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The Time Traveler's Wife
- By: Audrey Niffenegger
- Narrated by: Fred Berman, Phoebe Strole
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14,065
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,509
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,528
Clare and Henry have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was 36. They were married when Clare was 23 and Henry was 31. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my favorite books
- By Joey on 01-13-08
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- By: Audrey Niffenegger
- Narrated by: Fred Berman, Phoebe Strole
No detail left unturned!
Reviewed: 04-28-09
This book was one of the most annoyingly, cloyingly, boringly, and self-indulgent exercises in self-conscious drivel I have had the displeasure to read, in a very long time. Underdeveloped wife/saint, overly self-important 'time-traveling' husband - who, though he can 'disappear' at any moment, is permitted to take his 3-year-old cliche-ridden every-child to the mall(!), and a non-plot (T-travelin' 38 year old Henry encounters 6 year old Clare in a field, and carries her thru her life as her one true love...) driven by details of food-prep, canvas-prep, and so on. Just way too much information on unimportant stuff: do we really need to know where the berries were grown for the jam she spreads on her home-baked bread this morning? But maybe that's a cover for the fact that the story is unbelievable, no, really not believable, in any sense, the characters are mono-chromatic, and apparently it's coming out as a movie! There's a big surprise; I can hardly wait to not go see it.
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Sonata for Miriam
- By: Linda Olsson
- Narrated by: Andy Paris
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5
After the unexpected death of his daughter, musician Adam Anker loses all sense of direction in his life. Adrift, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery, one that will take him from New Zealand, to Poland, and finally to Sweden for a reunion with his daughter's mother.
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1 out of 5 stars
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treacle, sickly sweet
- By Margaret on 03-14-09
- Sonata for Miriam
- By: Linda Olsson
- Narrated by: Andy Paris
treacle, sickly sweet
Reviewed: 03-14-09
This book was a real disappointment. I'm not even sure why it was recommended; I certainly will be more careful in the future.
The problem is the self-consciousness of the writer, and her inability to edit her own thoughts, so that every voice is the same one, the protagonist, the Polish characters, the errant wife - every one of them is infused with saintly values, maudlin self-absorption and overly verbose sentimentality. Yuck!
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Cell
- A Novel
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Campbell Scott
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 7,802
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,132
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5,138
The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Everyone's cell phone. Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature...and then begins to evolve.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very, very compelling
- By Vicki on 01-27-06
- Cell
- A Novel
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Sophomoric and silly
Reviewed: 03-14-07
This book is a one-trick pony, with tired, uninteresting writing barely keeping it afloat. The characters are drawn with broad strokes and old cliches, a shallow read at best. It should've been a short story -- very short!
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