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- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
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The Crypt: Shakedown
- The Crypt, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Scott Sigler
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 16 h et 57 min
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Few know the warship’s actual name. But everyone has heard the rumors. The PUV James Keeling can do something no other vessel in existence can do—slip into another dimension, travel undetected, then re-emerge onto our plane and surprise enemy targets. But the thing that makes the Crypt unique also makes it a nightmare for those onboard; interdimensional travel causes hallucinations, violent behavior, and psychotic breakdowns. Keeling could be the Union’s greatest weapon, a game-changing asset that can defeat the bloodthirsty zealots of the Purist Nation, the Union’s mortal enemy.
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Can’t wait for the next book
- Écrit par Zanybookworm le 2023-11-29
Auteur(s): Scott Sigler
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Ancestor
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Scott Sigler
- Narrateur(s): Scott Sigler
- Durée: 15 h et 21 min
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On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered this holy grail of medicine. By reverse-engineering the genomes of thousands of mammals, Colding's team has dialed back the evolutionary clock to re-create humankind’s common ancestor.
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Story was great, narration was not
- Écrit par Mark Miller le 2021-05-19
Auteur(s): Scott Sigler
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Infected
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Scott Sigler
- Narrateur(s): Scott Sigler
- Durée: 11 h et 24 min
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Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common.
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Excellent, relentless story
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-12-10
Auteur(s): Scott Sigler
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Lost Contact
- The Bridge Sequence, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Nathan Hystad
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 9 h et 58 min
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Rex Walker always wanted to be like his father: a daring, adventurous man, traveling the world in pursuit of mysterious relics. While teaching anthropology at a Boston college, Rex attempts to bury the past, until he discovers a hidden clue he can’t ignore. With the help of a former student, he teams up with an alien-obsessed billionaire, and they search for the fabled Bridge. As an unidentified object nears Pluto, speculation surges. Some hail it as the homecoming of a distant alien race, and this cult is unwavering in their efforts to usher our world into a new era.
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Just OK.
- Écrit par CuteDanger le 2021-09-23
Auteur(s): Nathan Hystad
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Outland
- Quantum Earth, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 10 h et 29 min
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When an experiment to study quantum uncertainty goes spectacularly wrong, physics student Bill Rustad and his friends find that they have accidentally created an inter-dimensional portal. They connect to Outland - an alternate Earth with identical geology, but where humans never evolved. The group races to establish control of the portal before the government, the military, or evildoers can take it away. Then everything changes when the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts in an explosion large enough to destroy civilization and kill half the planet.
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Excellent!
- Écrit par Maggie Reid le 2019-05-28
Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
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Quantum Radio
- Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 14 h et 59 min
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Dr. Tyson Klein is a quantum physicist who has dedicated his entire life to his research. At CERN, he analyses data generated by the Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator. Now, Ty believes he's found a pattern in its output. It looks like an organised data stream, being broadcast over what he calls a quantum radio. Could it be a signal from another universe? A message sent from the future? Or something else entirely?
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interesting story, terrible writing execution
- Écrit par Henrique le 2023-04-08
Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
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The Crypt: Shakedown
- The Crypt, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Scott Sigler
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 16 h et 57 min
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Few know the warship’s actual name. But everyone has heard the rumors. The PUV James Keeling can do something no other vessel in existence can do—slip into another dimension, travel undetected, then re-emerge onto our plane and surprise enemy targets. But the thing that makes the Crypt unique also makes it a nightmare for those onboard; interdimensional travel causes hallucinations, violent behavior, and psychotic breakdowns. Keeling could be the Union’s greatest weapon, a game-changing asset that can defeat the bloodthirsty zealots of the Purist Nation, the Union’s mortal enemy.
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Can’t wait for the next book
- Écrit par Zanybookworm le 2023-11-29
Auteur(s): Scott Sigler
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Ancestor
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Scott Sigler
- Narrateur(s): Scott Sigler
- Durée: 15 h et 21 min
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On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered this holy grail of medicine. By reverse-engineering the genomes of thousands of mammals, Colding's team has dialed back the evolutionary clock to re-create humankind’s common ancestor.
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Story was great, narration was not
- Écrit par Mark Miller le 2021-05-19
Auteur(s): Scott Sigler
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Infected
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Scott Sigler
- Narrateur(s): Scott Sigler
- Durée: 11 h et 24 min
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Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common.
