Michael Crichton – The Andromeda Strain (Audiobook)

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Grāmatas apraksts no Goodreads/Synopsis from Goodreads:

The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to collect organisms and dust for study. One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town’s inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.

Izdevniecība/Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio

Kā tiku pie šīs grāmatas?/How I got this book?

Lejuplādēju no torenta. Izvēlējos no Top 100 Sci-Fi Books grāmatu listes.

Vērtējums/Rating: 2.75/5

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Frederik Pohl – Gateway (Heechee Saga #1) (Audio book)

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Grāmatas apraksts no Goodreads/Synopsis from Goodreads:

Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe… and on reaches of unimaginable horror.

When prospector Robinette Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Rob Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he has become… in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!

 

Izdevniecība/Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Kā tiku pie šīs grāmatas?/How I got this book?

Lejuplādēju no torenta. Izvēlējos no Top 100 Sci-Fi Books grāmatu listes.

Vērtējums/Rating: 3/5

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Izlasīju, lasu, lasīšu #37 (25.07 – 31.07)

Izlasīju, lasu, lasīšu jeb Read, Reading, To Read katru svētdienu būs tāds kā iknedēļas kopsavilkums, kā arī, ko lasu un klausos dotajā brīdī, un, kas plānojas tālāk. Ideja rakstam no aizņemta EMSVIEW.

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Izlasīju:

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The Brave and the Bold » The Brave and the Bold #50 – Wanted–the Capsule Master! released by DC Comics on November 1963.

Lai tiktu galā ar ļaundari vārdā Vulkor ar vienu supervaroni nepietiek, tāpēc Green Arrow un viņa pārinieks Speedy palīgā sauc Marsian Manhunter. Bija saistoši lasīt, un no neikdienišķā jeb ar superspējām saistītā nebija pārspīlēts par daudz. Interesanti, kā gan mūsu lokšāvējs spēj paņemt līdzi tik daudz dažādu efektu izraisošas bultas.

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Tess Gerritsen – The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles #9)

Sarkanais fēnikss atkal mostas!

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Tess Gerritsen – Freaks (Rizzoli & Isles #8.5)

Bīsties zirnekļu (vismaz no indīgajiem)!

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Craig Thompson – Habibi

Citādāka, bet ne tāpēc bīstamāka, kultūra.

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Greg Iles – The Death Factory (Penn Cage #3.5)

Noklausījos:

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Greg Iles – The Devil’s Punchbowl (Penn Cage #3)

Kazino tumšā puse.

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Alfred Bester – The Stars My Destiantion

Kaut kur liktenim ceļā uz zvaigznēm sanāca nomaldīties.

Lasu:

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Greg Iles – Natchez Burning (Penn Cage #4)

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Lato Lapsa – Zem Muhameda bārdas

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Emily Carroll – Through the Woods

Klausos:

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Frederik Pohl – Gateway (Heechee Saga #1)

Vārti uz nezināmām un bīstamām tālēm.

Lasīšu:

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Roberto Bolaño – 2666

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Gene Luen Yang – American Born Chinese

Klausīšos:

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Michael Crichton – The Andromeda Strain

 

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Greg Iles – The Death Factory (Penn Cage #3.5)

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Grāmatas apraksts no Goodreads/Synopsis from Goodreads:

A long short story featuring Penn and Tom Cage that fills in a critical period in their past, one that helps to set up the action in the coming trilogy, Natchez Burning, The Bone Tree and Unwritten Laws

Izdevniecība/Publisher: William Morrow

Kā tiku pie šīs grāmatas?/How I got this book?

Lejuplādēju no www.

Vērtējums/Rating: 4.75/5

 

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Tess Gerritsen – Freaks (Rizzoli & Isles #8.5)

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Grāmatas apraksts no Goodreads/Synopsis from Goodreads:

In this free Rizzoli & Isles short story from New York Timesbestselling author Tess Gerritsen, author of The Silent Girl, a bizarre death comes with a supernatural twist. Homicide cop Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles have seen their fair share of mortal crimes, but the death of Kimberly Rayner may qualify as inhuman in more ways than one. When corpse of the emaciated seventeen-year-old girl is discovered next to an empty coffin in an abandoned church, mysterious bruises around the throat suggest foul play. Caught fleeing the scene is the victim’s closest friend, Lucas Henry, an equally skeletal, pale teenager who claims he’s guilty only of having a taste for blood—a craving he shared with Kimberly. But the victim’s distraught father doesn’t believe in vampires, only vengeance. And now, another life may be at risk unless Rizzoli and Isles can uncover the astonishing truth.

Izdevniecība/Publisher: Ballantine Books

Kā tiku pie šīs grāmatas?/How I got this book?

Lejuplādēju no www.

Vērtējums/Rating: 4/5

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Tess Gerritsen – The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles #9)

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Grāmatas apraksts no Goodreads/Synopsis from Goodreads:

Every crime scene tells a story. Some keep you awake at night. Others haunt your dreams. The grisly display homicide cop Jane Rizzoli finds in Boston’s Chinatown will do both.

In the murky shadows of an alley lies a female’s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, her head nearly severed. Two strands of silver hair—not human—cling to her body. They are Rizzoli’s only clues, but they’re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make the startling discovery: that this violent death had a chilling prequel.

Nineteen years earlier, a horrifying murder-suicide in a Chinatown restaurant left five people dead. But one woman connected to that massacre is still alive: a mysterious martial arts master who knows a secret she dares not tell, a secret that lives and breathes in the shadows of Chinatown. A secret that may not even be human. Now she’s the target of someone, or something, deeply and relentlessly evil.

Cracking a crime resonating with bone-chilling echoes of an ancient Chinese legend, Rizzoli and Isles must outwit an unseen enemy with centuries of cunning—and a swift, avenging blade.

Izdevniecība/Publisher: Ballantine Books

Kā tiku pie šīs grāmatas?/How I got this book?

Lejuplādēju no www.

Vērtējums/Rating: 4.5/5

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Spridzīgie grāmatu vāki #86

Šajā iknedēļas rakstā iekļūst trīs grāmatu vāku bildes, kuras man šķitušas interesantas un foršas jeb spridzīgas, vai vienkārši neparastas. Ideja radās aplūkojot LE BELLE blogu.

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Leigh Statham – The Perilous Journey of the not so Innocuous Girl (The Perilous Journey of the not so Innocuous Girl #1)

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T. R. Williams – Journey into the Flame (Rising World Trilogy #1)

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Livio Gambarini – Eternal War: Gli eserciti dei santi

Craig Thompson – Habibi

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Grāmatas apraksts no Goodreads/Synopsis from Goodreads:

From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets (“A triumph for the genre.”—Library Journal), a highly anticipated new graphic novel.
 
Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the love that grows between them. We follow them as their lives unfold together and apart; as they struggle to make a place for themselves in a world (not unlike our own) fueled by fear, lust, and greed; and as they discover the extraordinary depth—and frailty—of their connection.

At once contemporary and timeless, Habibi gives us a love story of astounding resonance: a parable about our relationship to the natural world, the cultural divide between the first and third worlds, the common heritage of Christianity and Islam, and, most potently, the magic of storytelling.

Izdevniecība/Publisher: Pantheon Books

Kā tiku pie šīs grāmatas?/How I got this book?

Lejuplādēju no www.

Vērtējums/Rating: 3.75/5

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