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Devil Red
- Hap and Leonard, Book 8
- By: Joe R. Lansdale
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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If there’s one thing Hap Collins and Leonard Pine like, it’s trouble - and they especially like getting paid to find it. So when their friend and sometime boss Marvin Harmon asks the boys to look into a cold-case double homicide, they’re happy to oblige. It turns out that both victims were set to inherit some serious money, and one of them ran with an honest-to-goodness vampire cult. The more closely Hap and Leonard look over the crime-scene photos, the more trouble they see.
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A conspiracy too far
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 04-07-23
- Devil Red
- Hap and Leonard, Book 8
- By: Joe R. Lansdale
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
One voice for all! 😡
Reviewed: 11-18-24
The fact that this is the worst Hap & Leonard story thus far is not helped in the slightest by the change in narrator!
Every single sentence felt as if it were being slowly extracted by a rusty pair of pliers!
And there was virtually NO distinction between character voicing!
I tried to get a refund immediately, but I’d made the foolish mistake of purchasing the book since I hadn’t received my next point yet, and audible’s money-grubbing policy doesn’t allow for anything so fair and just. ;)
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The Thicket
- By: Joe R. Lansdale
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Jack Parker knows all too well how treacherous turn-of-the-century East Texas can be. His parents did not survive a smallpox epidemic. His grandfather was murdered. Now his sister Lula has been kidnapped by a criminal who may believe wearing a dead man's clothes protects them both from death. With bounty hunter Shorty, a charismatic and cunning dwarf, and Eustace, a gravedigging son of an ex-slave, the heartbroken young Jack sets off on an epic quest to rescue his sister from the corrupt men who control much of the new territory.
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JESUE FORGIVES, SO WHY NOT ENJOY YOURSELF
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-11-14
- The Thicket
- By: Joe R. Lansdale
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
Near perfect!
Reviewed: 09-01-24
Beautifully paced and completely riveting!
Lansdale is a wonderful storyteller and Will Collyer did an excellent job of naration with the fewest logical/reading errors of any audiobook I've listened to!
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Agatha Christie
- An Elusive Woman
- By: Lucy Worsley
- Narrated by: Lucy Worsley
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to rarely seen personal letters and papers, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was—truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.
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A delight and a revelation
- By theenglishmajor on 12-02-22
- Agatha Christie
- An Elusive Woman
- By: Lucy Worsley
- Narrated by: Lucy Worsley
Intolerable speech.
Reviewed: 04-24-24
While the content was informative, it was disjointed and poorly assembled.
I tried to get a refund due to the author’s horrendous speech “impediment”, but could not as I’d purchased the title outright as I had no credits available at the time and was unaware of Audible’s shadily conditional return policy (live and learn).
If you expect narrators to be able to properly pronounce their native language, and you value your sanity, this audiobook is NOT for you.
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Fairy Tale
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Seth Numrich, Stephen King
- Length: 24 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a horrific accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from that shed.
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A Boy and his Dog at the end of the World
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 09-06-22
- Fairy Tale
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Seth Numrich, Stephen King
Perfect Plot & Pace!
Reviewed: 07-03-23
To me, very reminiscent of “The Talisman”!
This time, however, no Straubian collaboration was necessary.
Very rich world and character-building legitimizes everything and reinforces suspension of disbelief.
My only issue is with King’s seemingly ubiquitous inclusion of AA and the 12-step program.
Simply a beautiful story, beautifully told (and read)!
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The Maze
- By: Nelson DeMille
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In his #1 New York Times bestseller Plum Island, Nelson DeMille introduced listeenrs to NYPD Homicide Detective John Corey, who we first met on the back porch of his uncle’s waterfront mansion on Long Island, recovering from wounds incurred in the line of duty.
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Yuck
- By armymsc on 10-13-22
- The Maze
- By: Nelson DeMille
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Long-time Demille fan. This may be my last!
Reviewed: 10-31-22
Absolute garbage!!!
Starts out with 12 solid chapters of internal dialogue and close reasoning based on brief conversations with other characters we already knew from previous books.
When action finally does take place, it’s mostly a vicarious exploration of Mr. Demille’s sexual and misogynistic fantasies.
