Should I try listening to Scott Sigler's The Rookie (a podiobook)?

Description of The Rookie by Scott Sigler: Imagine a story that combines the intense football action of "Any Given Sunday" with the space opera style of "Star Wars" and the criminal underworld of "The Godfather. THE ROOKIE is set amongst a lethal pro football league 700 years in the future. Aliens 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 19-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 hell wind up just another stat in the column marked "killed on the field."

http://www.scottsigler.com/

Votes	Answer
9	No
5	Yes
1	Other:

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bill	posted 2-Feb-2009 1:15pm it sounds bad to me, but you might like it
JessicaWoman99	posted 2-Feb-2009 1:26pm Yes why not go ahead and read it
Frostbrand	posted 2-Feb-2009 2:26pm I've been curious about this one for a while, and I'm pretty much caught up on all the "big" titles in podcast fiction (which reminds me, I should re-listen to heaven Pt 4 Wasteland before Heaven Pt. 5 War comes out), but on the other hand school and my own podcast may not give me the time I need to really engage in the story.
Melf	posted 2-Feb-2009 2:47pm Bleugh.
Iseult	posted 2-Feb-2009 6:59pm No. And I didn't bother reading the description past with the space opera style of "Star Wars".
Pomeranian	posted 2-Feb-2009 11:26pm Who would win a fight: a gang of football players or "Star Wars" characters?
Enheduanna	posted 3-Feb-2009 7:44am Sounds awful.
icurok	posted 3-Feb-2009 8:38am Sure, it sounds like a fun story for 12 to 16 year old boys.
icurok	posted 3-Feb-2009 8:38am Oh.
Frostbrand	posted 4-Feb-2009 2:31pm Mayeb this was the wrong crowd to open up to. I don't if any of you have heard any podcast novels. Quick mini-poll; who here has ever heard of the 7th Son Trilogy?
icurok	posted 5-Feb-2009 10:18am http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/5/2307431/Tumb...
FauxLo	(reply to Frostbrand) posted 5-Feb-2009 3:21pm It sounds vaguely familiar. Is it set in England?
Frostbrand	(reply to FauxLo) posted 5-Feb-2009 3:59pm > It sounds vaguely familiar. Is it set in England? No.
FauxLo	(reply to Frostbrand) posted 5-Feb-2009 4:15pm Then no.
Joanne	posted 6-Feb-2009 7:14pm What's with all the wanting to eat you surveys? What's up with that?
LindaH	posted 8-Feb-2009 7:16pm Sure, why not?
cloudhugger	posted 10-Feb-2009 6:16pm Yes, I think you should listen to it. In high speed. FAST so you can tell us how it went. TOMORROW!
Biggles	posted 16-Feb-2009 4:35pm Are you Frostbrand? Then yes, I think you should give it a go. Are you LJD? Then no, I think you should probably skip it.
Frostbrand	posted 1-Mar-2009 12:27am I've started listening. I'm about 9 episodes in and I'm enjoying it, though some of the technical football talk goes over my head. I'm one of those people who doesn't give a crap about football generally, unless my hometown team is in the playoffs then suddenly I'm a fanboy.

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