Brandon Barton
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Fifty Shades of Grey
- Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
- By: E. L. James
- Narrated by: Becca Battoe
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 38,130
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 32,433
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Story4 out of 5 stars 33,041
When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Holy Crap minus the Holy
- By Penny on 05-21-12
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
- By: E. L. James
- Narrated by: Becca Battoe
Fifty shades of HELL YES!!
Reviewed: 09-13-12
I downloaded Fifty Shades of Grey because I was curious from all the hype surrounding this story. It's not my usual genre of listening but the more I listened, the more I enjoyed the story. Anastasia Steele is the kind of woman a man dreams of but rarely finds. She's highly intelligent, innately good-hearted, awkwardly innocent, passionately affectionate, and optimistically unjaded. Listening to Becca Battoe tell the story, she suddenly becomes Anastasia as you listen and that's a rare quality in a narrator. The way she speaks and the was she phrases her sentences, Ms. Battoe captures the emotion expressed in the words of the book. The story is excellently written and gives the listener an opportunity to take an uninhibited, uncensored look into the heart and mind of a proper, intelligent young woman while she falls in love for the first time. Love before she's had her heart broken and trampled on by some other guy. Love before she puts up a wall around her heart and decides that showing her love exposes a weakness that will be taken advantage of. It breaks my heart thinking of her and how this is bound to end up but it also gives me hope that maybe one day, I'll find an Anastasia of my own. Great book!
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Titan
- Gaean Trilogy, Book 1
- By: John Varley
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 493
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 331
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Story4 out of 5 stars 330
John Varley's monumental trilogy - Titan, Wizard, and Demon - has achieved cult status, hailed as a modern triumph of the imagination by critics and fans. It begins with humankind's exploration of a massive satellite orbiting Saturn. It culminates in a shocking discovery: the satellite is a giant alien being. Her name is Gaea. Her awesome interior is mind-boggling - because it is a mind. A mind that calls out to explorers...and transforms all who enter.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First of Varley's classic Gaean Trilogy
- By David on 05-30-09
- Titan
- Gaean Trilogy, Book 1
- By: John Varley
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
I am a fan of the entire series!
Reviewed: 10-26-09
I started from book one and followed through all the way to the end. The story kept my attention and I could not take the headphones off. A very good read!
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Wizard
- Gaean Trilogy, Book 2
- By: John Varley
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 167
One of the greatest science-fiction epics ever written, John Varley's Titan, Wizard, and Demon comprise a groundbreaking trilogy that will live forever. Human explorers have entered the sprawling mind of the alien Gaea. Now they must fight her will. For she is much too powerful. And definitely insane....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Circumnavigator’s Club Sets the Stage
- By Doug D. Eigsti on 03-01-13
- Wizard
- Gaean Trilogy, Book 2
- By: John Varley
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
I am a fan of the entire series!
Reviewed: 10-26-09
I started from book one and followed through all the way to the end. The story kept my attention and I could not take the headphones off. A very good read!
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Demon
- Gaean Trilogy, Book 3
- By: John Varley
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 19 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 162
Titan, Wizard, and Demon have enthralled a generation of readers with adventure, humor, horror, and dazzling imagination. Now, in the epic conclusion of John Varley's masterpiece, the satellite-sized Gaea has gone completely insane. She has trapped humans in her mind. She has transformed her love of old movies into monstrous realities. She is Marilyn Monroe. She is King Kong. And she must be destroyed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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And Now for Our FEATURE PRESENTATION
- By Doug D. Eigsti on 03-07-13
- Demon
- Gaean Trilogy, Book 3
- By: John Varley
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
I am a fan of the entire series!
Reviewed: 10-26-09
I started from book one and followed through all the way to the end. The story kept my attention and I could not take the headphones off. A very good read!
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Illuminatus! Part I
- The Eye in the Pyramid
- By: Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson
- Narrated by: Ken Campbell, Chris Fairbank
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 655
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 499
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Story4 out of 5 stars 498
The Illuminati, an inside joke? The lunatic fringe? Or a vast conspiracy hidden for centuries, unleashing it's power on a naive, defenseless world? It was the lousy luck of Saul Goodman, a tough, streetwise New York detective, to smell the trail in a bombed-out office - the heavy case he'd always dreaded. In a breakneck race against an awesome deadline, Goodman plunges down the trail of the ultimate conspiracy as the days fall away toward Apocalypse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Over the Top and Proud of It
- By Nonnie Mar on 02-14-08
- Illuminatus! Part I
- The Eye in the Pyramid
- By: Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson
- Narrated by: Ken Campbell, Chris Fairbank
Very Strange
Reviewed: 10-26-09
I got this book because of an interest in the Illuminati. I found that it was just a bunch of stories being told in flashback and the book was kind of confusing. The narrator's voice will really irk you at the beginning but if you can stand to get through the book I found I kinda liked it.
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Altered Carbon
- By: Richard K. Morgan
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15,559
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12,698
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12,686
In the 25th century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person's consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or "sleeve") making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Altered Carbon
- By Jake Williams on 09-22-07
- Altered Carbon
- By: Richard K. Morgan
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
A shorter book in pages but very tall in tale!
Reviewed: 10-26-09
I liked the cover of the book and the summary of the story and had some extra credits so I thought "What the heck?" and got it. I enjoyed the story and the authors use of imagery to bring me right into the story. A very good read.
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Liberty and Tyranny
- A Conservative Manifesto
- By: Mark R. Levin
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,881
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,099
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,091
Conservative talk radio's fastest-growing superstar is also a New York Times best-selling phenomenon: the author of the groundbreaking critique of the Supreme Court, Men in Black, and the deeply personal dog lover's memoir Rescuing Sprite, Mark R. Levin now delivers the book that characterizes both his devotion to his more than 5 million listeners and his love of our country and the legacy of our Founding Fathers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shifted My Point of View
- By Roy on 04-18-09
- Liberty and Tyranny
- A Conservative Manifesto
- By: Mark R. Levin
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
A MUST READ BOOK!!!
Reviewed: 10-26-09
I found this book very informative about the conservative movement and where our country is headed. I would recommend everyone get this book no matter your party affiliation.
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Lucifer's Hammer
- By: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 24 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 7,585
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,784
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5,796
The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival--a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story from front to back
- By DJM on 07-30-09
- Lucifer's Hammer
- By: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
A very good read!
Reviewed: 10-26-09
I got this book on a whim and figured it was an Audible Frontiers book I might like it. I DID! I found the story very engrossing and could not put the headphones down. I would highly recommend this book to others
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V for Vendetta
- By: Alan Moore
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,151
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,734
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,727
Imagine a Britain stripped of democracy, a world of the not-too-distant future in which freedom has been surrendered willingly to a totalitarian regime which rose to power by exploiting the people's worst fears and most damning weaknesses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Visceral Vindictive Vicarious Vicissitudes?
- By John on 09-06-08
- V for Vendetta
- By: Alan Moore
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
"V" Freedom Forever
Reviewed: 10-26-09
I first saw the movie and loved it. I got the book and it seemed to follow the same story line so I enjoyed the book as well. A very good read
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Elantris
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 27 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19,037
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16,161
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16,206
Once the godlike rulers of the capital of Arelon, the inhabitans of Elantris have been imprisoned within themselves, unable to die after the city's magic failed years ago. But when a new prince falls victim to the curse, he refuses to accept his fate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What if your body could never heal?
- By Lore on 09-12-13
- Elantris
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Wonderful Selection
Reviewed: 02-27-09
This story was great. It used its characters to display honor, courage, chivalry, and love. You can never have too much of either of those. It was a love story for a sci-fi fan
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