This is a great listen. I am disappointed to find that 40,000 in Ghenna and Regenisis aren't part of the Audible collection.

The fascinating story of death and resurrection , lies and deceits, aand love, all expertly narrated.

I couldn't do it.This started out as one of the most boring starts of a book that I have heard in a long time. Add in the profanity class.... I could not take it. If you enjoy profanity just for the sake of hearing it and dont mind long political intrigue, to get things started. Then this may be for you.

I couldn't get into the story and I listened to all of Cryptonomicon, so take that for what it's worth.

More action, less politics.

It felt like reading boring news.

Narrator was fine.

I went ahead and finished it because I did start to 'care' about the characters and because the implications of cloning is interesting.

There's a lot of reasons to hate this book: the lengthy boring descriptions that never amount to anything, the cardboard characters, the way it hints at interesting ideas without ever exploring them because it's too busy trying to keep to a soap opera style intrigue and provide regular sex scenes.... But those are all meaningless because of the horrible double standard that rears its ugly head right at the beginning of the book. Any male character who so much as looks at a female in a lustful way is an evil lech, but a female character who rapes a young male character is just being a "strong independent woman." Maybe this was a response to the rampant misogyny present in SF written by men, but utter crap like this does not help anyone.

I would not have gotten through this book if I had not been stuck at work. The one good thing to come of it is now I understand a parody SF story Diana Wynne Jones once wrote where she described female hating, coffee obsessed, star pilots with super computers. Now I get it. She nailed it.

Perhaps. The pace of the writing is very slow and it took a couple false starts before I could finish the book.

I thought the narrators did an excellent job. I wish we could have heard more from Jonathan Davis (he's my favorite narrator and the reason I bought this audiobook) but Gabra Zackman surprised me. Personally I liked her male voices. Were they as believably as if a man had done them? No, probably not but she made strong choices, carried them through a 20+ book were all the characters aged significantly, and conveyed a lot of subtlety.

The first few hours were painful without having the context of any other books by this author—just political "he said, she said". The book gets really gripping about a third of the way through but I agree with others that the end was a bit anticlimactic.

I'm very interested in more of this author's work now as well as other books narrated by Gabra Zackman.

If you like over 22 hours of endless and repetitive Queen Bee mind games, you'll love this novel.

Otherwise, ... not so much.

Have the woman reading speed up by a factor of fifty and stop trying to make every damn word have an impact.

Honestly, I won't know until I grab it in paperback and get a chance to read it.

Have I would think literally ANYONE else do the reading. She was way too slow, every word was drawn out like she was reading from some stage drama, and her "s" whistled so badly it pierced by brain! Maybe it's me, but I've never had an issue with all the other readers I've heard from these audiobooks.

Nope.

I am enjoying this so much I will probably listen again while sharing it with my husband. I will be sorry when the book is done.

The story itself is well done in the exploration of a complex psyche against the backdrop of a hard science fiction future that succeeds in suspending my disbelief (well, most of the time anyway). It does show its age a tad with some of the computing details, but that's OK.

I have listened to a lot of fantastic audio books, but this is the best performance I have heard. Gabra Zackman handles voices from small girl to old men and makes you believe in the story. This is the first time I have heard her and I will be sure to seek her out again. Jonathan Davis is quite different form other things I have heard him narrate, but his presentation is perfect for the part his is playing in this book.