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The Three-Body Problem
- By: Cixin Liu
- Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,346
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,176
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,176
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilisation on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them or to fight against the invasion.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too little, too long
- By Anonymous User on 05-10-19
- The Three-Body Problem
- By: Cixin Liu
- Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
This!
Reviewed: 11-14-22
One of my favorite books though it seemed that I forgot most of it. I couldn't remember any details - just the themes. But it is still fascinating! Wonderfully imaginative! Filled with big ideas, that I'm not entirely sure I understand. One thing I do remember from last time, is that the trilogy only gets better and I can't wait to get on with The Dark Forest!!
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Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection
- By: Stephen Fry - introductions, Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 71 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,646
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,528
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,511
Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the complete works of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and five collections of short stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent production
- By Antanas Grincevicius on 10-23-17
I will miss Sherlock Holmes
Reviewed: 06-08-22
This was an absolute pleasure. I've always known the characters but never read any of the stories, and they did not disappoint. Inventive, fun and charming even a 100 years later. No wonder they have survived and even thrive to this day.
Stephen Fry did a great job with the narration. I could listen to that buttery voice from now on and until forever.
I think I will actually miss being in the company of Mr. Holmes and Mr. Watson whom I have now been on so many adventures with.
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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 19,950
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16,499
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16,495
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
Written by a fan boy
Reviewed: 09-29-20
Very interesting but a bit to admiring about someone who whipped out a huge chunk of the world population (which is never mentioned). But given that the Mongols throughout history have been seen as dumb brutes, it's a worthy persute to tell a different narrative.
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No Surrender
- My Thirty-Year War
- By: Hiroo Onoda
- Narrated by: Lane Nishikawa
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 530
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 478
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 478
In the Spring of 1974, 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine army and police, hostile islanders, and eventually successive Japanese search parties, Onoda had skillfully outmaneuvered all his pursuers, convinced that World War II was still being fought and waiting for the day when his fellow soldiers would return victorious.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An incredible story!
- By Erik on 04-13-14
- No Surrender
- My Thirty-Year War
- By: Hiroo Onoda
- Narrated by: Lane Nishikawa
Sometimes you SHOULD surrender!!
Reviewed: 10-26-18
This book serves as prime example on how NOT to live your life.
Rather than being exciting, the story is insanely frustrating. It's like watching Chinese water tourture: Slow and pointless breakdown. You know how it all ends, you already know what the facts are, so hearing how Hiroo Onoda turns every information he receives on its head to fit the paranoid fantasy he's built up over many years is just so goddamn irritating.
Can't say it doesn't remind me of the grim political landscape of today.
Onodas sense of duty stems from a combination of misplaced loyalty to country (mind you - a country he has been in service of for more years than he has actually lived there, and doesn't seem to be particular eager to get back to), brainwashed idealism, illusions of grandure (he thinks the enemy is dropping fake leaflets from planes and prints years of fake newspapers just to capture him?) and institutionalization (I suspect), he fights for a cause that is not. His "war" amounts to nothing else than wasted years, being a nuisance to honest farmers for years.
But most frustrating of all is the questions: "What was it all for?", "Do you regret the way you wasted your life?" "How fucking stupid do you feel?" These questions most essential to the whole story Onoda finally asks at the very end of the book AND THEN THE BOOK ENDS WITHOUT ANY ANSWERS rendering this a narrative of events and not a single self reflection. Fuck that.
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The Way of Kings
- The Stormlight Archive, Book 1
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer, Kate Reading
- Length: 45 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,475
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,207
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3,202
According to mythology, mankind used to live in 'The Tranquiline Halls': heaven. But then the Voidbringers assaulted and captured heaven, casting out God and men. Men took root on Roshar, the world of storms, but the Voidbringers followed. The Almighty gave men powerful suits of armor and mystical weapons, the Shardblades. Led by 10 angelic Heralds and 10 orders of knights known as Radiants, mankind finally won (or so the legends say).
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- By Robbie Lopes on 06-22-11
- The Way of Kings
- The Stormlight Archive, Book 1
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer, Kate Reading
Huge in every way
Reviewed: 06-04-18
This was great - Can’t say it didn’t drag out a little in the Middelfart but what 1000 page book doesn’t? I was never off and most of the time I was on like crazy. Will highly recommend any fantasy fan.
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Altered Carbon
- Altered Carbon, Book 1
- By: Richard Morgan
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 557
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 512
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 513
Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great audiobook, some distracting mistakes
- By Andrew Skinner on 02-28-15
- Altered Carbon
- Altered Carbon, Book 1
- By: Richard Morgan
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
Smooth book - the recording, not so much
Reviewed: 01-21-18
Marvelous book - smooth blend of the sci-fi and detective elements which is really cool. Even 400 years out there's still femme fatale, a criminal underbelly hidden in the darkest corners of the city and a corrupt elite preying on the weak.
The performance was all right but the quality of the recording was lackluster. Sometimes you can hear background noise and the push of the record-button.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
- By: Khaled Hosseini
- Narrated by: Atossa Leoni
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14,656
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,762
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,780
Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss, and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them, in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul, they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Completely brilliant
- By Suze Weinberg on 06-01-07
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- By: Khaled Hosseini
- Narrated by: Atossa Leoni
Fantastic
Reviewed: 01-02-18
Goddamn it must be so hard to be a character in Khaled Hosseini's books. They take so much punishment but it makes the beautiful, tender moments linger that much longer.
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Death's End
- By: Cixin Liu, Ken Liu - translator
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 28 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,294
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,737
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,709
Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to coexist peacefully as equals, without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of the best trilogies I have ever listened to
- By Patrick on 10-17-16
- Death's End
- By: Cixin Liu, Ken Liu - translator
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
Best ever
Reviewed: 12-16-17
Best ever. I'm not sure I completely get it but this trilogy is like nothing else. Magic, horror and wonder all mixed together.
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The Dark Forest
- The Three-Body Problem, Book 2
- By: Cixin Liu
- Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
- Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 894
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 802
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 801
The Trisolarian fleet has left their home world and will arrive in four centuries' time. But the Sophons and their extradimensional emissaries are already here. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a last-ditch defence that grants four individuals almost absolute power to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best I've ever read
- By Æ Mann on 11-20-17
- The Dark Forest
- The Three-Body Problem, Book 2
- By: Cixin Liu
- Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
One of the best I've ever read
Reviewed: 11-20-17
This is second time I've read this book. It's truly mind-boggling, scary, amazing. Love it
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For We Are Many
- Bobiverse, Book 2
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 72,256
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 65,841
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 65,637
Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe. Bob and his copies have been spreading out from Earth for 40 years now, looking for habitable planets. But that's the only part of the plan that's still in one piece.
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4 out of 5 stars
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THE FECAL MATTER HAS HIT THE ATMOSPHERIC PROJECTOR
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-03-17
- For We Are Many
- Bobiverse, Book 2
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Still fresh, still awesome
Reviewed: 10-26-17
The premise is still oh so cool, but although it builds and expands greatly on the storylines of the first book, I still can't help but feel that it could push it even further.
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