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The Last Werewolf
- By: Glen Duncan
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 797
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 676
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Story4 out of 5 stars 678
Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but you’d never suspect it. Nonstop sex and exercise will do that for you - and a diet with lots of animal protein. Jake is a werewolf, and after the unfortunate and violent death of his one contemporary, he is now the last of his species. Although he is physically healthy, Jake is deeply distraught and lonely.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Ennui of a Naughty Dog
- By Mel on 09-12-11
- The Last Werewolf
- By: Glen Duncan
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
Great Book. Hello Werewolves, Goodbye Zombies
Reviewed: 12-10-11
Extraordinary story. The author builds on traditional werewolf legends to build an urbane and amusing tale. The story is complex, modern and amusing without breaking once from classic werewolf conventions. The performer is perfect for the tale. As the vampire craze was replaced — or complemented — by zombies, so werewolves may be the next wave.
I'll look forward Glen Duncan's next book.
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Calumet City
- By: Charlie Newton
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 178
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 118
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Story3 out of 5 stars 118
Among the most self-assured and sharply crafted debuts in recent years, Calumet City detonates a Molotov cocktail of character-driven suspense and ghetto-Chicago intrigue. A powerful fiction debut that captures the precise emotional landscape of one cop's hard-bitten life in the trenches. This first-time author joins that rare breed whose fiction is suffused with profound authenticity.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Unrealistic
- By 9S on 11-09-09
- Calumet City
- By: Charlie Newton
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
Noir to the tenth power
Reviewed: 11-29-11
Beyond noir in . The protagonist is a woman, which is a welcome change from the standard burned-out male detective of the genre.
Alas, the woman is haunted by extremely black memories and the brave reader who plunges into her bleak world gets a giant dose of noir and despair. If you plan to read this as a diversion, think again. If you're ready for the blackest noir, you are in for a wild ride.
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The Dogs of Riga
- A Kurt Wallander Mystery
- By: Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson - translator
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,301
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 994
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Story4 out of 5 stars 985
On the Swedish coastline, the bodies of two victims of grisly torture and cold execution are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain that he has the ability to solve the case. After the victims are traced to Latvia, Major Liepa of the Riga police takes over the investigation. Thinking his work is done, Wallander slips back into his routine - until he is suddenly called to Riga and plunged into an alien world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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My first Mankell book
- By Stevon on 12-17-06
- The Dogs of Riga
- A Kurt Wallander Mystery
- By: Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson - translator
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
Great Book, WRONG READER
Reviewed: 05-08-11
Mankell is one of my favorite detective writers and audiobooks are my favorite medium for novels. I may be driven to paper or eBooks by the awful decision to have Dick Hill read them. Hill's voice is perfect for the brutal, raw emotion if Lee Childs, but totally wrong for the ironic European Mankell. Mankell neeeds a European-sounding voice.
For American noir, Hill is the greatest. For other genres, he is totally wrong. Don't the tim eared decision to have him read this put you off this superb writer.
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