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Fairy Tale
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Seth Numrich, Stephen King
- Length: 24 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 77,527
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 71,088
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 70,857
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a horrific accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from that shed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Boy and his Dog at the end of the World
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 09-06-22
- Fairy Tale
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Seth Numrich, Stephen King
what every pet owner dreams of
Reviewed: 03-11-24
This is a fantastic story that wakes your imagination. A story of a boy and his dog but also a story of standing up for what is right and helping others that are less fortunate. I loved it. I have listened to it twice.
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Battle Cry of Freedom
- The Civil War Era
- By: James M. McPherson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 39 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,145
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 992
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Story5 out of 5 stars 991
Battle Cry of Freedom vividly traces how a new nation was forged when a war both sides were sure would amount to little dragged for four years and cost more American lives than all other wars combined. Narrator Jonathan Davis powerful reading brings to life the many voices of the Civil War.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book
- By J. Weston on 12-11-20
- Battle Cry of Freedom
- The Civil War Era
- By: James M. McPherson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Very Good Overview of the Political Landscape
Reviewed: 09-18-23
This was a very good overview of the political landscape from the end of the Mexican War through the US Civil War. This book does not go real deep into the events of the battlefield, but I knew that going in, and I was okay with it. One thing that did annoy me a little was the author's habit of quoting someone, but not saying who that someone was. For example, "We fight this war to end the vile institution of slavery," said a Union general. Which Union general is anyone's guess. This book is going to be difficult to cite in a debate for that very reason.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,492
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,874
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,879
A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's so creepy
- By Midwestbonsai on 11-14-14
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
Gratuitous adjectives
Reviewed: 04-26-22
Ray Bradbury can fall in love with his own verbosity. He gets a little carried away with it.
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Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 125,491
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 108,258
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 108,147
Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This classic deserves better
- By Matthew Salvo on 07-01-21
Good, but...
Reviewed: 11-18-21
I very much enjoyed it. Didn't fully understand the reasoning behind the disappearing/reappearing actors playing parts, but I really love this book. Overall excellent experience. Just would prefer they go with multiple voice actors consistently throughout, or just one reader consistently throughout. Doing both randomly was confusing and a little off-putting.
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Nöthin' but a Good Time
- The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion
- By: Tom Beaujour, Richard Bienstock
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden, Gary Furlong, Richard Bienstock, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 693
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 598
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 599
From the do-or-die early days of self-financed recordings and D.I.Y. concert productions that were as flashy as they were foolhardy, to the multi-platinum, MTV-powered glory years of stadium-shaking anthems and chart-topping power ballads, to the ultimate crash when grunge bands like Nirvana forever altered the entire climate of the business, Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock's Nothin' But a Good Time captures the energy and excess of the hair metal years in the words of the musicians and industry insiders who lived it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nothin but a Good Time/Yes it Was
- By Anonymous User on 04-06-21
- Nöthin' but a Good Time
- The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion
- By: Tom Beaujour, Richard Bienstock
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden, Gary Furlong, Richard Bienstock, Tom Beaujour
LOVED. IT.
Reviewed: 06-25-21
Funny. Sad. Nostalgic. Informative. Extremely well-written (or compiled, I guess), and well-read. I laughed out loud several times. And I've reconnected with the genre that I grew up with. Great book.
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Ty Cobb
- A Terrible Beauty
- By: Charles Leerhsen
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 842
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 769
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 767
Ty Cobb is baseball royalty, maybe even the greatest player who ever lived. His lifetime batting average is still the highest of all time, and when he retired in 1928, after twenty-one years with the Detroit Tigers and two with the Philadelphia Athletics, he held more than ninety records. But the numbers don't tell half of Cobb's tale. The Georgia Peach was by far the most thrilling player of the era: "Ty Cobb could cause more excitement with a base on balls than Babe Ruth could with a grand slam," one columnist wrote.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Two Cobb Books, One Review of a Maligned Legacy
- By Jonathan Love on 05-17-16
- Ty Cobb
- A Terrible Beauty
- By: Charles Leerhsen
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
maybe the best sports book I've ever read.
