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Perhaps it wasn't from our time, perhaps it wasn't even from our universe, but the arrival of the 300-kilometer long stone was the answer to humanity's desperate plea to end the threat of nuclear war. Inside the deep recesses of the stone lies Thistledown: the remnants of a human society, versed in English, Russian and Chinese. The artifacts of this familiar people foretell a great Death caused by the ravages of war, but the government and scientists are unable to decide how to use this knowledge.
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Am Epic Original SciFi Read Worth Your Time...
- De Michael en 07-01-12
De: Greg Bear
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Newton and Polly
- A Novel of Amazing Grace
- De: Jody Hedlund
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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Now remembered as the author of the world's most famous hymn, in the mid-18th century, as England and France stand on the brink of war, John Newton was a young sailor wandering aimlessly through life. His only duty was to report to his ship and avoid disgracing his father - until the night he heard Polly Catlett's enchanting voice caroling. He was immediately smitten and determined to win her affection.
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Seriously wonderful! I couldn't stop listening!
- De Mary :) en 09-27-16
De: Jody Hedlund
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The House of the Four Winds
- One Dozen Daughters, Book 1
- De: Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory
- Narrado por: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Duración: 10 h
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The rulers of tiny, impoverished Swansgaard have twelve daughters and one son. While the prince’s future is assured, his twelve sisters must find their own fortunes. Disguising herself as Clarence, Princess Clarice intends to sail to the New World. When the crew rebels, Clarice/Clarence, an expert with rapier and dagger, sides with the handsome navigator, Dominick, and kills the cruel captain. Dominick leads the now - outlawed crew in search of treasure in the secret pirate haven known as The House of the Four Winds.
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Solid story, but this one is popcorn
- De Phillip en 09-19-14
De: Mercedes Lackey, y otros
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The Red Wolf Conspiracy
- De: Robert V. S. Redick
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 19 h y 13 m
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The Imperial Merchant Ship Chathrand is the last of her kind. Six hundred years old, the secrets of her construction long forgotten, the massive vessel dwarfs every other sailing craft in the world. It is a palace with sails, a floating outpost of the Empire of Arqual. And it is on its most vital mission yet: to deliver a young woman whose marriage will seal the peace between Arqual and its mortal enemy, the secretive Mzithrin Empire.
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Not Bad, not great.
- De Aerindel en 10-15-09
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Keturah
- The Sugar Baron's Daughters, Book 1
- De: Lisa T. Bergren
- Narrado por: Amy Landon
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
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In 1772 England, Lady Keturah Banning Tomlinson and her sisters find themselves the heiresses of their father's estates and know they have one option: Go to the West Indies to save what is left of their heritage. Although it flies against all the conventions for women of the time, they're determined to make their own way in the world. But once they arrive in the Caribbean, proper gender roles are the least of their concerns.
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Conflicted
- De kathy en 04-19-19
De: Lisa T. Bergren
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The Pale Blue Eye
- De: Louis Bayard
- Narrado por: Charles Leggett
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
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When the body of a suicide victim disappears at West Point Military Academy in 1831, only to be discovered hours later missing its heart, the Academy calls on retired detective Gus Landor to investigate. Landor is something of a legend among his peers, noted for an uncanny, Holmesian ability to read people. When Edgar Allan Poe, a new cadet, comes forth with his own cryptic conclusion—that the man Landor is looking for is a poet—Landor is intrigued and enlists Poe as his assistant.
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Could not get through it
- De Amazon Customer en 10-25-15
De: Louis Bayard
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The Lioness of Morocco
- De: Julia Drosten, Christiane Galvani - translator
- Narrado por: Henrietta Meire
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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Independent-minded Sibylla Spencer feels trapped in 19th-century London, where her strong will and progressive views have rendered her unmarriageable. Still single at 23, she is treated like a child and feels stifled in her controlling father's house. When Benjamin Hopkins, an ambitious employee of her father's trading company, shows an interest in her, she realizes marriage is her only chance to escape.
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The Lioness o Morocco
- De MM en 06-23-17
De: Julia Drosten, y otros
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Bury the Living
- The Revolutionary Series, Book 1
- De: Jodi McIsaac
- Narrado por: Alana Kerr Collins
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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Rebellion has always been in the O'Reilly family's blood. So when faced with the tragic death of her brother during Northern Ireland's infamous Troubles, a teenage Nora joined the IRA to fight for her country's freedom. Now, more than a decade later, Nora is haunted by both her past and vivid dreams of a man she has never met. When she is given a relic belonging to Brigid of Kildare, patron saint of Ireland, the mystical artifact transports her back eighty years - to the height of Ireland's brutal civil war.
