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Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- By: Hernan Diaz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,204
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,705
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,705
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Before Purchasing
- By JLDLOfficial on 08-13-22
- Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- By: Hernan Diaz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò, Orlagh Cassidy
Money and Reality
Reviewed: 06-03-23
Question everything you're reading in the first section. When you're finished reading the book, contemplate the first book, the second, etc. Truth, as always, will lie in the coda.
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The Likeness
- A Novel
- By: Tana French
- Narrated by: Heather O'Neill
- Length: 22 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,686
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,095
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,067
In the “compellingˮand “pitch perfectˮ follow-up to Tana French’s runaway best seller In the Woods, Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad - until an urgent telephone call brings her back to an eerie crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. Suddenly, Cassie is back undercover, to find out not only who killed this young woman, but, more importantly, who she was.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captured by this book.
- By J S on 02-17-18
- The Likeness
- A Novel
- By: Tana French
- Narrated by: Heather O'Neill
Better than a whodunit.
Reviewed: 07-17-20
A fine melange of character sketches and interconnectivity. Builds to a an ending, though predictable, is very satisfying.
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The Brothers Karamazov
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrated by: Alastair Cameron
- Length: 34 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 144
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 142
The Brothers Karamazov is a tale of a complicated and broken family headed by a father, Fyodor Karamazov, who becomes entangled with his three sons, whom he neglected, after both mothers died.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Voice for a Great Book
- By Lisa on 12-08-16
Poor narrator
Reviewed: 06-29-20
I got this Audible book because it was the same translator I had for the book, to which I read along. I heartily recommend this reading process, because the narration moves your eyes along and you use another sense to understand and appreciate the book. This comes from an English teacher of 34 years experience, seventh grade through graduate school.
The problem is the narrator. His sing-song voice does not give the book the gravity it deserves in parts. Worse yet, his pronunciation of French words and phrases is atrocious. This becomes a factor because Tsarist Russian nobility spoke much French: i.e. he pronounces "c'est" as "sest". Mon Dieu!
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Late in the Day
- A Novel
- By: Tessa Hadley
- Narrated by: Abigail Thaw
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 186
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 169
Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been friends since they first met in their 20s. Thirty years later, Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer’s evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia: She is at the hospital. Zach is dead. In the wake of this profound loss, the three friends find themselves unmoored; all agree that Zach, with his generous, grounded spirit, was the irreplaceable one they couldn’t afford to lose. Inconsolable, Lydia moves in with Alex and Christine. The loss warps their relationships.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It's all in the performance
- By RueRue on 02-08-19
- Late in the Day
- A Novel
- By: Tessa Hadley
- Narrated by: Abigail Thaw
Evocative, complex, like places and people.
Reviewed: 01-27-19
What do not say to others, even our lovers? What do we keep hidden or reveal?
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