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Excellent, relentless story
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-12-10
Auteur(s): Scott Sigler
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Lost Contact
- The Bridge Sequence, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Nathan Hystad
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 9 h et 58 min
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Rex Walker always wanted to be like his father: a daring, adventurous man, traveling the world in pursuit of mysterious relics. While teaching anthropology at a Boston college, Rex attempts to bury the past, until he discovers a hidden clue he can’t ignore. With the help of a former student, he teams up with an alien-obsessed billionaire, and they search for the fabled Bridge. As an unidentified object nears Pluto, speculation surges. Some hail it as the homecoming of a distant alien race, and this cult is unwavering in their efforts to usher our world into a new era.
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Just OK.
- Écrit par CuteDanger le 2021-09-23
Auteur(s): Nathan Hystad
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Outland
- Quantum Earth, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 10 h et 29 min
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When an experiment to study quantum uncertainty goes spectacularly wrong, physics student Bill Rustad and his friends find that they have accidentally created an inter-dimensional portal. They connect to Outland - an alternate Earth with identical geology, but where humans never evolved. The group races to establish control of the portal before the government, the military, or evildoers can take it away. Then everything changes when the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts in an explosion large enough to destroy civilization and kill half the planet.
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Excellent!
- Écrit par Maggie Reid le 2019-05-28
Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
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Quantum Radio
- Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
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Dr. Tyson Klein is a quantum physicist who has dedicated his entire life to his research. At CERN, he analyses data generated by the Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator. Now, Ty believes he's found a pattern in its output. It looks like an organised data stream, being broadcast over what he calls a quantum radio. Could it be a signal from another universe? A message sent from the future? Or something else entirely?
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interesting story, terrible writing execution
- Écrit par Henrique le 2023-04-08
Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
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Roadkill
- Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 8 h et 58 min
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Jack Kernigan is having a bad day...a bad year...a bad life. After being booted out of MIT, he’s back in his Ohio hometown, working for the family business, facing a life of mediocrity. Then one day, out on a delivery, his truck hits...something. Something big...something furry...something invisible. And, it turns out, something not of this Earth. Fate can play funny tricks. Which is why Jack suddenly finds himself the planet’s best hope to unravel a conspiracy of galactic proportions that could spell the end of the human race.
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Entertaining, but Dennis E Taylor formulaic
- Écrit par H. Scott Elliott le 2022-08-06
Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
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The Other Place
- The Glass, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Nathan Hystad
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
- Durée: 12 h et 52 min
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Drake, a retired police detective, receives a call in the dead of night from an alien-obsessed podcaster. He hastily departs for Montana the following morning. The phenomenon continues all over the globe. What are they? What do they mean? Britt is on assignment for a digital magazine when she encounters one of the Glass in a tragic boating accident, leaving her no choice but to follow the lead. Panic ensues as mysterious creatures are sighted.
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Amazing story telling
- Écrit par mike ertl le 2022-09-20
Auteur(s): Nathan Hystad
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Winter World
- Auteur(s): A. G. Riddle
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini, Amanda Leigh Cobb
- Durée: 11 h et 4 min
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The ice is coming. It was the last thing we expected, but the world is freezing. A new ice age has dawned. Billions have fled the glaciers. A cataclysmic war is coming. In orbit, a group of scientists are running the Winter Experiments, a last-ditch attempt to understand why the planet is cooling. None of the climate models they build make sense. But then they discover an anomaly, an unexplained variation in solar radiation...and something else. Close to the burning edge of the sun, they catch a fleeting glimpse of something that shouldn’t be there....
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Stunning concoction of everything I love in a great story
- Écrit par Deanna le 2019-03-05
Auteur(s): A. G. Riddle
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Countdown
- A Prequel Story to Patient Zero
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Maberry
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
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Meet Joe Ledger, Baltimore PD, attached to a Homeland task force … who’s about to get a serious promotion.
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Interesting
- Écrit par Martin S. le 2023-08-19
Auteur(s): Jonathan Maberry
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Aftermath
- Expeditionary Force, Book 16
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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The Aftermath of a stunning victory—especially an unexpected, complete, and final victory—should be high-fives all around, listening to politicians give boring congratulatory speeches, and a well-deserved rest for the Merry Band of Pirates. Yes, the galaxy is still a freakin' mess, but that is nothing new, and for a change, that can be someone else's problem. Until, you know, something really bad happens, and only the Pirates can deal with the problem... Or not.
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Island 731
- Auteur(s): Jeremy Robinson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
- Durée: 10 h et 46 min
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Mark Hawkins, former park ranger and expert tracker, is out of his element, working onboard the Magellan, a research vessel studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But his work is interrupted when, surrounded by 30 miles of refuse, the ship and its high-tech systems are plagued by a series of strange malfunctions and the crew is battered by a raging storm. When the storm fades and the sun rises, the beaten crew awakens to find themselves anchored in the protective cove of a tropical island...and no one knows how they got there.
