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    The Dig: Matt Turner, Book 1
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    The Dig: Matt Turner, Book 1

    Written by Michael Siemsen

    Narrated by Chris Patton

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    "

    A mysterious woven metal artifact is found at a paleontological dig in Africa. Mystified experts, confounded by the impossible timeline they get from traditional dating methods, call upon a stubborn young man with a unique talent.

    Matthew Turner's gift is also his curse: When he touches any object, his awareness is flooded with the thoughts and feelings of those who touched it before him. It is a talent that many covet, some fear, and almost no one understands.

    Despite being exploited as a child and tormented by the unpleasant experiences imprinted on him from the various items he has ""read"", Matthew agrees to travel from New York to the forests of Kenya. There, threatened by unknown enemies and helped by a beautiful but prickly ally who begins to understand his strange ability, he journeys back in geological time to make a discovery so shocking that it forces us to rewrite all human history.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPodium Audio
    Release dateDec 6, 2013
    ISBN9781927628461
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    The Dig: Matt Turner, Book 1
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    Michael Siemsen

    Michael Siemsen is the USA Today Bestselling author of 7 novels, including The Dig, A Warm Place to Call Home (A Demon's Story), The Many Lives of Samuel Beauchamp, and Exigency. He lives in Northern California with "the wife," "the kids," "the dogs," "that cat," and he occasionally wears pants. facebook.com/mcsiemsen twitter: @michaelsiemsen

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    • 4/5
      Enjoyable story with a few interesting characters, not site I liked the ending but hey ho.
    • 4/5
      Great story, new story line, different from anything else I've read. Hero is a person not some kind of superman, and I like that angle. this is actually two stories in one, and both are worth reading.
    • 2/5
      The Dig
      by Michael Siemsen
      Adventure Paranormal
      Scribd Audio

      A piece of fabric, woven with metal was found at a fossil dig in Africa, dated way before man was able to weave such fabric. Puzzled, and not entirely believing the findings, the museum funding the dig calls in Matthew Turner. Only a select few know of his gift; the ability to see what the last people who held the object did when he touches it. His father, a cop, had used Matthew's gift when he was a kid to solve his cases, even the bad ones.

      He knows his 'friends' at the museum are taking advantage of him, tricking him to relive traumatic events imprinted on objects, even though they know the experiences torment him, he agrees to go 'read' the artifact after being 'paid' by reading a silver coin rumored to be part of a shipment that never made it to the shores of the United States.

      The story started out interesting. The characters were well developed, unique in their own ways, and Matthew's gift was slowly explained, giving the reader two different opinions of the young man, first him being completely weird, and then slowly, (almost too slowly) being able to understand the effects a gift like his could do to a person.

      But the story mostly revolved around him, so what was going on, he had to be a part of it, so the 'main' action of the story was only revealed when the other characters were able to tell him what happened.

      The side story, the one that was told through Matthew's gift, started out really good, but it became monotonous and lacked descriptions and the history of the time. Things about why the people in his 'visions' did what they did, I didn't feel as if they were explained enough and were left to the reader to piece together as the story went on, which some of it, I feel, should have been explained with in the first three visions instead of in the middle. And it didn't make sense how they were able to do these things when they did them. It needed more in-depth details of the experience.

      When I first started listening, I was thinking about trying out the next book in the series, but now, not so much. It dragged on way too long without any action.

      2 Stars
    • 5/5
      Great Book, Awesome adventure from start to finish..The Dig Great