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Yesterday's Gone: Season One
- By: Sean Platt, David Wright
- Narrated by: Chris Patton, Brian Holsopple, Ray Chase, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,827
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,550
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,536
Can humanity Survive what it never saw coming? On October 15 at 2:15 a.ms Earth vanished. A scattered few woke alone in a world with no rules, other than survival at any cost. A journalist wanders the wretched reality of an empty New York, searching for his wife and son. A serial killer must hunt in a land where prey is now an endangered species. A mother shields her young daughter from danger through every terror-filled breath.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Idk how it got such rave reviews!? horrible!!
- By Kate+4 on 05-26-18
- Yesterday's Gone: Season One
- By: Sean Platt, David Wright
- Narrated by: Chris Patton, Brian Holsopple, Ray Chase, Maxwell Glick, Tamara Marston, R.C. Bray
Lots going on here.
Reviewed: 10-20-23
First the good:
The catalyst or event of this story is a strange combination of a rapture like zombie-ish mashup that is never really outlined or quantified. The story line jumps character point of view and narrator every chapter. Author does good with character development and backstory, and the dialogue**for most** of the characters is ok and doesn't seem forced. Over all the story seems like several authors collaborated to write this.
The Bad:
At several times the plot devolves into a perverted monologue of one of the main characters "Buricio" which is poorly written smut. It's vulgar in the extreme and every other sentence is some fail to launch metaphor with too much profanity. The word nipples comes up more times in this book than 50 shades of grey. Struggled to finish specifically because of this character and thier parts of the story. Honestly the story could work and would probably be better without any of it.
Its a very rough ride and confusing. The saving grace is that every chapter clearly states who's POV you are seeing things from and as I said the narrator changes for each character.
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Zero Day Code
- End of Days, Book 1
- By: John Birmingham
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,328
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,037
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,024
Every modern city has one week’s worth of food to feed itself. Then it will collapse. Cut off the resources to New York, Sydney, or even a mid-size metropolis, and millions will soon starve. In Zero Day Code we see those immense and open, hyper-complex, networked supercities of the new millennium die. And in the last moments we see their vengeance take form as all the best and worst traits of humanity bubble to the surface.
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1 out of 5 stars
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If Bernie Sanders’ wrote about the apocalypse...
- By Anonymous User on 07-30-19
- Zero Day Code
- End of Days, Book 1
- By: John Birmingham
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
Pleasantly surprised!
Reviewed: 10-03-23
What a breath of fresh air to a genre that has seemingly ran out of gas and originality. The story, plot, character development and dialogue are pretty well written. The narrator does pretty well with the different voice inflections and accents.
I am exhausted with authors spending half a book on prepper "gear or fear porn". It's refreshing to hear a plot line that doesn't involve zombies or ridiculous characters with seemingly super hero characteristics. Nothing is totally out of the realm of possibility or plausibility even though it's solidly a work of fiction.
This is an enjoyable listen and while it is post apocalyptic fiction it's not a wanna be preppers wet dream. I'm honestly looking forward to book two from this author.
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Illuminatus! Part I
- The Eye in the Pyramid
- By: Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson
- Narrated by: Ken Campbell, Chris Fairbank
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 655
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 499
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Story4 out of 5 stars 498
The Illuminati, an inside joke? The lunatic fringe? Or a vast conspiracy hidden for centuries, unleashing it's power on a naive, defenseless world? It was the lousy luck of Saul Goodman, a tough, streetwise New York detective, to smell the trail in a bombed-out office - the heavy case he'd always dreaded. In a breakneck race against an awesome deadline, Goodman plunges down the trail of the ultimate conspiracy as the days fall away toward Apocalypse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Over the Top and Proud of It
- By Nonnie Mar on 02-14-08
- Illuminatus! Part I
- The Eye in the Pyramid
- By: Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson
- Narrated by: Ken Campbell, Chris Fairbank
Tried twice, can't do it.
Reviewed: 08-31-21
The narrator is talented and can do many different voices and accents but ultimately gives me the same satisfaction as listening to a blender full of forks.
The story line is difficult to follow and mixes in conspiracy theories, historical events, lots of fiction, time travel, numerology and raunchy sex scenes. I can only describe it as "a fever dream of a meth addicted, schizophrenic, sex addict that has a fascination with conspiracy theories, historical events and numerology".
I tried, I really did, I just can't tolerate this atory or the narrator. I don't need to know what great secrets and enlightenment lay within this trilogy bad enough to stick it out and finish the first book.
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Worlds Apart
- A Survival Story Yet Untold (Book Five of the What's Left of My World Series)
- By: C.A. Rudolph
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 695
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 640
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 637
Alan Russell thought about his family night and day. They didn’t just mean the world to him, they were his world. As a devoted husband and father, his sole purpose was to love, support, and protect them. Yet Alan had gone a step further, doing everything in his power to ensure his family’s survival in what he believed would become a perilous and uncertain future. On the day civilization changed forever, he found his efforts hadn’t been enough.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Will not be reading Book 6...
- By Tina on 05-04-19
- Worlds Apart
- A Survival Story Yet Untold (Book Five of the What's Left of My World Series)
- By: C.A. Rudolph
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
Great book.
Reviewed: 04-16-19
Definitely leaves you wanting more! I can't wait for the next one. Absolutely loved it!
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The Cabinet of Wonders
- The Kronos Chronicles: Book I
- By: Marie Rutkoski
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Petra Kronos has a simple, happy life. But it's never been ordinary. She has a pet tin spider named Astrophil who likes to hide in her snarled hair and give her advice. Her best friend can trap lightning inside a glass sphere. Petra also has a father in faraway Prague who is able to move metal with his mind. Petra's life is forever changed when, one day, her father returns home - blind.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It was okay
- By Robbin Sutherland on 05-29-12
- The Cabinet of Wonders
- The Kronos Chronicles: Book I
- By: Marie Rutkoski
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
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Reviewed: 03-08-17
good book for book report and it is very adventurous for people who like the movie looking through the glass
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