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Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- By: Hernan Diaz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,071
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,585
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,585
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Before Purchasing
- By JLDLOfficial on 08-13-22
- Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- By: Hernan Diaz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò, Orlagh Cassidy
An engrossing literary accomplishment
Reviewed: 07-10-22
Although some readers may be put off initially by the seeming banal narration of the first part, they should continue to the end, as each section unfolds a competing story. This is to a great degree the story of perhaps all accomplished women who flourish because of, and in spite of, the hubris of the men they must rely on for sustainability. I recommend reading it twice because like Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, each part challenges the reader to question which to trust as truth.
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Middlemarch
- By: George Eliot
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 35 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,199
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,703
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,666
Dorothea Brooke is an ardent idealist who represses her vivacity and intelligence for the cold, theological pedant Casaubon. One man understands her true nature: the artist Will Ladislaw. But how can love triumph against her sense of duty and Casaubon’s mean spirit? Meanwhile, in the little world of Middlemarch, the broader world is mirrored: the world of politics, social change, and reforms, as well as betrayal, greed, blackmail, ambition, and disappointment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Audible book ever
- By Molly-o on 12-25-11
- Middlemarch
- By: George Eliot
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Story is more enjoyable to this mature listener--
Reviewed: 03-19-16
--than it was when I was 25 and pursuing a graduate degree in English. Like Eliot's characters, one's own perspective on the self and others matures with time. Rereading the story after the experiences of love, marriage, child birth, and loss has, I find, made the novel more relevant and rewarding. Eliot is a keen, yet compassionate observer and storyteller. Stevenson's narration is likewise brilliant.
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The Redbreast
- By: Jo Nesbø
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,362
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,001
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,997
It is 1944: Daniel, a soldier, legendary among the Norwegians fighting the advance of Bolshevism on the Russian front, is killed. Two years later, a wounded soldier wakes up in a Vienna hospital. He becomes involved with a young nurse, the consequences of which will ripple forward to the turn of the next century. In 1999, Harry Hole, alone again after having caused an embarrassment in the line of duty, has been promoted to inspector and is lumbered with surveillance duties. He is assigned the task of monitoring neo-Nazi activities....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bravura writing
- By David on 05-16-11
- The Redbreast
- By: Jo Nesbø
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
Nesbo's best Harry Hole mystery!
Reviewed: 02-29-16
Yes, the author's intricate weaving of two storylines, occurring in different decades and countries, requires an attentive and patient listener, but it's worth it! I've read/listened to all of Nesbo's Harry Hole novels, and in my opinion, Redbreast was the most intriguing and satisfying of them all.
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The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,014
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,262
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,259
Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. This first in the series sends Emily on her first case after she successfully persuades a skeptical CIA recruitment officer that she is the best person for the job.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful writing and incredible narration
- By Barbara on 01-14-12
- The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
Pollifax is no Nancy Drew
Reviewed: 01-03-16
If you enjoy modern spy novels, this will really disappoint you. Plot, characters, and setting are silly and contrived, with comic book implausibilty.
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All the Light We Cannot See
- A Novel
- By: Anthony Doerr
- Narrated by: Zach Appelman
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 65,221
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58,011
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 57,969
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is 12, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Afraid to Write a "Less-Than-Positive" Review
- By Elizabeth on 08-06-14
- All the Light We Cannot See
- A Novel
- By: Anthony Doerr
- Narrated by: Zach Appelman
Absolutely the finest novel and performance!
Reviewed: 08-05-15
All the Light We Cannot See is a modern masterpiece of storytelling, as poignant and relevant to our hearts and history as War and Peace must have been for Tolstoy's Russian readers. You will laugh, and you will cry.
