I bought this audiobook from Audible.com and listened to it using the Audible app on my iPhone. I am not sure why I purchased this book, on the surface it sounds like a book I would enjoy, I guess… I think if I had read it as a paperback I picked up from somewhere I may have enjoyed it much more, but as an audio book it just didn’t work for me. ...
I bought this audiobook from Audible and listened to it using the Audible app on my iPhone, but it looks like Audible is no longer selling it. METAtropolis is a collection of stories from multiple authors set in the same universe that they agreed upon before writing. It is a fine idea, but most of the stories are kind of a bore. John Scalzi and Michael Hogan were the big draw for me, I love those guys, and they both did a fine job for their part, but the book as a whole does not pay off. ...
Bite Me: A Love Story by Christopher MooreI bought this hardcover book used from the Book Nook in Marietta Georgia. I loved Dirty Jobs so much that I keep hoping that Christopher Moore’s other books would be as good, but sadly the ones I have read are not. Don’t get me wrong, this book is OK, I enjoyed it overall, although some of the narration in supposed gothy-teenage slang really got on my nerves, the story itself is solid. ...
I bought this book from Audible and listened to it using the Audible app on my iPhone. So this is the last Paolo Bacigalupi book I will be reading/listening to for a long while. I liked Windup Girl but everything else has not excited me, and this book is no exception. If you have read Windup Girl you have already read one of the best stories in this book, go read Windup Girl instead of this one. ...
Dutch AudiobookI bought this audiobook on a sale at Audible and listened to it using the Audible app on my iPhone. Dutch is an angry story about an angry young black man from an angry place. Not being an angry young black man myself this book misses the mark for me. It does not speak to me and was not meant to. This is not a mainstream story targeted at a widespread audience, but is targeted squarely at an urban teen African American audience, whether that was the author’s intention or not. As a movie it would probably have wider appeal. ...
I bought this audiobook from Audible and listened to it on my iPhone using the Audible app. I absolutely love Neil Gaiman and can’t get enough of his stories, not only did he write this one but he also narrates it. I really enjoy hearing stories as read by their author. The author is able to put more inflection and emotion into the characters than any other narrator could and Neil Gaiman is a fantastic narrator. ...
I bought this audiobook from Audible and listened to it on my iPhone using the Audible app. This is book 2 in the Shipbreaker series, the first being “Shipbreaker”. I did not really get into Shipbreaker, but I did like some of the characters enough to give the second book a try. The half-man Tool was my favorite character in the first book and it was great getting so much time with him in Drowned Cities. ...
I bought this audiobook from Audible and listened to it using the Audible app on my iPhone. I really enjoyed Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi and decided to give his other books a try. This book is a solid story. The pacing is good; the characters have clear motivations and believable emotions. But meh… I’m not sure why but this book just didn’t reach me. It is very post-cyberpunk, I should like it a lot, but I don’t. I like it some, just not a lot. ...
I bought this audiobook from Audible and listened to it using the Audible app and my iPhone. This book did not impress me. To me the narrator, James Adams, sounds really bored throughout the book. Maybe it has to do with my own opinion that “Science” knows a lot less than it thinks it does and that much of what is currently accepted as irrefutable truth will soon be recognized as being wrong. So a book of 13 things that science does not know is not very impressive to me. ...
I bought the 14 books of the Dresden Files from Audible.com and listened to them using the Audible iPhone app and my iPhone. I ran out of books in my waiting list and decided it was time to re-listen to all of the Dresden Files books, one after the other as quickly as time would allow. What a ride. Taking the series in like this was great, it was like having one extremely large book to listen to with no interruptions. Butcher has created a universe and characters that I will never forget. ...