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The Outsider
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 63,663
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57,630
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 57,399
An 11-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Will Patton great - story so so
- By Randall on 06-19-18
- The Outsider
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Will Patton
Ahhhh!!!
Reviewed: 11-08-22
I haven’t actually finished the book yet, but it’s so good. Will Patton should get some kind of an award for this series. I didn’t even know it was a part of a series until pretty well into the game. Omg is this a spoiler?! I bet its great on its own, but you have to start with Mr. Mercedes. Ahhhh!!!!
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Mr. Mercedes
- A Novel
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40,499
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36,772
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36,702
In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes. Mr. Mercedes is a war between good and evil, from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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King and Patton create a winning combo
- By David Shear on 06-04-14
- Mr. Mercedes
- A Novel
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Will Patton
Uh… what?! Ahhh!!!
Reviewed: 11-08-22
Ok, so this is Stephen King we’re talking about, so of course it’s a good read, but the narration is phenomenal! I have gone on to listen to the same narrator do the rest of the series, and it does not disappoint. I forget that it’s all one guy telling the story. I cannot recommend this book enough.
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The Last House on Needless Street
- By: Catriona Ward
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,551
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,105
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,091
In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I can only listen in 1-2 hour segments!
- By Brenda on 10-04-21
- The Last House on Needless Street
- By: Catriona Ward
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
This will get you
Reviewed: 11-11-21
If you’re like me, it matters to you how a book is narrated. So, I almost dropped this one after Ragland started doing the cat voice.
Don’t let it stop you from enjoying the book. After a while you come to expect it and by then, you’re in. It’s pretty fascinating
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The Girl from Rawblood
- A Novel
- By: Catriona Ward
- Narrated by: Liz Pearce, Steven Crossley, John Keating, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Story4 out of 5 stars 74
In 1910, 11-year-old Iris Villarca lives with her father at Rawblood, a lonely house on Dartmoor. Iris and her father are the last of their name. The Villarcas always die young, bloodily. Iris knows it's because of a congenital disease that means she must be strictly isolated. Papa told her so. Forbidden to speak to other children or the servants, denied her one friend, Iris grows up in solitude. But she reads books. And one sunlit autumn day, beside her mother's grave, she forces the truth from her father. The disease is biologically impossible. A lie to cover a darker secret.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I have no idea what this was about
- By Rachel on 11-11-21
- The Girl from Rawblood
- A Novel
- By: Catriona Ward
- Narrated by: Liz Pearce, Steven Crossley, John Keating, Eizabeth Sastre, Jenny Sterlin
I have no idea what this was about
Reviewed: 11-11-21
I genuinely have no idea what happened in this story. I thought the historical context was great and very well written. I don’t think I’m giving anything away when I say it kind of devolved into madness and not the interesting kind.
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The Book of Form and Emptiness
- A Novel
- By: Ruth Ozeki
- Narrated by: Kerry Shale, Ruth Ozeki
- Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 879
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 775
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 774
One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house—a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, a gentle hum or coo, but others are snide, angry and full of pain. When his mother, Annabelle, develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good narrator, terrible voices
- By Geonn Cannon on 09-23-21
- The Book of Form and Emptiness
- A Novel
- By: Ruth Ozeki
- Narrated by: Kerry Shale, Ruth Ozeki
Narrator’s silly voices off putting
Reviewed: 10-24-21
I really enjoy Ruth Ozeki’s work, and the narrator has a great voice. It’s the voices he uses for the two main characters… they are obnoxious, and it got old quickly. I missed parts of the story line because I had to skip ahead.
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Wanderers
- A Novel
- By: Chuck Wendig
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman, Xe Sands
- Length: 32 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,038
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,809
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,806
Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows. But Shana and her sister are not alone. Soon, they are joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from across America, on the same mysterious journey. And like Shana, there are other "shepherds" who follow the flock to protect their friends and family on the long dark road ahead.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Recommended, with some issues
- By Allan T. Maule on 07-29-19
- Wanderers
- A Novel
- By: Chuck Wendig
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman, Xe Sands
Who is Chuck Wendig, and why do I like his writing so much?!
