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A Man
- By: Keiichiro Hirano, Eli K. P. William - translator
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 169
Akira Kido is a divorce attorney whose own marriage is in danger of being destroyed by emotional disconnect. With a midlife crisis looming, Kido's life is upended by the reemergence of a former client, Rié Takemoto. She wants Kido to investigate a dead man - her recently deceased husband, Daisuké. Upon his death she discovered that he’d been living a lie. His name, his past, his entire identity belonged to someone else, a total stranger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful
- By Edward Erickson on 08-28-20
- A Man
- By: Keiichiro Hirano, Eli K. P. William - translator
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Difficult
Reviewed: 09-14-22
This book is extremely well written. I could “see” the characters and their surroundings and feel the confusion of the main character. But, whether it is my pitiful ignorance of the Japanese and Korean history/culture or the ambiguity of his feelings…. I just could not understand his conflict or the point of the situation. Probably my fault.
The narrator is TERRIFIC! I saw, in browsing books, his name pop up somewhere and considered acquiring that book just for his reading - although the title/subject did not interest me. I cannot even remember the book. I highly recommend him as a reader.
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The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness
- By: Paula Poundstone
- Narrated by: Paula Poundstone
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,476
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,330
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,321
Is there a secret to happiness? Beloved comedian Paula Poundstone conducts a series of "thoroughly unscientific" experiments to find out, offering herself up as a guinea pig and recording her data for the benefit of all humankind. Armed with her unique brand of self-deprecating wit and the scientific method, in each chapter Paula tries out a different get-happy hypothesis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Contemplative, with bursts of laughter
- By Diana on 05-15-17
Funny!
Reviewed: 01-17-18
I love Paula on “Wait, Wait” and was eager to read her book.
Paula has made her life story (so far) very funny. She can write and she can deliver. She can also use vulgar language, but using that ability in her very humorous anecdotes baffles me. It only shocks, grates and pains a thinking audience - using the F word regularly is so unnecessary!
I wish I could give it 5 stars, but the language takes the book down a couple notches for me.
I also wish I could go see her live, but my ears won’t let me - they are opposed to assault and battery.
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Drinking in America
- Our Secret History
- By: Susan Cheever
- Narrated by: Barbara Benjamin Creel
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4 out of 5 stars 61
In Drinking in America, best-selling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation's history. This is the often-overlooked story of how alcohol has shaped American events and the American character from the 17th to the 20th century.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Revisionist history at its worst
- By Dawson Roy Lewis III on 10-26-15
- Drinking in America
- Our Secret History
- By: Susan Cheever
- Narrated by: Barbara Benjamin Creel
Enlightening
Reviewed: 05-16-17
I was unaware of the part drinking has played in the history of the United States - I am not sure it was as influential as the author declares, but I learned much from her account.
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The Looming Tower
- Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,610
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,738
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,730
This is a sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans, and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a hair short of objective
- By Teresa A. Hayes on 11-17-06
- The Looming Tower
- Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Fascinating
Reviewed: 04-10-17
Excellent narration of a story with many, many difficult & unfamiliar names.
I couldn't follow it perfectly, but got the point that agencies in the US government are pitifully uncooperative with each other.
It did give me a better understanding of Osama bin Laden and the history of the Taliban.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46,083
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 41,695
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41,525
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity
- By Cathy Lindhorst on 08-27-17
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Wonderful!
Reviewed: 02-28-17
Wow, what a wonderful book! I was beginning to think I would no longer find the well written, feel good stories of yesteryear. Towels has restored my faith.
Humor, pathos, suspense, romance - this book has it - and all of it expertly turned out. I was charmed!
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Before the Fall
- By: Noah Hawley
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 12,877
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,718
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Story4 out of 5 stars 11,688
On a foggy summer night, 11 people - 10 privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter - depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: The plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are the painter Scott Burroughs and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. Was it by chance that so many influential people perished? Or was something more sinister at work?
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3 out of 5 stars
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What you should know before listening...
- By Snozzle on 07-31-16
- Before the Fall
- By: Noah Hawley
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Good, but...
Reviewed: 10-30-16
A very good story with a satisfying ending. The narrator read naturally.
The difficulty in listening/reading came with the abundance of foul language. I understand that a certain portion of the population cannot speak a full sentence without the F word, however one or two would define and flesh out a character enough for an imaginative reader. I felt barraged and bruised by unnecessary scatological references and prurient descriptions.
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True Crime Stories: 12 Shocking True Crime Murder Cases
- True Crime Anthology, Vol. 1
- By: Jack Rosewood
- Narrated by: Herschel J. Grangent Jr.
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 153
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 124
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Story4 out of 5 stars 122
The world can be a very strange place in general, and when you listen to this true crime anthology, you will quickly learn that the criminal world specifically can be as bizarre as it is dangerous. In the following book, you will be captivated by mysterious missing person cases that defy all logic and a couple of cases of murderous mistaken identity. Follow along as detectives conduct criminal investigations in order to solve cases that were once believed to be unsolvable. Every one of the crime cases chronicled in this book is as strange and disturbing as the next.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Didn't quite measure up to shocking....
- By nathan on 08-04-16
- True Crime Stories: 12 Shocking True Crime Murder Cases
- True Crime Anthology, Vol. 1
- By: Jack Rosewood
- Narrated by: Herschel J. Grangent Jr.
Too condensed
Reviewed: 10-24-16
What didn’t you like about Herschel J. Grangent, Jr.’s performance?
He read too fast, too short pauses at punctuation.
Any additional comments?
I was expecting more detailed stories of True Crime. It was like reading the first notice in the newspaper, before any of the details are discovered or compiled.
I did not finish and would have returned the book, but had it downloaded for over two weeks.
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The Johnstown Flood
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,187
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,344
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,325
At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A page-turner! HIstory that reads like a novel
- By Susan K Donley on 06-17-05
- The Johnstown Flood
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Educational
Reviewed: 09-06-16
McCullough has a wonderful way of educating without drily cramming facts and dates into a history lesson. He tells a good story while informing an audience that, if like me, has no inkling that disaster struck Johnstown PA in the 1800s.
Thanks to him, I am now aware of another part of American history! Very easy listening while being enlightened.
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