The Metal Monster
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Abraham Merritt
(2,812 Sterne; 24 Bewertungen)
The Metal Monster is an Abraham Merritt fantasy novel.
Dr. Goodwin is on a botanical expedition in the Himalayas. There he meets Dick Drake, the son of one of his old science acquaintances. They are witnesses of a strange aurora-like effect, but seemingly a deliberate one. As they go out to investigate, they meet Goodwin's old friends Martin and Ruth Ventnor, brother and sister scientists. The two are besieged by Persians as Darius III led when Alexander of Macedon conquered them more than two thousand years ago.
The group is saved by a magnificent woman they get to know as Norhala. She commands the power of lightning and controls strange metal animate Things, living, metallic, geometric forms; an entire city of sentient cubes, globes and tetrahedrons, capable of joining together and forming colossal shapes, and wielding death rays and other armaments of destruction.
They are led to a hidden valley occupied by what they name "The Metal Monster", a strange metal city occupied by the metal animate Things Norhala commands This city is governed by what they call the Metal Emperor, assisted by the Keeper of the Cones.
Ruth is slowly being converted by Norhala to become like her; her little sister. Martin, her brother, tries shooting the Metal Emperor, who retalliates with a ray blast, putting Martin in a comatose state.
Closed in between the Metal Monster and the Persians, it falls to Goodwin and Drake to find a way to escape their predicament. (Summary Wikipedia) (9 hr 59 min)
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mark nelson should Read this
Jonshep
(4 Sterne)
mark nelson should read this as its spoiled by not so great narration
(1 Sterne)
too many readers, too many different volume levels
odd episodic flaws
(3 Sterne)
I enjoyed this book over all but the old fasition episodic nature of the story disappointed. Goodwin is constantly perplexed by interacting with thing less outragious then his experiences in the previous work. this is made more obvious by a begining that remind us this is a sequel.
Joep1
(1 Sterne)
Don't really know the novel...but oh my the reader was atrocious. Could not take her
R8tr
(1 Sterne)
Libravox - it would be good if you just used one reader volunteer per novel to read. when you mix and match different readers to each novel it makes it hard to follow due to different styles of reading and enthusiasm, let alone some readers mispronouncing words or stalling
cant listen
Phillip Rowland
(0,5 Sterne)
every chapter abruptly ends in mid sentence, then starts the chapter over, when the next chapter starts it is obvious that you missed some of the story.
Impossible!
Satyaban
(1 Sterne)
I had to give up on this because the writer makes depictions that are far to complex and impossible to picture or follow.
The Metal Monster
Rod Arnold
(4,5 Sterne)
Ovre all a a book well worth listening to. A couple of readers for me, were hard to understand.