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Peter

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  • Existence | [David Brin]
    Existence
    UNABRIDGED

    Existence

    • UNABRIDGED (32 hrs and 30 mins)
    • By David Brin
    • Narrated By Kevin T. Collins, Robin Miles, L. J. Ganser
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (212)
    Performance
    (189)
    Story
    (187)

    Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there’s something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn’t on the decades’ old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth’s infomesh about an "alien artifact".

    A. Massey says: "Big ideas, good science fiction, frustrating style"
    "Perseverance will be required"
    Overall
    Performance
    Story
    Is there anything you would change about this book?

    Hmm. The listener hears a lot of internal monologues. A lot. And philosophical speculation and what-ifs. While it is interesting, it chokes up the first 8 hours of the book, requiring perseverance. After that, things start to roll. The "real" story takes shape, characters start becoming real and the plot lines unfold.
    However, I don't know if I would have stuck it out, if I had realized that this is apparently not part of a series, but a stand alone novel. At the time, I took the 8 fallow hours as investment. There are also some ideas that the author seems unable to pursue sufficiently, so maybe they should just have been edited out, or in some cases, fleshed out.


    What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

    Slightly surprising, mildly disappointing


    What three words best describe the narrators’s performance?

    varied, intense, enthusiastic


    Did Existence inspire you to do anything?

    In spite of the overall disappointment, I will definitely give David Brin's Uplift books a go. He is clearly an intelligent, deep thinker with story-telling abilities. I just wouldn't choose Existence to showcase his talent


    Any additional comments?

    For all the work he put into it and all the ground work the listener/reader has to endure, there should be more books building on Existence

    4 of 5 people found this review helpful

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