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The Candy House
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Egan
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman, Nicole Lewis, Thomas Sadoski, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”—which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others—has seduced multitudes.
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Read this one, skip audio
- By Barbara S on 06-29-22
i got lost a lot
Reviewed: 05-27-22
especially during the email exchanges. there were just a LOT of people and family tree diagrams would have helped…
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Legendborn
- By: Tracy Deonn
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Length: 18 hrs and 54 mins
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After her mother dies in an accident, 16-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC - Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape - until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus. A flying demon feeding on human energies. A secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down. And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts - and fails - to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw.
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A well done debut
- By LexiLikesLiterature on 01-27-21
- Legendborn
- By: Tracy Deonn
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
so so so SO GOOD
Reviewed: 05-17-22
this was great — i read ready player one right before this book and this book was a breath of fresh air and also a slap in RP1’s face. all the characters had such depth and it really just turned fantasy on its head while giving a great story that RELIED on the horrible truth of american history rather than erasing it because it’s fantasy. I LOVED THIS BOOK
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Foucault's Pendulum
- By: Umberto Eco
- Narrated by: Tim Curry
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Abridged
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One Colonel Ardenti, who has unnaturally black, brilliantined hair, a carefully groomed mustache, wears maroon socks, and who once served in the Foreign Legion, starts it all. He tells three Milan book editors that he has discovered a coded message about a Templar Plan, centuries old and involving Stonehenge, a plan to tap a mystic source of power far greater than atomic energy.
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too much missing
- By Kenneth on 01-29-07
- Foucault's Pendulum
- By: Umberto Eco
- Narrated by: Tim Curry
Cliche story, weird audio glitches
Reviewed: 03-08-22
Thought this was a classic book (so guess I got it mixed up with another), but instead it was filled with secret society cliches and dipped into Holocaust denial/rewriting.
The audio kept dipping at the end of sentences, which made the words spoken unintelligible. I really only finished the book to finish it.
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American Dirt
- A Novel
- By: Jeanine Cummins
- Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
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Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. When Lydia’s husband’s tell-all profile of Javier, the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city, is published, none of their lives will ever be the same.
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Completely unrealistic
- By Marlene L Marquez on 02-12-20
- American Dirt
- A Novel
- By: Jeanine Cummins
- Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
one of the top books i’ve read this year
Reviewed: 11-14-20
i thought about this book when i wasn’t reading it; i so vividly visualized the scenes of this book it was jarring to pause it; and read the whole thing in a week because i just couldn’t stop! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND
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Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know
- By: Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Narrated by: Samantha Worthen
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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This volume contains a collection of fairy tales from a wide array of classical works. These immortal tales include "The Enchanted Stag", "Twelve Brothers", "Puss in Boots", "Jack and the Beanstalk", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Light Princess", "Beauty and the Beast", "Hansel and Gretel", "Jack the Giant Killer", "The Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor", and "The Story of Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp".
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I love it
- By Stringers on 06-26-15
- Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know
- By: Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Narrated by: Samantha Worthen
interesting take on classic stories, condescending reader
Reviewed: 08-02-20
i read this not as a child but as a lover of fairytales, so i knew most of the stories already. i liked other endings than presented in this anthology, which is fine. i didn’t like the tone of the reader, because i’m not a child and it felt like she was speaking down to me. interesting voices through.
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The Strategist
- Grisham & Sullivan, Book 1
- By: John Hardy Bell
- Narrated by: Diane Lehman
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Camille Grisham was once a decorated field agent with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit. Her job was to solve the country's most complex and violent crimes, often with little more than a textbook profile of the perpetrator to go on. No one did it better. But after her partner's death at the hands of a sadistic mass murderer, she has become a broken shell of her former self.
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Diane captures essence of John's story!
- By Liz B on 06-02-17
- The Strategist
- Grisham & Sullivan, Book 1
- By: John Hardy Bell
- Narrated by: Diane Lehman
cliche + trashy
Reviewed: 07-29-20
often the cliches were so bad i rolled my eyes. the characters did ridiculous things. i finished the book only because i’d started it and it took me halfway through the book to realize i didn’t like it but i’m a finisher so i sloughed through the next five hours. also the book is so strangely structured (with way more time put in the first half of the book than i’d think good or possible) that i felt like i was waiting for the book to begin for the first four and a half hours.
i feel bad giving such a bad review, but you have to know what you’re getting yourself into here — a mildly amusing police story to pass your time. it strikes me as a trashy romantic novel but the topic is police.
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The Woman in the Window
- A Novel
- By: A. J. Finn
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
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Anna Fox lives alone - a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times...and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble. And its shocking secrets are laid bare.
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An excruciating listen.
- By Debra on 01-12-18
- The Woman in the Window
- A Novel
- By: A. J. Finn
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
chilling but addicting
Reviewed: 05-26-19
an incredible psychological thriller. ann marie lee reads it amazingly — i usually read books at 1.25x speed because of impatience, but this one i savored at 1x speed.
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