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An American Marriage (Oprah’s Book Club)
- A Novel
- By: Tayari Jones
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden, Eisa Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23,926
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21,431
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21,389
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding.
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2 out of 5 stars
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So many “WTF” moments
- By Kristen R King on 05-04-18
- An American Marriage (Oprah’s Book Club)
- A Novel
- By: Tayari Jones
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden, Eisa Davis
Couldn’t get beyond the narrator’s voice
Reviewed: 08-15-20
Narrator’s voice when reading Celestial’s part made her sound feeble and reminded me of a bleating goat. And when reading Roy’s part, he has a slight vocal fry —It was awful couldn’t finish the book.
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The Signature of All Things
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,598
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,773
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,769
In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker - a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don't miss this one
- By Molly-o on 12-27-13
- The Signature of All Things
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
What is this book about?
Reviewed: 04-24-20
I only made it to chapter 4 and I caught myself thinking for the third time, “What’s this book about again?” It drones on with details on the details about the details and I just can’t take or anymore.
I enjoy Elizabeth Gilbert’s writing style and I LOVED City of Girls, Big Magic and Eat, Pray, Love so I thought this book would be no different. Unfortunately that’s not the case.
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The Other Wes Moore
- One Name, Two Fates
- By: Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley - afterword
- Narrated by: Wes Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,263
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,758
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,770
In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful lesson in self-determination
- By Aneesah on 02-04-13
- The Other Wes Moore
- One Name, Two Fates
- By: Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley - afterword
- Narrated by: Wes Moore
Great listen
Reviewed: 03-09-20
I give this book five stars. My wife recommended I read this book or listen to it.
This book relates to me in great detail. Being from the inner city in a one parent house hold trying to navigate thru life as a black male. Being one bad decision away from death, jail or complete embarrassment. This book explains choices and hope and helping each other. I will say this to all never give up on yourself. Keep fighting until you can’t fight anymore. We are built for the road ahead.
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Teach Me
- Romey University, Book 1
- By: Alexandria House
- Narrated by: Jakobi Diem, Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,257
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,798
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,779
Stable, safe, predictable—all words that aptly describe Professor Nadia Day’s life. An existence she’s carefully crafted for herself despite her unconventional upbringing and what, to her, is an unseemly past. The last thing she would ever do is rock the boat when it comes to her life and livelihood. When retired football player and single dad, Nathan Moore, walks into her psychology classroom, all fine and dreadlocked, he does more than rock her boat—he rocks her world and causes her to question her buttoned-up existence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Jakobi Diem's voice will melt you like chocolate!
- By LexiLikesLiterature on 12-10-19
- Teach Me
- Romey University, Book 1
- By: Alexandria House
- Narrated by: Jakobi Diem, Adenrele Ojo
Narration sucks
Reviewed: 01-14-20
I cant get through this book—the narrators are awful. I had to return it although I would have loved to finish the story—I cant.
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City of Girls
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Blair Brown
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24,830
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22,223
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22,119
Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A strong story
- By Anita Kristensen on 06-08-19
- City of Girls
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Blair Brown
I liked it.
Reviewed: 08-24-19
I laughed and cried. Beautifully written with great structure—was a little dicey for the first hour or so but I hung in there and I’m glad it was interesting enough to stick with as my “vacation read”. It turned out to be a charming story of an old woman recounting her coming of age as an unconventional albeit naive teenager in 1940s New York City.
The narrator was probably the best I’ve heard thus far in my years as an audible member. Great tone and inflection without over-acting the dialogue.
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What Alice Forgot
- By: Liane Moriarty
- Narrated by: Tamara Lovatt-Smith
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34,940
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31,165
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31,078
Alice Love is 29, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital, where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over - she’s getting divorced, she has three kids, and she’s actually 39 years old. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade and find out whether it’s possible to reconstruct her life at the same time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unforgettable! I loved this story!
- By Judy on 03-04-13
- What Alice Forgot
- By: Liane Moriarty
- Narrated by: Tamara Lovatt-Smith
Yawn!
Reviewed: 09-17-18
Im returning this book—I gave it a good two hours but I cant take it anymore. Half the time I didnt know what the heck was going on because the book couldn’t hold my attention—the narrator was a little unenthused but not TOO bad.
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The Interior
- A Red Princess Mystery
- By: Lisa See
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 208
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Story4 out of 5 stars 168
While David Stark is asked to open a law office in Beijing, his lover, detective Liu Hulan, receives an urgent message from an old friend imploring her to investigate the suspicious death of her daughter, who worked for a toy company about to be sold to David’s new client, Tartan Enterprises.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narration is terrible
- By Veronica (OhYesItsV) on 08-15-17
- The Interior
- A Red Princess Mystery
- By: Lisa See
- Narrated by: Janet Song
Narration is terrible
Reviewed: 08-15-17
I liked this story however, I couldn't get past the robotic and almost monotone voice of the narrator.
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Half of a Yellow Sun
- A Novel
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,732
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,552
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,549
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Adichie’s brilliant historical novel follows the fortunes of five characters living through the tumultuous 1960s—a time when the Biafran-Nigerian War raged in southern Africa.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Horrifyingly human - mandatory reading
- By Alla on 09-28-12
- Half of a Yellow Sun
- A Novel
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
Hmmm
Reviewed: 04-19-17
I liked this story but I didn't at the same time.
I appreciate the development of the main characters and their relationships to one another. I also appreciate the historical references to a time in which I'd heard very little about and it offered an idea of what life during that time MAY have been like. Then there's the story overall: sections of the story that didn't add any real value to the story were terribly drawn out and seemed as if they'd never end and I found myself becoming bored.
I also found myself confused by the time jumps in regards to "Baby" and that whole "situation" and thought maybe I'd missed something somewhere. I wound up searching through chapters for over 30 minutes to figure out what the hell I'd missed only yo discover I hadn't missed anything at all.
I loved the narrating though as she really put effort into "performing" the book and making clear distinctions between characters.
This book could have easily been 4 hours shorter by cutting out the fillers.
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Queen Sugar
- A Novel
- By: Natalie Baszile
- Narrated by: Miriam Hyman
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,262
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,827
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,819
Why exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous. Recognizing this as a chance to start over, Charley and her 11-year-old daughter, Micah, say good-bye to Los Angeles. They arrive just in time for growing season but no amount of planning can prepare Charley for a Louisiana that's mired in the past: as her judgmental but big-hearted grandmother tells her, cane farming is always going to be a white man's business.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I didn't think I would like it but I loved it 😊
- By Colette M. Cummings on 12-05-16
- Queen Sugar
- A Novel
- By: Natalie Baszile
- Narrated by: Miriam Hyman
Beautiful story
Reviewed: 01-18-17
This story was entertaining and beautifully written. Finished it in a day and I can't wait to watch the series now. Narrator was great as well.
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Fifty Shades Freed
- Book Three of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
- By: E. L. James
- Narrated by: Becca Battoe
- Length: 20 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21,473
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18,723
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18,741
When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven and dazzling young entrepreneur Christian Grey it sparked a sensual affair that changed both of their lives irrevocably. Shocked, intrigued, and, ultimately, repelled by Christian’s singular erotic tastes, Ana demands a deeper commitment. Determined to keep her, Christian agrees.
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3 out of 5 stars
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We ate the dessert first...
- By SIMARA on 05-02-12
- Fifty Shades Freed
- Book Three of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
- By: E. L. James
- Narrated by: Becca Battoe
Good enough to pass the time
Reviewed: 12-07-16
The book could have been improved by omitting some content that seemed to be nothing more than filler.
Other than that, I enjoyed the book as a simple passtime.
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