
Titan
Mammon Series, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Jonathan Beville
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By:
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Robert Kroese
By the year 2032, the US federal debt has surpassed $50 trillion. The American empire is on the verge of collapse.
An entrepreneur named Kade Kapur has an idea for rescuing the debt-ridden United States: The government will issue stock in a company with exclusive mining rights to an asteroid whose orbit will soon bring it near Earth. The asteroid, which contains $10 trillion in valuable minerals, is officially called 2015 RK 16 Maimonides, but it soon comes to be known by another name: Mammon.
Fortunes are made and America seems to have avoided an economic collapse. But when the plan to capture the asteroid goes awry, the sky will fall....
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Ambitious & fun story by Robert with rock solid delivery by Jonathan.
Looking forward to when book 2 is ready for listening.
Sci-Fi PreDocumentary
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I Couldn't Stop Listening
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Disclaimer, I am a huge Rex Nihilo fan so I might be slightly biased to Kroese's work, but this novel is by no means a satire. So this review is completely based on the political thriller aspect.
I found to my surprise that Kroese's opinions on the political environment mirror my own, Not that Kroese is, but I was previously a staunch republican, and now I find myself somewhere in the middle (too far left gets loony, too far right gets nuts). So In the political thriller part of the book I was like "yeah I could see that". Also it seems that maybe we share a similar library (Strange Angel).
By and large a great story that makes one want to get back to the book and see what is happening, somewhat reminiscent of "Nobody's Fool". But unfortunately Titan has quite a few exhaustive info dumps, and I have to admit, I grew a bit weary with those.
On to the voice actor, WOW and HOLY COW HE IS GOOD!!!! In my opinion his inflection is strikingly similar to Ray Porter, but the character study is decidedly better than anything I have heard from Ray Porter. Jonathon's work is so sublime and enhancing to the story without ever being over bearing, that you just don't think about his performance, It is a seamless marriage of story and acting that when pondered upon, can only be described as magical.
Titan, an examination of a probable future
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Atlas Shrugged meets the Martian
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The characters are so three-dimensional, the plot moves at a very fast pace. Loved this book!
Could not put this book down!
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I’m looking forward to reading the rest of this series.
Entertaining
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The Board is Set for More.
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I'm relatively on-board with the authors politics, but OMG I got fed up of having them shoved in my face. I want to escape US political discourse, not have it rammed into center stage at every opportunity. This really spoiled the book for me.
A real disappointment - the ingredients were all there and RK has written such great series previously (The Iron Dragon & Rex Nihilo), it feels a shame to tarnish those works with this one.
Great Concept, Poor Execution
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This book was way too ‘prequel’ than it should have been. It’s written well, just not really sci-fi. More like dystopian future.
The author’s politics are most likely much like my own, but I felt like I was listening to a 14-hour virtue signal rather than a good fiction story.
The narrator, while blessed with a fantastic voice for audiobooks, needed a better editor. I became frustrated and distracted by his deep sighs between paragraphs, heavy breathing between sentences, and occasional swallowing *or maybe wetting his whistle* throughout.
I will read the sequel, but only because I like the characters. I really hope that the next book is more of what I expected from this one.
Lots of Pre-Gaming, not much Game.
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Idiotic but Good Narration
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