Doctorock
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A Darkness More Than Night: Booktrack Edition
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 961
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 893
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 881
Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex and then staging her death to make it look like a suicide. Bosch is both the arresting officer and the star witness in a trial that has brought the Hollywood media pack out in full-throated frenzy. Meanwhile, Terry McCaleb is enjoying an idyllic retirement on Catalina Island when a visit from an old colleague brings his former world rushing back.
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1 out of 5 stars
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REALLY BAD IDEA
- By Josh on 09-27-18
Good story, poor Bosch voice
Reviewed: 09-10-20
I have been on a roll going through all Bosch's books so it was difficult to hear the performance of his voice from this narrator. He does not even try to emulate the previous narrators' voices of him and has him sounding like a craggy, much older guy than he is this audible version. If you can get around that the story is good as with all of Connelly's books. He does know how to spin a fun and complicated tale!
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The Border
- The Cartel Trilogy, Book 3
- By: Don Winslow
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 29 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,367
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,046
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,034
For over 40 years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America's longest conflict: the War on Drugs. His obsession to defeat the world's most powerful, wealthy, and lethal kingpin - the godfather of the Sinaloa Cartel, Adan Barrera - has left him bloody and scarred, cost him people he loves, even taken a piece of his soul. Now Keller is elevated to the highest ranks of the DEA, only to find that in destroying one monster, he has created 30 more that are wreaking even more chaos and suffering in his beloved Mexico.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent story-telling spoiled by partisanship
- By M & B on 04-25-19
- The Border
- The Cartel Trilogy, Book 3
- By: Don Winslow
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Amazing author and narrator in combination!
Reviewed: 07-01-20
The author and the narrator are astoundingly good. I have been through all of Winslow's books and the man can write. This book is not for the weak of heart since there are many incidents involving man's/woman's poor treatment of man/woman but it provides an excellent portraits of the possible realities around the Mexican drug trade and their collusion with the people in power and leadership in the United States. I hope this is not actual profile but I fear it may be.
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Rebellion
- Omega Force, Book 11
- By: Joshua Dalzelle
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,532
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,376
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,363
The quadrant is on the brink of all-out civil war, but almost nobody knows it. Now that he knows a malevolent AI that calls itself the Machine has seized much of the ConFed's military apparatus and even controls the Grand Adjudicators themselves, Jason Burke must decide if he risks picking a fight with such an overmatched enemy, or if he runs to hide and fight another day. Omega Force needs allies, and needs them quickly.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Live this series.
- By Zim on 02-26-20
- Rebellion
- Omega Force, Book 11
- By: Joshua Dalzelle
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Sadly Downhill
Reviewed: 07-01-20
I have listened to all the books in this series but the last two have been weak. Not enough new ideas It was good while it lasted.
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Prehistoric
- A Prehistoric Thriller: Bick Downs, Book 1
- By: Michael Esola
- Narrated by: Jeffrey S Fellin
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4 out of 5 stars 30
A giant boardwalk has been resurrected high up in the Indonesian rainforest canopy, offering guests stunning, spectacular, and unparalleled views of the rainforest. However, the boardwalk is incomplete and in need of more funding. The creator, John Corstine, assembles a group of potential investors for a weekend tour of the boardwalk. Little do they know that high up in the rainforest canopy, they are being watched, but more importantly, they are not alone.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good monsters, absurd tale.
- By Doctorock on 06-06-20
- Prehistoric
- A Prehistoric Thriller: Bick Downs, Book 1
- By: Michael Esola
- Narrated by: Jeffrey S Fellin
Good monsters, absurd tale.
Reviewed: 06-06-20
Millionaires set forth on a tour of a tropical rain forest park where they have no body guards, they are allowed no weapons, and there is no security force to provide backup protection. What could go wrong? Good creatures, absurd story.
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Thresher
- By: Michael Cole
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 600
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 536
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 534
In the aftermath of a hurricane, a series of strange events plague the coastal waters off Florida. People go into the water and never return. Corpses of killer whales drift ashore, ravaged from enormous bite marks. A fishing trawler is found adrift, with a mysterious gash in its hull. Transferred to the coastal town of Merit, police officer Leonard Riker uncovers the horrible reality of an enormous thresher shark lurking off the coast. Forty feet in length, it has taken a territorial claim to the waters near the town harbor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WHAT A BRILLIANT SURPRISE!
- By Malissa Williams on 08-26-19
- Thresher
- By: Michael Cole
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
Not just another Jaws
Reviewed: 05-03-20
When reading of the theme of this book I thought that it would be just another Jaws but figured I would give it a try anyway. I was a positively surprised that the story was a nice variation on the Jaws theme. The character development was excellent and the narrator was very good. This was a fun and exciting story and another one great for a summer beach read.
