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The Terror
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Dan Simmons
- Narrateur(s): Tom Sellwood
- Durée: 28 h et 28 min
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The men onboard HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the Terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear there is no escape.
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Fantastic!
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2018-08-15
- The Terror
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Dan Simmons
- Narrateur(s): Tom Sellwood
A great way to pay homage to those lost.
Évalué le: 2022-06-22
This book took what would have been a relatively uneventful story of human suffering and gave those lost sailors a chance at being remembered as individuals instead of just Franklin’s crew.
I enjoyed the spin on Inuit mythology and I found that including a monster breathed harrowing adventure into what otherwise would have been a tragic but boring story about a slow death.
Now if only I could figure out what the rat teeth were about…
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A Lush and Seething Hell
- Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
- Auteur(s): John Hornor Jacobs
- Narrateur(s): Almarie Guerra, MacLeod Andrews
- Durée: 12 h et 40 min
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The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales - both never-before-published in print or audio - that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition. Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul.
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Enjoyable but light on cosmic horror.
- Écrit par Skeptikal le 2022-04-27
- A Lush and Seething Hell
- Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
- Auteur(s): John Hornor Jacobs
- Narrateur(s): Almarie Guerra, MacLeod Andrews
Enjoyable but light on cosmic horror.
Évalué le: 2022-04-27
Both of these novellas share a similar plot device, a person exposed to something causing them to become obsessed with discovering more about it, leading them on a path to their inevitable fates.
Although a common trope in cosmic horror, these stories lacked the existential dread so crucial to the genre.
I’d recommended these stories as they are both very entertaining, but the hype man at the beginning and all the online reviews touting this as a work of cosmic horror tainted my experience and left me wanting.
Books good. Advertising sucked.
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The Twice-Dead King: Reign
- Warhammer 40,000, Book 2
- Auteur(s): Nate Crowley
- Narrateur(s): Richard Reed
- Durée: 12 h et 3 min
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Follow the exploits of Oltyx, who, having finally been granted the throne of the Ithakas Dynasty, now faces far greater threats, from within and without. He soon learns that the lessons of kingship are not quite what he had hoped.
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Rough start, clean finish
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2022-04-14
- The Twice-Dead King: Reign
- Warhammer 40,000, Book 2
- Auteur(s): Nate Crowley
- Narrateur(s): Richard Reed
Strange Choices, Deus Ex Machina ending
Évalué le: 2022-02-22
This book was good and I recommend reading it. However there were some elements of this story that seemed overly convenient to the point of being plot armour, and other ideas that could have been better fleshed out.
The climax of the book was a little underwhelming because everything just suddenly worked out too perfectly compared to the struggle the characters had to go through to reach the climax.
However it has really added a lot to the story of the flayed ones and I am excited to see where it goes next.
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Metro 2035
- Auteur(s): Dmitry Glukhovsky
- Narrateur(s): Rupert Degas
- Durée: 19 h et 24 min
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World War Three wiped out the humankind. The planet is empty now. Huge cities became dust and ashes. Railroads are being eaten by rust. Abandoned satellites hang lonely in their orbits. Radio is mute on all frequencies. The only survivors of the last war were those who made it into the gates of the Metro, the subway system of Moscow city. It's there, hundreds of feet below the ground, in the vaults of what was constructed as the world's largest air-raid shelter, where now people try to outlive the end of days.
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The final chapter
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2017-11-08
- Metro 2035
- Auteur(s): Dmitry Glukhovsky
- Narrateur(s): Rupert Degas
Very good way to finish the trilogy.
Évalué le: 2022-02-17
I enjoyed this book. However one of the aspects of the first and second stories I enjoyed were the various mutants and paranormal phenomena present in the metro and on the surface.
This story contains basically none of those. This story is entirely about people and follows an almost biblical storyline.
All in all a very good book but it lacks the sci-fi elements of the first two.
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Dark Imperium
- Dark Imperium: Warhammer 40,000, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Guy Haley
- Narrateur(s): John Banks
- Durée: 11 h et 53 min
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Fell times have come to the galaxy. Cadia has fallen, destroyed by the onslaught of Chaos. A Great Rift in the warp has opened, and from its depths spew daemons and the horrors of Old Night. But all hope is not lost… A hero, long absent, has returned, and with him comes the wrath of the Ultramarines reborn. Roboute Guilliman has arisen to lead the Imperium out of darkness on a crusade the likes of which has not been seen since the fabled days of the Emperor. But never before have the forces of Ruin amassed in such numbers, and nowhere is safe from despoliation.
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goood!
- Écrit par Max le 2021-06-13
- Dark Imperium
- Dark Imperium: Warhammer 40,000, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Guy Haley
- Narrateur(s): John Banks
Worth listening to for neophyte and veteran Warhammer fans
Évalué le: 2021-09-22
I really enjoyed this book. The narrator was a great choice. His range works well with the gruff nature of the space marines. He also did a good job with the servants of Nurgle.
As for the writing itself, I found parts of it a little jarring and unrealistic. An example of this is all the times space marines and soldiers engaged in close combat with demons or chaos space marines stopped to exclaim about the Emperor or Guilliman.
It felt a little awkward and overdone.
Otherwise a great story!