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The Bright Sword
- A Novel of King Arthur
- By: Lev Grossman
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith, Lev Grossman
- Length: 23 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 511
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 474
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 474
A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, only to find that he’s too late. The king died two weeks ago at the Battle of Camlann, leaving no heir, and only a handful of the knights of the Round Table survive. They aren’t the heroes of legend, like Lancelot or Gawain. They’re the oddballs of the Round Table, from the edges of the stories, like Sir Palomides, the Saracen Knight, and Sir Dagonet, Arthur’s fool, who was knighted as a joke.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A rambling woke mess
- By Adam on 07-18-24
- The Bright Sword
- A Novel of King Arthur
- By: Lev Grossman
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith, Lev Grossman
Delightful,
Reviewed: 07-29-24
Exceptional storytelling and wonderful narration. From beginning to end, filled with beautiful prose. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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The God of the Woods
- A Novel
- By: Liz Moore
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,627
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,168
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,167
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Tangled Mystery Overloaded with Characters and Confusing Time Jumps
- By unknown on 08-09-24
- The God of the Woods
- A Novel
- By: Liz Moore
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Story and portrayal of the Adirondacks.
Reviewed: 07-10-24
I don't agree with many reviews that call this 'dark'. The story wasn't what I expected. Some suggested this was similar to Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History'. No, I don't think so, but it was as good as. It was thoroughly enjoyable, well worth the price. I am looking for more from this author.
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Heart of Darkness: A Signature Performance by Kenneth Branagh
- By: Joseph Conrad
- Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,327
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,279
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Story4 out of 5 stars 8,253
A Signature Performance: Kenneth Branagh plays this like a campfire ghost story, told by a haunted, slightly insane Marlow.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disgusting Revision
- By Long_Schlong_Silver on 09-27-18
One of Conrads finest books. Amazing narration by Kenneth Branagh.
Reviewed: 06-29-24
There was nothing to dislike in this book.
It is exceptional in it's own right. It is quite possibly the finest work of Conrad. Kenneth Branagh brings the book to life in the a most amazing way. He is an exceptional narrator. No one should miss this listen.
Be warned that it discusses the horrors of colonialism on the African Continent, however this work was one of the reason's that some of those horrors inflicted on the black population were slowed, one of the reasons Belgiums King Leopold II was forced to end, or at least slow his terrible killings and mutilations he forced upon the natives he had turned to slaves.
Many of Conrads writings are about the colonialism he witnessed in his lifetime, but this one actually helped to change how the British, French and Belgian colonialists treated the natives.
This book was one of the things that was considered by magistrates, judges, politicians and entire countries and changed their awareness of how King Leopold II as the sole "owner" of a great part of the Congo was treating the native population and using them as slaves in his quest for ivory, rubber and many other resources.
It forced political change and annexation by Belgian political leaders with support from Britain.
Leopold II was relegated to internal domestic Belgian duties and Legacy work at home as he lost control over his African interests for the most part.
While many horrible things continued to happen to the natives, as always happens with colonialism, things did become slightly better for the native population until the the Congo gained it's freedom in the 1960's and ended up with an insane local king who was as bad or worse than all of the countries and colonial forces that they had ever had previously. But it's a damn good book with excellent narration that helped to change things for the better for some people for a time!
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Doppelganger
- A Trip into the Mirror World
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Naomi Klein
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 845
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 769
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 768
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you’d devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience—she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Elite Psychobabble
- By A Reviewer on 09-30-23
- Doppelganger
- A Trip into the Mirror World
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Naomi Klein
Information
Reviewed: 05-29-24
Honest, concise and well reasoned with a wealth of unexpected information.
An interesting and diverse pleasure.
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The Hotel New Hampshire
- By: John Irving
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 19 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 528
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 448
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 447
“The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.” So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the strange times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they “dream on” in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Should have a XX rating for sex including incest.
- By psychodr1 on 09-02-20
- The Hotel New Hampshire
- By: John Irving
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
I love his characyer(s)
Reviewed: 04-02-24
Everything about it; absurd, tragic, wonderful, beautiful. Perfect. Mr. Irving finds the triumph in us all and gives us all a little grace.
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Pines
- Wayward Pines: 1
- By: Blake Crouch
- Narrated by: Max Meyers
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 717
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 642
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 642
Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a mission: locate two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase. As the days pass, Ethan’s investigation turns up more questions than answers: Why can’t he get any phone calls through to his wife and son in the outside world? Why doesn’t anyone believe he is who he says he is?