Reviewed: 09-15-21
I got involved in this book after listening to the Book of Accidents because I liked the writing style, the content, and especially the narrators.
This one is a much longer story, but like The Stand, it’s full of interesting characters. It’s also realistic in the context of sci-fi. This author really does their homework.
I recommend it because the narrators are great, the story is imaginative and sensitive, but also, does Chuck Wendig know something we don’t know?!
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The Girl Behind the Red Rope
- By: Ted Dekker, Rachelle Dekker
- Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,076
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 977
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 977
Ten years ago, Grace saw something that would forever change the course of history. When evil in its purest form is unleashed on the world, she and others from their religious community are already hidden deep in the hills of Tennessee, abiding by every rule that will keep them safe, pure - and alive. As long as they stay there, behind the red perimeter. Her older brother's questions and the arrival of the first outsiders she's seen in a decade set in motion events that will question everything Grace has built her life on.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding performance
- By Valerie B. Sawyer on 09-16-19
- The Girl Behind the Red Rope
- By: Ted Dekker, Rachelle Dekker
- Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
Yikes
Reviewed: 07-19-21
I couldn’t even finish this book. It felt like it was never going to end.
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The Lost Village
- A Novel
- By: Alexandra Fleming - translator, Camilla Sten
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,133
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,008
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,007
Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village”, since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother’s entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were left - a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newborn - have plagued her. She’s gathered a small crew of friends in the remote village to make a film about what really happened.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed
- By Bitten and Seven Forever on 03-26-21
- The Lost Village
- A Novel
- By: Alexandra Fleming - translator, Camilla Sten
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
Not as advertised
Reviewed: 04-24-21
Not my kind of “thriller”. I guess I’m just looking for more of a classic scary story, not this dear diary, I’m so sensitive, and here is my impression of not just the interesting part of the story, but a lot of other stuff you won’t care about. I ruined it by doing an obnoxious first person narrative that is so transparent it belongs in a romance novel. This was too disappointing to finish.
It could be what other people are into, but based on the book details, I was misled.
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
- A Flavia de Luce Mystery
- By: Alan Bradley
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,700
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,767
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,753
In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950 - and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia’s family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Opposing Viewpoint
- By Beyond Seventy on 02-20-10
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
- A Flavia de Luce Mystery
- By: Alan Bradley
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
Narrator issues
Reviewed: 04-18-21
A lot of unnecessary first person theatricality. If you read the book you’d really like the protagonist, but they way she’s portrayed in the audiobook makes her sound like a silly squeaky little thing that’s a little too pleased with herself. The narrator laughs through lines that aren’t that interesting, and she’s a little to creative with octaves. Sure. You’re 11 years old, Flavia, but you memorized the periodic table and have a preternatural understanding of chemistry, so why do you sound like such a little brat?
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The Stand
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 47 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 78,373
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 69,980
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 69,850
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My First Completed Stephen King Novel
- By Meaghan Bynum on 02-20-12
- The Stand
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Historical Perspective
Reviewed: 03-07-21
So, this is a very long book.
I never read (listened to) the original publication, so I don’t know what or how much was reintroduced in this version.
I’ll say this. It’s a lot, but if you are the kind of person that likes putting together different storylines and collecting characters (if you liked game of thrones, for instance), you will get into the first, I can’t remember, maybe 40 hours?
So, if you decide to do that, then I just want to warn you that you’ve set yourself up for a pretty tense final 8-7 hours. It was very stressful.
Also, it was written in the 80’s and rereleased in 1990, so for anyone who wasn’t born yet, this is going to give you an interesting historical perspective
There are no female protagonists. The women are weak with the exception of a couple non-main characters that don’t last very long. There’s gonna be a lot of uncomfortable language thrown around. This is a viral apocalypse conceived of in the 1980’s. We just have to remember that.
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