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Milk Run
- Smuggler's Tales, Book 1
- By: Nathan Lowell
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,225
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,056
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,056
Academy graduate Natalya Regyri stood first in line for her pick of engineering officer jobs, until, at the graduation party, a classmate turned up dead. Now, betrayed by her friends and framed for murder, she must flee beyond the reach of the Confederation...and any semblance of civilized society. With a damaged second-hand ship and TIC interceptors dogging her step, she nets a smuggling contract that might just get her back on her feet and in control of her destiny. But only if she's willing to make an ore run back to the place she's wanted for murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Cooper Yarn
- By Paul on 10-05-19
- Milk Run
- Smuggler's Tales, Book 1
- By: Nathan Lowell
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
*shrug*
Reviewed: 08-19-20
Not super memorable. I liked the characters and the world – but the story felt pretty generic.
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Armada
- A Novel
- By: Ernest Cline
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48,174
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 44,586
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Story4 out of 5 stars 44,490
Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. And too often, he catches himself wishing that some fantastic, impossible, world-altering event could arrive to whisk him off on a grand spacefaring adventure.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I loved Ready Player One. Hated Armada
- By Joshua on 07-17-15
- Armada
- A Novel
- By: Ernest Cline
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
eh. fun. okay
Reviewed: 07-19-15
eh. fun. okay The author clearly has buttons he likes to push. Happy to have read it. nor sure I'd recommend it.
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The Powerhouse
- Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
- By: Steve LeVine
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 164
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 138
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Story4 out of 5 stars 138
A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult the winner into a new era of economic and political mastery. Can the United States win? Steve LeVine was granted unprecedented access to a secret federal laboratory outside Chicago, where a group of geniuses is trying to solve this next monumental task of physics. But these scientists - almost all foreign born - are not alone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nitty Gritty Battery Story
- By Michael on 04-22-15
- The Powerhouse
- Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
- By: Steve LeVine
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Eh...intersting
Reviewed: 02-23-15
it was a bit tough to get through. the story is interesting, but perhaps not worth a book.
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Steel World
- Undying Mercenaries, Book 1
- By: B. V. Larson
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,751
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,744
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,744
In the 20th century Earth sent probes, transmissions, and welcoming messages to the stars. Unfortunately, someone noticed. The Galactics arrived with their battle fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined their vast Empire. Swearing allegiance to our distant alien overlords wasn't the only requirement for survival. We also had to have something of value to trade, something that neighboring planets would pay their hard-earned credits to buy. As most of the local worlds were too civilized to have a proper army, the only valuable service Earth could provide came in the form of soldiers....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A 14 year old boy’s idea of a “Real Man”
- By C. Brown on 04-16-19
- Steel World
- Undying Mercenaries, Book 1
- By: B. V. Larson
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
entertaining
Reviewed: 01-06-15
fun book, buti wouldn't go out of my way to recommend it. of your into space war, I guess
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The Beginning of Infinity
- Explanations That Transform the World
- By: David Deutsch
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,687
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,431
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,414
A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Worthwhile if you have the patience
- By Scott Feuless on 08-12-19
- The Beginning of Infinity
- Explanations That Transform the World
- By: David Deutsch
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
A Perspective Shifter
Reviewed: 01-19-14
This book has flaws. Dr. Deutsch makes a few generalizations that I found a bit unfair -- related to physiological research and sustainability as it relates to environmentalism.
BUT!
It's a perspective shifter.
I think about progress and humanity and our place in the universe differently.
I think about science and the scientific method differently.
It gave me glue to connect concepts I've found and liked from other books.
It's deep. It's complex. It's not "easy".
But certainly valuable.
Kudos.
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19,959
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16,503
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16,499
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- By Cynthia on 12-11-13
Fascinating. Will change your view of history.
Reviewed: 06-17-12
Genghis Khan was far more civilized than most Europeans of his age. He was just a much better military strategist.
Essential for a non-Eurocentric view of world history.
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Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 124,109
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 107,076
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 106,965
Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This classic deserves better
- By Matthew Salvo on 07-01-21
Really entertaining. A fun ride.
Reviewed: 05-31-12
A great book. Pushing 50 years since it was published, it holds up well.
The performance was solid although it seemed there was a bit of inconsistency with the performers, which was a bit confusing.
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American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- By: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,678
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,744
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,756
J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the iconic figures of the 20th century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An American Tragedy
- By Edith on 12-13-07
- American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- By: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
If you're into science or history, you'll like it.
Reviewed: 05-22-12
An amazing and important book. I learned so much about the Communist Party in the US pre-WWII and the "Red Scare" post WWII.
Oppenheimer was a complicated man, but no doubt brilliant, patriotic, and important.
It's so crazy to see this figure overlapped with Einstein and Feynman and Bohr, among others.
My favorite bit of the book came towards the end. Oppenheimer on style:
"The problem of doing justice to the implicit, the imponderable, and the unknown is of course not unique in politics. It is always with us in science, it is with us in most trivial of personal affairs, and it is one of the great problems of writing and of all forms of art. The means by which it is solved is sometimes called style. It is style which complements affirmation with limitation and with humility; it is style which makes it possible to act effectively, but not absolutely; it is style which, in the domain of foreign policy, enables us to find harmony between the pursuit of ends essential to us, and the regard for the views, the sensibilities, the aspirations of those to whom the problem may appear in another light; it is style which is the deference that action pays to uncertainty; it is above all style though which power defers to reason."
My only critique is style, ironically. A large amount of the book is quotes from FBI interviews and wiretaps. Lot's of back and forth which made the content, at times, difficult and tedious to follow.
The production quality was jumpy at times. Clearly lots of editing and very obvious cuts. Asides from hiccups, the quality of the performance was top-notch.
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Republic, Lost
- How Money Corrupts Congress - and a Plan to Stop It
- By: Lawrence Lessig
- Narrated by: Lawrence Lessig
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 585
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 500
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 486
In an era of ballooning corporate campaign expenditures, unleashed by the Supreme Court in Citizens United, trust in our government is at an all time low. More than ever before, Americans believe that money buys results in Congress - and that our Republic has been lost.Using examples that resonate as powerfully on the Right as on the Left, Republic, Lost not only makes clear how the economy of influence defeats the will of the people, but offers cogent strategies to correct our course....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Periods. Where there. Should. Not. Be. Periods.
- By Richard Nielsen on 01-18-12
- Republic, Lost
- How Money Corrupts Congress - and a Plan to Stop It
- By: Lawrence Lessig
- Narrated by: Lawrence Lessig
A profoundly important book. A must read.
Reviewed: 12-18-11
For anyone that is a lover of the American Republic, this is a must read book.
My only gripe: at times there are some weirdness in the sound production, but Lessig's reading is clear and persuasive.
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The Grand Design
- By: Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,130
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,398
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,383
When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent “grand design” of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion—or does science offer another explanation? In The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow present the most illuminating scientific thinking about these and other abiding mysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language marked by brilliance and simplicity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A GREAT book but not purely science
- By Kristopher on 09-16-10
- The Grand Design
- By: Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
- Narrated by: Steve West
Solid, but just solid.
Reviewed: 12-14-11
I've consumed a lot of content in this area (books, videos, etc). I felt like the authors were a bit distracted here. What is M theory. A discussion of creation myths and how they map to our desire to understand. I felt that the book jumped around a bit. I felt the treatment of M theory to be a bit lacking. I did learn some things. I came away with a much greater appreciation for Feynman, especially. But I was also a bit disappointed. I'm not sure how to compare the content of this book to that of Brian Greene, but Dr. Greene does weave a better narrative.
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