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Four Past Midnight
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: James Woods, Tim Sample, Willem Dafoe, and others
- Length: 29 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,019
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,630
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,607
Four chiller novellas set to keep listeners awake long after bedtime. One Past Midnight: "The Langoliers" takes a red-eye flight from LA to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only 11 passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't. Something's waiting for them, you see.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent stories, excellent narration, TERRIBLE audio quality! What a bummer.
- By J.D. Surf on 03-28-19
- Four Past Midnight
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: James Woods, Tim Sample, Willem Dafoe, Ken Howard
Just the short story telling I was looking for!
Reviewed: 07-17-22
I enjoyed all the stories and narration and even the music on the Langoliers which I saw that some people had not.
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Deadly Games
- Cavendish and Walker, Book 1
- By: Sally Rigby
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,858
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,693
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,687
DCI Whitney Walker’s in trouble. She’s threatened with demotion if she screws up another case. So, when a killer starts murdering female students, it’s a chance to redeem herself. Forensic psychologist, Dr. Georgina Cavendish, has spent her life inside the university walls, but when one of her students is murdered, she steps out from behind the text books and puts her skills to the test.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brit crime addict
- By VJG on 01-13-20
- Deadly Games
- Cavendish and Walker, Book 1
- By: Sally Rigby
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
What a terrible book.
Reviewed: 03-23-21
Firstly, without the great narration I would never had made it past the first few chapters. Secondly, God I wish I hadn't. No intrigue, no twists, generic police, stupid killer. It's like a long, drawn-out TV episode. The only hope was that there might be a romantic relationship between two of the main protagonists, but readers didn't get that either. What a waste of time. Just don't.
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The Kraken Project
- Wyman Ford, Book 4
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 822
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 748
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Story4 out of 5 stars 748
NASA is building a probe to be splashed down in the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn’s great moon, Titan. It is one of the most promising habitats for extraterrestrial life in the solar system, but the surface is unpredictable and dangerous, requiring the probe to contain artificial intelligence software. To this end, Melissa Shepherd, a brilliant programmer, has developed "Dorothy", a powerful, self-modifying AI whose true potential is both revolutionary and terrifying. When miscalculations lead to a catastrophe during testing, Dorothy flees into the Internet.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Dorothy needs to be sucked up by a tornado
- By Kelly Howard on 05-30-14
- The Kraken Project
- Wyman Ford, Book 4
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
I love Douglas Preston, but this was pretty lame.
Reviewed: 06-11-14
I've read or listened to almost every book that Douglas Preston has written. This definitely was one of the worst. The action was good, but the exploration of strong AI, and it's powers and pitfalls was quite thin. Wyman Ford seems rough and tough in other novels, but here it just felt like he was along for the ride. I still give the story a C+.
Unfortunately it was butchered by the narrator. Often, when I start a new audio-book, I don't like the narration at first, but then it grows on me. That was not the case with this book. So many annoying, awkward pauses!
Overall worth the read for Preston/Child fans, but just barely.
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