Cosmic Banditos
A Contrabandista's Quest for the Meaning of Life
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Ray Porter
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A. C. Weisbecker
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Among the spoils are physics texts, which launch Mr. Quark on a sidesplitting, boisterous adventure north to California, where he confronts the owner of the books with his own theories on relativity, on the nature of the universe, and on looking for the meaning of life in all the wrong places.
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- Narrated by: Full Cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
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They are the Voltarians of Voltar - an empire 110 planets strong. They are already among us. And the invasion is about to begin...in a hundred years or so. Or is it? The truth is far more sinister. Undercover, underground, and out of sight, the invaders plan what may in fact be a massive diversion. In the darkest recesses of Voltar’s Coordinated Information Apparatus (otherwise known as the CIA), a tyrant of terror sets out to exploit the invasion in order to seize power. All that stands in his way is a planet that doesn’t exist.
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overly abridged
- By Pielle Szabo on 01-10-17
By: L. Ron Hubbard
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This is Not a Drill
- Just Another Glorious Day in the Oilfield
- By: Paul Carter
- Narrated by: Paul Carter
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
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Picking up right where he left off, Paul Carter pulls out more tall tales of a mad, bad and dangerous life in the international oil trade. Starting with action and mayhem galore This Is Not A Drill sets an unrelenting pace that just doesn't let up, as Paul almost drowns when the Russian rig he's working on begins to capsize; is reunited with his Dad - another adrenaline junkie; gets married; hangs out with his rig pig buddies in exotic locations; and spends a couple of interesting weeks in Afghanistan.
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I want to party with this guy!
- By colleen on 05-06-14
By: Paul Carter
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The Crook Factory
- By: Dan Simmons
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
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At the height of World War II, the famous writer Ernest Hemingway sought permission from the U.S. government to operate a spy ring out of his house in the Cuban countryside. This much is true... It is the summer of ’42 and FBI agent Joe Lucas has come to Cuba at the behest of J. Edgar Hoover to keep an eye on Hemingway. The great writer has assembled a ragtag spy ring that he calls the “Crook Factory” to play a dangerous game of amateur espionage. But then Lucas and Hemingway, against all the odds, uncover a critical piece of intelligence - and the game turns deadly.
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Really well researched spy novel
- By Brian on 07-08-11
By: Dan Simmons
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We Few
- US Special Forces in Vietnam
- By: Nick Brokhausen
- Narrated by: George Spelvin
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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A Green Beret's gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.
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Is there such a thing as funny war genre ??
- By dax on 11-04-18
By: Nick Brokhausen
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A Gift of Time
- By: Jerry Merritt
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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When Micajah Fenton discovers a crater in his front yard with a broken time glider in the bottom and a naked, virtual woman on his lawn, he delays his plans to kill himself. While helping repair the marooned time traveler's glider, Cager realizes it can return him to his past to correct a mistake that had haunted him his entire life. As payment for his help, the virtual creature living in the circuitry of the marooned glider, sends Cager back in time as his 10-year-old self.
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The Gift of Time is a Gift!
- By As happy as a monkey with two bananas in his hands on 12-07-17
By: Jerry Merritt
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SEAL Team 666
- A Novel
- By: Weston Ochse
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Halfway through SEAL training, Cadet Jack Walker, still green but showing incredible promise, is whisked away to join four SEALs and their dog for a special-ops mission. Walker soon finds himself in a whirlwind of otherworldly creatures and events as he discovers the true nature of SEAL Team 666. Battling demons, possessed humans, mass-murdering cults, and evil in its darkest and most and ancient form, the members of SEAL Team 666 have their work cut out for them. And it’s not long before they realize that the threat isn’t directed against the US alone....
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Enjoyable way to spend some downtime.
