I really enjoyed my time listening to the stress simulator 3000. My favourite bit was how the entire book was written like the most aggravating parts of Jurassic Park where Lex is yelling at Timmy to DO SOMETHING and Timmy shouts back IM TRYING. I really did like the twist in the very last line though.
I tried Jurassic World too recently and it was pretty bad. It seems my favourite authors cannot strike gold twice. First Michael Scott or whatever his name is sets the sequel to Ender's Game 3000 years into the future on a planet with little portuguese pig people and then this guy goes and ruins Jurassic Park.
Special shoutout to Andy Weir also for writing the most boring alien story I have ever had the misfortune to listen to after penning the amazing Martian and Artemis.
Speaker for the dead was a weird book. Points for trying, maybe, in that the theme seems to be about striving for peaceful coexistence despite a violent history.
I remember the whole thing just feeling silly by the end. "What is the Sphere?!" Um... uh... I guess it makes you a wizard or something, idk.
It's all just high fantasy couched in the thriller genre. There's no real speculative fiction. Just Original Star Trek esque "everything we don't understand must be impossible magic".
I watched the movie the Sphere but never read the book.
I read Jurassic Park, Congo, The Andromeda Strain, and probably others I've forgotten now as a kid around 14 or 15 years old. I always enjoyed his writing and the worlds he built were super interesting.
Is the audiobook good quality? I know some older audiobooks from the 90s-early 2000s have been digitized from old tape recordings and, to be frank, sound like muffled ass. I'm not an audio pervert or anything, but I also have some self respect.
I fucking LOVED sphere in 5th grade. Should I revisit it? Did you like Airframe? Seems topical, now that I'm thinking about it.
I don't know Airframe
I definitely wouldn't listen to The Sphere, it is very stressful and repetitive and I found myself begging them to get to the point, and the characters are so stupid
I can't imagine it would be more enjoyable to read, there are some good ideas but it just fails to hit them in a good rhythm.
