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The Long Goodbye
- A Philip Marlowe Novel, Book 6
- By: Raymond Chandler
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 374
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 327
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 327
In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam, and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Extremely over acted.
- By Kindle Customer on 09-03-22
- The Long Goodbye
- A Philip Marlowe Novel, Book 6
- By: Raymond Chandler
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Great story (overwrought in production)
Reviewed: 04-20-23
I think Chandler is terrific, but I wish Scott Brick had turned down the noir-speak a couple of notches. And the musical outros after each chapter were utterly cornball.
Chandler doesn't need extra "help" to make it great. I would love to hear a production with someone like Richard Poe reading it completely straight. Ah well.
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The Lay of the Land
- Frank Bascombe, Book 3
- By: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 24 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 247
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Story4 out of 5 stars 123
With The Sportswriter, in 1986, Richard Ford commenced a cycle of novels that, 10 years later, after Independence Day won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, was hailed by The Times of London as "an extraordinary epic [that] is nothing less than the story of the 20th century itself." Now, a decade later, Frank Bascombe returns, with a new lease on life (and real estate), and more acutely in thrall to life's endless complexities than ever before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Richard Ford, get out of my mind!
- By D. Vance on 11-04-06
- The Lay of the Land
- Frank Bascombe, Book 3
- By: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Barrett was fine, but why not Richard Poe?
Reviewed: 07-12-16
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I was sorely disappointed that Richard Poe, the narrator of Sportswriter and Independence Day, was not called upon to do this book. For me he was the voice of Frank Bascombe. Glad to see he is back in Let Me Be Frank With You. Not securing him for Lay of the Land was a huge misstep.
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The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard
- By: Elmore Leonard
- Narrated by: Henry Rollins, David Strathairn, Tom Wopat, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 317
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 217
Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America's frontier - with hustlers and hucksters arriving in droves by horse, coach, wagon, and rail, and gunmen working both sides of the law, all too eager to end a man's life with a well-placed bullet. The New York Times best-selling grand master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius, with seven classic Western tales of destiny and fatal decision...and trust as essential to survival as it is hard-earned.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great, but not the "complete" western stories
- By A. Hochner on 01-20-13
Enjoying it but…
Reviewed: 02-06-15
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My only complaint is that this is sold as unabridged. When the cover image (taken from the book I realize) states THE COMPLETE WESTERN STORIES OF ELMORE LEONARD, and the audiobook is presenting six of those stories, it is an abridgement. Just because none of the stories themselves have been abridged doesn't make in an unabridged version of the book. Other than that the readers are good and the stories (the six presented) are quite good.
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