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Kevin

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  • Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age | [Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson]
    Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age
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    Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age

    • UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 45 mins)
    • By Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson
    • Narrated By Dennis McKee
    Overall
    (108)
    Performance
    (14)
    Story
    (14)

    Crystal Fire is a tale of the human factors in technology; the pride and jealousies coupled with scientific and economic aspiration that led to the creation of modern microelectronics and ignited the greatest technological explosion in history.

    Chad says: "Interesting and not light on the science either!"
    "Good book; wrong voice actor"
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    Is there anything you would change about this book?

    Good book but here's the deal: reader Dennis McKee sounds exactly like Sam Elliot -- you know the actor with the mustache who was born to play western-cowboy rolls. I could not unlink this audio from Sam Elliot's image in my head. This is a book about the invention of the transistor, but it sounds like ol' Cookie on the cattle drive sitting around the campfire spinning yarns. Mr. McKee would be fine for some things -- maybe a Louis L'Amour book -- but he's not the right guy for a high tech book. This is EXACTLY my kind of book, but it took me 2 years to get though the audio in fits and starts.


    Would you recommend Crystal Fire to your friends? Why or why not?

    Print not audio.


    How did the narrator detract from the book?

    Sounded like Sam Elliot.


    Could you see Crystal Fire being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

    Nah, too boring for TV.


    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Shadow of the Torturer: The Book of the New Sun, Book 1 | [Gene Wolfe]
    The Shadow of the Torturer: The Book of the New Sun, Book 1
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    The Shadow of the Torturer: The Book of the New Sun, Book 1

    • UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 9 mins)
    • By Gene Wolfe
    • Narrated By Jonathan Davis
    Overall
    (501)
    Performance
    (234)
    Story
    (235)

    The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume epic, the tale of a young Severian, an apprentice to the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession - showing mercy towards his victim.

    Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun" is one of speculative fiction's most-honored series. In a 1998 poll, Locus Magazine rated the series behind only "The Lord of the Rings" and The Hobbit as the greatest fantasy work of all time.

    Ryan says: "great writing, won't appeal to everyone"
    "Uggh, just awful, I bailed quickly"
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    This was a regrettable waste of $15 for two reasons: the story and the voice actor. OK I hung in there for a good 30 - 40 minutes before I gave up. Story: good lord that was boring slogging, there was absolutely nothing I heard in 30 minutes that gave me any interest in continuing. Does it ever pick up?? I'll never know. (Not that I'm without patience, my all time favorite novel is "Foucault's Pendulum", which doesn't pick up steam till about page 200.)

    And the voice was intolerable. Sounded like the guy was on sedatives, pouring more boring into a boring story. Jonathan Davis -- I'll stick that next to my monitor with a post-it note so as to not make this mistake again.

    0 of 6 people found this review helpful

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