• The Sheriff of Yrnameer

  • A Novel
  • By: Michael Rubens
  • Narrated by: William Dufris
  • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (246 ratings)

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The Sheriff of Yrnameer

By: Michael Rubens
Narrated by: William Dufris
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Meet Cole: hapless space rogue, part-time smuggler, on a path to being full-time dead. His sidekick just stole his girlfriend. The galaxy's most hideous and feared bounty hunter wants to lay eggs in his brain. And the luxury space yacht Cole just hijacked turns out of be filled with interstellar do-gooders, one especially loathsome stowaway, and a cargo of freeze-dried orphans.

Reluctantly compelled to deliver these defenseless, fluidless children to safety, Cole gathers a misfit crew for a desperate journey to the far reaches of the galaxy. Their destination: the mysterious world of Yrnameer, the very last of the your-name-heres---planets without corporate sponsors. But little does Cole know that this legendary utopia is home to a murderous band of outlaws bent on destroying the planet's tiny, peaceful community.

Follow Cole's adventures through a delightfully absurd science-fiction universe, where the artificial intelligence is stupid, dust motes carry branding messages, and middle-management zombies have overrun a corporate training satellite.

In the spirit of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, The Sheriff of Yrnameer is sci-fi comedy at its best---mordant, raucously funny, and a thrilling must-listen.

©2009 Michael Rubens (P)2009 Tantor

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"A science fiction book your grandmother will love - if she's a lustful, violent lady." (Stephen Colbert)

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Silly, moronic distraction

Got two-thirds through and gave up when the "hero" becomes sheriff in this silly attempt at space-age western. Couldn't take it any more, and I REALLY tried. It's not funny ... just dumb.

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Finally finished - Yuck

I like SciFi, however, this is poorly done SciFi. Maybe it's just me, however, after owning this book for quite sometime, I finally finished it; It wasn't worth the time to listen to, one of the main reasons it took so long.

While Rubens tries to be funny, there really wasn't anything I thought was funny. The story jumped around and did a very poor job trying to cover the holes; how does a 20+ year gap happen and you don't even TRY to explain it?

The naming of one of the main races in the story, into a name that couldn't be pronounced, and then using bells to "speak" the name, was irritating. When I'm listening to a book, I don't want to hear bells every time a race is mentioned.

Dufris was ok in his performance, however, I'd think twice about hearing him again.

All-in-all, this book gets a fail.

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Meh

Whoever compared it to Douglas Adams was completely wrong. There is none of Adams wit here. Narration is over the top and the author tries too hard to be funny.. failing completely.

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