The Heaven Makers
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The Heaven Makers
Narrated by:
Scott Brick
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Narrated by:
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Scott Brick
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Frank Herbert
About this listen
Immortal aliens have observed Earth forcenturies, making full sensory movies of wars, natural disasters, and horrifichuman activities - all to relieve their endless boredom. When they finally becomejaded by ordinary, run-of-the-mill tragedies, they find ways to create theirown disasters, just to amuse themselves.
But interfering with human activities isforbidden, and the authorities have been known to check on these matters fromtime to time. However, by the time Investigator Kelexel arrives to investigate,the trouble has been going on for a long, long time - and things are reallygetting out of hand.
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Interesting concepts but incoherent.
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classic science fiction
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The story itself, is of it's time, but still interesting, The narration was my biggest dislike of this particular book. The Dune books can often be confusing as to who is actually talking (due to a mix of narration and cast production) but this was another level, not enough difference in character voices to make it easy to follow.. lose concentration for 10 seconds at a set of lights and you can easily not notice that the chapter is a new and you're listening to a totally different character, then having to rewind to catch up. If in a thoughtful / day-dreamy mood, do not listen to the book, you need to sit and put your concentration head on!!
A bit of a struggle!
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I do always listen to books somewhere between 1.7 and 2.7 though so perhaps that is why.
I correctly guessed this book was written in the 60's - It just feels very 60's sci fi!
The ideas were interesting although there were a few annoying plot holes. I didn't really feel invested in any of the characters - maybe the psychologist a bit but that's it.
I didn't feel that I had enough understanding of the aliens - both in terms of their species and on an individual level - what is their story? What makes them different to us (other than immortality). Pretty much all we know is that they are immortal, their overriding emotion and motivator is boredom, and they have some technology that we don't have. That's all I've gleaned after the entire book.
The Heaven Makers
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It is the only Frank Herbert I have not been able to find in over 50 years of reading sci-fi/fantasy.
The story line is gripping, what is coming in each chapter is unguessable and the philosophy mind bending.
The cherry on the cake is the inimitable narrator, Scott Brick.
A gem
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it was an interesting look into the matter idea of a mortal existence mixed with psychological effects of outside stimulus one both mortal and seemingly immortal beings.
interesting exploration of mortality and psycholog
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It's not Dune but then nothing is :)
Starts a little slow
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A fascinating and gripping story
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More like purgatory than heaven
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Sadly, the reader leaves quite a lot to be desired. The reading is very slow and dull. Only the quality of the story managed to keep me going. I wonder how much better this could be in the hands of a better reader.
Great story let down by mediocre reading
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