Carl Robbins
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Tender Is the Flesh
- By: Agustina Bazterrica
- Narrated by: Joseph Balderrama
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans - though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the "Transition". Now, eating human meat - "special meat" - is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.
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Uhhhhhhh....
- By Josh E. on 12-05-20
- Tender Is the Flesh
- By: Agustina Bazterrica
- Narrated by: Joseph Balderrama
Bleak.
Reviewed: 02-13-22
Great book if you want to start a depressive episode. Good read overall with aligorical ties to many different issues.
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The Deep
- By: Nick Cutter
- Narrated by: Corey Brill
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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A strange plague called the "Gets" is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget - small things at first, like where they left their keys... then the not-so-small things like how to drive, or the letters of the alphabet. Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily - and there is no cure. But now, far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Marianas Trench, an heretofore unknown substance hailed as "ambrosia" has been discovered - a universal healer, from initial reports.
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Extreme animal abuse warning
- By Kassandra Escandell on 03-21-20
- The Deep
- By: Nick Cutter
- Narrated by: Corey Brill
Nick needs a fact checker.
Reviewed: 11-30-20
Good book overall, The Thing meets The Abyss. Multiple glaring factual errors in the text, however.
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The Troop
- By: Nick Cutter
- Narrated by: Corey Brill
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip - a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfre. The boys are a tight-knit crew. There’s Kent, one of the most popular kids in school; Ephraim and Max, also well-liked and easygoing; then there’s Newt the nerd and Shelley the odd duck. For the most part, they all get along and are happy to be there - which makes Scoutmaster Tim’s job a little easier.
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Seriously Messed Up Gruesome Horror
- By Kim Venatries on 03-13-14
- The Troop
- By: Nick Cutter
- Narrated by: Corey Brill
Great
Reviewed: 11-22-20
Lord of the Flies meets John Carpenter's The Thing. One of the few recent horror books worth the genre.
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Heart-Shaped Box
- By: Joe Hill
- Narrated by: Stephen Lang
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, a thing so terrible-strange, Jude can't help but reach for his wallet. For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost. It's the real thing.
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Yikes! Five stars for fright
- By Lesley on 02-23-07
- Heart-Shaped Box
- By: Joe Hill
- Narrated by: Stephen Lang
Great story, annoying techno chapter transitions.
Reviewed: 10-19-19
Strong writing, fun characters. This story feels like Stephen King at the beginning of his career.
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The Fellowship of the Ring
- Book One in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Rob Inglis
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
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The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume in the trilogy, tells of the fateful power of the One Ring. It begins a magnificent tale of adventure that will plunge the members of the Fellowship of the Ring into a perilous quest and set the stage for the ultimate clash between the powers of good and evil.
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At last - The Definitive Recording!
- By L. N. on 10-10-12
- The Fellowship of the Ring
- Book One in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Rob Inglis
Holy shite
Reviewed: 08-23-19
They realy could have done better to abridge the singing out, those songs are atrocious.
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The Red Queen
- Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators.
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If I were ten Years Old...
- By Ken on 02-07-11
- The Red Queen
- Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Great.
Reviewed: 02-27-19
An awesome (if challenging) look in to the whys of sex, evolution, and sex selection. I've gleaned more insight from this book than from almost any other.
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Odd Hours
- Odd Thomas, Book 4
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Only a handful of fictional characters are recognized by first name alone. Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas is one such literary hero, who has come alive in listeners’ imaginations as he explores the greatest mysteries of this world and the next with his inimitable wit, heart, and quiet gallantry. Now Koontz follows Odd as he is drawn onward, to a destiny he cannot imagine. Haunted by dreams of an all-encompassing red tide, Odd is pulled inexorably to the sea, to a small California coastal town where nothing is as it seems.
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Cashing a paycheck?
- By Chris on 09-17-08
- Odd Hours
- Odd Thomas, Book 4
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Trite
Reviewed: 02-10-19
Was a trial to finish, in turns dull and cliche. Hackneyed religious symbolism meshed with a story that is horribly bloated and stretched. Much worst than Odd Thomas 1 and 2.
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Under the Dome
- A Novel
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Raul Esparza
- Length: 34 hrs and 24 mins
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On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when - or if - it will go away.
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Glad I Listened to 11-22-63 First
- By Russell on 02-09-12
- Under the Dome
- A Novel
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Raul Esparza
one of Sks better books
Reviewed: 04-15-18
A great, long look into a mash up of genres with touches of horror, natural disaster, political thriller and drama.
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
- Earth's Children, Book 1
- By: Jean M. Auel
- Narrated by: Sandra Burr
- Length: 22 hrs and 17 mins
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This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear.
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Production and Narration didn't quite ruin it
- By nolagal on 07-28-14
- The Clan of the Cave Bear
- Earth's Children, Book 1
- By: Jean M. Auel
- Narrated by: Sandra Burr
Holy stone age mary sue!
Reviewed: 04-07-18
Good story but this is the worst case of a protagonist being a mary sue ive ever heard. Heavily pro woman mildly anti men story but engrossing nevertheless.
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The Road
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst this destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still, they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world of utter devastation.
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ARE YOU CARRYING THE FIRE?
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-14-16
- The Road
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
Classic
Reviewed: 01-14-18
A good read/listen, even if it's the bleakest story I've read. A story of a fathers love for a son.
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