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Lolita
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,457
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,640
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,576
Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Absolutely Gorgeous Audible Experience
- By Jim on 10-26-05
- Lolita
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
Phenomenal Book and Superlative Performance
Reviewed: 12-04-24
Jeremy Irons gives one of the best audiobook performances I have ever encountered, and does it for a truly phenomenal book. I guess I always assumed the popularity of Lolita was due to a predictable and ubiquitous human prurience. And perhaps that is true to some extent. However, it turns out that it is also an amazingly well-written piece of literature. I am absolutely blown away! I wanted it to never end. Those are always the best books.
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A Passage to India
- By: E. M. Forster
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Story4 out of 5 stars 91
The lives of Miss Adela Quested and those around her are forever changed when she befriends a young doctor named Aziz during a trip she and her companion Mrs. Moore make to India. The unlikely friendship between Adela and Aziz eventually culminates in a disastrous expedition to the Marabar caves, during which she offends him, an action which leads to false accusations, arrests, and a litany of miscommunications.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Confusing at Times
- By Matthew Everett on 01-12-22
- A Passage to India
- By: E. M. Forster
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Great Performance!
Reviewed: 04-21-24
The story was kind of weak, imho. But the performance was outstanding! The male narrator's female voices were so believable I honestly thought there was also a female narrator for the female characters.
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Blade Runner
- Originally published as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,663
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,156
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,153
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment: find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!
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4 out of 5 stars
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This is the original Do Androids Dream of Electric
- By D. ABIGT on 08-29-10
- Blade Runner
- Originally published as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Great Story. TERRIBLE Performance.
Reviewed: 04-08-24
There's a lot going on in this story that the movie simply does not broach. Definitely worth a read if you're a PKD fan, but don't expect it to answer ANY of the questions raised by the movie because they are essentially two different stories. Blade Runner is "inspired" by Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but it is by no means a retelling of it. But here's what I actually want to say about the audiobook... This is easily the WORST performance of any audiobook I've ever listened to on this platform. Shockingly bad. Terrible. Terribad, if you will. I've heard of some stinkers, but this was my first brush with a narrator who should definitely stick to his day job, which hopefully is NOT narrating books...
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