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Polostan
- Bomb Light, Book 1
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 163
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new series—an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.
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1 out of 5 stars
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All Background No Plot
- By Sam on 10-26-24
- Polostan
- Bomb Light, Book 1
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
Nothing Happens. I just ruined the whole story for you.
Reviewed: 11-03-24
See the title above. Protagonist who can do no wrong wanders the US and Russia and stuff happens but she seems to always know when it will and get away. She gets tortured and possibly has a hysterectomy but is totally fine after all of that - NBD.
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The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
- By: John Perkins
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,886
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,237
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,243
The previous edition of this now-classic book revealed the existence and subversive manipulations of "economic hit men". John Perkins wrote that economic hit men (EHM) "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Don't buy the first "confessions. .." buy this one
- By Bill Redfield on 02-24-16
- The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
- By: John Perkins
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
Worlds most boring “spy” novel.
Reviewed: 11-06-22
Skip the lame stories about a guy who got rich and now feels guilty about it.
Here is the book - American corporations go to developing nations, wildly inflate their potential economic growth to get those countries hooked into giant loans they can’t pay off. The USA then comes in and takes all the natural resources until they are all out. They keep these things super quiet.
Occasionally if the countries say no then people get assassinated.
Organized crime does the same thing with local businesses.
The writer imagined himself to be some kind of big deal spy and retconns some “I’ll take them down from the inside” stuff into the story. I probably would too if I were him.
Save yourself the credit.
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Infinite
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24,112
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22,266
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22,232
The Galahad, a faster-than-light spacecraft, carries 50 scientists and engineers on a mission to prepare Kepler 452b, Earth's nearest habitable neighbor at 1400 light years away. With Earth no longer habitable and the Mars colony slowly failing, they are humanity's best hope. After 10 years in a failed cryogenic bed - body asleep, mind awake - William Chanokh's torture comes to an end as the fog clears, the hatch opens, and his friend and fellow hacker, Tom, greets him...by stabbing a screwdriver into his heart. This is the first time William dies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a rather complex science fiction story
- By Midwestbonsai on 12-26-17
- Infinite
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Predictable except when humans don’t act the way humans act.
Reviewed: 07-19-22
See above. The characters in this book don’t make choices the way humans do. Lots of plot holes and just kind of superficial all around. Neat idea - I like a good sci-fi story but just really really basic.
RC Bray was great as always.
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Liminal Thinking
- Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think
- By: Dave Gray, Richard Saul Wurman - foreword
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,035
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,723
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,714
Why do some people succeed at change while others fail? It's the way they think! Liminal thinking is a way to create change by understanding, shaping, and reframing beliefs. What beliefs are stopping you right now? You have a choice. You can create the world you want to live in or live in a world created by others. If you are ready to start making changes, listen to this book.
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1 out of 5 stars
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No
- By Amazon Customer on 09-21-20
- Liminal Thinking
- Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think
- By: Dave Gray, Richard Saul Wurman - foreword
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
Same old self help stuff. New word.
Reviewed: 03-10-22
See above. There are about 20 pages that actually discuss liminal thinking. The rest is just repeat boring stuff from other motivational books.
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Seveneves
- A Novel
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal, Will Damron
- Length: 31 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25,315
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23,139
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Story4 out of 5 stars 23,132
A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Odd narrator choice
- By Josh Mitchell on 05-30-15
- Seveneves
- A Novel
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal, Will Damron
Narrator almost makes it not worth the purchase.
Reviewed: 10-26-15
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Probably not unless you were just looking so a slow, slow, slow, slow book to keep you occupied on a drive across country.
Would you be willing to try another book from Neal Stephenson? Why or why not?
Yup. I've read most of his other stuff which is better than this.
How could the performance have been better?
Stop doing the male voices. They are terrible. Her regular voice is just fine. Just use that. I don't need the awful awful awful voices.
Could you see Seveneves being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
Probably. It is just boring/not inventive enough to happen. I don't care who.
Any additional comments?
Read his other stuff and skip this. SO MANY EXPLANATIONS. Essentially people do things in this book so they can be explained.
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American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition (A Full Cast Production)
- By: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty, Daniel Oreskes, full cast
- Length: 19 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62,419
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 57,004
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56,922
Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life. But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow's best friend are killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling stranger he meets on the way home, an enigmatic man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday.
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5 out of 5 stars
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New to Neil
- By Michael on 07-27-11
Awesome
Reviewed: 10-16-15
First Neil Gaiman book and it was great. Narration was outstanding. I will be downloading more of him now.
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Mindset
- The New Psychology of Success
- By: Carol Dweck
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,354
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,277
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,174
Mindset is one of those rare audio books that can help you make positive changes in your life and at the same time see the world in a new way. A leading expert in motivation and personality psychology, Carol Dweck has discovered in more than 20 years of research that our mindset is not a minor personality quirk: it creates our whole mental world. It explains how we become optimistic or pessimistic. It shapes our goals, our attitude toward work, and ultimately predicts whether or not we will fulfull our potential.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Profiles in Mindset
- By Michael on 03-29-14
- Mindset
- The New Psychology of Success
- By: Carol Dweck
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
So. Much. Repeating.
Reviewed: 09-25-15
What did you love best about Mindset?
The concept. I agree with the ideas behind the book and love hearing about it.
What was most disappointing about Carol Dweck’s story?
Holy crap we get it. Some guy was fixed mindset and bad and another guy was growth and good. Enough. 4-5 examples are plenty. Not 1000 of the same. And maybe deal with some grey a bit - everything is written as this or that.
What three words best describe Marguerite Gavin’s voice?
Plain. Plain. Plain.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
No.
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Blind Man's Bluff
- The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
- By: Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew
- Narrated by: Tony Roberts
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 479
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 348
No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Blind Man's Bluff reveals for the first time how the Navy sent subs wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables, as well as other secrets as deep as the sea.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hero's ALL
- By MYOB on 06-01-03
- Blind Man's Bluff
- The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
- By: Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew
- Narrated by: Tony Roberts
Great story and Great Narrator
Reviewed: 04-03-15
These kind of stories fascinate me to no end. Perfect combination of narrative and history.
Narrator is great - the kind that makes you look for other books they've read just because you enjoyed him so much.
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