

Beggars Ride
Author: Nancy Kress
Narrator: Judy Young
Unabridged: 15 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 02/26/2009
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Nancy Kress
Narrator: Judy Young
Unabridged: 15 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 02/26/2009
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
a sci fi book i borrowed from my friend. it's the last in a trilogy i did not read, but i was able to understand the jist of it. this is a future i actually could imagine, with those beautiful, drugged people being the ruling class. i found all of the characters very interesting, although the main guy was kinda dislikeable because he acted so weak half the time. very good book, you should read it.
Let's get this out of the way. The first 2/3rds of this book was filled to the brim with rather boring Sleeper and Sleepless politics. It lacked all the charm of the first two novels because the first two had great characters. They're missing from this novel. The characters we do have didn't manage t......more
Third in the Beggars series: Beggars in Spain, Beggars And Choosers and Beggars Ride. What a series! Social SF at its best! Kress starts off with a simple premise: what if we could genetically modify our children so that they didn't need sleep? She follows all the complicated, society-changing implica......more
Uh-oh. Jennifer Sharifi is back. This can't be good for the story, and last time she was the antagonist, it wasn't good for the book either. I'll say this about Nancy Kress: she has a way of surprising me. I did not expect her to kill off Leisha Camden so abruptly in Beggars and Choosers. The stunnin......more