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The Dead Room
- By: Robert Ellis
- Narrated by: Jim McCance
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,218
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,070
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,067
Chestnut Hill is one of Philadelphia's most upscale neighborhoods. But in one gleaming home, in a teenager's lavish bedroom, a girl has been brutally murdered. The atrocity kicks off an investigation by police who connect the girl's murder to a bizarre string of increasingly disturbing murders. A serial killer is loose—someone of unprecedented savagery.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not my cup of tea
- By 6catz on 11-18-14
- The Dead Room
- By: Robert Ellis
- Narrated by: Jim McCance
WORST EVER READER
Reviewed: 02-18-15
Would you try another book from Robert Ellis and/or Jim McCance?
NEVER -- especially from the reader
What was most disappointing about Robert Ellis’s story?
MOST IMPROBABLE
How did the narrator detract from the book?
EVERY VOICE WAS BADLY DONE DIALECT OR TONE; DISTRACTING, IRRITATING; I had the sense that he lost steam towards the end of this very long tale, lost track of the voice he was attempting by the end of its lines
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Dead Room?
I didn't care enough to pay that much attention.
Any additional comments?
I've been a listener from the inception of the company, especially love mysteries, but this was a fairy tale with the absolutely worst reader, among only a few bad ones in my listening career. I ought to have returned the book before the investment of time.
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The Two Hotel Francforts
- A Novel
- By: David Leavitt
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 42
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 42
It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon, Portugal, is the only neutral port left in Europe - a city filled with spies, crowned heads, and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away the time until their escape. Awaiting safe passage to New York on the SS Manhattan, two couples meet: Pete and Julia Winters, expatriate Americans fleeing their sedate life in Paris; and Edward and Iris Freleng, sophisticated, independently wealthy, bohemian, and beset by the social and sexual anxieties of their class.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Disappointment
- By David on 01-26-14
- The Two Hotel Francforts
- A Novel
- By: David Leavitt
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
good author - bad narrator
Reviewed: 01-01-14
What did you love best about The Two Hotel Francforts?
This is a well-written and well-told story. The overall novel was poorly narrated such that reading it would have been preferable.
Who was your favorite character and why?
The dog, who was the cohesive character, without having a voice to render.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Stephen Bel Davies?
Anyone else who knew how to pronounce properly the languages (French, Portuguese) used occasionally, other than English; any other voice actor would likely have done a better job in differentiating the characters from each other with use of a different voice.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
I never listen to any book in one sitting.
Any additional comments?
I rarely write a review, but am moved to do so because of the poor performance of the narrator, whose agent ought to restrict him to books without foreign languages in them. Knowing a few of these languages caused the occasional cringe at his mispronunciation.
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Never Go Back
- Jack Reacher, Book 18
- By: Lee Child
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,743
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,773
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,731
Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South Dakota to his destination in northeastern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. The old stone building is the closest thing to a home he ever had.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Expect the Best
- By David Shear on 09-06-13
- Never Go Back
- Jack Reacher, Book 18
- By: Lee Child
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
my ears hurt from this
Reviewed: 09-17-13
Would you try another book from Lee Child and/or Dick Hill?
no, I'm done: Child's formulaic and Hill is a mannered reader who I find annoying.
Would you ever listen to anything by Lee Child again?
probably not - I've outgrown them. I always figure out what's going to happen, Reacher is always the same.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
He puts his own spin on the words that makes me wonder if those inflections are in the text, doesn't modulate his voices and his female ones are awful, not consistent voices either, but consistently awful.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
A bit of anger but a huge helping of disappointment.
Any additional comments?
Why didn't I return it? I'm so grateful that Amazon has enabled doing so; in the past I bought scores of books that I never listened to.
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The Ritual Bath
- The First Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novel
- By: Faye Kellerman
- Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,384
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 947
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Story4 out of 5 stars 939
Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Read
- By Eva Gannon on 08-21-08
- The Ritual Bath
- The First Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novel
- By: Faye Kellerman
- Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Easy to Listen To
Reviewed: 02-10-09
a little bit of hashed prose, but fun
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The Chopin Manuscript
- A Serial Thriller
- By: Lee Child, David Corbett, Joseph Finder, and others
- Narrated by: Alfred Molina
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 3,507
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,761
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 1,778
15 thriller masters. 1 masterful thriller! Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score by Frederic Chopin. But he is unaware that, within it's handwritten notes, lies a secret that now threatens the lives of thousands of Americans. As he races from Poland to the U.S. to uncover the mystery of the manuscript, Middleton will be accused of murder, pursued by federal agents, and targeted by assassins.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly good
- By Anonymous User on 11-27-07
- The Chopin Manuscript
- A Serial Thriller
- By: Lee Child, David Corbett, Joseph Finder, Jim Fusilli, John Gilstrap, James Grady, David Hewson, P. J. Parrish, Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Alfred Molina
impossible to follow
Reviewed: 02-10-09
a hodge podge, very annoying
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