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Mim

HUGHENDEN, Australia | Member Since 2009

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  • The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable

    • UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 24 mins)
    • By Terry Pratchett
    • Narrated By Stephen Briggs
    Overall
    (39)
    Performance
    (18)
    Story
    (17)

    Cohen the Barbarian is going on one final quest. He's going to climb the highest mountain in the Discworld and meet his gods. He doesn't like the way they let men grow old and die. The last hero in the world is going to return what the first hero stole. With a vengeance. That'll mean the end of world, if no one stops him in time. Someone is going to try. So who knows who the last hero really is?

    Katherine says: "Just Great"
    "Cohen, and the Horde, Lives!!"
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    Thoroughly enjoyed Stephen Briggs rendition of this pleasureable visit to the Discworld. Always a pleasure to revel in Pterry's playful use of words and ideas. Always left wanting more.

    0 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • The Beekeeper's Apprentice

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 33 mins)
    • By Laurie R. King
    • Narrated By Jenny Sterlin
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (1392)
    Performance
    (773)
    Story
    (772)

    In 1914, a spirited American girl named Mary Russell meets a retired Sherlock Holmes in the English countryside. Instantly realizing that Mary is gifted with astonishing deductive powers, the Great Detective emerges from retirement to join her as she tracks down a fiendish assassin.

    Yuriko says: "Wow"
    "An alternate Holmesverse"
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    Thoroughly enjoyed this story and felt that the author had a wonderful grasp on Holmes and the time period. (Just imagine Benedict Cumberbatch at 60 for an even better mental image).

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Paladin of Souls

    • UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 22 mins)
    • By Lois McMaster Bujold
    • Narrated By Kate Reading
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (1140)
    Performance
    (329)
    Story
    (332)

    Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family's castle of Valenda. Her newfound freedom is costly, bittersweet with memories, regrets, and guilty secrets, for she knows the truth of what brought her land to the brink of destruction. And now the road, escape, beckons...A simple pilgrimage, perhaps. Quite fitting for the Dowager Royina of Chalion.

    Madeleine says: "Superb"
    "Five curses on the god of all things out of season"
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    Wonderful to be able to spend time with Ista after the Curse of Chalion. Kate Reading does a fine job as the narrator except that I had not pronounced Arhys the way she did. I thought it would rhyme with Harris, without the 'h', rather than the Are/high/s that she says and it is amazing how often it had to be said and this took some of the shine off the narration for me. Bujold is a superb author and her divinity is wonderfully described. May the five gods bless her.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Curse of Chalion

    • UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 27 mins)
    • By Lois McMaster Bujold
    • Narrated By Lloyd James
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (1766)
    Performance
    (595)
    Story
    (599)

    Amidst the decaying splendor and poisonous intrigue of Chalion's ancient capital, Cazaril is forced to confront not only powerful enemies but also the malignant curse that clings to the royal household, trapping him, flesh and soul, in a maze of demonic paradox, damnation, and death for as long as he dares walk the five-fold pathway of the gods.

    Pete says: "Excellent Fantasy... Epic in feel, finite in pace"
    "Come away to Chalion"
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    I loved this story when I first read it and was happy to revisit it as an audiobook. The narrator fits my image of Cazarel and the hours flew by as the story unfolded. Went straight out and bought Paladin of Souls straight after.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Clean: A Mindspace Investigations Novel, Book 1

    • UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 8 mins)
    • By Alex Hughes
    • Narrated By Daniel May
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (54)
    Performance
    (48)
    Story
    (48)

    I used to work for the Telepath’s Guild before they kicked me out for a drug habit that wasn’t entirely my fault. Now I work for the cops, helping Homicide Detective Isabella Cherabino put killers behind bars. My ability to get inside the twisted minds of suspects makes me the best interrogator in the department. But the normals keep me on a short leash. When the Tech Wars ripped the world apart, the Guild stepped up to save it. But they had to get scary to do it - real scary.

    Cynthia says: "Hmmm. . . You’re thinking of telepathy"
    "What can you see in Mind-space?"
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    Bought the title on sale and enjoyed the narrator and the narrative. Adam is a junkie and spends a fair bit of time resisting the siren call of his drug which happens just enough to empathise with his guilt and his pain. The narrator has the right voice for the character and makes it work well for the narrative. Plenty of strong female characters, and the story crackles along at great pace. Told in a non-linear style many of the reasons for Adam's thoughts and actions don't become clear until well into the story. I like that in an author, making a reader think and wait a while. Dresden Files fans may enjoy this entry in the genre.

    2 of 2 people found this review helpful
  • Remnant Population

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 20 mins)
    • By Elizabeth Moon
    • Narrated By Vanessa Hart
    Overall
    (33)
    Performance
    (31)
    Story
    (28)

    For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia’s home. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her one surviving child, lovingly tended her garden, and grown placidly old. And it is here that she fully expects to finish out her days - until the shifting corporate fortunes of the Sims Bancorp Company dictates that Colony 3245.12 is to be disbanded, its residents shipped off, deep in cryo-sleep, to somewhere new and strange and not of their choosing.

