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Snow
- A Novel
- By: John Banville
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 680
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 579
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 575
The incomparable Booker Prize winner’s next great crime novel - the story of a family whose secrets resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their ancestral home. Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish priest has been found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Don't read this is you have been sexually abused
- By Babs on 10-26-20
- Snow
- A Novel
- By: John Banville
- Narrated by: John Lee
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Reviewed: 11-12-20
I cannot stand this reader. He should be in vaudeville. Omg so dramatic, and the pauses! It makes it impossible to listen to.
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The Silver Swan
- A Novel
- By: John Banville, Benjamin Black
- Narrated by: Timothy Dalton
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 409
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Story4 out of 5 stars 248
Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling Christine Falls, and much has changed for Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist. His beloved Sarah is dead, the Judge lies in a convent hospital paralyzed by a devastating stroke, and Phoebe, Quirke's long-denied daughter, has grown increasingly withdrawn and isolated. With much to regret from his last inquisitive foray, Quirke ought to know better than to let his curiosity get the best of him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Banville, you swot OR Death is a rough customer.
- By Darwin8u on 08-20-15
- The Silver Swan
- A Novel
- By: John Banville, Benjamin Black
- Narrated by: Timothy Dalton
Very Irish Dark
Reviewed: 01-02-13
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yep. Great story and made even better by Timothy Dalton's dark voice.
What did you like best about this story?
The characters were multi dimensional and were revealed in the story in an interesting way -
What does Timothy Dalton bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
His voice is just so rough and gruff and dark. Perfect for these stories. In addition he seems to understand the material and the words. His inflection are on target. He's a good actor.
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A Death in Summer
- A Novel
- By: John Banville, Benjamin Black
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 164
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Story4 out of 5 stars 123
On a sweltering summer afternoon, newspaper tycoon Richard Jewell—known to his many enemies as Diamond Dick—is discovered with his head blown off by a shotgun blast. But is it suicide or murder? For help with the investigation, Detective Inspector Hackett calls in his old friend Quirke, who has unusual access to Dublin's elite. Jewell's coolly elegant French wife, Françoise, seems less than shocked by her husband's death. But Dannie, Jewell's high-strung sister, is devastated, and Quirke is surprised to learn that in her grief she has turned to an unexpected friend.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By Aun Aprendiendo on 07-12-11
- A Death in Summer
- A Novel
- By: John Banville, Benjamin Black
- Narrated by: John Keating
This narrator stinks
Reviewed: 12-16-12
If you could sum up A Death in Summer in three words, what would they be?
So the darkness of Timothy Dalton is gone and instead the narrator sounds about eleven years old. I don't know about the story because I couldnt listen past the first chapter.
What did you like best about this story?
I couldn't listen to it, but I love Benjamin Black so I gave his part of this 5 stars.
What didn’t you like about John Keating’s performance?
He puts the emphasis on the wrong places in the sentences. He does not convey any meaning to what he says. He has an annoying voice. He isn't a good actor and it's an incredible disappointment after Timothy Dalton. What happened to him?
Any additional comments?
That's about it. Isn't that enough?
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