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It Was A Difficult Write, But An Incredible Listen
- Écrit par Vikki Holmberg le 2022-12-29
Auteur(s): Jeremy Robinson
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And Then She Vanished
- Joseph Bridgeman, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Nick Jones
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
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Still haunted by the disappearance of his little sister, Amy, over 20 years ago, Joseph Bridgeman’s life has fallen apart. When a friend talks him into seeing hypnotherapist Alexia Finch to help with his insomnia, Joseph accidentally discovers he can time travel. His first trip only takes him back a few minutes, but his new-found ability gives him something he hasn’t felt for the longest time: hope.
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Didn't do it for me
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-07-28
Auteur(s): Nick Jones
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- Auteur(s): Peter Clines
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 12 h et 34 min
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There are some odd things about Nate’s new apartment. Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his new home isn’t perfect, it’s livable. The rent is low, the property managers are friendly, and the odd little mysteries don’t nag at him too much. At least, not until he meets Mandy, his neighbor across the hall, and notices something unusual about her apartment. And Xela’s apartment. And Tim’s. And Veek’s.
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I enjoyed this audio book very much.
- Écrit par John le 2019-02-28
Auteur(s): Peter Clines
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Rage: A Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International Novel
- Rogue Team International Series, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Maberry
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 17 h et 28 min
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A small island off the coast of Korea is torn apart by a bioweapon that drives everyone - men, women, and children - insane with murderous rage. The people behind the attack want Korea reunified or destroyed. No middle ground. No mercy. Soon Japan, China, and the United States are pushed to the brink of war, while terrorists threaten to release the rage bioweapon in a way of pure destructive slaughter.
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How can this tripe garnish any decent reviews?
- Écrit par lewis chandon le 2020-01-20
Auteur(s): Jonathan Maberry
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From Beyond
- From Beyond, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Jasper T. Scott, Nathan Hystad
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 8 h et 48 min
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Commander David Bryce is scheduled to lead a routine re-supply run for the Orbital Development Group (ORB) to the fledgling colony on Mars. Without warning, he’s taken away by government agents and told the mission parameters have changed. They’ve discovered something. And it’s drifting closer to Earth. Atlas Donovan tirelessly hunts for an artifact, and tracks the piece to Lake Como, Italy. After the recent news from ORB, Atlas is more drawn to the trail than ever.
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Great performance, ok story
- Écrit par Leif le 2023-02-14
Auteur(s): Jasper T. Scott, Autres
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Lucifer's Hammer
- Auteur(s): Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
- Narrateur(s): Marc Vietor
- Durée: 24 h et 32 min
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The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival--a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known....
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MUST LISTEN. IRead this many years ago, still A+!
- Écrit par hdamoca le 2018-09-16
Auteur(s): Larry Niven, Autres
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Dead Silence
- Auteur(s): S.A. Barnes
- Narrateur(s): Lauren Ezzo
- Durée: 12 h et 50 min
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Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed—made obsolete—when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate.
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Delightfully terrifying
- Écrit par Devin le 2023-02-22
Auteur(s): S.A. Barnes
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Deep below a desolate Utah mountain lies the largest platinum deposit ever discovered. A billion-dollar find, it waits for any company that can drill a world's record, three-mile-deep mine shaft. EarthCore is the company with the technology, the resources, and the guts to go after the mother lode. Young executive Connell Kirkland is the company's driving force, pushing himself and those around him to uncover the massive treasure. But at three miles below the surface, where the rocks are so hot they burn bare skin, something has been waiting for centuries. Waiting...and guarding. Kirkland and EarthCore are about to find out first-hand why this treasure has never been unearthed.
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- Amelia
- 2020-01-31
Great listening!!
Very easy to get drawn in the story with Ray Porter as narrator !!! Very good story you don't feel you have to skip anything... I don't regret buying this at all 👍
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- justin miller
- 2018-06-16
So good
Really happy to have found Scott Sigler and the Siglerverse. Really kept my attention and wanting more. Can't wait to get into more.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2017-11-16
It's pretty goooood
His books are awesome portals to other dimensions that the dark lord will use to enslave the world.
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- FutureMan
- 2023-11-17
Ray is great but can’t save this tangent
I’m only listening to this because I paid for it. But oh my gosh it’s painful. I don’t know if the author thought he was writing a movie script. I’m 7 hours in and I don’t know if I can finish it. Why? Because it’s soooooo boring. There’s so much useless information but only 10% of it matters. There’s far too many characters with useless unrelated backstories.
