P. Young
- Narrated by: Roger Mueller
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack one wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.
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Soul Changing
- By LucySue on 12-30-16
- The Shack
- By: William P. Young
- Narrated by: Roger Mueller
Bait and switch!
Reviewed: 01-21-17
This is not a murder mystery or even a thriller as it's billed to be. This is nothing more than Christian propaganda in a clever bait and switch story.
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Xenocide
- Volume Three of the Ender Saga
- By: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Amanda Karr, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
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Xenocide is the third installment of the Ender series. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. But Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus which kills all humans it infects, but which the pequeninos require in order to transform into adults.
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full of passion
- By David on 06-13-04
- Xenocide
- Volume Three of the Ender Saga
- By: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Amanda Karr, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki
Horrible acting
Reviewed: 05-11-15
The story was fine. OSC's imagination is really vivid. However the audible readers were TERRIBLE in this performance. Really distracting.
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