Gorilichis
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El Clan
- Inspectora Elena Blanco 5
- By: Carmen Mola
- Narrated by: Begoña Pérez
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
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CUANDO MORIR NO IMPORTA, TODO ESTÁ PERMITIDOEL BRUTAL DESENLACE DE LA SERIE INSPECTORA ELENA BLANCO. Elena Blanco, inspectora de la Brigada de Análisis de Casos (BAC) se enfrenta a su peor enemigo, una poderosa organización integrada por personalidades del mundo de la empresa, la política, la judicatura y la policía. El Clan. Enfrentarse a él es acabar muerto. Aun así, la BAC afronta el desafío. Pero cuando Elena recibe unas imágenes en las que Zárate aparece tendido sobre un charco de sangre, comete un error imperdonable.
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Pésima
- By Gorilichis on 09-23-24
- El Clan
- Inspectora Elena Blanco 5
- By: Carmen Mola
- Narrated by: Begoña Pérez
Pésima
Reviewed: 09-23-24
Tenían que haber parado tras la cuarta. Un despropósito! Todo muy trillado y con un desenlace ridículo.
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Toy Monster
- The Big, Bad World of Mattel
- By: Jerry Oppenheimer
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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From Boise to Beijing, Mattel's toys dominate the universe. Its no-fun-and-games marketing muscle reaches some 140 countries, and its iconic products have been a part of our culture for generations. Now, in this intriguing and entertaining exposé, New York Times best-selling author Jerry Oppenheimer places the world's largest toy company under a journalistic microscope, uncovering the dark side of toy land, and exploring Mattel's oddball corporate culture and eccentric, often bizarre, cast of characters.
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DNF
- By Gorilichis on 02-09-24
- Toy Monster
- The Big, Bad World of Mattel
- By: Jerry Oppenheimer
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
DNF
Reviewed: 02-09-24
Not so much about Barbie but what seems to be a vindication of a guy who supposedly created her (not Ruth Handler like we’ve been told). I listened for a bit but I’m just not interested.
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Starter Villain
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.
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Volcanic Lairs, Death Rays & Cats… Oh My! 😼
- By C. White on 09-19-23
- Starter Villain
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Catnip!
Reviewed: 09-20-23
A new Scalzi novel narrated by Wil Wheaton and with that cat on the cover? Catnip to me. The book and performance didn't disappoint. After a letdown from a too-political novel for me, this one is pure, escapist fun. And the cats... you have to understand, one of the things in this book is my dream... I would choose that over all the money in the world, so I could not have enjoyed this one more. Love it, love it, love it!
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Spine Chillers
- By: Mark L'Estrange
- Narrated by: Kelly Wolf
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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A portrait which hides the secret to a brutal murder. A secret military experiment which results in a terror beyond imagination. An invitation to a night of passion, too good to be true. A derelict asylum for the criminally insane, where one patient refuses to leave. A young girl unleashes her feline instincts. A serendipitous discovery that carries the DNA of a serial killer. A murder victim who returns from the grave, seeking retribution. These, and many other tales of terror, await you in Mark L'Estrange's Spine Chillers, ready to turn your blood to ice.
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Good stories, bad narration
- By Gorilichis on 07-19-23
- Spine Chillers
- By: Mark L'Estrange
- Narrated by: Kelly Wolf
Good stories, bad narration
Reviewed: 07-19-23
I liked the stories but the Audible narration is so appalling that I thought it was a robot. Clearly British stories told in an American accent, a few tales with male characters narrated with a female intonation and just simply bad, bad. It's remarkable how I still liked the stories despite this.
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Death in the Family
- Shana Merchant Mystery Series, Book 1
- By: Tessa Wegert
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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Thirteen months ago, former NYPD detective Shana Merchant barely survived being abducted by a serial killer. Now hoping to leave grisly murder cases behind, she's taken a job in her fiance's sleepy hometown in Upstate New York. But as a nor'easter bears down, Shana and fellow investigator Tim Wellington receive a call about a man missing on a private island. Trapped on the island by the raging storm with only Tim, the increasingly restless suspects, and her own trauma-fueled flashbacks for company, Shana will have to trust the one person her abduction destroyed her faith in - herself.
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Vivid Descriptions & Compelling Characters
- By Caroline on 10-21-24
- Death in the Family
- Shana Merchant Mystery Series, Book 1
- By: Tessa Wegert
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
Really good
Reviewed: 03-28-23
Suspenseful and a great performance. The twists were unexpected. I enjoyed this read. Five stars.
