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The Rookie: Book 1
- Galactic Football League
- Narrated by: Scott Sigler
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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Summary
Set in a lethal pro football league 700 years in the future, The Rookie is a story that combines the intense gridiron action of Any Given Sunday with the space opera style of Star Wars and the criminal underworld of The Godfather. Aliens and humans alike play positions based on physiology, creating receivers that jump 25 feet into the air, linemen that bench-press 1,200 pounds, and linebackers that literally want to eat you. Organized crime runs every franchise, games are fixed, and rival players are assassinated. Follow the story of Quentin Barnes, a nineteen-year-old quarterback prodigy that has been raised all his life to hate, and kill, those aliens. Quentin must deal with his racism and learn to lead, or he'll wind up just another stat in the column marked "killed on the field."
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- Phish
- 09-05-20
Awesome, awesome, awesome!!
I've never been a sports fan but this series of books is the best I've ever listened to.
Being British I had no idea about American Football. I listened because it was, originally free as a podcast.
I'd had a serious operation on my chest and medication after made it really difficult to do the one thing I loved, read.
The GFL series was a god send and the way they are recorded and read is amazing. I found myself really engrossed in every aspect of the game and all the characters.
A big thanks to Scott Sigler. Your stories and reading of those stories is awesome.
I've listened to all of your other stories too. Again, thank you for these amazingly read audio books!
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- Anonymous User
- 25-07-22
great book for people that like sports an SyFy
it's great, you can see how much the author cares about football and has a great message
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- Andrew Neill
- 04-12-20
Phenomenal start
This is a great start to an awesome series, you do not need to be a fan of football you just need to be a fan of interesting characters and lots and lots of violence.
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- Call me Bob
- 13-10-20
On the edge about this but intetesting
If you can get over the American football theme and the almost retarded hillbilly main character it does have interesting SciFi.
I finished about 4 books in the series and am still intending to listen to the rest.
Also the narrator/author thinks he can act... This is not so. There are a lot of cringe moments that i really wished I could skip.
I, like the most of the world, do not know or care about American football but i did get to appreciate it a little at the end.
Just think of England and get through the gibberish related to the game.
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- Jsun-LG
- 11-12-19
Very enjoyable.
I enjoyed this science fiction story a lot. The characters are interesting and develop well during the story. I like the production style too. I still haven't a clue about how American football works.
I'm looking forward to the next book in the series.
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- Malcolm Jamieson
- 30-12-17
Great book
Loved this book and I have never watched American football before but it did not mater. Worth listening to
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- Charley
- 15-08-22
Sigler certainly likes his American throw ball
Really great, story, characters, depth and often comedic interludes. As I'm british I'm certainly not very clued up on Football, but having spent some time in New Orleans, I'm a part time saints fan.Sigler has done a better job of explaining the game (despite the gore) than most other americans I've met. Having randomly picked this up in a bookshop that didnt have the book I want I am now a big fan of Scott, the the Contagious trilogy and his short stories books. Thoroughly recommend wether you like throwball or not.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-11-22
Nice!
Really good audio book I really like the narration of Scott Sigler on his own books.
Also really liked the details of the football. can't wait for book 2.
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- Christopher
- 02-09-17
superb.
story of a secular man thrown into his worst nightmare to get what he wants. amazing.
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- Shaun B.
- 10-10-21
STILL love it
This is literally my only source of anything related to Gridiron! But I actually want to watch a superbowl now!
I listened to this way back when it was on a weekly podcast. I did all pf his other books first, trying to ignore this one because it was about football. I ended up loving it perhaps best of all (its between this and the infected trilogy).
Though narrating sound effects is not Siglers forte - everything else is SO good. Love it and recommend it
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