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Lucifer's Hammer
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 24 hrs and 32 mins
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- Ninette Howe
- 12-12-2023
Epic tale of disaster and survival
Read this book in the late 70’s. Was a pleasure to revisit it in audio.
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- Keith
- 26-07-2022
fantastic
if the earth ever bites a comet, well I know how to make do. excellent story.
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- Sam
- 20-03-2023
One of the best End of the World stories ever
The amount of research and accuracy on this novel is fantastic. One of the best!
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- Anonymous User
- 06-09-2019
Lucifers Hammer
The best SCFI book that I ever read is transformed into a brilliant audiobook, a great read and a better listen. 5 stars
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- Michael Flanagan
- 23-02-2014
A Classic for a reason
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This book is getting a tad long in the tooth, being first published in 1977. But age has not removed the shine from this classic apocalyptic novel. If anything I feel that the age of the book adds to the story and in places makes for some hilarious reading.
All this aside Lucifer's Hammer delivers a story of a world that is in the path of a comet. Mankind knows it is coming close, just not how close. The start of the book is used well in informing the reader about comets and the science of predicting their paths. Our main characters are well grounded and we get a good feel for them.
Then the world comes to an end and Armageddon is let loose upon the earth. We watch the survivors struggle to come to terms with their new reality. It is fascinating to see how they change. Some rise to the challenge and some lapse into depravity. The plot is not a new one nor does it comes as surprise. But what makes it a truly great read is how well the author tells his tale. Also the thought is always in the back of your mind that what you are reading may one day be your reality, which in itself is truly scary stuff.
This book did leave with one question. Why the hell was it no called hammer fall.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-05-2020
A pretty good end of the world story
The narration is really good and this old time classic follows all the principles of a bloody good story with structure, interesting characters, a plot, descriptive settings, the conflict and the resolution.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-10-2020
Looooong.
Long. Sad. Language outdated. Worth rewriting by a modern writer. Could be an Epic both literary and Hollywood.
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- Kman
- 11-09-2015
Terrible - The only book I have ever not finished
I am a calm person.
This book made me angry, I actually swore out a loud though shear frustration at the painful progression and boring characters. I found myself wishing the comet would come sooner just to wipe them out...it would be a kindness....at least to the listener.
I only gave it one star because I don't know how to give it zero.
Not only is this book not worth the money but I would pay aliens to delete the bits I have not been able to erase from my memory with beer.
Now I am stuck with it in my library and to this day I still get an eye twitch when I see the title....oh it can be that bad right? Wrong....it can, it takes talent to be this bad.
Mike.
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- David
- 18-09-2015
Boring, boring, boring
Slow as buggery, piss weak storyline, too many players who all do nothing. A total waste of time, how do I get my money back?
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