Reviewed: 04-02-21
I'm not sure there's another person in history portrayed more inaccurately than Ty Cobb. I'll never again look at Ken Burns's Baseball (or any other of his works) with such reverence. If he could be THAT wrong about arguably the greatest baseball player of all time in a documentary series ABOUT BASEBALL, there's simply no telling what else he's gotten wrong. I know his information came from "biographer" Al Stump, but Stump had long been discredited. The evidence that Ty Cobb was not remotely the monster he was made out to be is plentiful and not hard to come by. Poor form, Ken Burns. Poor form.
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Empire of Blue Water
- Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe that Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
- By: Stephan Talty
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,232
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 981
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 975
He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades and brought it to its knees. This is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a 20-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean became legendary. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish empire on land and at sea determined the fates of kings and queens, and his victories helped shape the destiny of the New World.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Morbid Terrorists?
- By Jack on 11-11-08
- Empire of Blue Water
- Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe that Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
- By: Stephan Talty
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
Excellent in every way
Reviewed: 08-06-20
One of the rare books that left me kind of sad to finish it. Now I need to book a trip to the Caribbean!
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The First World War
- By: Hew Strachan
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 149
A century has passed since the outbreak of World War I, yet as military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative new book, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still. The First World War was a truly global conflict from the start, with many of the most decisive battles fought in or directly affecting the Balkans, Africa, and the Ottoman Empire. Even more than World War II, the First World War continues to shape the politics and international relations of our world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding narrative of the military action
- By Tad Davis on 04-30-17
- The First World War
- By: Hew Strachan
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
Like Listening to a British Speak-N-Spell
Reviewed: 02-10-18
What would have made The First World War better?
The book tries to do too much for a single volume on WW1. The amount of detail on the war in Africa and the war at sea seems like a worthy endeavor, but in reality, just ends up being clumsily delivered. Those theaters of war are best served in volumes dedicated entirely to them. The book gets bogged down in details about fronts that are not essential for the understanding of the conflict while glossing over other details that are essential. All of this is forgivable, however, because once the book does tighten in on the real focal points of the war, it does get better, but even then, there are numerous other books that are simply better options (A World Undone, by G.J. Meyer; The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman; to name a couple of examples).
How could the performance have been better?
Clive Chafer has an utterly lifeless voice. Every single sentence has the EXACT same inflection and tone. It's like listening to an extremely stuffy British news man read headlines for days on end. It's not monotone, exactly, but it is so tonally repetitive that it begins to feel very monotone. Not good for late night drives. Unfortunately, also not good for the absorption of information.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Disappointment. The narration is pretty much a deal-breaker. The presentation of events is cluttered. The book is too unfocused. It's a slog to get through. As stated above, there are several clearly superior options.
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Back Over There
- One American Time-Traveler, 100 Years Since the Great War, 500 Miles of Battle-Scarred French Countryside, and Too Many Trenches, Shells, Legends and Ghosts to Count
- By: Richard Rubin
- Narrated by: Richard Rubin
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
In The Last of the Doughboys, Richard Rubin introduced readers to a forgotten generation of Americans: the men and women who fought and won the First World War. Interviewing the war’s last survivors face-to-face, he knew well the importance of being present if you want to get the real story. But he soon came to realize that to get the whole story, he had to go Over There, too. So he did, and discovered that while most Americans regard that war as dead and gone, to the French, who still live among its ruins and memories, it remains very much alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very glad I read this book
- By az-joe on 09-21-18
- Back Over There
- One American Time-Traveler, 100 Years Since the Great War, 500 Miles of Battle-Scarred French Countryside, and Too Many Trenches, Shells, Legends and Ghosts to Count
- By: Richard Rubin
- Narrated by: Richard Rubin
excellent
Reviewed: 12-23-17
Loved it. Richard Rubin is as likeable and knowledgeable as they come. I just wished I'd read this before I took my own tour of the Western Front.
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