Aaron Lavack
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The Dread Wyrm
- By: Miles Cameron
- Narrated by: Neil Dickson
- Length: 29 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Some are born to power, some seize it and some have the wisdom never to wield it. Red Knight has stood against soldiers, against armies and against the might of an empire without flinching. He's fought on real and on magical battlefields alike, and now he's facing one of the greatest challenges yet. A tournament. A joyous spring event, the flower of the nobility will present arms and ride against each other for royal favour and acclaim.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I enjoyed it but...
- By Anonymous User on 20-05-2018
- The Dread Wyrm
- By: Miles Cameron
- Narrated by: Neil Dickson
Only buy if you’re starting with this book.
Reviewed: 18-06-2019
As with all Miles Cameron’s books, the story is pretty good. The period authenticity is even better. But I only know that because I went and read the book. This useless recording is unlistenable. If they’d used this narrator from the first book it might have been acceptable (he’s a two to three star reader), but changing from the much better reader in the previous two books destroys the experience. It’s like turning on your favourite show and finding they’ve replaced the whole cast and slashed the budget. It feels like an insult to get this after paying for something much better.
I’ve tried to find out why it happened, but haven’t been able to. I think it would feel like less of an insult if I knew why ;assuming there was some good reason). But, really, publishers should plan to avoid this sort of thing in advance.
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Lying
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 327
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 281
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 271
As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption - even murder and genocide - generally require an additional moral defect: a willingness to lie. In Lying, bestselling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie.
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5 out of 5 stars
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packs a huge punch in a short book
- By callum.price on 28-04-2020
- Lying
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
I am no longer capable of lying
Reviewed: 19-07-2018
Well, maybe not quite incapable. But it was a great book anyway! Sam is always coherent, and a lot of fun.i love his lack of interest in social norms.
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The Player of Games
- Culture Series, Book 2
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 198
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh: Jernau Morat Gurgeh, The Player of Games, master of every board, computer, and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game... a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love this book!
- By Chris O'Neill on 22-01-2016
- The Player of Games
- Culture Series, Book 2
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
Too good!
Reviewed: 17-09-2017
I couldn't stop listening! The narration was great, the plot, enjoyable, and the prose, transporting. If you love boardgames, I'm quite sure you'll love this novel. And if you don't, well - after this you'll probably want to. Right, I'm going to start on the next culture book.
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The Joy of Being
- Awakening to One's True Identity
- By: Eckhart Tolle
- Narrated by: Eckhart Tolle
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
When challenges arise in your life, what happens inside of you? For many of us, the larger the problem, the more we resist, contract, and react unconsciously. On the other hand, explains Eckhart Tolle, in any given moment we have the chance to remain open to life, align with what is, and experience the natural sense of peace and aliveness that he calls "the joy of being".
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a great place to start
- By Aaron Lavack on 09-09-2017
- The Joy of Being
- Awakening to One's True Identity
- By: Eckhart Tolle
- Narrated by: Eckhart Tolle
Not a great place to start
Reviewed: 09-09-2017
This a live recording of a retreat. It's worth getting if you've already read/heard the power of now, a new earth, and stillness speaks, but if not, those are better places to start.
For more frequent eggtart listeners, you'll probably enjoy this. It gives you a good sense of being there at the retreat and, as always he has some great insights to share (mixed in with ' new earth' levels of unfounded logical leaps). The good stuff is really good though :-)
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