Utilisateur anonyme
- 7
- commentaires
- 4
- votes utiles
- 8
- évaluations
-
Children of Time
- Auteur(s): Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrateur(s): Mel Hudson
- Durée: 16 h et 31 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 1 614
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1 429
-
Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 1 426
Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
SF masterwork in the style of Brin or Vinge
- Écrit par Blythe le 2018-09-16
- Children of Time
- Auteur(s): Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrateur(s): Mel Hudson
Cool idea, but I should have just read it.
Évalué le: 2022-03-06
I don’t know what it is, but I wasn’t a fan of this narrator at all. She got a little too dramatic at times and got into these frantic bursts (which stressed me out lol), all of her voices sounded the same (this one sounds silly, but I mean that it didn’t sound like she tried to change it up) and she just went a little too fast at times. I wish John Lee did this series because I want to keep going but I can’t with Mel unfortunately.
The story on the other hand was really cool. A little hard to follow at times, but again maybe that was from the performance.
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
Vous avez donné votre avis sur cette évaluation.
Vous avez donné votre avis sur cette évaluation.
-
Fallen Dragon
- Auteur(s): Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 26 h et 31 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4 out of 5 stars 52
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
-
Histoire4 out of 5 stars 46
In the distant future, corporations have become sustainable communities with their own militaries, and corporate goals have essentially replaced political ideology. On a youthful, rebellious impulse, Lawrence joined the military of a corporation that he now recognizes to be ruthless and exploitative. His only hope for escape is to earn enough money to buy his place in a better corporation.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Read it several times and listened a couple more
- Écrit par Iron Lynx le 2020-07-05
- Fallen Dragon
- Auteur(s): Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
Interesting, but a little confusing at times.
Évalué le: 2022-01-21
I want to preface by saying PFH is one of my favourite authors. With most PFH books, in my opinion his greatest strength is also his greatest flaw. He knows how to build a world and go into great detail, but at times I found a few subplots he is included to be pointless and forgettable. Maybe his work is just not meant to be read as an audiobook, but John Lee is my favourite narrator so I’m conflicted.
This was a cool story and a lot of interesting ideas, but it was a little anticlimactic. I felt like it jumped around quite a bit and I only knew what was going on half of the time. Likeable antagonist though.
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
Vous avez donné votre avis sur cette évaluation.
Vous avez donné votre avis sur cette évaluation.
1 personne a trouvé cela utile
-
Chasm City
- Auteur(s): Alastair Reynolds
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 23 h et 3 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 108
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 99
-
Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 97
The once-utopian Chasm City - a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet---has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted - from the people to the very buildings they inhabit---only the most wretched sort of existence remains. The stakes are raised when Tanner Mirabel's search brings him face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Incredibly creative noir/sci-fi
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-08-02
- Chasm City
- Auteur(s): Alastair Reynolds
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
Incredibly creative noir/sci-fi
Évalué le: 2021-08-02
Loved the world building and didn’t mind the characters (when I figured them out at the end).
Parts were a bit confusing at times and some motives were a bit questionable but overall I really enjoyed it.
And John Lee…I can’t stop listening to his work!
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
Vous avez donné votre avis sur cette évaluation.
Vous avez donné votre avis sur cette évaluation.
2 les gens ont trouvé cela utile
-
Antifragile
- Things That Gain from Disorder
- Auteur(s): Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrateur(s): Joe Ochman
- Durée: 16 h et 14 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 418
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 355
-
Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 347
In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem, and in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. For what Taleb calls the "antifragile" is actually beyond the robust, because it benefits from shocks, uncertainty, and stressors, just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension. The antifragile needs disorder in order to survive and flourish. Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Almost a 5
- Écrit par Marfew le 2019-04-03
- Antifragile
- Things That Gain from Disorder
- Auteur(s): Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrateur(s): Joe Ochman
Definitely gives you perspective on a lot of things
Évalué le: 2021-06-26
Very thorough and thoughtful and I thought it was interesting how he tied in his personal stories to make his points.
But he sure does NOT let you forget that he’s Lebanese…as someone of Lebanese descent myself, I get it but it gets to a nearly comical point at times lol
Narrator was a little bland for my liking.
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
Vous avez donné votre avis sur cette évaluation.
Vous avez donné votre avis sur cette évaluation.
-
Hyperion
- Auteur(s): Dan Simmons
- Narrateur(s): Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, Autres
- Durée: 20 h et 44 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 686
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 581
-
Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 581
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Simmons is a complete hack
- Écrit par FuzzyThoughts le 2021-04-14
- Hyperion
- Auteur(s): Dan Simmons
- Narrateur(s): Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, Jay Snyder, Victor Bevine
Wish someone else narrated it…
Évalué le: 2021-06-25
Honestly, I want to like this book so bad but the narrator is way too dramatic and broody, and honestly it makes it hard to listen to. John Lee or Simon Vance are narrators I like so I don’t know…this might be a manual read.
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
Vous avez donné votre avis sur cette évaluation.
Vous avez donné votre avis sur cette évaluation.
-
Children of Ash and Elm
- A History of the Vikings
- Auteur(s): Neil Price
- Narrateur(s): Samuel Roukin
- Durée: 17 h et 25 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 59
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 52
-
Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 51
The Viking Age - from 750 to 1050 saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
An engaging written history of the Vikings...
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-01-10
- Children of Ash and Elm
- A History of the Vikings
- Auteur(s): Neil Price
- Narrateur(s): Samuel Roukin
An engaging written history of the Vikings...
Évalué le: 2021-01-10
I just started watching the show Vikings and it reignited my curiosity to get to the bottom of Viking history. I just really wish the author would have left his left-leaning views out of the retelling. A lot of it is colouring their culture with current gender views/norms and for a little bit it's fine but its a constant revisiting of this perspective. It prevented it from being an amazing book and objective read. We're talking about the vikings here... The narrator was good, but his pronunciation of names like Ahmad Ibn Fadlan were way off. Also, a few times you could hear mistakes being made. One part his sentence was cutoff followed by a "Yeah?" (it was kind of funny). Overall, pretty good.
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
Vous avez donné votre avis sur cette évaluation.
Vous avez donné votre avis sur cette évaluation.
1 personne a trouvé cela utile
-
The History of the Ancient World
- From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
- Auteur(s): Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 26 h et 20 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 190
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 157
-
Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 157
This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history. This narrative history employs the methods of "history from beneath" - literature, epic traditions, private letters, and accounts - to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Iffy narration, abrupt ending
- Écrit par Micah Clark le 2020-09-07
- The History of the Ancient World
- From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
- Auteur(s): Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
Well-written and engaging, one small issue...
Évalué le: 2020-11-02
This was very concisely written and easy to follow, until it wasn't...unfortunately, it sort of jumps all over the place. I suppose that's to keep the timeline consistent, but as an audiobook it threw me off at time. It was almost as though right when you got into a certain time and place, ancient Rome for example, they abruptly switch to ancient China. Again, this has to be to follow the timeline, but as an audiobook it made it a little hard to follow and ends up scattering the periods by the end of it because it's so long. The narrator is the best though. Verdict: if I could do it again i'd read it as a book, or find an audiobook on ones on the specific civilization rather than all of them...
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
Vous avez donné votre avis sur cette évaluation.
Vous avez donné votre avis sur cette évaluation.