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Cary Grant
- A Brilliant Disguise
- By: Scott Eyman
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
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Film historian and acclaimed New York Times best-selling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive, “captivating” (Associated Press) biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant, one of the most accomplished — and beloved — actors of his generation, who remains as popular as ever today.
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Disappointing...
- By Amazon Customer on 11-02-20
- Cary Grant
- A Brilliant Disguise
- By: Scott Eyman
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
Nothing new except the pronunciation!
Reviewed: 11-14-22
This book is more about the studios, the costars, the movie financing, the movie business and sounds a bit like name dropping. We have all heard the Cary Grant information presented here before, absolutely nothing new. But despite the low quality of information, it was the reader who ruined things. John Huston pronounced as “Husston” and Claudette Colbert where her name was “Col-BERT” rather than “Col-bear”. This reader could not pronounce even ordinary things, places, names. Don’t they have a pronunciation guide for readers? It was so distracting! This reader needs a good dictionary and another kind of job. He ruined it for me.
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Find Me
- A Novel
- By: André Aciman
- Narrated by: Michael Stuhlbarg
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The author of the best seller Call Me by Your Name revisits its beguiling characters decades after their first meeting. In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever. Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.
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Was hoping for more
- By A. Paduch on 11-10-19
- Find Me
- A Novel
- By: André Aciman
- Narrated by: Michael Stuhlbarg
Ugh!
Reviewed: 01-11-20
I read the first book "Call Me by Your Name" about 4 times and LOVED every word, every page, every moment of it. I was so excited to see this book came out and couldn't wait to read it. What a disappointment!!! Until the last few minutes of the book it is like a cartoon...situations that are stupid, unreal conversations, Elio's father wasn't the same man as in the previous book; he is an old man "in love" with a young woman, having lost his mind in lust. Elio is a sap and needy. Oliver is living in a fantasy land. Not until the last few pages do you get a glimpse of the Oliver and Elio you loved before. What a waste of a book. I wanted love story's continuation, I got infantile, unrealistic love, horrible dialogue. Maybe this author should try again. I can't imagine this book will be much of a succcess.
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A Guest of the Reich
- The Story of American Heiress Gertrude Legendre's Dramatic Captivity and Escape from Nazi Germany
- By: Peter Finn
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Gertrude "Gertie" Legendre was a big-game hunter from a wealthy industrial family who lived a charmed life in Jazz Age America. Her adventurous spirit made her the inspiration for the Broadway play Holiday, which became a film starring Katharine Hepburn. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Legendre, by then married and a mother of two, joined the OSS, the wartime spy organization that preceded the CIA.
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Fascinating woman in a horrible period in history
- By Marlette on 12-03-19
- A Guest of the Reich
- The Story of American Heiress Gertrude Legendre's Dramatic Captivity and Escape from Nazi Germany
- By: Peter Finn
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Fascinating woman in a horrible period in history
Reviewed: 12-03-19
This book was fascinating. The time in history in which she got caught is almost as interesting as how she lived her life...nanny raising her kids, husband living in Hawaii, free to roam the globe at will and curious to get close enough to the war to hear gunfire. Oops.... It is a good listen. I just wish there was more....
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The Price of Illusion
- A Memoir
- By: Joan Juliet Buck
- Narrated by: Joan Juliet Buck
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue, comes a dazzling memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, chronicling Buck's quest to discover the difference between glitter and gold, illusion and reality, and what looks like happiness from the thing itself.
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Narcissistic name dropper
- By Marlette on 12-03-19
- The Price of Illusion
- A Memoir
- By: Joan Juliet Buck
- Narrated by: Joan Juliet Buck
Narcissistic name dropper
Reviewed: 12-03-19
This book has no purpose other than to guide you through the life of the author a day at a time dropping names of every famous person she has ever known, slept with, saw in a magazine. There are pages of names you have never heard of. According to her, she is always right, always the most glamorous, always the belle of the ball. If you are looking for the perfect example of narcissism run amok, this book is for you!!! Otherwise it is a yawner of names, places, fancy clothes and all the shallow accouterments of a self-focused life. This woman wonders why she can never have a meaningful relationship with a man who is not married or otherwise unavailable.....gee, she is such a big presence in her own life there is no room for anyone who could stay. Skip this book, it is written only for the author.
