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Learn Japanese: Word Power 101
- Absolute Beginner Japanese #1
- By: Innovative Language Learning
- Narrated by: JapanesePod101.com
- Length: 48 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 199
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 153
Master Japanese with Learn Japanese - Word Power 101. This audiobook is a completely new way to learn Japanese vocabulary fast - and for free! Start speaking Japanese in minutes with the powerful learning methods you will master in this book. The vocabulary words you'll find in Learn Japanese - Word Power 101 were hand selected by our Japanese language teachers as the top 101 most frequently used words in the Japanese language.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best for Review
- By Amgray93 on 11-24-15
- Learn Japanese: Word Power 101
- Absolute Beginner Japanese #1
- By: Innovative Language Learning
- Narrated by: JapanesePod101.com
Not for beginners
Reviewed: 10-11-20
The accompanying pdf doesn’t match with this book. It would have gotten more stars if it matched up. The individual pieces are fine, but I need the pdf that matches with the book.
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The Fourth Monkey
- By: J. D. Barker
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Graham Winton
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,286
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,666
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,645
Se7en meets The Silence of the Lambs in this dark and twisting novel from the author Jeffery Deaver called "a talented writer with a delightfully devious mind". For over five years, the Four Monkey Killer has terrorized the residents of Chicago. When his body is found, the police quickly realize he was on his way to deliver one final message, one that proves he has taken another victim, who may still be alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is a MUST HAVE mystery...
- By shelley on 07-09-17
- The Fourth Monkey
- By: J. D. Barker
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Graham Winton
Silly
Reviewed: 09-02-20
Did anyone else think this book was ridiculous?i don’t understand the super high rating. It was predictable and over the top. This is the book a 9th grader writes when he starts learning about serial killers but has only learned the cliche facts.
I’ll read the next one. Ugh
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The Silent Patient
- By: Alex Michaelides
- Narrated by: Jack Hawkins, Louise Brealey
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 82,799
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 72,789
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 72,634
Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening, her husband, Gabriel, returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Librarian vs. Reader: Silent Patient
- By Alicia Herrington on 02-06-19
- The Silent Patient
- By: Alex Michaelides
- Narrated by: Jack Hawkins, Louise Brealey
Obvious plot twist
Reviewed: 02-02-20
The plot twist was super obvious because all of these books now have ridiculous, plot twists.
It was ok.
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The Light of All That Falls
- Licanius, Book 3
- By: James Islington
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 30 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,939
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9,929
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,908
After a savage battle, the Boundary is whole again - but it may be too late. Banes now stalk the lands of Andarra, and the Venerate have gathered their armies for a final, crushing blow. In Ilin Illan, Wirr fights to maintain a precarious alliance between Andarra's factions of power. With dark forces closing in on the capital, if he cannot succeed, the war is lost. Imprisoned and alone in a strange land, Davian is pitted against the remaining Venerate.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very bemused...
- By David T. on 01-12-20
- The Light of All That Falls
- Licanius, Book 3
- By: James Islington
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Best ending there could have been!!
Reviewed: 01-29-20
Fantastic ending to a great trilogy. I’m regularly disappointed by the way a series ends, but this was worth all of the time spent listening to it. Perfect!!
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Shadow of the Hegemon
- By: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: David Birney, Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,318
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,409
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,407
Orson Scott Card tells a tale long awaited by millions of fans: the story of how Bean turned away from his first friend, Ender, and became the tactical genius who won the Earth for Ender's brother, Peter, who became the Hegemon.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Saga Continues.....
- By Cathleen on 02-21-03
- Shadow of the Hegemon
- By: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: David Birney, Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir
Weird editing.
Reviewed: 04-10-18
The story is great. The individual voice acting was fantastic. The way it was edited was horrible. The word hegemon was inserted several times, said by a different actor, as were a few other lines. This was distracting and grating to my ears. I’m not sure if this was intentional or if text was changed at the last minute and the edit needed to happen.
