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American Kingpin
- The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
- By: Nick Bilton
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 19,741
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 17,786
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Story5 out of 5 stars 17,737
In 2011, a 26-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine website hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything - drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons - free of the government's watchful eye. It wasn't long before the media got wind of the new website where anyone - not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and black hat hackers - could buy and sell contraband detection-free.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An honest portrait of DPR
- By Victor on 05-18-17
- American Kingpin
- The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
- By: Nick Bilton
- Narrated by: Will Damron
Extraordinary narrative non-fiction
Reviewed: 03-04-22
I’ve never read (listened to) anything quite like this. Like the best crime thriller you’ve read in a long long time but it’s also all true. The author did things like look up the weather on a specific day so that the person in the story could be walking under an overcast sky. It’s totally immersive. I’m gonna be thinking about this book for a long time.
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Thin Girls
- A Novel
- By: Diana Clarke
- Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 113
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Story4 out of 5 stars 95
Rose and Lily Winters are twins, as close as the bond implies; they feel each other’s emotions, taste what the other is feeling. Like most young women, they’ve struggled with their bodies and food since childhood, and high school finds them turning to food - or not - to battle the waves of insecurity and the yearning for popularity. But their connection can be as destructive as it is supportive, a yin to yang. When Rose stops eating, Lily starts - consuming everything Rose won’t or can’t.
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3 out of 5 stars
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nothing special
- By Drine on 10-11-20
- Thin Girls
- A Novel
- By: Diana Clarke
- Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
Great narration
Reviewed: 09-19-21
I enjoyed the story, it’s thoughtfully written. What I really loved was the narration. This person’s voice is sort of deep and sultry, she purrs the story into your ear and I couldn’t get enough. I’ve already chosen my next listen because she’s the narrator. Really really nice to listen to.
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Perfect
- By: Natasha Friend
- Narrated by: Danielle Ferland
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 29
First-time novelist Natasha Friend is a writer with a talent for realistically expressing the fears and uncertainties of today’s adolescents in a good story. Perfect has received the Milkweed Prize for Children’s Literature and is a Book Sense "Winter Picks" selection. This is the moving story of a young girl who develops a dangerous eating disorder while dealing with intense grief.
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3 out of 5 stars
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passable time passer
- By Merzinator on 09-26-23
- Perfect
- By: Natasha Friend
- Narrated by: Danielle Ferland
This book is toxic
Reviewed: 08-13-21
This book ruined my life when I was 14. Now, 30, I revisited it to see what I can remember. It is an instruction manual for how to be bulimic. The protagonist is friends with a girl described as having a perfect body, who everybody likes, with a whole drawer full of notes from boys, and she gets to eat absolutely every junk food imaginable and still keep it all. She teaches Isabelle that if you drink soda while you binge, it’s easier to purge. You can take laxatives. You won’t gain weight from bingeing and purging. It describes how many fingers to use and how far back in your throat to put them. It describes the girls getting away with purging at school. Disguising the sound of you purging by running the tap. This is all stuff a 14 year old doesn’t know. I copied what I read in the book and I still struggle with an eating disorder today. Obviously there are a lot of contributing factors, but mine started right here. I would NEVER let a young adult read this.
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I Am Watching You
- By: Teresa Driscoll
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8,765
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,705
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7,697
When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it - until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert. But just as she’s decided to call for help, something stops her. The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girls - beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard - has disappeared.
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1 out of 5 stars
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don't waste your time
- By Shannon on 10-26-17
- I Am Watching You
- By: Teresa Driscoll
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
***SPOILER***
Reviewed: 03-16-18
The performance is great.
However,
HERE COMES A SPOILER
When I read a thriller or a whodunnit, I want the culprit to hit me in the gut with an ‘omg NO WAY’ kinda deal. With this, I listened for hours and hours as the story weaves between characters involved in the disappearance of a girl, and in the last 20 minutes a complete rando not involved beforehand whatsoever comes out of nowhere and is the kidnapper. What a letdown, who cares? I feel like I wasted a ton of time on this. 🙄 if you want an awesome thriller listen to Stillhouse Lake
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Waiter to the Rich and Shameless
- Confessions of a Five Star Beverly Hills Server
- By: Paul Hartford
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,347
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,256
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,261
Waiter to the Rich and Shameless is not just a peek into the secretive inner workings of a legendary five-star restaurant; it is not just a celebrity tell-all or a scathing corporate analysis. It is a top-tier waiter's personal coming-of-age story, an intimate look into the complicated challenges of serving in the country's most elite, Hollywood-centric dining room while fighting to maintain a sense of self and purpose.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what I imagined
- By C Larkin on 02-17-17
- Waiter to the Rich and Shameless
- Confessions of a Five Star Beverly Hills Server
- By: Paul Hartford
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
Take it at face value
Reviewed: 07-23-17
It's fun to hear about celebrities and what a five star experience is like, but you have to get past a lot of misogyny to enjoy it. This guy will make fun of women for being fat in the same breath as criticizing them for ordering salad at his restaurant. He even makes a joke about cheating on his wife. I found it tiresome.
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