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campbell

Grapevine, TX, United States | Member Since 2009

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  • Pushing Ice | [Alastair Reynolds]
    Pushing Ice
    UNABRIDGED

    Pushing Ice

    • UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 39 mins)
    • By Alastair Reynolds
    • Narrated By John Lee
    Overall
    (1386)
    Performance
    (1121)
    Story
    (1124)

    2057. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. And they're good at it. The Rockhopper is nearing the end of its current mission cycle, and everyone is desperate for some much-needed R & R, when startling news arrives from Saturn: Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, has inexplicably left its natural orbit and is now heading out of the solar system at high speed.

    Jesse says: "Proof that a good story doesn't require a trilogy"
    "Tedious"
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    Long winded with very little resolution. No strong protagonists or antagonists. The phrase "we push ice, that's what we do" is supposed to resonate strongly with the reader. Heavy emphasis on tablet-like computers called "flexies" - people are always flicking out their flexies or charging their flexies or taking photos with their flexies. Unlikable, interchangeable characters.

    3 of 3 people found this review helpful
  • The Innocent: A Novel | [David Baldacci]
    The Innocent: A Novel
    UNABRIDGED

    The Innocent: A Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 14 mins)
    • By David Baldacci
    • Narrated By Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (2046)
    Performance
    (1625)
    Story
    (1634)

    Will Robie may have just made the first - and last - mistake of his career.... It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable: He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people.

    Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a 14-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway....

    andrea says: "I Hope There's a Sequel!!"
    "Another tedious and unlikely story"
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    Another one of those thrillers which takes an unlikely path to achieve a tortuous but entirely predictable twist in the plot. The characters are interchangeable and the plot is irrational.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • In the Garden of Iden: A Novel of the Company, Book 1 | [Kage Baker]
    In the Garden of Iden: A Novel of the Company, Book 1
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    In the Garden of Iden: A Novel of the Company, Book 1

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 29 mins)
    • By Kage Baker
    • Narrated By Janan Raouf
    Overall
    (67)
    Performance
    (41)
    Story
    (41)

    The first novel of Kage Baker’s critically acclaimed, much-loved series, the Company, introduces us to a world where the future of commerce is the past. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus, Inc. One of these is Mendoza, the botanist. She is sent to Elizabethan England to collect samples from the garden of Sir Walter Iden.

    Anna says: "This Is A Wonderful Treat"
    "Scintillating but inconsistent"
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    I discovered Kage Baker looking for authors similar in style to Jack Vance. Can't say I detect the similarity.

    As for the story. The narration is superb. Raouf has a great emptional range and her diction is clear and compelling.

    The story itself is labored in places, but Baker raises some interesting points extremely well. Her premise (that immortals work amongst us mortals and that they too question the meaning of life) works well, but she gets a bit bogged down in romance and religious hysteria.

    If you enjoy this book then I recommend Jill Payton Walsh's Knowledge of Angels.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Night Circus | [Erin Morgenstern]
    The Night Circus
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    The Night Circus

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 39 mins)
    • By Erin Morgenstern
    • Narrated By Jim Dale
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (4747)
    Performance
    (4204)
    Story
    (4190)

    The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

    Pamela says: "The circus of your dreams"
    "Marketed way beyond its merit"
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    There are elements of creativity in this story, but those are overwhelmed by the surrealism of the magic, which soon loses its mystery through overuse, and the author's obsession with crafting meaningless vignettes that do little to carry the story forward.

    The prose was competent, but it was at the cost of pace. The book stumbles through time and an overwhelming clutter of pointless magic that hardly seems worth the effort.

    The Night Circus reminds me of Lemony Snickett - something marketed way beyond any intrinsic merit.

    10 of 13 people found this review helpful

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