- By Dan on 01-02-13
By: Weston Ochse
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Pashtun
- A Military Thriller
- By: Ron Lealos
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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The Company has a special secret operation planned for one of their top agents: the leaders of the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorist groups are hiding out in Pashtun country, and they must be eliminated. The job falls to a man they have named Frank Morganan agent who stood out as a recruit at Quantico and whose skills resemble those of the legendary Vietnam assassin. The other soldiers claim Frank’s abilities as a sniper and a tracker border on the supernatural and are more than willing to complete this mission with him.
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Anti-American Leftist Propaganda.
- By Donald N on 10-09-14
By: Ron Lealos
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Liars & Thieves
- Tommy Carmellini, Book 1
- By: Stephen Coonts
- Narrated by: Guerin Barry
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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Tommy Carmellini is sent to post guard duty at a farmhouse in Virginia's remote Blue Ridge Mountains, where top government operatives are debriefing a star defector: the ultimate KGB insider, a man with records on every operation and every dirty trick the shadowy intelligence agency has ever run, from Lenin to Putin.
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Fast Paced - Good Read!
- By Andrew Stone on 01-11-09
By: Stephen Coonts
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Stormbreaker
- The First Alex Rider Adventure
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
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They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's car confirm the truth. But nothing can prepare him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy for Britain's top-secret intelligence agency. Enlisted to find his uncle's killers and complete Ian's final mission, Alex suddenly finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, with no way out.
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Okay action story held up by an great narrator
- By Mary Fan on 08-13-13
By: Anthony Horowitz
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- Elvira Canaveral
- 01-24-10
A Time Traveling Footnote
The most fun you'll have learning quantum physics. I would write more but I have other things to do right now, mainly psychotropic drugs and the dodging of flying debris.
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- Jason A
- 07-22-12
One of the truly great and unique books!
If you are one of the lucky people who found this gem before it's resurgence and 2nd printing but have been putting off getting the audio version stop reading this and just buy it already....
For the rest of you:
I loved the audio version but seriously read a physical copy of the thing first. This is just one of those books that will be better if you can put it down and really think about the insanity that you just read from time to time.
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- JohnR
- 01-19-23
Um what?
Not my cup of tea I guess. Story moves but the ironic end left me wanting my time spent back. Ray's performance is okay but the sound edits were cheesy. Not as good as some of his more recent readings.
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- katjancruz
- 09-30-17
Laugh out loud
This is a book that makes you laugh but at the same time contemplate what is reality.
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- handgRenADe
- 03-04-22
Dear Quark
Littered between the pages of this book You will find the quantum mechanics of logic, life, and drug smuggling. A pleasantly authentic Bandito, his translator and Ours, along with their allergy fit companion make sense of a complicated situation filled with bananas at tree-top level. Follow the hum of the steel drums and open Your mind for the explosion to unfold.
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- Jasper McCoy
- 08-02-15
Chapters are misaligned
If you could sum up Cosmic Banditos in three words, what would they be?
Absolute, Utter, Bullshit.
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In the audio book chapter 1 is :02 seconds long then the author's rambling preface continues till 28:21, if you don't want to spoil the book skip the entro.
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- Joy Severenice
- 01-29-23
Funny; refreshing and different
Hunter thompson meets quantum physics and has the desire to understand the universe. Very funny and right on the level
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- Chris itson
- 09-29-24
If I have to explain it, you won’t understand.
Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope uniquee New York. Taco truck world wide review
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- Lorri Elliott BSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM
- 03-14-15
Simply an example of a review.
Fear and Loathing plus quantum physics. Dangerous and ridiculous circumstances abound. The. Best.
Read. Think. Enjoy. If lost, let it go.
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- sam sawyer
- 04-29-21
Incredibly Enjoyable Listen
I read this book 15 or so years ago and remembered enjoying it immensely. But, people and times change, and often, some things you found to be enjoyable or enlightening earlier in life don't age very well and feel cringe'y. I was so happy to discover that this gonzo Weisbecker classic wasn't one of those things. 35 years after it's publishing, this book still made me think, cracked me up, and made me long for a movie adaptation. Another thing that hasn't changed is that this book is criminally underrated. -Sam
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