Chindi

Academy Series

De: Jack McDevitt

Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, Khristine Hvam

The universe has been explored - and humanity has all but given up on finding other intelligent life. Then an alien satellite orbiting a distant star sends out an unreadable signal. Is it the final programmed gasp of an ancient, long-dead race? Or the first greeting of an undiscovered life form?©2003 Jack McDevitt (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Chindi is an ambitious, exciting, big-idea hard-SF novel that ventures successfully into Rendezvous with Rama territory, and beyond." (Amazon.com review)

Good adventure

I've grown to love Jack McDevitt's visual detail writing, especially his character Hutch.. The Chindi I enjoyed reading and all that I enjoyed of can't wait to get to the next page was just as fun hearing it on audio.. Good twist and turns through out. Enjoyed a story line that I didn't know where it was going even after when we got there, he found a way to slip one more suprise in there through out... Always a good story to return to again and again.

Excellent story

A tremendous story of first contact. It just keeps getting better as you read. You'll love it!

Not a bad book

but nothing to write home or rave about either.
This one I bought on sale and it was worth the reduced price to pass the time on my long drives across the country. If you search you will find some things to like about Chindi but you have to search.
The idea and premise are inventive and interesting but I've already forgotten the characters and can't recall much about the story line so the best description 5 months after listening is - forgettable.

Repetition of the same plot point book after book

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

The time spent was probably worth it, but it, like Deepsix, became tedious in that the major subtext is everything will go wrong, people will die from bad decisions, but nobody in the group will learn anything from that and will repeat the cycle.

If you’ve listened to books by Jack McDevitt before, how does this one compare?

This book is cry much like Deepsix. The characters refuse to learn anything no matter how many of them are killed. When the same thing happens time after time after time, then the need for the big rescue at the end because nobody every learned anything, becomes tedious.

What aspect of Khristine Hvam and Oliver Wyman ’s performance would you have changed?

Oliver Wyman is used only to read interstitial passages between chapter, so in this book he can't bring any of his characteristic reading to the book. Khristine Hvam is a solid reader, but she assigns pseudo-British accents to some characters of no discernible reason. Especially since at least one of them (if not both) are pretty well identified as American.

Any additional comments?

I enjoy the settings and basic story line, and the details of discoveries, I have problems with characters that seem intelligent but are just repletion engines used to cause disaster. It seems the McDevitt becomes lazy in his plotting and can't do anything besides write a disaster short story 5-6 times in a single novel. He forces the reader to go beyond simple suspension of disbelief into the realm of saying "Oh, come on. Again?"

my Favorite!!!

I found it through the talking book library for the blind.
Done with an expansive imagination and painted with words. ln Beautiful colors!! I love it!!! Thank You!!!