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Deception Point: A Novel
- By: Dan Brown
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,080
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,299
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,294
When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory, a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story, great narrator, bad recording
- By Eric Varsanyi on 07-22-05
- Deception Point: A Novel
- By: Dan Brown
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
Trite. NOT Usyal Dan Brown
Reviewed: 12-29-21
The story dragged and was so predictable. Very disappointing. Don’t waste you hard earned credits!
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The Judge's List
- A Novel
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Mary-Louise Parker, John Grisham
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22,575
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20,197
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20,077
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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THE NARRATION IS FINE!
- By JTH on 10-20-21
- The Judge's List
- A Novel
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Mary-Louise Parker, John Grisham
Surely Grisham didn’t write this!
Reviewed: 12-13-21
Trite, lacking any sort of mystery, presenting stereotypical characters and just plain not up to John Grishams past work. Sappy ending was the last straw!!
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Midnight in Washington
- How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
- By: Adam Schiff
- Narrated by: Adam Schiff
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,655
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,298
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,283
In the years leading up to the election of Donald Trump, Congressman Adam Schiff had already been sounding the alarm over the resurgence of autocracy around the world, and the threat this posed to the United States. But as he led the probe into Donald Trump’s abuses of presidential power, Schiff came to the terrible conclusion that the principal threat to American democracy now came from within. In Midnight in Washington, Schiff argues that the Trump presidency has so weakened our institutions and compromised the Republican Party that the peril will last for years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected
- By Lynn on 10-18-21
- Midnight in Washington
- How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
- By: Adam Schiff
- Narrated by: Adam Schiff
A must read for every American
Reviewed: 10-18-21
Truth matters. And Adam Schiff delivers it unvarnished. This is a great listen and will clarify things as never before.
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The Secrets of Wishtide
- By: Kate Saunders
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,551
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,146
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,128
Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged 52, is the widow of an archdeacon who makes her living as a highly discreet private investigator. Her brother, Frederick Tyson, is a criminal barrister living in nearby Highgate with his wife and 10 children. Frederick finds the cases, and Laetitia solves them using her arch intelligence and her immaculate cover as an unsuspecting widow. When a case arises involving the son of the highly connected Sir James Calderstone, Laetitia sets off for Lincolnshire undercover as the family's new governess.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thoroughly enjoyable
- By Episteme on 12-31-16
- The Secrets of Wishtide
- By: Kate Saunders
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
More than a Cozy . . Awesome Female Detective!
Reviewed: 04-09-18
What an enjoyable listen! Not only was the book well written, it was expertly narrated as well. And the story was a perfect detective tale that kept me engaged and listening carefully. Lved the Victorian-era setting and the descriptive "people and places" Saunders employed. A delightful few hours in Wishtide! Hope there will be more.
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IQ
- By: Joe Ide
- Narrated by: Sullivan Jones
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 7,117
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,537
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Story4 out of 5 stars 6,515
A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch. They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Finally! Something new and original ;
- By Midwesterner on 11-29-16
- IQ
- By: Joe Ide
- Narrated by: Sullivan Jones
And the point is?.....
Reviewed: 04-06-18
IQ is certainly an interesting story -- and introduces listeners to the rough side of the "hood." But although I enjoyed it, in the end, I felt it was little more than a mish mash of "tales from the hood" that were supposed to offer moral guidance (or something.) Yes, in the end, IQ worked hard to atone for his misspent youth. But still, it was just that. . . . a series of tales that didn't make me empathetic to the main character(s) of the book.
Still, I'm glad I bought it and listened. BTW, the narration is outstanding.
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The Constant Gardener
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 925
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 815
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 811
Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carré's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Greatest love story of the last fifty years
- By Darwin8u on 06-30-13
- The Constant Gardener
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
Beautifully Crafted Story
Reviewed: 04-03-18
What is Africa but a laboratory for big pharmas discoveries and mistakes? That is at the heart of this story. If you love stories about the Brits and how they pursue dominion over "third world" countries, this is it. If you love stories of how American capitalism rides roughshod over anything that might stand between it and profit, this is it. If you love stories about loyalty, love and devotion, this is it. Enjoyed every minute, although I still wish for a happier ending.
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Deliverance
- By: James Dickey
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,202
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,721
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,713
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"A river runs through it..."
- By karen on 11-01-13
- Deliverance
- By: James Dickey
- Narrated by: Will Patton
Better than the movie!
Reviewed: 04-03-18
This is an oldie but a goodie. And so much better than the movie. The descriptive narration transports you to a place you really don't want to be. . . and tosses you into the raging river and into the heinous crimes -- man against man -- that transpire there. Difficult to listen to at times but even more difficult are the decisions made on the river. Morality questioned at its core.
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Sourdough
- A Novel
- By: Robin Sloan
- Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,230
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,016
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,016
Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers quickly close up shop. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her—feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Read the print version if you are from SF Bay Area
- By Julie on 10-07-17
- Sourdough
- A Novel
- By: Robin Sloan
- Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
Ugh! Too Outrageously Improbable
Reviewed: 03-21-18
This one isn't my cup of tea. A woman who goes from high level robotic programming to making sourdough bread to using a robot in an experimental kitchen. . . none of it caught my fancy. It was just drudgery listening. . . although I LOVED Robin Sloan's "Mr. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore." Both are reality-turned-science fiction tomes, but this one was just too offbeat for me.
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The Doll's House
- A Detective Helen Grace Thriller
- By: M. J. Arlidge
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Bower, Scott Joseph
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 173
Ruby wakes up in a strange room. Her captor calmly explains that no one is looking for her. No one wants her. Except him. When the body of a woman is found buried on a secluded beach, Detective Helen Grace is called to the scene. She knows right away that the killer is no amateur. The woman has been dead for years, and no one has even reported her missing. But why would they? She's still sending text messages to her family.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointingly similar plot to #2 Eeny Meany
- By E.A. on 02-16-16
- The Doll's House
- A Detective Helen Grace Thriller
- By: M. J. Arlidge
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Bower, Scott Joseph
Gripping Detective Story for Sure!
Reviewed: 03-21-18
I have enjoyed all the Helen Grace thrillers to date and this one was no exception. A deranged man; serial murders; virtually clueless cases. . . . until Helen Grace uses her gut instincts to search out the clues no one else seems to see. Great story, lots of action, and really good narration.
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All the Pretty Horses
- The Border Trilogy, Book One
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,871
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,375
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,354
Sixteen-year-old John Grady Cole's grandfather has just died, his parents have permanently separated, and the family ranch, upon which he had placed so many boyish hopes, has been sold. Rootless and increasingly restive, Cole leaves Texas, accompanied by his friend Lacey Rawlins, and begins a journey across the vaquero frontier into the badlands of northern Mexico.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful writing
- By LMS on 05-21-15
- All the Pretty Horses
- The Border Trilogy, Book One
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
A Worthwhile Classic
Reviewed: 03-21-18
I had started this one some time ago and left it. . .just couldn't get into the poetic descriptions that are so Cormac McCarthy. But then, I started again, and this time, was able to enjoy the prose and the story of a young man's journey in the late 1940's. I enjoyed it so much that I have even downloaded the sequel -- just because the story is so good.
Narration is sometimes a bit stilted; but the story shines through.
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