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The View from Castle Rock
- By: Alice Munro
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 62
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 60
A young boy is taken to Edinburgh Castle Rock, where his father assures him that on a clear day he can see America, and he catches a glimpse of his father's dream. In stories that follow, as the dream becomes a reality, two sisters-in-law experience very different kinds of passion on the long voyage to the New World. Other stories take place in more familiar Munro territory, the towns and countryside around Lake Huron, where the past shows through the present like the traces of a glacier on the landscape, and strong emotions stir just beneath the surface of ordinary comings and goings.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Entrancing
- By Richard K. Moore on 03-22-15
- The View from Castle Rock
- By: Alice Munro
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Munro no longer my favorite author
Reviewed: 03-27-25
The reader had an acerbic voice I found unpleasant. I have read all of Munro’s books and short stories. How disturbing it was to find that she ignored her husband’s sexual abuse of Munro’s own daughter.
We often overlook the foibles of our great artists but this one was too hard for me to forgive.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
- By: Patricia Highsmith
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,789
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,349
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,352
In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal, but he grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Patricia, Phil, and Pathology
- By Mel on 04-24-13
- The Talented Mr. Ripley
- By: Patricia Highsmith
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
It’s so rare to have a reader as good as Kevin Kennerly. He is par excellence.
Reviewed: 01-01-25
The writing is of a much higher quality than the norm of psychological thrillers. I confess I saw the film version with Jude Law and it’s been one of my favorite films of nuanced acting and directing, so I was surprised and delighted to find that our own Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s seasoned actor was the reader.
His pacing, fluency with foreign accents, and uncanny ability to portray believable characters of all ages, types, and genders is so rare to find in the large number of Audible Books that I listen to nearly every day) Btw, Mr. Kennerly is not an acquaintance of mine. This is not a “plug”
I must not forget to mention the quality of the reader’s voice. It’s melodious and pleasant. Natural. So many readers I’ve listened to have a stilted, unnaturally over-articulated quality which makes it obvious that they are reading. His voice is rich and clear—no doubt from theater acting experience
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Cousin Phillis
- By: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrated by: Joe Marsh
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4 out of 5 stars 66
Cousin Phillis – a miniature masterpiece – is set in the 1840s, when the coming of the railway was changing the face of England, and quiet rural communities, coming into contact with the outside world, were changed forever. The story focuses on the effect these changes have on a naïve country girl, Phillis, as she encounters love, with all its pains and pleasures, for the first time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Delicate Story
- By Mama C on 01-08-11
- Cousin Phillis
- By: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrated by: Joe Marsh
One of the worst readers I have ever heard
Reviewed: 07-22-24
The reader was probably the worst I have ever heard. His voice wasn’t unpleasant, which I always check before getting a book, but he sounded as if he had never read the book before, had no idea when to emphasize, when to use a parenthetical voice, etc. It was like listening to a first year student with a posh accent thinking he could wing it.
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Remembrance of Things Past
- Swann's Way
- By: Marcel Proust, Scott Moncrieff - translator
- Narrated by: John Rowe
- Length: 19 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 690
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 568
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 564
Swann's Way is Marcel Proust's literary masterpiece and the first part of the multivolume audiobook Remembrance of Things Past. In the opening volume, the narrator travels back in time to recall his childhood and to introduce the listener to Charles Swann, a wealthy friend of the family and celebrity in the Parisian social scene. He again travels back, this time to the youth of Charles Swann in the French town of Combray, to tell the story of the love affair that took place before his own birth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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EXCELLENT!
- By Maggie on 08-18-10
- Remembrance of Things Past
- Swann's Way
- By: Marcel Proust, Scott Moncrieff - translator
- Narrated by: John Rowe
The most insightful and poetic writer, read by the best narrator I have ever heard.
Reviewed: 03-02-24
The reader, John Rowe, is pitch perfect and has such a beautiful mellifluous voice. I can’t find more books that he had done as a reader. This is a wonderful wonderful book. In the past I’ve had a hard time reading it in book form, but John Rowe makes every sentence understandable and brings out the incredible poetry of Proust.
Unlike many of the audible books we have, I can listen to it over and over and am never bored. Especially if one loves nature and has an artistic eye. In fact, I often paint while listening to it and I also use it to fall asleep to when I’m having insomnia.
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Cranford
- By: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrated by: Prunella Scales
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 603
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 496
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 494
A vivid and affectionate portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid-19th century, Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women, relating the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Through a series of satirical vignettes, Gaskell sympathetically portrays changing small town customs and values in mid-Victorian England....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Quietly, subtly sweet and heartwarming
- By T. on 03-26-12
- Cranford
- By: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrated by: Prunella Scales
Absolutely wonderful
Reviewed: 12-15-21
Prunella Scales is truly the perfect reader and this book is full of gentle satire and warmth. A balm for the mind in December 2021.
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My Antonia
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Cindy Hardin Killavey, Jim Killavey
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 107
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 86
My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Ántonia. The book's narrator, Jim Burden, arrives in the fictional town of Black Hawk, Nebraska, on the same train as the Shimerdas, as he travels to live with his grandparents after his parents have died.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Worst Narrator Ever!
- By Schucity on 01-13-15
- My Antonia
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Cindy Hardin Killavey, Jim Killavey
Stilted Reader
Reviewed: 06-03-10
The reader for this, one of my favorite books, was a poor choice. His sentences were choppy, distractingly so.
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