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Projections
- A Story of Human Emotions
- By: Karl Deisseroth
- Narrated by: Karl Deisseroth, Natalie Naudus, Karen Chilton
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 416
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 369
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 369
Karl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a renowned clinical psychiatrist and as a researcher creating and developing the revolutionary field of optogenetics, which uses light to help decipher the brain’s workings. In Projections, he combines his knowledge of the brain’s inner circuitry with a deep empathy for his patients to examine what mental illness reveals about the human mind and the origin of human feelings - how the broken can illuminate the unbroken.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Authors, USE BETTER NARRATORS!!
- By aaron on 08-28-21
- Projections
- A Story of Human Emotions
- By: Karl Deisseroth
- Narrated by: Karl Deisseroth, Natalie Naudus, Karen Chilton
Whoa
Reviewed: 03-24-25
It’s the epilogue that blew my mind the most. But also worth the journey. I have a high tolerance for poetic thought— which is the path this memoir of science, medicine and human behavior takes. You might also need such a tolerance to enjoy this impressive but strange project.
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Intermezzo
- A Novel
- By: Sally Rooney
- Narrated by: Éanna Hardwicke
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,213
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,138
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,138
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I felt a lot of empathy towards the excellently developed characters.
- By Hanoverian girl on 09-29-24
- Intermezzo
- A Novel
- By: Sally Rooney
- Narrated by: Éanna Hardwicke
Attentiveness and intimacy
Reviewed: 11-25-24
This is why we read novels, to be immersed in other lives. Very detailed, very visual and quietly emotional. My first Sally Rooney novel. The writing is odd— sentence fragments/ verb tense changes— but it lulled me into itself.
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The Dog of the North
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth McKenzie
- Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 22
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 22
Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she’s quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what’s possible when all else fails. Elizabeth McKenzie, the National Book Award–nominated author of The Portable Veblen, follows Penny on her quest for a fresh start.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story and narration
- By Rimi Bewtra on 04-13-23
- The Dog of the North
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth McKenzie
- Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
What fun!
Reviewed: 03-24-23
This book is a rolling good time! Don’t miss it! But don’t listen on the train— because you will giggle and snort and slap your knee. You might even cry. Just don’t embarrass Penny! She has enough problems with her divorce, her dreary job, her disappeared parents, her crazy grandmother— and her grandmother’s accountant’s health challenges. For some reason all that is very funny when EM writes it.
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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 4,028
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,545
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,545
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
I bought it
Reviewed: 03-07-23
The first section reads like an Edith Wharton novel— quite lovely. The second and third section get a bit lost in their dogma— it’s really more a celebration of Capitalism than a critique. Capitalists are so fascinating! The last section brings it all home— but with more of a whimper than a bang.
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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 30,023
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 27,149
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Story5 out of 5 stars 27,083
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! It’s a Masterpiece
- By Billy on 10-25-22
- Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
That was great!
Reviewed: 02-19-23
Good writing. Good thinking. If you read David Copperfield, it’s more fun— but not necessary.
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The Push
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- By: Ashley Audrain
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,389
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,776
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,724
Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter - she doesn't behave like most children do. Or is it all in Blythe's head? Her husband, Fox, says she's imagining things. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Disturbing, Jaw Dropping, Unforgettable
- By Wendi on 01-16-21
- The Push
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- By: Ashley Audrain
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Well, I couldn’t put it down, but that doesn’t mean I liked it!
Reviewed: 07-20-21
I love the reader for this Audible format. She could read the phone book, and I’d listen. But here she reads a terrifying story without any moral or humane resolution. If you’re a mother or a daughter, I would stay away from this story— if you can. Very depressing and disorienting— but if you like that kind of thing, dig in.
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Too Much and Never Enough
- How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
- By: Mary L. Trump PhD
- Narrated by: Mary L. Trump PhD
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34,061
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29,106
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28,927
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I almost feel sorry Donald Trump.
- By Deb on 07-15-20
- Too Much and Never Enough
- How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
- By: Mary L. Trump PhD
- Narrated by: Mary L. Trump PhD
We are all culpable
Reviewed: 07-22-20
This is a frightening and thorough account. I found this book very unsettling and impossible to put down. Many lessons here. Love your children, Moms and Dads! Teach kindness and generosity. And let’s not tolerate incompetence and authoritarianism!!
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Inland
- A Novel
- By: Téa Obreht
- Narrated by: Anna Chlumsky, Edoardo Ballerini, Euan Morton
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 650
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 558
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Story4 out of 5 stars 562
In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives unfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life - her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons, who have vanished after an explosive argument. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I tried,
- By Julianne on 10-09-19
- Inland
- A Novel
- By: Téa Obreht
- Narrated by: Anna Chlumsky, Edoardo Ballerini, Euan Morton
Fantastic!
Reviewed: 09-22-19
Love this book! A western with camels and other insights. Beautiful writing. Audible version has great readers.
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12 Rules for Life
- An Antidote to Chaos
- By: Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge MD - foreword
- Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 92,411
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 80,860
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 80,254
What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising, and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not Your Average 'Self Help' Book
- By The Bookie on 06-04-18
- 12 Rules for Life
- An Antidote to Chaos
- By: Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge MD - foreword
- Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson
Takes one to know one
Reviewed: 02-26-18
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Mr. Peterson's basic thesis is that humans are born bad and cultural norms and socialization make us good— sacrifice for others makes us good— unless it goes to far, e.g. Marxism. But in his criticism of dogma, Peterson becomes dogmatic! His anti-Marxist, pro-capitalist views are refreshing in the first half of the book— but by rule 11 become scary and oppressive.
What was most disappointing about Jordan B. Peterson and Norman Doidge - foreword M.D. ’s story?
He criticizes idealism and then succumbs to it.
Which character – as performed by Jordan B. Peterson – was your favorite?
He is a very emotional reader which is lovely, and his chapter on meaning and the emotional and poetic end to it are really beautiful and moving.
Any additional comments?
So: I enjoyed the book... especially the first three-quarters, and then he got kind of extreme and freaked me out.
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The Power
- By: Naomi Alderman
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,161
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,378
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,363
In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: There's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power: They can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A necessary read
- By Grace on 11-22-17
- The Power
- By: Naomi Alderman
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
A book to blow your mind!
Reviewed: 01-20-18
Heads up: violence and troubling content— but a wild psycho-gender-sex fable. What does power do to individuals and populations? Here is an act of imagination that will make you rethink war, sex, crime and love!
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