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On the Beach
- By: Nevil Shute
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,337
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,203
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,206
A war no one fully understands has devastated the planet with radioactive fallout from massive cobalt bombing. Melbourne, Australia, is the only area whose citizens have not yet succumbed to the contamination. But there isn’t much time left, a few months, maybe more—and the citizens of Melbourne must decide how they will live the remaining weeks of their lives, and how they will face a hopeless future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Personally a Tremendous Influence
- By N. Rogers on 06-07-14
- On the Beach
- By: Nevil Shute
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
You won't be able to put this down
Reviewed: 06-18-15
The characters and their lives are described realistically, with compassion, attention to detail, and even humor. The story could happen as easily today as when the story was set over 50 years ago. It will give you a new perspective on your own life as you realize we could share the same fate today if we don't take nuclear disarmament seriously.
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Reliquary
- Pendergast, Book 2
- By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,086
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,616
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,593
Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beast. When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid the investigation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should have made this one into a movie...
- By Anastasia on 02-22-09
- Reliquary
- Pendergast, Book 2
- By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
A story more Jules Verne than modern thriller
Reviewed: 06-14-15
This story stretched credulity more than other Pendergast tales. But its narrator brings a full repertoire of voices and sound effects that makes this a compelling and entertaining listen.
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The Altar Girl
- A Prequel (Nadia Tesla)
- By: Orest Stelmach
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 74
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 75
The daughter of uncompromising Ukrainian immigrants, Nadia was raised to respect guts, grit, and tradition. When the events around the seemingly accidental death of her estranged godfather don't add up, Nadia is determined to discover the truth - even if she attracts the attention of dangerous men intent on finding out what she knows through any means possible.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great surprise!
- By Robert on 05-07-15
- The Altar Girl
- A Prequel (Nadia Tesla)
- By: Orest Stelmach
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Narrator's immature voice diminished impact
Reviewed: 05-05-15
Story was predictable, almost on the level of a Nancy Drew book, as told by Nancy herself! Nadia's instant analyses of every thought in her head and observations of every one she meets is tedious and insulting to the reader in the extreme. Only redeeming qualities were the historical references to Ukrainian life post- WWII and the plight of refugees and deported people forced back to their homelands. I got the distinct impression that this book was quickly written to take advantage of two recent phenomena: the crisis in the Ukraine and the popularity of books whose titles include the phrase "the girl."
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The Absent One
- By: Jussi Adler-Olsen
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,196
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,849
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,840
In The Keeper of Lost Causes, Jussi Adler-Olsen introduced Detective Carl Mørck, a deeply flawed, brilliant detective newly assigned to run Department Q, the home of Copenhagen’s coldest cases. The result wasn’t what Mørck - or readers - expected, but by the opening of Adler-Olsen’s shocking, fast-paced follow-up, Mørck is satisfied with the notion of picking up long-cold leads. So he’s naturally intrigued when a closed case lands on his desk: A brother and sister were brutally murdered two decades earlier....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Who knew?
- By Librarian on 06-04-13
- The Absent One
- By: Jussi Adler-Olsen
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
Not up to the level of others in the series
Reviewed: 05-02-15
Narrator and plot were disappointing. Loved all the other audio recordings in the Department Q series except this one. Carl, Assad, and their police work take a back seat to the unbelievable antics of multiple morally challenged bad guys and gals.
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The Marco Effect
- Department Q, Book 5
- By: Jussi Adler-Olsen
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,424
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,165
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,166
All fifteen-year-old Marco Jameson wants is to become a Danish citizen and go to school like a normal teenager. But his uncle Zola rules his former gypsy clan with an iron fist. Revered as a god and feared as a devil, Zola forces the children of the clan to beg and steal for his personal gain. When Marco discovers a dead body - proving the true extent of Zola's criminal activities - he goes on the run. But his family members aren't the only ones who'll go to any lengths to keep Marco silent - forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Funny, Sharp Witted, Dept Q Worth The Wait!
- By Chip Atkinson on 09-11-14
- The Marco Effect
- Department Q, Book 5
- By: Jussi Adler-Olsen
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Another great listen in the Q series
Reviewed: 04-29-15
Finished the book and then started it over again--it is that good. The English translation aptly captures the flavor and nuances of each character's thoughts and expressions. My favorite has to be Carl's "Christ on a bike!" and Assad's humorous stories featuring camels. Both add just the right amount of levity in the face of some seriously ugly crimes.
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