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Superheroes

By: Peter S. Beagle, Daryl Gregory, James Patrick Kelly, Kelly Link, Ian McDonald, Carol Emshwiller, Joseph Mallozzi, Rich Horton (editor)
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Joe Barrett, Christina Delaine, Suzanne Toren
Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins
3.5 out of 5 stars (24 ratings)

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Publisher's Summary

Modern gods and goddesses, remote, revered - and like the pantheon of heroes and heroines of ancient myth - possessing great power tempered with flaws. Now, find within this anthology great tales by gifted and award-winning authors who move superheroes from the four-color panels of comic books to the fantastic pages of fiction, stories that will remind anyone who ever wanted to wear a cape or don a cowl of the extraordinary powers of the imagination!
©2013 Rich Horton (P)2014 Audible Inc.

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Pretentious tired old concepts

Would you try another book from the authors and/or the narrators?

no

What was most disappointing about the authors’s story?

The stories were excruciatingly slow to develop and had little to nothing to do with superheroes. The Forward was a pretentious snob rambling about how great he is for putting this book together.

Would you be willing to try another one of the narrators’s performances?

NO

What character would you cut from Superheroes?

all of them

Any additional comments?

pick up pretty much any comic book from the last 30 years and you will get better, more mature stories than these.

5 of 7 people found this review helpful

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Snide.

Every idea or concept the writers do not agree with is belittled and insulted. The performer delivers this in a snide tone sure to infuriate anyone who disagrees with their "smarter than you poor fools" attitude. All while getting terms and named wrong in several chapters.

2 of 5 people found this review helpful