A. Harwin
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Friend of My Youth
- By: Alice Munro
- Narrated by: Beth Fowler
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4 out of 5 stars 22
In the powerful, haunting stories of Munro’s collection, men and women, in the midst of contemporary quandaries and crises, recall the long-buried yearnings, dreams, and hard choices that have given shape to their lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful early collection of short stories
- By P. Larvey on 09-09-21
- Friend of My Youth
- By: Alice Munro
- Narrated by: Beth Fowler
Such a sad decline in story telling…
Reviewed: 09-02-24
Missed the slow depth of her usual perceptions leaving this pointless flat telling of her stories,
Very very disappointed.
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Shadow Country
- A New Rendering of the Watson Legend
- By: Peter Matthiessen
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 40 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 644
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 383
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Story4 out of 5 stars 385
Inspired by a near-mythic event on the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the 20th century, Shadow Country re-imagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him, in a killing that obsessed his favorite son.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great American Novel
- By SHAWN on 02-15-09
- Shadow Country
- A New Rendering of the Watson Legend
- By: Peter Matthiessen
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Incomprehensible dialects
Reviewed: 12-25-20
Perhaps ‘authentic’ but too many marbles in the mouth sounding speech
Impossible to understand this previously read ( great) book
In my opinion the producers made a poor choice
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God Help the Child
- A Novel
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,353
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,215
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,199
At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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God Help Us All
- By Tzynya Pinchback on 04-24-15
- God Help the Child
- A Novel
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Read this title, don’t attempt to listen. Unintelligible
Reviewed: 07-16-20
The life-exhausted voice communicates the weariness but not the words,.......
Favorite author reading her work rendering this work ruined
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The Queen
- The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
- By: Josh Levin
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 198
In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of "welfare queen" Linda Taylor, a Slate editor reveals a "wild, only-in-America story" of political manipulation and murder (Attica Locke, Edgar Award-winning author). Part social history, part true-crime investigation, Josh Levin's mesmerizing book, the product of six years of reporting and research, is a fascinating account of American racism, and an exposé of the "welfare queen" myth, one that fueled political debates that reverberate to this day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very compelling story!
- By Marilyn on 06-24-19
- The Queen
- The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
- By: Josh Levin
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
Aniortant story told without art
Reviewed: 07-14-19
A detailed list of the proceedings as written in the court documents is tedious.
This is an important story however all the author doesn’t seem to want to illuminate but only report endless facts....Perhaps this book was designed for the reader to write the story.
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All God's Dangers
- The Life of Nate Shaw
- By: Theodore Rosengarten
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 23 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Nate Shaw's father was born into slavery. Nate was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton and plowing behind a mule. At the age of 47, he faced down a crowd of White deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor's livestock. His defiance cost him 12 years in prison.This triumphant autobiography, All God's Dangers, assembled from the 84-year-old Shaw's oral reminiscences, is the plainspoken story of an "over average" man who witnessed momentous changes in the lives of Southern people, Black and White....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Incomprehensible narration
- By BruceDC on 09-09-19
- All God's Dangers
- The Life of Nate Shaw
- By: Theodore Rosengarten
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
Maybe a translated version could be offered.
Reviewed: 07-14-19
The decision to offer a version of spoken authenticity rather than comprehensibility has frustrated this listener. I am grateful that audible tried but I give up....will enjoy the print version.
I am defeated.
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Before We Were Yours
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Catherine Taber
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 87,728
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 78,527
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Story5 out of 5 stars 78,211
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge - until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents - but they quickly realize the dark truth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I was rivetted, finished in three days.
- By Lin Cloward on 06-26-17
- Before We Were Yours
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Catherine Taber
Predictable with a well worn set of archetypes
Reviewed: 08-16-18
I found this book to be beyond silly and it’s overblown Sketches of children in peril
After so many annoying hours good news is you don’t have to finish it to understand the predictable outcome
I apologize to the author And I trust That when they stop trusting in their story and begin to develop their skills At the tselling, Better Books will follow
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The Devil in the White City
- Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30,781
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 25,426
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25,415
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his “World’s Fair Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Rich Read!
- By D on 09-18-03
- The Devil in the White City
- Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
A tedious list of factoids
Reviewed: 09-05-17
Nothing developed, just fact after fact without a story, I quit it after the first micro 180 chapters. Done.
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
- A Memoir
- By: Sherman Alexie
- Narrated by: Sherman Alexie
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,809
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,638
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,633
When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: He wrote. The result is this stunning memoir. Featuring 78 poems and 78 essays, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine - growing up dirt poor on an Indian reservation, one of four children raised by alcoholic parents. Throughout, a portrait emerges of his mother as a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent, complicated woman.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Painful Gift
- By MC on 08-01-17
- You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
- A Memoir
- By: Sherman Alexie
- Narrated by: Sherman Alexie
Self-indulgent reflection on his own poo
Reviewed: 08-06-17
What disappointed you about You Don't Have to Say You Love Me?
It was probably the truest examination of this brilliant ( favorite ) author's emotional response to too much loss.....The view is close, just complaints....guilt and tedium.
I understood that sometimes you just write get the money, this should've been kept in the journal perhaps to be found by someone else.
Would you ever listen to anything by Sherman Alexie again?
Of course
What about Sherman Alexie’s performance did you like?
Real
What character would you cut from You Don't Have to Say You Love Me?
There are no characters only the author's reflection of himself
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