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Creature of Lake Shadow
- By: Michael Cole
- Narrated by: Curt Bonnem
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 114
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 105
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 105
It was supposed to be a simple bank robbery. Quick. Clean. Efficient. It was none of those. With police searching for them across the state, a band of criminals hide out in a desolate cabin on the frozen shore of Lake Shadow. Isolated, shrouded in thick forest, and haunted by a mysterious history, they thought it was the perfect place to hide. Tensions mount as they hear strange noises outside. Slain animals are found in the snow. Before long, they realize something is watching them. Something hungry, violent, and not of this world.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Early Novel?
- By Doctorock on 05-03-20
- Creature of Lake Shadow
- By: Michael Cole
- Narrated by: Curt Bonnem
Early Novel?
Reviewed: 05-03-20
After having listened to his book Thresher by this author which was excellent, I thought I would give one a try. This one is quite a mess. He seems to be trying to push two story lines together (crime and monster) and neither gets resolved well. It seems that this may have been an early novel by the author before her learned to write a good one. The narrator's voices are generally good except that he gives the most evil of the bad guys a voice like the cartoon version of Cactus Jack which makes him sound more funny than scary. And don't get me started on how bad and lazy the ending is.
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Artemis
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Rosario Dawson
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 95,359
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 87,258
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Story4 out of 5 stars 87,056
Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A ferrari with no motor
- By will on 11-18-17
- Artemis
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Rosario Dawson
Adventures in welding on the moon.
Reviewed: 01-18-18
I loved Weir's book The Martian because I cared for the character and enjoyed the science included. In this story the heroine sounds to be an airhead Millennial with no depth or obvious redeeming qualities on a mission it is hard to care about. The science Weir presents here includes too much minutiae on welding on the moon. Ms. Dawson is good at the reading and is likely hoping for the movie contract but the story is just awful. It's as if Weir pulled this out of a college project from a past writing class......and he may have gotten a C there. Get the Martian and pass on Artemis.
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The Immortality Curse
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 278
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 277
What would you give for eternal life? An impossibly old man, a family gruesomely murdered and a woman whose collection of mythological artefacts defies belief: Professor Matt Kearns knows they are connected. These ancient clues bring Matt out of his self-imposed solitude to seek the fabled Fountain of Youth. This brings on a perilous odyssey across deserts and oceans and into the heart of a mountain, and Matt must overcome horrifying adversaries and creatures of legend and also unravel a 5,000-year-old mystery.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I'm not sure I will recommend this book because...
- By Grace on 07-18-17
- The Immortality Curse
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
Not enough meat!
Reviewed: 09-30-17
I have listened to all of Beck's book at this point and this one does not match up. There is too much minor action and not enough of the meaty stuff that he had in his other books. I have loved his stuff and would suggest you go to his other books instead. On the other hand Mangan's performance is as good as ever.
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The Loney
- By: Andrew Michael Hurley
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 184
When the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm on a stretch of the bleak Lancashire coastline known as the Loney, a man named Smith is forced to confront the terrifying and mysterious events that occurred 40 years earlier, when he visited the place as a boy. At that time his devoutly Catholic mother was determined to find healing for Hanny, his disabled older brother. And so the family, along with members of their parish, embarked on an Easter pilgrimage to an ancient shrine.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Oh dear...
- By CES on 05-24-16
- The Loney
- By: Andrew Michael Hurley
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
Quality writing but slow reading.
Reviewed: 05-18-16
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Boredom
Any additional comments?
Worth a read of if you appreciate discription of human interactions but a long slog if you are looking for more rapid foward momenetum.
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Lawrence in Arabia
- War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
- By: Scott Anderson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 23 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,302
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,048
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,046
Based on four years of intensive primary document research, Lawrence in Arabiadefinitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed. Sweeping in its action, keen in its portraiture, acid in its condemnation of the destruction wrought by European colonial plots, this is a book that brilliantly captures the way in which the folly of the past creates the anguish of the present.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Middle East Built on Lies
- By carolyn on 12-19-13
- Lawrence in Arabia
- War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
- By: Scott Anderson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
A history professor's dream!
Reviewed: 07-15-14
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
This book was a challenge to get through due to the excessive detail. Only a college history professor could rave about it. Previous reviewers have suggested other books on Lawrence and the possible creators of the Mideast mess that might do you better.
Would you be willing to try another book from Scott Anderson? Why or why not?
No. Too academic ..........and I have a Ph.D.
Would you listen to another book narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner?
Hillgartner was fine.
Was Lawrence in Arabia worth the listening time?
No.
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