Grass

By: Sheri S. Tepper

Narrated by: Dina Pearlman

Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher's summary

What could be more commonplace than grass or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but this one, the prairie-like Grass begins to reveal these secrets - and nothing will ever be the same again.

©1989 Sheri S. Tepper. (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

Finally!

Grass, Raising the Stones, and Sideshow comprise the Arbai trilogy. Grass is an excellent example of Ms. Tepper's incredible ability to create worlds and "take you away." Can't wait for The Companions, Family Tree, The Margarets, and so many more! She is one of my absolute favorite authors.

A good mixture of many classic sci fi themes

Expansive worlds, monarchy cultures, interesting aliens, exploration of meaningful questions, and well put together. Engaging throughout the entire story.

Love her books

I have always loved it Sherri Tepoer’s books, not sure how I missed this one. And the performance reader is fabulous and I would very very highly recommend this book

Entertaining

I really enjoyed this book. From the beginning, I was asking where this is going. When you are asking that question and only finding out as you go ( not guessing correctly) it is a joy and hats off to the author for keeping it suspenseful. It's a good book. Read it and find out Clever, Creepy, Gritty, Animal, Other Planet # Tasgiving # sweepstakes

Extremely difficult to follow.

All through this book I found myself being annoyed by the author's inability to describe circumstances and events in such a way that they made any kind of sense. After going through the whole book I understand the author was trying to create a sense of Mystery which would be eventually resolved by the end of the book but she did an extremely poor job a fulfilling that task. She attempted to make some religious and spiritual statements but it was all extremely shallow and showed no true understanding of the nature of reality. If you decide to try this book out just understand that you will have to listen for eight or nine hours before you'll be able to find any reason to continue. very few of the characters were memorable. a world is described in which none of the inhabitant seem to care about each other. the parents don't care about their children or about each other and I as a reader don't care about any of the characters at all. I really could care less what happens to any of them and that's a failure on the part of the author. I don't recommend this one. For the most part I think it was a waste of time and it'll be one book that I completely forget within a few weeks.

One of the greats.

One of Sheri Teller's most loved books, "Grass" touches on themes of feminism, religion, sentience, and family with richly drawn characters and exquisite world building. It is an engaging story that will stay with you long after you're done.

So. Much. Filler.

It’s a great underlying idea, but the idea could have been told in half as much space using better, more accurate descriptions. When the author tries to become philosophical, which is often, it comes off as wordy and cheap. The Sifi and action sequences are good in theory but short on content and have a habit of being confusing.

Narrator mispronunciations

The narrator’s mispronunciations of commonly known words, such as ‘dressage,’ were jarring. Also, it would have helped if she could have read a head to the explanations of comments, which immediately followed said comments. Instead, she almost invariably gave the wrong inflection/interpretation of the gist of the comment, as was evidenced by the following description! Certainly not the worst narrator I have come across, however, also certainly not the best; she added nothing to the book and detracted somewhat from it.

More please!

This work was well done in audible version. While I’ve read most of Sheri S Teppers works, I enjoy a story in a different way as it is read to me. Please do more if Tepper’s I have only been able to find two. Sadly.

Terrific Story

Well written and well read story of classic science fiction. Also timely, or maybe timeless in the era of resource and human exploitation