The Cedars of Lebanon

De: Gary Carter

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

After an all-out war in the Mideast renders that portion of the world uninhabitable and threatens to destroy the rest of Earth with its repercussions, three women are sent back in time to ancient Phoenicia and the Levant (circa 600 BC ) to collect seeds, plant cuttings, and seedlings from the now devastated area in an effort to bring them home and propagate them and restore the area before it is too late to salvage our planet. But the girls don't return as scheduled, prompting those in charge to send a rescue mission in an effort to find them and bring them home. Will the rescue mission not find the girls, or find them dead, destroying any remaining chances to save planet Earth? Or have they been captured by King Nebuchadnezzar and his armies and tortured and marched off to Babylon with thousands of other captives to help build the city he envisions will one day rule the world?

Good Story, Terrible Artificial Naration

1. This short story is an interesting idea about time travel . A time travel company has to go search for three missing scientists who didn't return from a trip to ancient Mesopotamia at the time of King Nebukanezer. The story is kind of fun, a bit silly, and worth the credit I paid for it. Some of the characters are not too well fleshed out, but that's probably a function of the length of the story.

2. The naration is done through an artificial intelligence "reader". The biggest problem is that a single voice is used to speak all the words and conversation exactly the same. All the characters sound alike. It sound like long run-on sentences. There is no distinction in speakers . They all sound alike, men, women, people of different ages. There are some curiose aspects where the voice narration sound just odd, and sometime funny. This was NOT an enjoyable listen. So much so, that I doubt I would ever try another book "read" by artificial interlligence. A good narrator helps distinguish between characters in the story and knows how to distinguish different emotions of the characters.