Larry Busch, Jr.
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The Downloaded
- By: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrated by: Brendan Fraser, Luke Kirby, Vanessa Sears, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,491
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,275
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5,275
In 2059, two vastly different groups of people portrayed by the compelling trio of Brendan Fraser (Academy Award winner), Luke Kirby (Emmy Award winner), and Vanessa Sears (Dora Award winner) undergo cryonic suspension. While their bodies are frozen, their minds, still active and awake, are uploaded into a massive quantum computer. The first group are all astronauts, about to leave Earth on a one-way interstellar colonization mission. The second group consists of convicted murderers and volunteers who elect to serve their sentences in a virtual-reality prison.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poor writing- agenda piece
- By Amazon Customer on 10-27-23
- The Downloaded
- By: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrated by: Brendan Fraser, Luke Kirby, Vanessa Sears, Colm Feore, Andrew Phung, full cast
Started out interesting, then put every woke thing into it for no reason
Reviewed: 04-02-24
Interesting concept. Good performances. Brendan Fraser was really good. The whole trans subplot added nothing to it and wasted time that could have fleshed out the story better. The last few episodes added every lefty trope — and human-caused environmental disaster, people are horrible, nuclear war, man is evil and violent, etc etc etc. Too bad, it had promise.
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Nova Terra: Titan and Greymane
- The Titan Series, Books 1-2
- By: Seth Ring
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 23 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,635
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,169
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,152
Contains books one and two of the The Titan series, a litRPG gamelit adventure. Trapped in his own body by a debilitating medical condition, Xavier Lee seeks reprieve from his giant-sized problems through full immersion into the game world of Nova Terra. Billed as the first true alternate reality, Nova Terra runs parallel to the real world and promises to fulfill the fantasies and desires of those who dare plunge into its mysterious depths. In order to adjust to his new life of quests, skill mastery, and magic, Xavier will have to forget everything he knows.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Will not be continuing
- By Joseph on 02-01-21
- Nova Terra: Titan and Greymane
- The Titan Series, Books 1-2
- By: Seth Ring
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Well done fantasy
Reviewed: 09-06-23
I’m not a big LitRPG fan, mostly because too many authors focus on trying to make all of the game play features very obvious in the book. These really don’t translate well to audiobooks, IMO. Nova Terra does a great job of combining a virtual reality immersion with aspects of the gameplay, but only what is necessary to remind the listener that this is a VR experience and not a straight fantasy story. It’s well done and not intrusive, and helps explain situations and details that otherwise might take a long time to handle. Looking forward to the next book!
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Resonant Son
- Resonant Son, Book 1
- By: Christopher Hopper, J. N. Chaney
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 349
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 325
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 322
After losing his job and family, Flint Reed finds himself in the middle of a terrorist attack. With nothing but his wits and experience as a former Union police officer, he must do everything he can to stay alive. As he soon discovers, however, there are also hostages, and no one is coming to save them. All hope falls to Flint. But as he fights to navigate the building, the real answers begin to unravel. What are the terrorists really after, and why are they so intent on getting into the vault?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Die Hard in the Renegade Universe!
- By MLT78 on 02-18-20
- Resonant Son
- Resonant Son, Book 1
- By: Christopher Hopper, J. N. Chaney
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
Direct rip off of Die Hard
Reviewed: 05-22-23
It’s a good story, and the last 4 chapters are something beyond that set up the series to take off. But come on JN Chaney, this was almost a word-for-word rip off of Die Hard. Everything from climbing through vents to cutting his foot to terrorists with Northern European accents to the bad guy falling to his death. Stealing a story so blatantly is a little beneath you, isn’t it?
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DERELICT
- By: Night Rocket Productions
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 150
Something has been found at the bottom of Earth's ocean. An ancient artifact that can only be described as a giant door, inset into the sea floor. It becomes known as the Vault. A gigantic enigma, buried and forgotten...nineteen thousand feet down. To study the artifact, the galaxy's most powerful corporation, Maas-Dorian, has built a massive, self-contained, secret laboratory base surrounding it, named FATHOM. It's objective: unlock the secrets of the artifact and discover what it holds. But some mysteries should remain buried. And some doors should never be opened....The story of DERELICT...
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1 out of 5 stars
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Commercials!!!!
- By Mastiffs on 10-17-23
Hoping for more
Reviewed: 01-05-23
I like Fathom and where Derelict started. Hope more is coming soon! Fun listen thus far.
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Past My Bedtime
- An Oral History of the Fastest Failure in Late Night History
- By: Max Silvestri, Leah Beckmann
- Narrated by: David Harbour, Whoopi Goldberg, Zach Galifianakis, and others
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 275
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 275
In 2003, the first ever late-night talk show hosted by a 10-year-old boy premiered live for six minutes, before it was violently pulled from the air and abruptly canceled. Its host, Donnie Dixon, hasn’t been heard from since.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ridiculously funny. Distressingly plausible.
