Leif H. Jenssen
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The Wrong One
- By: Dervla McTiernan
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers, Michael Crouch
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 17,699
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 16,259
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Story4 out of 5 stars 16,210
In this new novella from the number one internationally best-selling author of The Sisters and The Murder Rule, Dervla McTiernan, a mother and son fighting to prove her innocence are reunited with an estranged friend—a detective who may hold the key to her freedom—as they’re forced to put their differences aside to uncover the shocking truth behind the crime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!
- By Mary Loo on 04-01-22
- The Wrong One
- By: Dervla McTiernan
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers, Michael Crouch
Unimpressed
Reviewed: 07-31-22
The ending didn’t make sense. Story not worth the time and effort to listen. A definite meh…
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Emerald City
- By: Jennifer Egan
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston, Madeleine Lambert, Richard Waterhouse
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 175
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 156
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Story4 out of 5 stars 153
These 11 masterful stories - the first collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan - deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan’s characters - models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls - are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Awful narrator
- By carrieann on 10-12-19
- Emerald City
- By: Jennifer Egan
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston, Madeleine Lambert, Richard Waterhouse
As the New York woman book
Reviewed: 05-23-22
Critic says, we live in Jennifer Egan’s world now, esp since The Candy House came out. See her genius here too!
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The Invisible Circus
- By: Jennifer Egan
- Narrated by: Madeleine Lambert
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 400
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 354
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Story4 out of 5 stars 354
In Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O'Connor, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across Europe, a quest which yields both complex and disturbing revelations about family, love, and Faith's lost generation.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Too bad zero was not a choice...
- By IVAL on 04-28-13
- The Invisible Circus
- By: Jennifer Egan
- Narrated by: Madeleine Lambert
Hard to beat Jennifer Egan
Reviewed: 04-26-22
Her writing is like listening to music. She makes it seem easy the way the story flows along. True genius!
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Quiet Until the Thaw
- A Novel
- By: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 19
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 19
Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared heritage. When escalating anger toward the injustices, historical and current, inflicted upon the Lakota people by the federal government leads to tribal divisions and infighting, the cousins go in separate directions: Rick chooses the path of peace; You Choose, violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this best narration ever
- By Liliana Condon on 06-04-21
- Quiet Until the Thaw
- A Novel
- By: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
Widow in to Lakota Soux
Reviewed: 12-21-20
Very good book. Short interesting captures. The writer lived with the Tribe and had a real feeling for their culture. The narrator was fantastic.
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A Thousand Small Sanities
- The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
- By: Adam Gopnik
- Narrated by: Adam Gopnik
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 156
A Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of people who invented and extended the liberal tradition. Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to the civil rights movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism, nor simply another word for free markets, nor merely a term denoting a set of rights. It is something far more ambitious: the search for radical change by humane measures. Gopnik shows us why liberalism is one of the great moral adventures in human history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Erudite and entertaining!
- By D. A. Vail on 05-20-19
- A Thousand Small Sanities
- The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
- By: Adam Gopnik
- Narrated by: Adam Gopnik
Adam Gopnick has taught me a lot.
Reviewed: 08-26-19
The ring of truth is in his writing.
One of a select group of persons I’d like to meet.
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11-22-63
- A Novel
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 30 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71,192
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64,231
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 64,087
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King - who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer - takes listeners on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Owe Stephen King An Apology
- By Kelly - Write Well Academy on 04-16-12
- 11-22-63
- A Novel
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
Performance was magnificent
Reviewed: 03-30-16
The story kept me listening.
The writing imaginative. A workmanlike product but I wouldn't classify it as great literature.
I was curious never having read the author.
Main impression: It was fun. The performance was superlative, many accents well done.
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Sabbath's Theater
- By: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: David Dukes
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 326
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 225
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Story4 out of 5 stars 225
Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Mickey Sabbath at 64 is an aging, raging powerhouse, defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his longtime mistress, Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Train Rex
- By B. DelPorto on 12-19-03
- Sabbath's Theater
- By: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: David Dukes
Warts well to say the least
Reviewed: 03-29-15
Quite a sensational expert reading! Really opened up this book and writer to me . Audible it's very good judgment in the selection of this reader. 5 Stars!.
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I Pity the Poor Immigrant
- A Novel
- By: Zachary Lazar
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story3 out of 5 stars 18
In 1972, the American gangster Meyer Lansky petitions the Israeli government for citizenship. His request is denied, and he is returned to the U.S. to stand trial. He leaves behind a mistress in Tel Aviv, a Holocaust survivor named Gila Konig. In 2009, American journalist Hannah Groff travels to Israel to investigate the killing of an Israeli writer. She soon finds herself inside a web of violence that takes in the American and Israeli Mafias, the Biblical figure of King David, and the modern state of Israel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book is a real sleeper
- By Leif H. Jenssen on 01-25-15
- I Pity the Poor Immigrant
- A Novel
- By: Zachary Lazar
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
This book is a real sleeper
Reviewed: 01-25-15
What did you love best about I Pity the Poor Immigrant?
The person who read it could do Israeli and east European accents. Really added to the smokey flavor.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Hannah Groff, the main character, was so interesting as she grew in the story.
Have you listened to any of Cassandra Campbell’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
No, but she is tops!
If you could take any character from I Pity the Poor Immigrant out to dinner, who would it be and why?
Gila Konig probably.
Any additional comments?
The story is quite complicated at first. The author is a man but he makes his woman narrator totally believable.. The parallels with King David, referred to as Kid Bethlehem, and the founding of Las Vegas is a meta plot. The mix of organized crime and the entropic decline of a Kingdom/State/Gambling enterprise is interesting. The book is short, almost like a meditation.
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