Angela Gates Wilhite
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The Monster's Bones
- The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
- By: David K. Randall
- Narrated by: Roman Howell
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a socialite whose reputation rests on the museum's success, and intrepid Kansas-born fossil hunter Barnum Brown. When Brown unearths the first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils in the Montana wilderness, forever changing the world of paleontology, Osborn sees a path to save his museum from irrelevancy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Read like a children's book. Annoying.
- By M on 07-15-22
- The Monster's Bones
- The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
- By: David K. Randall
- Narrated by: Roman Howell
Good book with misleading title
Reviewed: 09-13-22
The titular T. rex does not make an appearance until you get 6 hours into the book. This is not a bad thing. I study sauropods and found the stories of the Carnegie and AMNH's (American Museum of Natural History) quest for the biggest dinosaurs (all sauropods) to be at least as interesting as the T. rex material. It does go to show that Tyrannosaurus will always be the marquee even if it doesn't feature in but about 30% of your book! This book is primarily a biography of Barnum Brown and his work as a fossil collector and his boss at the AMNH, Henry Fairfield Osborn. It also highlights what could be called a second bone war between the Carnegie Museum and the AMNH. I agree with others that the reader's inflections make you think you're listening to a children's book at times but the story kept me engaged.
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- A Novel
- By: Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Susan Duerden, Rosalyn Landor, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,994
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11,202
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,176
January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb.... As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends - and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MUCH better than I ever expected! Give it a try!
- By Kent on 10-19-09
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- A Novel
- By: Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Susan Duerden, Rosalyn Landor, John Lee, Juliet Mills
Simply delightful story and narration
Reviewed: 02-27-13
What did you love best about The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society?
I think this would be an enjoyable book to read, but I think listening is even better. The narration of this book was spot-on!
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Born in Fire
- Born In Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Nora Roberts
- Narrated by: Fiacre Douglas
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,476
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,821
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,808
Maggie Concannon is a glassmaker whose exquisite works are more than mere objects of beauty: they are reflections of her own true nature. One man has seen the soul in her art, and vows to help this complex woman build a lucrative career.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ho hum
- By Anonymous User on 04-06-11
- Born in Fire
- Born In Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Nora Roberts
- Narrated by: Fiacre Douglas
Speed Demon
Reviewed: 09-10-12
Would you consider the audio edition of Born in Fire to be better than the print version?
Born in Fire is a dependable Nora Roberts romance, but this narrator takes some getting used to. There were times that he was speaking so fast that I had to check my iPod to make sure it wasn't set on the faster reading speed.
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