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Started out good but fell flat
- By Ed A on 08-04-15
By: Ted Kosmatka
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Blood Music
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- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 470
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Story4 out of 5 stars 472
Vergil's innovative experiment restructuring the cells of a common virus becomes a nightmare when, in order to save his research, Vergil injects the entire culture into his bloodstream.
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5 out of 5 stars
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THOUGHT UNIVERSE
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 08-01-15
By: Greg Bear
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Void Star
- By: Zachary Mason
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Tristan Morris, Sean Pratt, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 209
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Story4 out of 5 stars 187
Not far in the future, the seas have risen, and the central latitudes are emptying. But it's still a good time to be rich in San Francisco, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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if you're That Guy
- By Zachary on 06-18-17
By: Zachary Mason
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Await Your Reply
- A Novel
- By: Dan Chaon
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 257
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 141
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Story4 out of 5 stars 140
Three strangers who are trying to find their way in the wake of loss become entwined in an identity theft scheme, which has a resounding impact on them all. A gorgeously written psychological study, and a meditation on identity in the modern world, this is a literary novel with the haunting momentum of a thriller.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Well Narrated, but Thoroughly Depressing
- By Rob Prindle on 12-04-09
By: Dan Chaon
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Haunted Ground
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- Narrated by: Jennifer McMahon
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When farmers cutting turf in an Irish peat bog make a grisly discovery, the perfectly intact body of a young woman with long red hair, archaeologist Cormac O'Callaghan and pathologist Nora Gavin are thrown together by their shared scientific interest in human remains. Because of the preservative effect of the bog, it is difficult to tell whether the body has lain there for two decades, two centuries, or two millennia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mysteries old and mysteries new
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By: Erin Hart
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The Lost Ones
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for 15 years - since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren't looking, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope. A biracial product of the foster system, transient, homeless, scarred by a past filled with pain and violence, Nora knows intimately what happens to vulnerable girls on the streets.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Would make a great movie!
- By Shay on 08-27-17
By: Sheena Kamal
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White Noise
- By: Don DeLillo
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 838
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 736
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When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event", a lethal black chemical cloud floats over the Gladneys' lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys - radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings - pulsing with life yet suggesting something ominous.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Designed to be analyzed by an English class
- By RI in Canada on 10-15-16
By: Don DeLillo
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A Bridge of Years
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- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 190
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 133
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Story4 out of 5 stars 133
A secluded Pacific Northwest cottage becomes a door to the past for Tom Winter, who travels back to the New York City of 1962, followed by a human killing machine that he alone must stop.
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4 out of 5 stars
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More like an elevator
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 06-02-12
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Truly Devious
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- By: Maureen Johnson
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,013
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,790
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,784
Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early 20th century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. "A place", he said, "where learning is a game." Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with the frightening pseudonym "Truly, Devious".
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4 out of 5 stars
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I enjoyed it, but I’m pissed about the ending
- By Laura on 04-08-19
By: Maureen Johnson
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How to Find Your Way in the Dark
- The Sheldon Horowitz Series, Book 1
- By: Derek B. Miller
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 237
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 197
Twelve-year old Sheldon Horowitz is still recovering from the tragic loss of his mother only a year ago when a suspicious traffic accident steals the life of his father near their home in rural Massachusetts. It is 1938, and Sheldon, who was in the truck, emerges from the crash an orphan hell-bent on revenge. He takes that fire with him to Hartford, where he embarks on a new life under the roof of his buttoned-up Uncle Nate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely wonderful story.
- By George Thomas on 12-11-21
By: Derek B. Miller
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The Memory of Trees
- By: F. G. Cottam
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4 out of 5 stars 49
Billionaire Saul Abercrombie owns a vast tract of land on the Pembrokeshire coast. By restoring the original forest that covered the area before medieval times, he believes he will rekindle the spirits of ancient folklore. But the re-planting of the forest will revive an altogether darker and more dangerous entity - and young arboreal expert Tom Curtis will find himself engaging in an epic, ancient battle between good and evil. A battle in which there can be only one survivor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Cottam and Rintoul make a great team!
