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Normal People
- A Novel
- By: Sally Rooney
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 9,113
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,858
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7,853
Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life changing begins. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Difficult, but Worth It
- By kdiz on 04-03-20
- Normal People
- A Novel
- By: Sally Rooney
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
No plot, no purpose, no point.
Reviewed: 08-26-20
The reviews I read about this book were positive so I bought it. It was a waste of time and credits. I listened to the entire thing waiting for the book to make sense, tell a story or at least get interesting. I honestly never figured out what the author was trying to do or say. Do yourself a favor and skip it.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45,877
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 41,510
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41,339
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity
- By Cathy Lindhorst on 08-27-17
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Lovely and enjoyable book.
Reviewed: 08-26-20
This is one of my favorite books of all time. The story is beautifully told with a plot that turns back on itself over and over.
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My Cousin Rachel
- By: Daphne du Maurier
- Narrated by: Jonathan Pryce
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,697
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,410
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,395
Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love and marries—and there he dies suddenly.
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5 out of 5 stars
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AN INCREDIBLE NOVEL -- HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
- By Janna Wong Healy on 07-08-15
- My Cousin Rachel
- By: Daphne du Maurier
- Narrated by: Jonathan Pryce
You are never really sure
Reviewed: 09-18-17
What did you like best about this story?
It was a beautifully written period piece. The characters were an creative combination of the likable and not so likable. Even after the story is done, you still aren't sure exactly what the truth is.
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The Nightingale
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Polly Stone
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 105,709
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 95,926
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Story5 out of 5 stars 95,704
The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France—a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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HEARTBREAKINGLY POIGNANT AND INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL
- By PatrioticMimi on 02-17-15
- The Nightingale
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Polly Stone
A lovely story that is not for the faint of heart.
Reviewed: 07-27-16
What did you love best about The Nightingale?
The book is beautifully written and poignantly disturbing as it recalls life for the French during the German occupation of WWII.
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Before the Fall
- By: Noah Hawley
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 12,871
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,713
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Story4 out of 5 stars 11,683
On a foggy summer night, 11 people - 10 privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter - depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: The plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are the painter Scott Burroughs and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. Was it by chance that so many influential people perished? Or was something more sinister at work?
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3 out of 5 stars
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What you should know before listening...
- By Snozzle on 07-31-16
- Before the Fall
- By: Noah Hawley
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Anticlimactic. With a lot of loose ends hanging.
Reviewed: 06-27-16
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
NO
Any additional comments?
There were a number of interesting plots lines that were teased as a reason for the crash. In the end, the actual reason for the crash was not nearly as interesting as some of the plot lines led me to believe. I was disappointed in the end.
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Hidden Bodies
- (A You Novel)
- By: Caroline Kepnes
- Narrated by: Santino Fontana
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,687
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9,783
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,754
Joe Goldberg is no stranger to hiding bodies. In the past 10 years, this 30-something has buried four of them, collateral damage in his quest for love. Now he's heading west to Los Angeles, the city of second chances, determined to put his past behind him. In Hollywood, Joe blends in effortlessly with the other young upstarts. He eats guac, works in a bookstore, and flirts with a journalist neighbor. But while others seem fixated on their own reflections, Joe can't stop looking over his shoulder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I want Caroline Kepnes for my new best friend!
- By Hihosilver on 02-28-16
- Hidden Bodies
- (A You Novel)
- By: Caroline Kepnes
- Narrated by: Santino Fontana
Twisted, crude, dark, funny and brilliant.
Reviewed: 06-14-16
Any additional comments?
Enter at your own risk. Think Carl Hiessen but way darker with a main character who is a delusional and believable.
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The Invention of Wings
- A Novel
- By: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Adepero Oduye, Sue Monk Kidd
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19,213
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17,191
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17,193
From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women. Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world - and it is now the newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection. Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.
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2 out of 5 stars
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If it Weren't True, I Wouldn't Have Believed it
- By FanB14 on 03-04-14
- The Invention of Wings
- A Novel
- By: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Adepero Oduye, Sue Monk Kidd
Loved the performance. Liked the story.
Reviewed: 07-21-15
If you could sum up The Invention of Wings in three words, what would they be?
Thoughtful, well researched and somewhat tedious at times.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Handful was my favorite character because of the beautiful performance by Adepero Oduye.
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The Silkworm
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22,907
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20,782
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20,732
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, he discovers that Quine's disappearance is no coincidence. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published, it would ruin lives - meaning that almost everyone in his life would have motives to silence him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Made Alligator Alley fly by
- By Tracey on 06-26-14
- The Silkworm
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
Exhausting
Reviewed: 07-21-15
What did you like best about The Silkworm? What did you like least?
I like the character of Cormoran Strike, but by the time we reached the "who done it" part, I was exhausted. There was too much bouncing among possible suspects and their various motives.
Have you listened to any of Robert Glenister’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
It was worth the listen, but would have been so much better with tighter editing.
Any additional comments?
I am probably the only person alive who read the book without realizing that J. K. Rowling was the author.
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Flight Behavior
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,306
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,665
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,677
Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at 17. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she encounters a shocking sight: a silent, forested valley filled with what looks like a lake of fire. She can only understand it as a cautionary miracle, but it sparks a raft of other explanations from scientists, religious leaders, and the media.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A poignant literary work of art.
- By criswithcurls on 02-08-13
- Flight Behavior
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
Perhaps my favorite book ever.
Reviewed: 05-29-15
What made the experience of listening to Flight Behavior the most enjoyable?
Barbara Kingsolver is the absolute master of describing ordinary life in the face of extraordinary circumstances. A seemingly freak-of-nature occurrence as told by Kingsolver opens eyes to thoughtful consideration of our world and the delicate balance(s) in which we exist.
Any additional comments?
Kingsolver's writing is brilliant, well researched and poignant. For anyone who has not read her previous works including the Poisonwood Bible and a more recent nonfiction account of her family's' experiment in living close to nature go quickly and add them to your library.
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Orange is the New Black
- My Year in a Women's Prison
- By: Piper Kerman
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 7,963
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,122
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7,149
With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money 10 years ago. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to 15 months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187-424 - one of the millions of women who disappear "down the rabbit hole" of the American penal system.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My favorite book of the year, so far
- By Mark on 03-31-14
- Orange is the New Black
- My Year in a Women's Prison
- By: Piper Kerman
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Just OK
Reviewed: 01-02-15
Would you try another book from Piper Kerman and/or Cassandra Campbell?
Was expecting a really great read since a tv show was based on it. Interesting, but not great.
Was Orange is the New Black worth the listening time?
Only if you've got lots of time.
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