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Great Narrator
- De Sandra en 09-29-22
De: Jodi McIsaac
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The Architect's Apprentice
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Piter Marek
- Duración: 16 h y 54 m
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In 1540, 12-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for) the sultan's beautiful daughter Princess Mihrimah. A palace education leads Jahan to Mimar Sinan, the empire's chief architect, who takes Jahan under his wing as they construct (with Chota's help) some of the most magnificent buildings in history.
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I feel like I should like it more than I do
- De nyog en 04-19-17
De: Elif Shafak
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The Scarlet Kimono
- De: Christina Courtenay
- Narrado por: Julia Franklin
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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England, 1611, and young Hannah Marston envies her brother's adventurous life. But when she stows away on a merchant ship, her powers of endurance are stretched to their limit. Then they reach Japan and all her suffering seems worthwhile until she is abducted by Taro Kumashiro's warriors. In the far north of the country, warlord Kumashiro is intrigued to learn more about the girl who he has been warned about by a seer. There's a clash of cultures and wills, but they're also fighting an instant attraction to each other.
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great story
- De Angela en 08-23-12
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A Most Extraordinary Pursuit
- De: Juliana Gray
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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February, 1906. As the personal secretary of the recently departed duke of Olympia - and a woman of scrupulous character - Miss Emmeline Rose Truelove never expected her duties to involve steaming through the Mediterranean on a private yacht, under the prodigal eye of one Lord Silverton, the most charmingly corrupt bachelor in London. But here they are, improperly bound on a quest to find the duke's enigmatic heir, current whereabouts unknown. Maximilian Haywood was last seen at an archaeological dig on the island of Crete.
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This Book Would Have Been A Hot Mess...
- De Alexis en 10-06-16
De: Juliana Gray
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Sea of Poppies
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- Susan Myers
- 11-30-17
Overly melodramatic
I never really got into this book and was just impatient for it to finish. Not sure I’ll bother with the next two - if it was not so long winded, I feel this would be just another sickly sweet romance novel. The narration was interesting - excellent voices but the delivery of the narration was flat and dull. There were no pauses between many of the different sections, making it confusing to follow at times.
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- Clare Jenkins
- 08-07-22
amazing!
and the 2nd time I have listened to it! the next 2 booked are even better.
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- Lorenzo Coopman
- 02-03-21
Excellent book.
i did like this book, it is intelligent, empathic toward those who deserve it and is honest treatment toward the less sympathetic personages.
It gives a good impression of how it was to live in the far east under the British empire from the 19th century.
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- Namita
- 06-29-22
Rich, Panoramic and an absolute Epic.
This book is unputdownable. The plot is so dense and filled with historical references to Indo China war, and colonial exploitations and deals with issues of exiles and subaltern voices. Ghosh's tremendous talent to make the story profoundly moving is something applaudable. A varied range of characters, settings and descriptions. Explores true human emotions and is very moving.
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- Shyam
- 02-06-17
Excellent story, gripping narration
Amitav Ghosh recreates the colonial world with its conflicting ethos and turbulent commerce in a clash of destinies which converge on a schooner. Narrated with excellent voice modulations at a tight pace.
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- Avid reader
- 12-02-12
Wonderful listen 4 a fast ear
Would you consider the audio edition of Sea of Poppies to be better than the print version?
Haven't read the print
What did you like best about this story?
The flow and the life-like description of the characters
What about Kish Sharma’s performance did you like?
The characters' accents
Any additional comments?
Kish at times read too fast to follow.
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- 05-10-12
good beginning gradually decays to nonsense
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Well it's not clear if the recording process was faulty or whether the story actually concludes with the lifeboat leaving in a storm with several main characters on board while several other main characters remain on the ship in various states of unresolved dubious action, but it could have got to maybe 2.5 stars if all this was concluded in some way.
What could Amitav Ghosh have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Make the author sit down and do a serious self critique of his work, modify his objectives in favour of producing a cohesive plausible narrative with consistent characterization, and give it more time, more thought and much hard work rewriting and condensing.
Would you listen to another book narrated by Kish Sharma?
Yes the narration was very good considering the overblown nonsense that the book gradually decended to, and the narrator probably can't be blamed for overdoing it somewhat.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
The commencement of the book was excellent The early development of the characters and their origins and the narrative was fine up to maybe one third of the way through. The ingredients were there for a great novel, if only it had continued in that way. Unfortunately the author became overwhelmed by his own characters and quite literally lost the plot.
Any additional comments?
Please convey my comments for what they are worth to the author because in my opinion the author does have talent - currently wasting it.
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