If there’s a spec of dust on a table, the author describes it. Even if it has nothing to do with the plot. I honestly don’t know how Ray porter was able to stay awake recording this.
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- billie
- 2023-01-24
earthcore/mntfizroy
the story was good in both cases I just found the negativity/animosity amongst the various characters a little overdone. I would listen to a few chapters then switch to another book for a while because of the violence and all consuming hate of some of the characters...A good listen overall...
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-07-12
Amazing book, but be warned.
You will be entertained for the entire 20 hours. I just wish there had been some kind of warning about the explicit gore. Full on torture/murder scenes with no details spared.
If you can get past that this book is amazing.
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- Justin
- 2022-05-29
Great narration and a classic Siglerverse book.
I listened to the original podiobooks version of this, years ago, and Ray Porter does a great job of capturing Sigler's characters and adding his own subtlety and nuance that identifies them to the listener.
The story is great, love the buildup and the eventual reveal. Sigler is all about what motivates people to push themselves beyond what they believe is possible of themselves, and then beyond that. He forgoes a lot of character development in the beginning in order to show the characters develop, in the moment... when the blood starts flying...
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- Erin
- 2022-03-02
Dragged me in right away
Like other of Sigler books, my attention was grabbed right away. Hardcore and pushes no punches. Also, I really enjoy listening to Ray Porters voice.
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- Philippe Parent
- 2022-01-18
wow it's amazingly good
the story is so good characters well developed and the mystery mindblowing I suggest this masterpiece to everyone
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- Chuck Baker
- 2022-01-03
Trashy poorly written.
too much cursing, descriptive narrative reminds me of cheap crime novels from an old book store
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- Leslie
- 2017-06-25
Awesome Book. Well written and very creative!
This book was very hard to stop once I started. I really enjoyed everything about it. I like how it's a mystery science fiction book and seems to be poised for a series. The characters are very well developed and each have true motivations. I like the way Sigler takes the time tell the story. He really doesn't rush anything. He is clearly a very creative person with a big imagination. I can also tell he spent time learning about the mining industry. What would a sci-fi book be these days without cool technology and of course guns? He delivers on the tech side and gives us some nice action scenes. The Kool suits are badass. I wouldn't have minded him expanding the gun/black ops aspect but it seems that will be coming in the next book if there is one. Overall I highly recommend the book and really look forward to the next one.
Now for Ray Porter. He is the best narrator on audible right now. I enjoy listening to books and for me the narrator is a big factor for the books I choose. Ray gives an amazing performance in Earthcore. He makes the book rise up and brings each character to life with unique voices. I also enjoyed the little bit of production in there. They use a little sound in between each intense scene to kind of accent the moment. Usually that type of thing is annoying but it works great with Ray Porter's bad@ss performance.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2020-01-18
Nope, Yes, Nope
The Good: The narration by Ray Porter was excellent - male and female voices, ethnic accents, use of non-word cues were all excellent. I'm looking forward to more Ray Porter. The underlying concept of the book was interesting, but was marred by The Bad (below).
The Bad: Everything else. There was not ONE sympathetic character in the entire book. I didn't like, or relate to, ANYONE. Some of the characters were so two-dimensionally evil or obnoxious that it felt like fingers on a chalkboard every time they were on stage. The violence was uncomfortable and endless. The profanity from every character began to feel like middle school boys trying to best each other at being bad ass. Finally, while POSSIBLE, I found it highly IMPROBABLE that at BYU graduate student and her adopted BYU professor father would be foul-mouthed atheists. I attended BYU and never encountered people like these - especially representatives of the school. It seemed like Sigler picked a major university near where he wanted his story to play out, but knows nothing about the school itself. I kept hoping the characters I didn't like from the beginning would somehow redeem themselves, but for me that never happened. I only finished the last few chapters to be able to credibly write this review.
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- Daniel J. Barkan
- 2017-07-10
Maybe the writing is a joke about itself?
It might be unfair to rate a book I haven't finished, but after a few hours in, I see little reason to keep listening, and Earthcore will likely be the first book I return to Audible.
Somewhere in this story, there might be an interesting premise. In order to get to that premise, you have to wade through some of the most poorly written characters in the genre. Everyone in the world of Earthcore is a world-weary, cynical, self-styled badass who curses like a clichéd truck driver and whose internal monologs exclusively take the form of weak sexual metaphors. The problem isn't that the language in and of itself is offensive—it's that it's so over the top, so relentless, that it becomes self-parody by the third chapter. Worse, it's self-parody that the writer seems oblivious to.
