Where'd You Park Your Spaceship?

An Interplanetary Tale of Love, Loss, and Bread (Where'd You Park Your Spaceship? Series, Book 1)

By: Rob Bell

Narrated by: Rob Bell

Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins

Publisher's summary

Heen Gru-Bares has been SERIES 5 for most of his adult life, traveling from planet to planet collecting data and filing reports for the CHAIRS, who run the universe.

And then he lands on the planet Firdus for his next assignment, and he meets Borns and Lan Zing and Ziga Mey and Dill Tudd, and something unsettling begins to stir within him, something unnerving and profoundly disruptive. Out of all the planets he's been to over the decades he's been doing this job, what is it about this one particular planet, Firdus, that so subversively affects him like it does?

And then Noon Yeah shows up, and he learns that she's a SIGN 7, sent to Firdus to do a graining, because of his failure to execute the task at hand—it's more than he can bear as what he thought was his life begins to unravel around him....

Will Heen make it through this devastating turbulence?

What will happen to Dill Tudd?

And is all of this a setup, one of the symptoms of a larger malaise that will continue to spread through the entire universe, unless someone does something to stop it?

It's a galactic saga of struggle and survival. It's an interplanetary tale of love, loss, and bread. It's book one of the where'd You Park Your Spaceship? series.

Welcome to Firdus.

©2023 Rob Bell (P)2023 Rob Bell

Great Performance!

Best narration by an author ever! Like listening to your best friend reading an awesome book!

Read by the author!

Loved the story and I kept listening to it , I never have listened so quickly to a book and plan on reading it again!

Fun meaningful story, somewhat amateurishly read by the author.

Rob Bell fans will love everything about this book, content and style. Personally, I can’t quite decide whether I was more endeared or annoyed when the author stumbled over his sentences or butchered the names he had way too much fun creating (looking at you, Barbara Barabar). Don’t get me wrong: it’s a fun read, the story about grief, love, and redemption is oddly captivating. And Rob Bell is being Rob Bell. But at times I wish there’d been an editor, or someone who looked over the messed up formatting of the kindle version, or an audio person who’d dare to say, Rob, let’s do another take here.

Andy Griffiths meets C S Lewis

A joy to listen to with wonderful characters, questions, wisdom and possibilities. I was more happy and playful for the few weeks it took me to listen to it. I laughed more in the day to day - this book is good for the soul.

Sort of like a Philosophical and Heartfelt Hitchhikers and Phantom Tollbooth

This book will be unlike most things you’ve read. The closest comparison I can make is the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Phantom Tollbooth. To enjoy this book, you have to let go of any and all expectations. There is the heartbeat and beauty of humanity woven in and out of each scene and you will find yourself unexpectedly IN DEEP. As absurd as some things may be, you’ll believe it because you’ll feel it…you’ll feel the truth coursing through it all.

Love the way this was narrated

Love the names in this book. It’s a great story that feels all over the place and I love the adventure. A great story that makes you question everything.

Profound, funny, and all around fantastic book.

Highly recommend this book. Thought-provoking, inspiring and entertaining. Can’t wait for more in the series!

Great Laughs, twists, and characters

WOW! I loved this book. it was a beautiful and interesting story with great laughs, twists, and character building. I'll have to listen again, too. I can't wait for the next one.

This is how Auduobooks Should Be Read

I always gravitate toward books read by the author. You get so much more of what the author meant to say. Even so, most audio books are lifeless, and flat.

This is how an audio book was meant to be. It's not polished, it's the author reading as if live in a bookstore or library. He laughs, he cries, it makes it a thousand times more real and engaging.

This book is so many things. The parts and sections take you different directions. Wherever you think you're going, you're not. It's a love story turned tragedy, a tragedy turned comedy, comedy turned thriller, thriller turned spy novel, a utopia exposed as a dystopia, and a wild ride in the genre of spy vs. spy.

If you know Rob's work, and I very much do, this is unmistakably Rob, this is more Rob than Rob. In almost every paragraph, there are callbacks to his teachings, his questions, his ponderings, his ideas, his thoughts about many of the topics I've ever heard him speak to, his art, life, humanity, love, and grief, oh so much grief.

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll hear things you have never heard before. It is the most unique novel I have ever read. I would absolutely love this to become the next Dune series, or Star Wars, or The Expanse, or whatever. Raise your glasses friends, it's SO GOOD!

Piddle Piddle Piddle!

This book is already a 10, but hearing Rob Bell read it aloud took it to 11. Real laughter, real tears, so much heart. The characters feel like friends and I can't wait to hear what happens next!