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Saturn's Children
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: Bianca Amato
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 422
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 329
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Story4 out of 5 stars 334
In Saturn's Children, Freya is an obsolete android concubine in a society where humans haven't existed for hundreds of years. A rigid caste system keeps the Aristos, a vindictive group of humanoids, well in control of the lower, slave-chipped classes. So when Freya offends one particularly nasty Aristo, she's forced to take a dangerous courier job off-planet.
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2 out of 5 stars
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If you know it's erotica beforehand, it might help
- By Christopher Murphy on 02-23-15
- Saturn's Children
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: Bianca Amato
Caution: do not listen to while driving
Reviewed: 05-21-14
What disappointed you about Saturn's Children?
This book had virtually no plot. It was so boring, that I would start to nod off while I was at red lights. Freya flew from planet to planet to deliver items to people. Towards the end there seemed to be a small reason for her trips but at that point, I didn't even care because I had listened for 10 hours already. For some reason I must not have realized when I bought the book this would be an attempt to make a robot sex novel, so when those scenes first started I was suprised. Stross is not even good at writing a sex scene, even some badly wrtitten romance novels are sometimes worth skimming, just for a few good pages of hot steamy sex. Not this book.
The concept of the book was a good one, it was just done poorly. I felt no connection to Freya or any other character in the book. I did not care what happened to anyone in the book. Space travel may be sh*t, but so is this pathetic attempt of a space novel.
Any additional comments?
Don't waste your time
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A Door into Ocean
- By: Joan Slonczewski
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 69
The Sharers of Shora are a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future. They are pacifists, they are highly advanced in biological sciences, and they reproduce by parthenogenesis - because there are no males. Conflict erupts when a militaristic neighboring civilization decides to develop their ocean world and sends in an army.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Only Lesser Races produce Males
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 09-05-13
- A Door into Ocean
- By: Joan Slonczewski
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
I felt like I was in Shora
Reviewed: 12-06-11
What did you love best about A Door into Ocean?
The vivid writing brought me right through
What about Rosalyn Landor’s performance did you like?
The narrator did an amazing job conveying the peaceful feeling of Shora and the peaceful beliefs of the sharers.
Any additional comments?
I gave the story 4 out of 5 stars only because there was all this build up to a climax that was not very climactic.
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Green
- By: Jay Lake
- Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
- Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 370
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 278
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 284
She was born in poverty, in a dusty village under the equatorial sun. She does not remember her mother, she does not remember her own nameher earliest clear memory is of the day her father sold her to the tall pale man. In the Court of the Pomegranate Tree, where she was taught the ways of a courtesanand the skills of an assassinshe was named Emerald, the precious jewel of the Undying Dukes collection of beauties. She calls herself Green.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Gods, Cat People, Female Assassins, Whips--
- By Jefferson on 02-11-11
- Green
- By: Jay Lake
- Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
Redundant and Boring
Reviewed: 08-23-11
I was really looking forward to reading this book. I like fantasy books with a strong female character. However I had a very hard time liking Green. There was no character development, the supporting characters were flat and I felt like there was no cohesion with the story line. The first part of the book describing Green's childhood was ok, but the rest went on and on and on. If I heard Green say one more time "What would Endurance do?" or "I want to go home.", I think i would scream. There are much better books out there. Try Mya by Richard Adams or the Kusheil series.
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Beggars in Spain
- By: Nancy Kress
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 680
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 518
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 522
In a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent, and one of a growing number of human beings who have been genetically modified to never require sleep. Once considered interesting anomalies, now Leisha and the other "Sleepless" are outcasts, victims of blind hatred, political repression, and shocking mob violence meant to drive them from human society and, ultimately, from Earth itself.
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2 out of 5 stars
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THE DELIBERATELY BLIND, DESERVE NOT TO SEE
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 08-02-15
- Beggars in Spain
- By: Nancy Kress
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Fantastic!!! Can't wait to read the sequal.
Reviewed: 01-05-10
This was a well read and well written book. The characters grew throughout and were not stagnant boring, 2-d people. The premise was creative and thought provoking. I liked all the references to actual historical events and people.
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