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Tan A. Summers

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Bountiful, UT USA | Member Since 2006

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  • Will Grayson, Will Grayson

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 52 mins)
    • By John Green, David Levithan
    • Narrated By MacLeod Andrews, Nick Podehl
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (410)
    Performance
    (246)
    Story
    (245)

    One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens—both named Will Grayson—are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will Graysons find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, building toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s most fabulous high school musical.

    Alia says: "Warm Fuzzies..."
    "One of the best performances I've listened to"
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    This is a cleverly written book, and the readers are outstanding. I wish Tiny's musical were real so I could see it now that I've heard some of the songs. The book looks at the problems of love and friendship in a high school setting. However I have to warn conservative readers that one of the book's threads is about homosexual love. It's tastefully done, but it's there. If that's going to bother you, read one of the authors' other books.

    4 of 4 people found this review helpful
  • Ship of Destiny: The Liveship Traders, Book 3

    • UNABRIDGED (33 hrs and 43 mins)
    • By Robin Hobb
    • Narrated By Anne Flosnik
    Overall
    (271)
    Performance
    (158)
    Story
    (160)

    As Bingtown slides toward disaster, clan matriarch Ronica Vestrit, branded a traitor, searches for a way to bring the city's inhabitants together against the Chalcedean threat. Meanwhile, Althea Vestrit, unaware of what has befallen Bingtown and her family, continues her perilous quest to track down and recover her liveship Vivacia from the ruthless pirate Kennit.

    Lorena says: "Something altogether new"
    "Story comes together"
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    Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

    Only to a dedicated fantasy reader.


    What other book might you compare Ship of Destiny to and why?

    It is a teensy little bit Pernlike because there are dragons and people dedicated to them.


    Did the narration match the pace of the story?

    This narrator just isn't my favorite.


    Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

    No! I had periods of being sick of it.


    Any additional comments?

    I feel as if many of the characters started developing personalities they didn't have in the first two books. Kennit actually became pretty interesting. I still waiting on Althea.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Ship of Magic: The Liveship Traders, Book 1

    • UNABRIDGED (35 hrs and 24 mins)
    • By Robin Hobb
    • Narrated By Anne Flosnik
    Overall
    (448)
    Performance
    (247)
    Story
    (246)

    Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships---rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her---a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim.

    Lorena says: "Something altogether new"
    "I can't figure this book out"
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    Is there anything you would change about this book?

    I loved Robin Hobbs's Assassin books so much that I wanted to read more of her books set in that world. The characters were interesting and their motivations made sense. In this book the characters don't make sense at all. I feel as if the author just conceived the characters as stick figures and then tried to throw in a few inconsistencies to round them out. And the reaader drives me nuts. Maybe I should try listening at a faster speed to see if she sounds better.


    What did you like best about this story?

    I still like the world Robin Hobbs has created.


    Would you be willing to try another one of Anne Flosnik’s performances?

    I guess I don't have a choice, since I have decided to stick it out and listen to the rest of the liveship books.


    Could you see Ship of Magic being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

    No, I don't think it would work.


    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • 1Q84

    • UNABRIDGED (46 hrs and 50 mins)
    • By Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (translator), Philip Gabriel (translator)
    • Narrated By Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
    Overall
    (3001)
    Performance
    (2590)
    Story
    (2558)

    The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

    A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....

    Howard says: "Worth the investment."
    "Just too many words"
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    Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

    I felt that 1Q84 was a waste of time and couldn't finish it. The book has an interesting premise and I even like the characters, but it just goes on and on. The author repeats himself terribly--every now and then he even puts in a plot summary, as if realizing that he has written so much trivia that the reader may have forgotten what was going on a hundred pages ago. The author also spends way too much time discussing body parts and sex. He can't relay a conversation between Tengo and his girlfriend without a penis as a prop. I wish someone who made it through to the end of the book would let me know how everything resolved, because the Wikipedia plot summary I found was a little sparse. But even if it means never knowing, I just can't sit through any more descriptions of Tengo's erections.


    If this book were a movie would you go see it?

    Probably not.


    Any additional comments?

    I thought the readers were very good.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • A Discovery of Witches

    • UNABRIDGED (24 hrs and 2 mins)
    • By Deborah Harkness
    • Narrated By Jennifer Ikeda
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (7477)
    Performance
    (5121)
    Story
    (5137)

    Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library.

    Barbara says: "A feast for the mind and imagination"
    "Twilight Meets Jurassic Park"
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    Paranormal romance plus genetics: slightly less silly than most.. The writing is OK and the characters not quite as painfully juvenile as some.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Hope: A Tragedy

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 22 mins)
    • By Shalom Auslander
    • Narrated By Shalom Auslander
    Overall
    (59)
    Performance
    (49)
    Story
    (52)

    The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: No one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there. To begin again. To start anew. But it isn't quite working out that way.

    Tan A. Summers says: "Darkly humorous and a little disturbing"
    "Darkly humorous and a little disturbing"
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    I grew up horrified by the Holocaust. I read Anne Frank when I was in junior high. In high school I read a three-volume documentary of antisemitism throughout history. I have to admit that I didn't know what to think about a book whose theme is, "never forgetting the Holocaust is not the same as talking about it all the time." I'm not sure even now that it's OK for a non-Jew to think this book is funny. OK, I admit it. I think it's funny. But I'm a little uncomfortable with thinking that.

    3 of 3 people found this review helpful
  • The Cat Who Walks through Walls

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 36 mins)
    • By Robert Heinlein
    • Narrated By Tom Weiner
    Overall
    (587)
    Performance
    (284)
    Story
    (291)

    When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his dinner table, Richard Ames is thrown headfirst into danger, intrigue, and other dimensions where Lazarus Long still thrives, where Jubal Harshaw lives surrounded by beautiful women, and where a daring plot to rescue the sentient computer called Mike can change the direction of all human history.

    Harry says: "Good, strong masculine voice, well read"
    "Sci fi giant degenerates into dirty old man"
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    I am really disappointed in this book. The interesting concepts about travelling around space-time are completely overshadowed by the 78-year-old author's fantasies about plural marriage with 12-year-old girls. Bleck.

    0 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • March Upcountry: Prince Roger Series, Book 1

    • UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 15 mins)
    • By David Weber, John Ringo
    • Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki
    Overall
    (1087)
    Performance
    (456)
    Story
    (454)

    Roger Ramius Sergei Chiang MacClintock was young, handsome, athletic, an excellent dresser, and third in line for the Throne of Man. So it wasn't surprising that he became spoiled, self-centered, and petulant. After all, what else did he have to do with his life?

    Euryleia says: "Lots of fun!"
    "I really hated this book"
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    Maybe it's a girl thing. I love Miles Vorkosigan. I hate Prince Roger and his whole milieu. I thought the science fiction aspect of the book was clever, but everything else stank: character development, plot, dialog--especially dialog!

    But, as I say, it might be a girl thing. I can see my son-in-law loving this book.

    7 of 12 people found this review helpful

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