Jane Carver of Waar [Soundtrack Edition]

De: Nathan Long

Narrado por: Dina Pearlman

This version of Jane Carver of Waar features a soundtrack that includes music and sound effects designed to enhance the listening experience. We will send you a survey in the next few weeks to ask for your feedback on this version. Your feedback will be very helpful and is much appreciated.

Jane Carver is nobody's idea of a space princess. A hard-ridin', hard-lovin' biker chick and ex-Airborne Ranger, Jane is as surprised as anyone else when, on the run from the law, she ducks into the wrong cave at the wrong time - and wakes up butt-naked on an exotic alien planet light-years away from everything she's ever known. Waar is a savage world of four-armed tiger men, sky pirates, slaves, gladiators, and purple-skinned warriors in thrall to a bloodthirsty code of honor and chivalry. Caught up in a disgraced nobleman's quest to win back the hand of a sexy alien princess, Jane encounters bizarre wonders and dangers unlike anything she ever ran into back home. Then again, Waar has never seen anyone like Jane before.

Both a loving tribute and a scathing parody of the swashbuckling space fantasies of yore, Jane Carver of Waar introduces an unforgettable new science-fiction heroine. Nathan Long is a screen and prose writer with two movies, a Saturday-morning adventure series, and several TV episodes to his name. His official website is www.sabrepunk.com.

©2012 Nathan Long (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Conan-esque raunchy adventure

A raucous adventure from a first person female point of view. Fun and sometimes over the top, the writing is engaging, raw and raunchy. The reader is excellent at maintaining our biker-girl hero's toughness and passion. The sound effects were distracting in that they did not match the expectation of my imagination, but the reader was good enough to overcome them.

Great listen!!!!

I really enjoyed this book. It was very, very funny. I bought the next book before I finished listening

Biker Chick does Alice in Wonderland

But Wonderland is more like Mad Max and Thunderdome. So a nice gal on a Harley chopper goes down the hole and crawls into an alternative reality of primitive medievals. Lots of action and sword fighting. The author pushes so close to comedy it's great. I had to laugh out loud a few times. So Action and characters and tongue in cheek. Good Listen

Excellent

It was an amazing and wonderful sci-fi book, from start to finish. I hope she made it back.

Why this?

We received this book free for review as part of Audible's venture into what they're calling "soundtrack" books. It seems a strange choice if they're trying to appeal to a wide audience. This book is essentially a spoof, parody, or homage (depending on how you choose to read it-I felt parody, my wife felt homage) of Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter books. There is an attempt at a feminist? point of view with the heroine being female, but Long is not a deep thinker. He only gestures towards thinking about slavery, gender based power structures and other socially structured forms of dominance and privilege. This book stays firmly in the space of pulp fiction. This is not philosophical thinking in the guise of speculative science fiction. It's meant to be fun not challenging. Is it? Meh. If you haven't read Burroughs, go there instead. If you've exhausted the pulp cannon and crave more, perhaps this is just the thing, but how many of those are there?

As for the added value of the soundtrack experience, I don't hear it. Literally the soundtrack is so faint it's really not contributing, even when headphone listening. What I did hear and notice seemed borrowed and stock sound files, not particularly well matched to the text. The quality of the experience rests solely on the reader, and she's adequate, not great. Compared to the partial cast recording of the Dune books, this pales. But I'm sure those were much more expensive productions.