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By: F. G. Cottam
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Immortality
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- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 117
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 109
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Story4 out of 5 stars 109
Without warning, something has gone terribly awry. In the remote and unnoticed places of the world, small pockets of death begin occurring. As the initially isolated extinctions spread, the world's eyes focus on this unimaginable horror and chaos. Out of the ecological imbalance, something new and extraordinary is evolving and surviving to fill the voids left by these extinctions. Evolution is operating in ways no one could have expected, and environmental damage may be the catalyst.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good End of World Thriller
- By John S on 11-04-14
By: Kevin Bohacz
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Angel Killer
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- By: Andrew Mayne
- Narrated by: Jennifer O'Donnell, Fred Berman
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,548
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,404
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,400
FBI agent Jessica Blackwood believes she's left her complicated life as a gifted magician behind her - until a killer with seemingly supernatural powers puts her talents to the ultimate test. A hacker who identifies himself only as "Warlock" brings down the FBI's website and posts a code in its place that leads to a Michigan cemetery, where a dead girl is discovered rising from the ground - as if she tried to crawl out of her own grave.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If you like Thrillers and/or you like Magic - READ
- By BigJim on 10-31-14
By: Andrew Mayne
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Open Season
- The Joe Gunther Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,586
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,176
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,154
Lt. Joe Gunther of the Brattleboro, Vermont, police force has a serious problem: in a community where a decade could pass without a single murder, the body count is suddenly mounting. Innocent citizens are being killed - and others set up - seemingly orchestrated by a mysterious ski-masked man. Signs suggest that a three-year-old murder trial might lie at the heart of things, but it's a case that many in the department would prefer remained closed. A man of quiet integrity, Lt. Gunther knows that he must pursue the case to its conclusion, wherever it leads.
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5 out of 5 stars
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don't be offended by the characters language
- By Tony B on 12-23-20
By: Archer Mayor
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached it).
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barely more than a short story.
- By Daniel Smith on 09-10-23
What listeners say about Authority
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- Marcelo Mena
- 05-08-18
Meh
an unnecessary part of the trilogy, as far as I can tell, not a lot of things are resolved
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- Kaleb411
- 06-06-21
mind bending and excellent
you'll ask yourself what the heck is going on almost as much as the main characters. the gradual unveiling of just a few answers is spectacularly thrilling, and the realization that it just leaves more questions keeps me coming back over and over again. my favorite of the southern reach trilogy.
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- J. H. Robinson
- 03-11-24
Slow burn with perfect finish
Different from Annihilation, but just as shimmering with the author's brilliance. Starts off more like a workplace thriller and then gets gradually into the strangeness around Area X.
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- Angel S
- 08-16-14
Not impressive
Would you listen to another book narrated by Bronson Pinchot?
Perhaps. His narration wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible either.
Do you think Authority needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
This book is the second in a trilogy. I enjoyed the first - Annihilation - much more. But with as weak as I felt this book to be I am not sure I will go on to read the final book. This book solves some mysteries, and brings up a lot more, but really didn't leave a strong urge in me to continue reading and figure it all out.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-03-18
a ton of details for your brain to process
I still have so many questions. i hope the last book of the triology completes the circle and those questions find answers
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- Rose Fairfax
- 11-18-23
Stop saying every H please.
Love the Southern Reach Trilogy. Do not know why this narrator feels like he must pronounce every H he sees. "hhhwhiskey" sir stop.
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- Hylian
- 11-14-23
overwhelming
there's a lot to process in this book. you get a few more pieces of the puzzle, but they end up leaving you with more questions than answers. this book kept me guessing all the way through. I can't wait to see how the author wraps up this trilogy.
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- K. Seiffert
- 07-25-15
So very slow for the first 3/4
But wow that last 1/4 makes it all worth while. I am back in and looking forward to book 3.
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- Bryant
- 11-21-17
Great story, but got lost briefly in spots
Loved the story, but there were parts of the reading that served a little confusing. I think it was some of the flashback sequences. some of the shorter ones seemed to dart in and out of the narrative present so fast it felt like I was missing fragments. Overall the story kept me going and I look forward to finishing the series.
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- M. Daly
- 03-31-22
Sequel that leaves you guessing.
This book is a sequel to Annihilation. It picks up shortly after the end, and it ends with a surprise. I like the story line despite the fact I don’t usually like science fiction.
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