The whole thing felt like a Woody Allen movie and, just as with a Woody Allen movie, I felt dirty and in need of a shower after the experience.
Goodbye Nelson. :(
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Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. I
- The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion, Book 2
- By: David Fitzgerald
- Narrated by: David Fitzgerald, David Smalley
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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David Fitzgerald's award-winning 2010 book, Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed At All, pointed out the top 10 fatal flaws of Christianity's origin story. Now, Jesus: Mything in Action presents the most compelling new findings in Jesus myth theory, critically examines its controversial reception by biblical scholars and the extent and reliability of our sources for Jesus, and reveals the surprising history behind Jesus' evolution.
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Jesus myth debunked
- By A on 06-27-17
- Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. I
- The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion, Book 2
- By: David Fitzgerald
- Narrated by: David Fitzgerald, David Smalley
Excellent content! Terrible narration!
Reviewed: 08-17-22
This series is rife with excellent ammunition and sound logical arguments!
Absolutely invaluable.
Unfortunately, Fitzgerald is NOT a professional narrator, nor even a decent reader.
In addition to his subtle speech impediment and painfully obvious conscious effort to speak well, he often mispronounces terms and even bungles the stresses in text he, himself wrote!
This points, not only, to the lack of a professional narrator, but also the lack of a competent director/editor. :(
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Necroscope IV: Deadspeak
- By: Brian Lumley
- Narrated by: Michael Troughton
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
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Harry Keogh's Necroscope powers are gone, just as a new evil rears its head in the Balkan Mountains. Janos Ferenczy, master vampire and black magician, has risen from an ages-long sleep. He prepares an army of undead warriors to conquer the world. The dead try desperately to attract the Necroscope's attention, but Harry Keogh is deaf to their pleas and their screams. As Harry searches for a cure, he learns that to save mankind he must ally himself with the crafty father of vampires, the infamous Faethor Ferenczy. And Faethor's price will be very high indeed!
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Wtf seriously!?
- By Kim D. on 05-21-19
- Necroscope IV: Deadspeak
- By: Brian Lumley
- Narrated by: Michael Troughton
I’ll never know…
Reviewed: 01-27-22
I’ll never know how this one turns out (without reading it, of course), because this narrator is absolutely AWFUL!!!
Who the hell pronounces Wamphyri “WHAM-fear-ee”??!!
This, countless other mispronunciations, and the use of reverb render this audiobook utterly unlistenable!
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The Devil's Elixir
- By: Raymond Khoury
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, heroes of Raymond Khoury's best-selling Templar thrillers, return in an edge-of-your-seat story that reaches from the present day back to 1800s Mexico-and possibly beyond.
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Stick to the earlier Templar books.
- By Amature Home remodelers on 04-13-18
- The Devil's Elixir
- By: Raymond Khoury
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Excellent story, poorly read.
Reviewed: 06-07-20
Richard Ferrone was either given to mispronunciations and grammatical errors or the editor was remarkably lax...or both.
A good story nonetheless.
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Deception Point: A Novel
- By: Dan Brown
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
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When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory, a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable.
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Good story, great narrator, bad recording
- By Eric Varsanyi on 07-22-05
- Deception Point: A Novel
- By: Dan Brown
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
Absurd, but fun.
Reviewed: 03-12-20
First off, Richard Poe needs to learn the difference between NASA and Nassau!
Hell, he’s not even consistent about it!
Second, the producer and/or editor need to understand that the listener does NOT want to hear Mr. Poe slobbering, swallowing, and smacking his lips.
That being said, the story’s a lot of fun even when told in predictable Dan Brown style.
Mr. Brown’s penchant for childishly ridiculous obfuscation is ever present but at least it doesn’t conflict with the audiobook medium as it does in “Angels & Demons”.
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Ready Player One
- By: Ernest Cline
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
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In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself.
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I’m sorry I waited so long to read this book.
- By Julie W. Capell on 05-27-14
- Ready Player One
- By: Ernest Cline
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Great story, difficult performance.
Reviewed: 07-17-19
Wil Wheaton’s speech impediment makes this VERY difficult to endure.
He was undoubtedly selected due to his being referenced in the book itself.
NOT sufficient justification!
You don’t hire a tone deaf person to sing, and you shouldn’t hire someone with a speech impediment to read!
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