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His Master's Voice
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- Unabridged
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The Star Diaries
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- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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5 out of 5 stars
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Story of a space-traveling Candide
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Fiasco
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- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Story4 out of 5 stars 73
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- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 112
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Story4 out of 5 stars 102
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- Jakub
- United States
- 01-10-12
Excelent and entertaining
If you could sum up His Master's Voice in three words, what would they be?
Funny, entertaining, and intriguing.
What did you like best about this story?
That it worked so real and was entertaining.
Which scene was your favorite?
None specifically, but the introductions of some of the characters were brilliant
If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
The deception
Any additional comments?
Cool book.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
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- Rafal
- Warszawa, Poland
- 08-18-15
His Master-piece
Any additional comments?
This is by far the best book of Stanislaw Lem and to me the best SCI-FI book in general.
One can think of it as a anti-Contact from Carl Sagan. Although there is not much action here, Lem manages to tell an interesting story and push his ideas about how small and silly we people are in face of real problems and storyteller communication.
The book is hard to read (listen) but it leaves you with a seance of real discovery once you're done. Your views on humanity will not be the same ever again.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
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- Matt
- Buffalo, NY USA
- 11-20-17
Refreshing
I think this is a very refreshing piece of scifi. Sure, the story sometimes drags with intense bouts of reasoning but overall it really stand out as unique.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Scott
- Santa Clara, CA, United States
- 07-10-14
Waiting for something to happen
If there were a contest to see how many words could transpire before ANYTHING happened in a novel, this book would certainly be a contender.
Stanislaw Lem is undoubtedly one of the most intellectual and competent of Sci-Fi writers, but in His Master's Voice, it's as though he challenged himself to present absolutely nothing but ideas, devoid of action or physical reality. Unfortunately, this writing style leads to obsolete scientific perspectives in short order. I found I really didn't care about this book, or whether anything was eventually going to happen or not. No characters caught my fancy, no events peaked my interest.
Nick Sullivan's reading is fairly impressive, although I would like to hear him describe some real action, or maybe something funny. There is one down side to the recording—his voice is unnaturally compressed, and the sound of it gets fatiguing after only a short while.
2 of 6 people found this review helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Amy
- Charlotte, NC, United States
- 12-20-09
Boring!
This book is described thus "Here is a witty and inventive satire of "men of science" and their thinking" There is nothing witty in this book. It is a long and weary drone about nothing. I wish I had one good thing to say, but I don't.
2 of 22 people found this review helpful