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Narrated by:
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Matt Reeves
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By:
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Peter James
About this listen
How far would you go to live forever?
Brilliant scientist Joe Messenger believes that people can be made to live forever. Knowing the human body can be frozen indefinitely, Joe devises a way of downloading the human brain into a supercomputer called ARCHIVE.
But Joe's wife, Karen, is worried by his preoccupation with ARCHIVE, which seems to be developing signs of a distinct and sinister personality of its own.
Then, just as Joe is on the brink of a scientific breakthrough, a series of macabre accidents befall him and his family - and Joe finds himself facing the terrifying consequences of his own obsessions.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-02-24
Clever plot
Clever plot but I expected a slightly tidier ending. Eg I thought an eternity stuck in a virtual world with JS.
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- christine macbrien
- 08-01-19
The stupidest scientist in literature?
The idea behind the book is basically a hot item, the threat of AI, but there are so many other threads overlapping.
Within the first 2 chapters it was pretty clear which way the story was going to go and it was unbearable how stupid and naive the main character was. And him a super scientist.
The language was another sore spot. It reminded me of the passages we used in English learning text books in the 60’s. simplified, graphic and irrelevant. ‘ John sees a tall man. He is wearing a funny hat’ kind of thing.
The bad guys are really bad and the good guys are really dumb....
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- Davidledes
- 04-02-19
detailed thriller,but not up to James's standard
detailed thriller,but not up to James's normal standard. this is not a Roy grace. hard work
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- Helen McRedmond
- 31-03-21
Stick with it
A little slow and with jargon overload to start with but worth sticking with it to the end
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- Jackie Holby
- 19-01-19
Host
Brilliant book,great story. Peter James has excelled with this book. Can’t wait for next one
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- Crusherthedrummer
- 14-03-19
gripping throughout
Although a little slow at the start, it was thrilling and gripped me throughout. so many emotions played with... superbly crafted.
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- Darren Lock
- 23-10-19
A bit slow getting to the obvious in places
A lot of time spent laying out signposts to obvious conclusions. Story survived 26 years well. Maybe it has been in cryostasis?
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- Keith B.
- 06-04-24
Great storytelling
Ok a bit dated now ( we’ll 1993 seems a while ago now ) but still enthralling and good narration
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- MR GARETH L BANNISTER
- 26-06-23
Be careful with AI
I enjoyed the book and if you gloss over some of the cracks in the storyline this made for a very chilling perspective on this technology. Perhaps AI won’t manifest in quite this way but the story infers the gravity of what could be if this weren’t managed very carefully… (are we really capable of doing so? I doubt it). It seems these days despite the ‘high tech’ world we live in there are and will always be blunders and misuse
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- Filbert
- 26-10-20
fabulous
another addictive book by Peter James, loved every second of it, wanted it to last forever! Thank you
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