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The Invisible Man
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,517
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,096
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,097
On a freezing February day, a stranger emerges from out of the gray to request a room at a local provincial inn. Who is this out-of-season traveler? More confounding is the thick mask of bandages obscuring his face. Why does he disguise himself in this manner and keep himself hidden away in his room? Aroused by trepidation and curiosity, the local villagers bring it upon themselves to find the answers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Way ahead of its time!
- By Brian on 06-06-13
- The Invisible Man
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: James Adams
Accidentally hilarious
Reviewed: 09-17-21
I think this was supposed to be a sci-fi thriller when HG Wells wrote it, but with the sci-fi elements now seeming too common place to keep you impressed, it's the behavior of the characters that shines through, and it becomes very farcical in an enjoyable way. They could all be Monty Python stock characters within a particularly macabre slapstick dark comedy.
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Wonderworks
- The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
- By: Angus Fletcher
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 88
Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere - from Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, and others - each made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative and neuroscientific advancement. Literature’s great invention was to address problems we could not solve: not how to start a fire or build a boat, but how to live and love; how to maintain courage in the face of death; how to account for the fact that we exist at all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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to find them all in one place
- By Zeno on 03-14-21
- Wonderworks
- The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
- By: Angus Fletcher
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Kept coming back
Reviewed: 09-15-21
I listened to this audiobook while I was working. Then I bought the physical book to better use for quick reference in the future. Then I listened to the audiobook again.
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The Ghosts of Eden Park
- The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
- By: Karen Abbott
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 513
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 453
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 453
In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey. Within two years he's a multi-millionaire. The press calls him "King of the Bootleggers", writing breathless stories about the Gatsby-esque events he and his glamorous second wife, Imogene, host at their Cincinnati mansion, with party favors ranging from diamond jewelry for the men to brand-new cars for the women. By the summer of 1921, Remus owns 35 percent of all the liquor in the United States.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Quite entertaining
- By Buretto on 08-15-19
- The Ghosts of Eden Park
- The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
- By: Karen Abbott
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro, Cassandra Campbell
Good but gaspy
Reviewed: 03-03-21
Book is very well constructed, giving a novel like feel to the narrative while apparently only using dialogue taken from court transcripts and things but making it flo very naturally. The only negative for me was that I kept being distracted by Cassandra Campbell's performance because she gasps really loudly every time she takes a breath.
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Mythology: Celtic Mythology, Creatures, and Irish Folklore
- By: Kelly Mass
- Narrated by: Miriam Webster
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 88
In this guide to Celtic Mythology, several stories are not only outlined, but narrated elaborately. Others are quickly mentioned, and some historical background about the Celts, Irish, and Scottish is provided to set the stage. Overall, a fantastic guide to both be entertained and informed. Get started now!
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1 out of 5 stars
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Plagiarized? And not skillfully?
- By Sandra H. on 01-11-21
Plagiarized? And not skillfully?
Reviewed: 01-11-21
Reviews I saw before I purchased were criticizing the reader's inability to pronounce Irish words/names, but that seems a weird point to focus on when the entire thing is definitely a very blatantly unprofessional work. It feels like maybe a student project, and it's difficult to listen to because it's obviously been run through Dr Essay or some like software that's randomly replaced about one word in ten with a synonym (used to disguise deliberate or accidental plagiarism) what makes it hard to listen to is that apparently the author never bothered to check the output and notice that the software had frequently replaced the original word with a wrong-context synonym, so it kept doing things like replacing the noun "giant" (as in the mythical creature) with the adjective "huge", and also just replacing many of words with slang, which feels jarring in this kind of epic folk narrative.
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