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Bernadette Dunne
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Richard Powers
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On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, returns to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a coma, Mark believes that this woman is really an impostor who looks just like his sister. Shattered, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, who eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being. Meanwhile, Mark attempts to learn what happened the night of his inexplicable accident - armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness.
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He performs his profane ceremony in a wooded Minneapolis park, anointing his victims, then setting the bodies ablaze. He has already claimed three lives, and he won't stop there. Only this time there is a witness. But she isn't talking. Enter Kate Conlan, former FBI agent turned victim/witness advocate. Not even she can tell if the reluctant witness is a potential victim or something more troubling still.
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Mad scientists have never had it so tough. In super-hero comics, graphic novels, films, TV series, video games, and even works of what may be fiction, they are besieged by those who stand against them, devoid of sympathy for their irrational, megalomaniacal impulses to rule, destroy, or otherwise dominate the world as we know it. It’s just not fair. So those of us who are so twisted and sick that we love mad scientists have created this guide.
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Stewing in an Australian prison, Jasper Dean reflects on his relationship with his dead father and recounts the many zany adventures they shared together.
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Ray Bradbury - peerless storyteller, poet of the impossible, and one of America's most beloved authors - is a literary giant whose remarkable career spanned seven decades. Now 26 of today's most diverse and celebrated authors offer new short works in honor of the master; stories of heart, intelligence, and dark wonder from a remarkable range of creative artists.
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THE MAN WHO FORGOT RAY BRADBURY
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Just outside Los Angeles, a prisoner hidden away for 70 years sits up, gets off the bed and disappears through a solid wall. In Australia, a magician impresses audiences by producing real elephants. Nobody realizes it's not an illusion. Across the world, individuals and organizations with supernatural power suddenly detect the presence of something even they can't understand. At the center of it all, Seb Varden, a 32-year old musician with a secret in his past, slits his wrists, is shot dead and run over on the freeway.
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Good Stuff
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- Kristin S.
- 04-24-23
Well written, great narration
I didn't love the story but it was well written and had some really enjoyable sections. The narrator performed beautifully.
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- Deirdre Piotrowski
- 02-21-23
Fantastic
Loved this book--the language , plot, twists and turns. Narration was great! Ms. Dunne's voice was easy to listen to and her voice fit the characters.
I think Richard Powers is one of my current favorite authors.
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- wd
- 10-06-22
Too much technical science
The story line is great! I feel like the author did a lot of research on the character’s condition and shared way more of it than I cared to hear in a book I’m reading for entertainment. I did like the story line and felt it’s could have been condensed and would not have lost integrity.
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- William H. Moore Jr.
- 02-07-24
Flight of Ideas would be a better title
Richard Powers' prose and character development show up very strong as usual. However, I found the story line very disjointed, and if asked what the book was about I would be hard pressed to come up with a reasonable answer.
That said, Bernadette Dunne's narration was masterful.
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- Jamie N. Berlin
- 01-29-23
So poetic
I loved the thematic breadth acheived by the interweaving of the narratives— the stories of the inner and exterior lives of the neurobiologist, the patient, the sister. As in real life, their disparate and trivial narratives find wholeness and welcome, even meaning, in the vast inconceivableness of nature. My second read by Richard Powers. Looking eagerly forward to the next!
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- HannahMK
- 08-06-20
Too much time for a boring story
A Group infatuated by cranes, a main character who is an ill-tempered, silly girl incapable of making a decision and a delicate flower, so easily offended; and a brain damaged young man who is the sanest of the group.
Like it yet? Ready to waste 21 hours listening to an entitled woman demand and explode when individuals doing her a favor miss a detail? If you are, this is the book for you.
Oh yeah, did I mention her devoted, doormat boyfriend who possibly likes men and animals in a conjugal way? I spent way too many hours with this cast of shallow soul searchers 'finding themselves" in every other chapter.
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- Susan Finsen
- 01-12-21
Brilliant
A profound and poetic examination of the human condition and the illusion of the self.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-12-20
I wanted to like this book
Sigh. I wanted so much to like this book. I love long books with multiple story lines. I am a special educator, so I am fascinated by neuroscience. I enjoy books which provide vivid visual descriptions which draw you into the setting. But good grief, enough is enough. The character can't just be alone with her thoughts in the hospital lobby, we have to know all her thoughts, have all those thoughts analyzed AND know the chair she is sitting in is apricot colored leather. It actually has an intriguing story line and the author writes dialog especially well. But is is so dense in detail and in internal monologue, analysis of characters thoughts and actions, the history of psychology and neurology, plus the endless musing about cranes. I almost gave up several times, but finally finished. It left me vaguely unsatisfied. Not time wasted, just wish it was better. I don't know how much of this is because I listened to it on Audible instead of reading. The narrator had a quiet calm voice that seemed to make the endless detail worse
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- Susan C.
- 05-24-23
Couldn’t get through it
Ezra Klein thoroughly recommended this book but I really didn’t like it. I loved the overstory so I was disappointed. Maybe I’ll try it again a little bit later but I had to stop reading it just didn’t like the persons voice didn’t think they really understood how women think or at least the women he had in his story. Yeah, didn’t turn me on.
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- TIn Man
- 06-11-21
Endless
I could not finish this book. It is about 200 pages too long. I couldn't even care about the characters after endless minutiae of their lives. Just wanted to find out the main plot line which was no surprise as there was endless foreshadowing. Basically a waste of time. The narrator did a good job though.
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