The Remaining
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The Remaining
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Narrated by:
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Christian Rummel
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By:
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D. J. Molles
Summary
In a steel-and-lead-encased bunker 20 feet below the basement level of his house, a soldier waits for his final orders. On the surface, a plague ravages the planet, infecting over 90% of the populace. The bacterium burrows through the brain, destroying all signs of humanity and leaving behind little more than base, prehistoric instincts. The infected turn into hyper-aggressive predators, with an insatiable desire to kill and feed. Someday soon, the soldier will have to open the hatch to his bunker, and step out into this new wasteland, to complete his mission: Subvenire refectus. To rescue and rebuild.
The Remaining is the first book in the best-selling series, which tells a gritty tale of survival, perseverance and fighting to get back what has been lost.
©2012 D.J. Molles (P)2013 Audible, Inc.Continue the series
Loved it.
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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
This is not a bad book, the plot was pretty good and there are way worse books in the genre however there were some writing quirks that were pretty annoying. In Audiobooks, far more than on the written page, repetition of words in quick succession is really obvious. In some sections of the book I found myself thinking "he has used the same word half a dozen times in just a couple of sentences. Buy a thesaurus or something!" There was also a rather laboured repetition of the state our protagonist finds himself in.Did Christian Rummel do a good job differentiating each of the characters? How?
Hmmm - not really. Characterization was not a strong point in the book, most of the players seemed rather two dimensional.Was The Remaining worth the listening time?
I listened to the whole book and was not bored. So yes, but I did not enjoy the book enough to buy the next few in the series, mainly because I never found myself caring what happened to any of the characters really.Average. I wont be buying the others in the series
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It was ok
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RAW, SPECTACULAR & ENTHRALLING!
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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
I wouldn't discourage them from reading it but I'd warn them of the inconsistencies in the story.Would you ever listen to anything by D. J. Molles again?
Possibly,if I get curious/bored I liked the idea of the story he had some nice ideas, just thought it was badly thought through and if he sorts out the inconsistencies in the plot in later series I may consider.What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?
I liked that the narrator wasn't too annoying, his female voices sucked.Did The Remaining inspire you to do anything?
Not waste my credits on the next book in this series just yet,will wait till I'm really curious/boredAny additional comments?
Overall a nice idea, spoilt by the inconsistencies in the writing, and the stupidity of the main character.At one point a character's eyes change from brown to blue, complaints of dehydration while standing in a stream washing!, Would we run out of food and basic supplies so quickly after only a month.
Would we forget we can drink water from a stream?
Surely bacterias can be controlled with anti'bs.
Why just one man and a dog per state surely a small squad would of been more feasible.
But hell super fast zombies, with prey drive and a modicum of intelligence that I liked.
I think the high ratings for this book are more reflective on how hard it is to find a well written book in this genre, and yeah I guess it is one of the better ones.
Promising start but!
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