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Upgrade Soul
- By: Ezra Claytan Daniels
- Narrated by: Wendell Pierce, Marcia Gay Harden, Phil LaMarr, Abi Monterey, David Dastmalchian, Lorena Diaz, full cast
- Audible Original Podcast
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Oct 25 20221 min
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Nov 3 202231 mins
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Interview: Upgrade Soul Is a Story that Refuses to Be Contained
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- Lita Martin
- 11-05-22
Pondering Deeply
This is such a deep story of love, betrayal, the possible ramifications of experimental science, and "normal."
Most people are stuck in what we want to define as normal. How people should look perfect, be a certain color, have perfect skin tone, act and think a certain way, etc. However, EVERY SINGLE PERSON IS DIFFERENT! We need to be different from each other.
The actors were impressive in their portrayals of the characters the author so well developed.
Thank you, for giving me something to think deeply about.
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- Daniel Burwen
- 11-04-22
Great adaptation for a ground breaking story
I first encountered Upgrade Soul as a ground breaking interactive comics app. Then I read it in print. To see if translated into a fully scored and sound designed audio experience is a revelation - the characters come alive in an incredibly rich and detailed way, the environments create rich atmosphere. A treat - even if this is your first introduction to this ground breaking and highly entertaining story.
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- Shaked Lotan
- 11-28-22
Great story, fantastic format!
This book's format is what gives it its uniqueness - not being read by a narrator but played like a TV show. They did a great job here, even if sometimes it takes time until you understand who's talking to who and on what timeline.
The story is a great one, but honestly not the best one I've heard.
Still, a great listen, extremely engaging and more than recommended.
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- christina van ingen
- 12-28-22
actors were great but....
the actor performances were great but it really needed more description. it was confusing when they did the flashbacks and the ending didn't really "end". it just cut off without explaining the whole genetic thing. it's a good start but I was disappointed with the storyline. actors did the best they could.
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- Stan von Miller
- 05-11-23
Great performance, underwhelming story.
Cast and performance: Excellent. The cast is what got me to the end, but these are professional film and TV actors that have been in some great shows. Wendell Pierce and Marcia Gay Harden carried it. Lorena Diaz was good too.
Story: Not so much. I like this genre and listen to books like this all the time, but this one didn't do much for me.
Direction and production: Weak at best. I say this because the audio in the first episode was terrible and confusing. In later episodes it was just confusing. There were too many sounds that were ambiguous. I've listened to some fantastic Audible "plays" like this but none of them had all of the odd sounds that couldn't be identified. The big reveal at the end wasn't much of a reveal either since it wasn't at all clear what happened to several of the characters. Like the girl who didn't have a voice and then suddenly does at the end. Where did that come from?
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- Kindle Customer CM
- 06-02-23
Better as a Movie
This would be better as a movie or short series. I almost quit but ended up keeping it on as background noise.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-08-22
Uh it was ok
actors did a good job just story was a little flat, was just missing something
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- David Rasko
- 01-22-23
Ok story, excellent narration
Overall the storyline was just ok, not a lot of depth or novelty, but the narration was top notch.
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- Rebecca
- 01-15-23
Kept my interest
I guess it wasn’t excellent, some of the voice acting was stiff, but in general I was kept interested…I was disappointed in the development of some of the characters, but if I explain why, it would spoil the plot.
It’s kind of a mad scientist losing sight of any moral compass in pursuit of an aim that began as something at least intended to do good. It devolves rapidly, with lots of holes, into madness. Even the ostensibly good characters are eventually corrupted by bad science and turn into bad guys.
Maybe I was a bit too generous with the stars because it kept my mind off of reality for a few hours.
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- Roger
- 07-06-23
A story coming to life
It was a good story, Well delivered, kept me engaged from beginning to end! "Another good find" I said to myself. Thoroughly enjoyed it!÷
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