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Middlemarch
- By: George Eliot
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 35 hrs and 38 mins
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Dorothea Brooke is an ardent idealist who represses her vivacity and intelligence for the cold, theological pedant Casaubon. One man understands her true nature: the artist Will Ladislaw. But how can love triumph against her sense of duty and Casaubon’s mean spirit? Meanwhile, in the little world of Middlemarch, the broader world is mirrored: the world of politics, social change, and reforms, as well as betrayal, greed, blackmail, ambition, and disappointment.
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Best Audible book ever
- By Molly-o on 12-25-11
- Middlemarch
- By: George Eliot
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Ok, nothing special
Reviewed: 01-08-19
I had never read this title and after seeing it was considered one of the best novels in the English language, I thought I would listen. I didn't find it very engaging, in fact I found the lead characters to be dull and not very smart. Perhaps it was the times they lived in, but they sure lived constricted, boring lives brought to life in this book. Funny how Dickens could really portray this era with lively wit and a love for learning and growing. Eliot just gave us a plodding mess with no one going nowhere fast. Not my thing.
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Circe
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power—the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.
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Refined writing with an intimate performance
- By Michael - Audible Editor on 04-11-18
- Circe
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
Absolutely wonderful!
Reviewed: 01-08-19
This book was my favorite from 2017. The book itself was well researched, written in exquisite prose and made even better by the narrator, Perdita Weeks. Her voice, inflections, pauses, were absolutely perfect for this book, it wouldn't have been the same without her. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in history, or anyone just wanting to listen to a fascinating story read by a topnotch professional!
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The Song of Achilles
- A Novel
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. “The best of all the Greeks”—strong, beautiful, and the child of a goddess—Achilles is everything the shamed Patroclus is not. Yet despite their differences, the boys become steadfast companions. Their bond deepens as they grow into young men and become skilled in the arts of war and medicine—much to the displeasure and the fury of Achilles’ mother, Thetis, a cruel sea goddess with a hatred of mortals.
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Wasn't Expecting to Like It- BOY! was I wrong!!
- By susan on 06-11-14
- The Song of Achilles
- A Novel
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
Great read!
Reviewed: 11-17-18
I pretended to read “the Iliad” when I was in high school so was anxious to read this and see what it was about. This was a wonderful book that brought all of the characters to life. The writing was excellent and the narrator did a fine job. Highly recommend this one!
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The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
- By: Stuart Turton
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
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The rules of Blackheath: Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m. There are eight days and eight witnesses for you to inhabit. We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer. Evelyn Hardcastle will die every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others....
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Disappointed
- By Anita on 05-08-19
- The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
- By: Stuart Turton
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Convoluted mess
Reviewed: 11-17-18
Based on previous reviews I stuck with this til the end...hours of my life I cannot get back. Stupid story, no logical ending and a narrator who says “libary” instead of library until you are screaming. Save your credit, save your sanity, get another book!
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The Weight of Ink
- By: Rachel Kadish
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 23 hrs and 19 mins
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Set in the London of the 1660s and of the early 21st century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city, and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. As the novel opens, Helen has been summoned by a former student to view a cache of 17th-century Jewish documents newly discovered in his home during a renovation.
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Compelling characters question life choices, ethics, religious rules, love and desire
- By CHRISTINE on 11-02-17
- The Weight of Ink
- By: Rachel Kadish
- Narrated by: Corrie James
Insomniacs read this!
Reviewed: 09-17-18
This book will put you to sleep in under 5 minutes! The modern day story is about a bunch of whiny people, each whining over some lost love or cold coffee or something and the 300 years ago story is convoluted and uninteresting. What a waste of time! If you are into vacuous books, too many words, shallow human beings, please enjoy!
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The Stranger in the Woods
- The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
- By: Michael Finkel
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality—not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own.
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Captivating Then Exasperating
- By Gillian on 03-10-17
- The Stranger in the Woods
- The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
- By: Michael Finkel
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Fascinating!
Reviewed: 11-01-17
Loved this book, such a quirky character, yet you really care about him! Read it!
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