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Prelude to Foundation
- By: Isaac Asimov
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,066
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,645
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,646
It is the year 12,020 GE and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, 40 billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Trantor, capital of a galactic empire!
- By Svenghali on 11-09-12
- Prelude to Foundation
- By: Isaac Asimov
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
horrible addition to foundation series
Reviewed: 01-08-24
couldnt finish. main character becomes annoying and actively belligerent to new cultures he is exposed to. he is a guest but treats everyone like he owns them. it became completely unbearable. so much so that i requested a refund, which i didnt get so i quit audible.
this book was so bad that it made me quit audible!
i read and enjoyed several asimov books... this one is a dark stain on his legacy.
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Visions of Atlantis
- Reclaiming our Lost Ancient Legacy
- By: Michael Le Flem
- Narrated by: Chris Sims
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
People all around the world have grappled with the story of Atlantis for millennia, and Visions of Atlantis attempts to sort fact from fiction, providing a unique and compelling glimpse into what might have been.
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5 out of 5 stars
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True or Not True: Who Can Say for Sure?
- By Robert on 10-05-23
- Visions of Atlantis
- Reclaiming our Lost Ancient Legacy
- By: Michael Le Flem
- Narrated by: Chris Sims
fun book.
Reviewed: 05-02-23
narrator kept changing accents. he randomely speeks with american, irish, and scottish accents. found the accents distracting at first but grew to enjoy the weird transitions.
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The Journey of Joenes
- By: Robert Sheckley
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4 out of 5 stars 21
The Journey of Joenes, also published as Journey Beyond Tomorrow, tells the tale of a picaresque journey through an imagined future taken by a naive and innocent man unprepared for the wonders and oddities he encounters. Sheckley examines the present through the distorting lens of a future wonderfully skewed from and yet darkly, hilariously, similar to our own world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One Of My All-Time Favorites
- By Nils J. Rasmussen on 11-15-14
- The Journey of Joenes
- By: Robert Sheckley
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
boring side stories, like Cervantes' don quixote
Reviewed: 03-21-22
if you liked all the tangential stories of don quixote then you will love this. some of the stories are fun and entertaining, others are so boring they knocked me out. i usually like Sheckley's books but i couldn't handle this one.
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The Last Human
- A Novel
- By: Zack Jordan
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 741
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 646
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Story4 out of 5 stars 644
Most days, Sarya doesn't feel like the most terrifying creature in the galaxy. Most days, she's got other things on her mind. Like hiding her identity among the hundreds of alien species roaming the corridors of Watertower Station. Or making sure her adoptive mother doesn't casually eviscerate one of their neighbors. Again. And most days, she can almost accept that she'll never know the truth - that she'll never know why humanity was deemed too dangerous to exist.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Half way through and giving up.
- By The Kindly One on 05-21-20
- The Last Human
- A Novel
- By: Zack Jordan
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
great world building.
Reviewed: 02-07-22
good story. excellent narration. only problem are the mind-numbing, long drawn-out portions about things that the reader understands quickly but must wait long periods of time before the story gets going again. really could of used a good, easy edit to trim out a few unnecessarily boring hours. i also wish the author would of added more detail to the exciting and/or interesting areas of the book that, for some reason, felt glossed over and/or rushed. this felt like reading an amazing book that was one or two drafts away from being finished. the story concepts and the world-building were exquisite.
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Outposts
- Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 218
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 127
Originally published in 1985, Outposts is Simon Winchester's journey to find the vanishing empire, "on which the sun never sets". In the course of a three-year, 100,000 mile journey - from the chill of the Antarctic to the blue seas of the Caribbean, from the South of Spain and the tip of China to the utterly remote specks in the middle of gale-swept oceans - he discovered such romance and depravity, opulence and despair that he was inspired to write what may be the last contemporary account of the British empire.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Nice Travelogue
- By J. S. Koehler on 01-28-06
- Outposts
- Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
too short. should of been unabridged!
Reviewed: 08-22-17
abridgement is a crime. especially for this author. I felt robbed. I want the whole book. Why was the audio book abridged?!
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