- By Trevor M. on 11-06-22
- Past My Bedtime
- An Oral History of the Fastest Failure in Late Night History
- By: Max Silvestri, Leah Beckmann
- Narrated by: David Harbour, Whoopi Goldberg, Zach Galifianakis, Lennon Parham, Jenny Slate, Benjamin Pajak, Tim Robinson, Claudia O’Doherty, John Levenstein, James Austin Johnson, Nick Kroll, John Early, Seth Meyers, D’Arcy Carden, full cast
Mocku-funny
Reviewed: 12-31-22
The dry, sarcastic and make fun of everyone humor is great. Definitely worth the price of admission.
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Failure Mode
- Expeditionary Force, Book 15
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 17,979
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 16,778
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16,732
The galaxy is doomed. Monkeys may be clever and too stubborn to give up, but Skippy The Idiot Who Got Played knows the harsh truth: this is a fight he can’t win. The odds are not only stacked against him, he was designed not to win this fight. Maybe he can salvage some faint memory of the civilizations that inhabit the galaxy, but those beings are doomed. Doomed. Including the Merry Band of Pirates.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A wholly unsatisfying ending to an epic universe
- By Anonymous User on 12-10-22
- Failure Mode
- Expeditionary Force, Book 15
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Great conclusion
Reviewed: 12-30-22
Love the conclusion. Great work again by RC Bray. Hoping this gets made into a series with RC voicing Skippy the Magnificent!
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Breakaway
- Expeditionary Force, Book 12
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11,791
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10,314
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10,275
The Merry Band of Pirates offered the bad guys a ceasefire. We won’t mess with them, if they don’t mess with us. Easy, right? No. The aliens chose to do things the hard way. So, the Pirates are racing around the galaxy to clean up the threat to Earth. The infant UN Navy has their own mission with the Alien Legion: Get humanity some allies in the fight. And the Ethics & Compliance Office might have to do something...ethical. Unless they can find a way around it.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- By John Putney on 06-03-21
- Breakaway
- Expeditionary Force, Book 12
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Another great entry!
Reviewed: 12-14-22
Lots of fun with “Angry Joe” and Skippy taking in the apex species. Wish this would be made into a series on HBO, Amazon or Netflix!
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Die Trying
- By: Nicholas Ryan
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,212
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,059
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,043
Trapped amidst the horror of the zombie apocalypse, three men hear the sound of a helicopter overhead and know it represents their last desperate hope to survive the terror and reach safety. But survival comes at a cost - and the undead hordes that ravage the world are not the only lurking evil the men must face. But for Mitch Logan; his brother, Jed; and their friend, Clinton Harrigan; there is no choice.They must fight to survive - or Die Trying.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bray does a great job on a ok story
- By As happy as a monkey with two bananas in his hands on 11-17-14
- Die Trying
- By: Nicholas Ryan
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Realistic short story
Reviewed: 11-28-22
Good short story. It didn’t get into some typical zombie book ridiculousness about how a few people could suddenly defy hoards.
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The Lesser Dead
- By: Christopher Buehlman
- Narrated by: Christopher Buehlman
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,162
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,905
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,899
New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live - and die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody - he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city's sidewalks.
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2 out of 5 stars
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NICE GUYS NEARLY ALWAYS FINISH LAST
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-27-17
- The Lesser Dead
- By: Christopher Buehlman
- Narrated by: Christopher Buehlman
Great story, a different vampire novel
Reviewed: 08-28-22
Told from the perspective of a young vampire, the story is well laid out with vibrant descriptions painting the scenes vividly. The author does a great job voicing his book, not something many authors can do well. This book keeps you enthralled as if charmed by the vampire narrator himself.
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Chapter Ten
- By: Charles Kindinger
- Narrated by: Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Phil LaMarr, and others
- Length: 37 mins
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,715
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,566
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,557
Moriarty escapes London, questioning everything he thought to be true. With Sherlock and Watson hot on his tail, he heads to the Continent with Moran to end the chaos once and for all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love the character twists here
- By Ashley Holtrop on 06-23-24
- Chapter Ten
- By: Charles Kindinger
- Narrated by: Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Phil LaMarr, Lindsay Whisler, full cast
Strong start, weak ending
Reviewed: 07-17-22
This starts as an interesting idea of how Moriarty could have been created as Sherlock Holmes’ arch nemesis, but takes a bit of a lazy approach. It casts Moriarty ultimately as the hero and Holmes as the villain, which basically throws all Sherlock Holmes stories out the window. It had to take a Hollywood ending, instead of the better and more difficult to craft solution which would have fit it into Sherlock Holmes canon. It was not elementary, my dear Watson.
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