    Nancy says: "THERE ARE NO BAD PARTS IN REMNANT POPULATION"
    "Grey Power Rules!"
    Overall
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    I love this story, ever since I first read it and was thrilled to find it here on Audible. The narrator's voice has a wonderful 'aged' timbre and fits the character. It may be Science Fiction but has the universal themes of being in charge of one's own destiny and how the choices one makes to interact with 'new people' has long lasting repercussions. Elderly heroines are rare and this one is well worth remembering.

    8 of 9 people found this review helpful
  • A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction

    • UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 31 mins)
    • By Terry Pratchett, A. S. Byatt (introduction)
    • Narrated By Michael Fenton-Stevens, Stephen Briggs
    Overall
    (6)
    Performance
    (6)
    Story
    (6)

    In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world’s best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett’s long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press, and the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the Discworld series.

    Mim says: "For the collector who can't bear a hole..."
    "For the collector who can't bear a hole..."
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    I have most of the titles in various anthologies but there were a couple of holes this book filled. It is fantastic to have them all together and so well narrated.
    From the first published story he wrote at 13, to the Drabble, to the story that fits into the Long Earth and various other favourites, this shows the skill and inventiveness of this marvellously talented author.
    (The author notes with some of the stories are useful to understand the chronolgy of time and the progress of his prowess.)
    I am so pleased to have stumbled over this quite be accident while searching for 'Nation'. Well done Audible.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • World War Z

    • UNABRIDGED (14 hrs)
    • By Max Brooks
    • Narrated By Chris Ragland, Rupert Farley, Nigel Pilkington, and others
    Overall
    (63)
    Performance
    (56)
    Story
    (58)

    The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched firsthand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living - or at least the undead - hell of that dreadful time.

    Jan says: "Amazing."
    "More than just Zombies"
    Overall
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    I loved this book when I read it years ago and was thrilled to find it available. All the narrators do a fine job although the Australian accent was a bit sus. I loved the sweeping canvas and the many effects a world wide viral infection would have on everyone from how to survive day to day to the long term rebuilding of the world post apocalypse.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Death of a Prankster

    • UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 58 mins)
    • By M. C. Beaton
    • Narrated By Davina Porter
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (85)
    Performance
    (75)
    Story
    (74)

    The Atlanta Journal & Constitution praises M.C.Beaton’s Hamish Macbeth Mystery series as “pure bliss.” Set in the Scottish Highlands, Beaton’s stories are full of colorful local characters and irresistible charm. Police Constable Hamish Macbeth is called in to investigate a murder at the residence of practical joker Andrew Trent. For years Trent has tormented his family with his cruel tricks. He calls them all together for the weekend, claiming to be on his deathbed. Little does he know - he is at death’s door!

    Beverly says: "Easy to read and relax without thinking"
    "Picture Robert Carlyle..."
    Overall
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    A pleasant enough yarn with the all the hallmarks of the english style of murder mystery in the grand house. I enjoyed the scottish accents of Davina Porter.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Wild Cards II: Aces High

    • UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 49 mins)
    • By George R. R. Martin, Roger Zelazny, Pat Cadigan, and others
    • Narrated By Luke Daniels
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (128)
    Performance
    (115)
    Story
    (115)

    After the alien virus struck humanity in the wake of World War II, a handful of the survivors found they possessed superhuman powers. The Wild Cards shared-world volumes tell their story. Here in book two, we trace these heroes and villains through the tumultuous 1980s, in stories from SF and fantasy giants such as George R. R. Martin, Roger Zelazny, Pat Cadigan, Lewis Shiner, Walter Jon Williams, and others.

    Porter R. Rawls says: "Great performance with a classic"
    "What hand are you playing?"
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    What an amazing world the authors have created. Luke Daniels does a great job narrating but this is one book where I would have preferred to have a paper copy along side to know when the stories were changing. Loved the idea of it but felt I needed more info about the universe. I did some research on the author's fanatstic website to try and get a better understanding of the characters and the world to help the stories be more cohesive because I found I was getting lost in the multitude of motivations and the time line.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 47 mins)
    • By Brandon Sanderson
    • Narrated By Michael Kramer
    Overall
    (63)
    Performance
    (53)
    Story
    (55)

    In a world recovering only slowly from evil, a world where allomancers wield immense power through their ability to unleash the magic bound up in common metals, someone who can burn metals that no-one has burned before can tip the balance....

    Chris says: "A solid book, but leaves loose ends"
    "Detective Novel with Allomancy"
    Overall
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    Sufficiently different to the rest of the Mistborn series to make it interesting, but at heart a detective story. Plenty of detail in the fights can go on a bit but a good listen all the same. (Why do authors insist on 'said' do they not own a thesaurus? In written form it isnt as obvious but when spoken it can be irritating.)

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful

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