The thinly drawn characters are, so far, accompanied by extensive chunks of unnecessary story. Plot point after plot point is presented, and the outcomes are always predictable. For example, if one character decides to blackmail, betray, or harm another character, their efforts will be successful as if by fiat. There are no clever twists or reversals. Yet the book spends chapter after chapter trying to earn these obvious outcomes, belaboring pointless details that add nothing to the story. The plot remains predictable, the characters remain shallow, the dialogue remains ridiculous.
Lastly, I bought this book because several reviews likened it to Peter Clines. I don't see the comparison at all other than that Clines' books are in the same genre. Frankly, I'd argue the comparison is insulting to Clines. And poor Ray Porter. I can only imagine how much eye-rolling he did while narrating this. I hope he knows a good ophthalmologist.
If you want a story that is engaging, fun, clever, or thoughtful, dig elsewhere.
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- paula
- 2017-06-26
...I guess my expectations were just set too high.
I'm going to keep this short and succinct so I don't accidently drop a spoiler.
There was a sizable cast of characters in this story, but with one or two possible exceptions, they were all so unlikable that I really didn't care what happened to them in any given scene. That made it difficult enough to enjoy, but what drove me crazy about the story was the totally unbelievable motivating factor that drives the primary antagonist. I can suspend an awful lot of disbelief to enjoy a thriller, but that was just too much for me.
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- Christopher Clemon
- 2017-06-21
So poorly written
Wow where to start on this one. First of all not a single character in this is likeable, at all, besides Randy I guess. The author vaguely talks about a pandemic, and a terrorist attack, which I have no idea why that was in there. Because it has zero to do with this book and that's literally all that's said "a pandemic" and "a terrorist attack". What? Why even mention that? Something happened to Chicago? Who knows!! Never goes onto explain any of it. The whole book makes zero sense, without giving too much away, the narrator made things worse 98% of the time especially when doing the women voices. The one dimensional femme fatale is so loathsome every time she comes into the story you just want to fast forward out of it. What happened to Angus? Did he live? Who knows? Do we care? Not really. Is he a sociopath garbage person like every other character in this book? He sure is! Also a nice heaping amount of homophobic and racist dialogue so that was super fun as well. What an amateur mess this was. Really bummed I wasted my credit on this one.
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- Mark
- 2017-06-22
blah story decent reading but blah story
blah story. predictable and sigler-esc. mistake thinking he would get better. complete waste of a credit
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- David
- 2017-06-25
Hard to empathize with any character.
Would you try another book from Scott Sigler and/or Ray Porter?
Of course. Ray Porter never disappoints and maybe next time Scott Sigler would include some main characters that I would give a damn about.
What did you like best about this story?
The overall concept of aliens coming to earth for refuge.
Which scene was your favorite?
When the mountain was destroyed. Thank god it's done.
Was Earthcore worth the listening time?
Yes and No. Yes because the story was interesting, but no because I disliked the characters so very much, that I really could not care how the book ended or what happened to any of them.
Any additional comments?
Good enough to keep me listening. But, one by one I kept hoping one character after another would die is some horrible way. With the exception of one or two minor characters they were people I would not want in my life. Self absorbed selfish, criminals, bullies and psychopaths.
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- Jan
- 2017-12-15
Slow start, but it gained momentum quick
This was a fun read! It started a bit slow, with a lot of character and plot building, but I was soon hooked on the story. What was happening in that cave? Who would get to the truth first? And who would survive?
I found the characters well presented, giving them background and depth to make them more interesting. Although the backstory of one of them, Kayla Meyers, could've been without the explicit telling about the abuse she went through as a child. Way too detailed.
There were no real heroes, IMO, in this book. No anti-heores either. Just people, making them more interesting to follow.
The secret down in the caves was cleverly revealed, making me want to find out more and more, faster and faster. It was hard to stop listening, the further down they got.
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- B. Mueller
- 2017-06-22
Good but not great
Maybe I was expecting too much from the book given the description and having one of the best narrators around but I was dissappointed. Too long, to farfetched a story and just not what I expected. I stuck with it only because of Ray Porter's narration but was sorry to have wasted the credit at the end. Just one persons opinion....
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- NERDY_GURU
- 2017-07-03
Good characters but leaves you dissatisfied
It's a love hate thing I have for this book. I enjoy the characters and their personalities. Yet the story predictable and the ending terrible. The ending felt rushed. Ray Porter was amazing as always. He could read a dictionary and make it interesting.
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