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3 out of 5 stars
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So much torture and pain
- By Mighty HeathRa on 02-17-23
- Pines
- Wayward Pines: 1
- By: Blake Crouch
- Narrated by: Max Meyers
I relatively enjoyed the series.
Reviewed: 02-14-24
So, my real problem with me this series is the value. I don't believe it is worth the credits/price for 3 books that could have been one, as they are all quite short. But I wanted it and I had to wait too long forced the first 2 books to be available via audiobook through the New York Public Library. I did snatched the 3rd book, which is the most disappointing of them all from the Library via Libby. But it's a bad ending to a mediocre series. IMHO. Take it for what it's worth. If you have more money than you need, buy them. I only buy things I don't want to wait for, the others I will take the wait at the Library. It's not a terrible series, but it's something I should have waited on. It's streaming, but pretty bad to watch. But free if you can wait.
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Machine Learning
- New and Collected Stories
- By: Hugh Howey
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Scott Aiello, Hugh Howey
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 475
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 423
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 422
Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive tales of boundless imagination. Now comes Machine Learning, an impressive collection of Howey's science fiction and fantasy short fiction, including three stories set in the world of Wool, two never-before-published tales written exclusively for this volume, and 15 additional stories collected here for the first time. These stories explore everything from artificial intelligence to parallel universes to video games, and each story is accompanied by an author's note.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not book 4! they won't give you back your credit!
- By OrangeSkies33 on 09-19-21
- Machine Learning
- New and Collected Stories
- By: Hugh Howey
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Scott Aiello, Hugh Howey
Very sad. I wish I hadn't subjected myself to it.
Reviewed: 08-03-23
Did not care for this at all. I do agree that we should look for bad futures we might avoid, however.
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Private Moscow
- By: James Patterson, Adam Hamdy
- Narrated by: Jeremy Irvine, Olga Koch
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 132
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 132
On a cold January morning, Jack Morgan stands inside the New York Stock Exchange with his former US Marine comrade whose company is being launched onto the market, eagerly awaiting the opening bell. But before the bell rings, a bullet rips through the air and finds its mark.In the aftermath of the murder, the victim's wife hires Jack to find the killer. As the head of Private, Jack has at his disposal the world's largest investigation agency. What he discovers shakes him to his core. Jack identifies another murder in Moscow that appears to be linked.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- By Ellen on 08-28-23
- Private Moscow
- By: James Patterson, Adam Hamdy
- Narrated by: Jeremy Irvine, Olga Koch
Holy Mispronunciations Batman! BAD narration!
Reviewed: 07-28-23
I would like to say that I could honestly review the story to the end, but the narration is so terribly poor that I just can't get through it.
My fault for not listening to the sample.
I would highly recommend buying the print edition if you really feel like you need to read this. I am not usually terribly offended but mediocre narrators, but this is so grating as to give me a headache within 10 minutes every time I try again.
Whoever is responsible for this audio production, awful accents and constant mispronunciations needs to be fired.
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Wayward
- Wanderers, Book 2
- By: Chuck Wendig
- Narrated by: Xe Sands, Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 34 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 480
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 442
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 439
Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to sleepwalk across the country to a destination only they knew. They were followed on their quest by the shepherds: friends and family who gave up everything to protect them. Their secret destination: Ouray, a small town in Colorado that would become one of the last outposts of civilization. Because the sleepwalking epidemic was only the first in a chain of events that led to the end of the world—and the birth of a new one.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Conclusion
- By C Ricketts on 09-26-23
- Wayward
- Wanderers, Book 2
- By: Chuck Wendig
- Narrated by: Xe Sands, Dominic Hoffman
Exceptional.
Reviewed: 06-12-23
Loved this book. Thanks to CW for speaking truth to the current lunacy of (c)onservative power, which is neither conservative nor power.
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I Will Find You
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Steven Weber
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,982
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,432
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,428
David Burroughs was once a devoted father to his three-year-old son Matthew, living a dream life just a short drive away from the working-class suburb where he and his wife, Cheryl, first fell in love—until one fateful night when David woke suddenly to discover Matthew had been murdered while David was asleep just down the hall.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Harlan Coben never disappoints!!!!
- By shelley on 03-14-23
- I Will Find You
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Steven Weber
1st Coben. Very lame & short. Audible thumbs scale
Reviewed: 04-13-23
Terribke. Saw this guy on a morning show and was looking for something after too much King, Deaver and assorted suspense and mystery writers. This was the wrong guy to go with, unless previous works were better. Not going to drop the coin to find out, however.
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