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The Groves
- A Novel
- By: J.V. Lyon
- Narrated by: Shannon Purser, Jerrie Johnson, Chelsea Rendon, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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Returning to rural Vermont for her senior year after time abroad, New Yorker Daphne Howard just wants to make it to graduation. She’s still processing the sting of her social circle moving off-campus under the thrall of Serena Vigil, a talented poet from Texas who happens to be Daphne’s nemesis. But when a gruesome story overheard at a local bar leads Daphne to consider an unusual artifact discovered on campus in a new light, friends, lovers, and others unite to confront the collision of present and past, political, and personal.
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a good listen
- By Amazon Customer on 05-23-22
- The Groves
- A Novel
- By: J.V. Lyon
- Narrated by: Shannon Purser, Jerrie Johnson, Chelsea Rendon, Renee Rapp, Tanis Parenteau, Molly Quinn, Aisha Dee
You must be kidding
Reviewed: 10-05-22
What is this? I’m not sure what this was supposed to be about, but after listening to 3 chapters on wokeness, I just couldn’t take it anymore. Every single battle horse of the progressive elite is checked here. Unless you’re a lunatic, skip it. DNF
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American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition (A Full Cast Production)
- By: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty, Daniel Oreskes, full cast
- Length: 19 hrs and 39 mins
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Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life. But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow's best friend are killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling stranger he meets on the way home, an enigmatic man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday.
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New to Neil
- By Michael on 07-27-11
A masterpiece
Reviewed: 02-10-21
One of my favorite novels ever. I read it once and loved it so much that I was worried about revisiting this story and finding that it had lost its magic. It didn't. This time, it was an audiobook. Neil Gaiman is an Englishman who moved to America. He sees this country through foreign eyes. I am myself an immigrant and I was surprised at how Gaiman's vision resonated with my own experiences since moving to America. The funny thing is, I gave this book to friends who were born and lived here all their lives and I gave it to my sister, who's never lived here, and no one got it the way I did. So maybe there is a part of America that only foreigners see. Anyway, back to the book, a second reading was just as good and the audiobook is simply perfect. I wish I could memorize it. It may not be for everybody, but I just love it.
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The Nothing Man
- By: Catherine Ryan Howard
- Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins, John Keating
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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At the age of 12, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker the Nothing Man. Now an adult, she is obsessed with identifying the man who destroyed her life. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man - the true-crime memoir Eve has written about her efforts to track down her family’s killer. As he turns each page, his rage grows. Because Jim’s not just interested in reading about the Nothing Man. He is the Nothing Man.
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Not sure
- By Tchela17 on 08-21-20
- The Nothing Man
- By: Catherine Ryan Howard
- Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins, John Keating
Great premise, bad execution
Reviewed: 02-06-21
The premise is great and the Audible performances are very good, but the novel itself is not well executed. I've read and liked other books by the author, but this one has really long, boring, pointless parts. Why do we need to "read" all the front page information of the fictional true-crime book (including the ISBN number)? Or all the acknowledgments from the fictional author to fictional people? This is a book within a book, we don't need to go through text that we normally wouldn't read in a real volume! I didn't mind the chapters about Jim, the Nothing Man. I liked the plot and the ending was suspenseful (if a little predictable). But listening over an over the same parts from the fictional characters' memoirs is repetitive. Maybe it works better in print than audio or it could be that I don't like the true-crime genre, but this could have been a good book.
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Shakespeare for Squirrels
- A Novel
- By: Christopher Moore
- Narrated by: Euan Morton
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Set adrift by his pirate crew, Pocket of Dog Snogging - last seen in The Serpent of Venice - washes up on the sun-bleached shores of Greece, where he hopes to dazzle the Duke with his comedic brilliance and become his trusted fool. But the island is in turmoil. Egeus, the Duke’s minister, is furious that his daughter Hermia is determined to marry Demetrius, instead of Lysander, the man he has chosen for her. The Duke decrees that if, by the time of the wedding, Hermia still refuses to marry Lysander, she shall be executed...or consigned to a nunnery.
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Pocket of dog sniffing
- By Thelighta on 05-21-20
- Shakespeare for Squirrels
- A Novel
- By: Christopher Moore
- Narrated by: Euan Morton
Smashing!
Reviewed: 01-20-21
Well, I read the novel as an ARC but I was really, really looking forward to Euan Morton's smashing performance. I don't usually reread many books, as there are so many on my TBR but this one is worth it.
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Aura (Spanish edition)
- By: Carlos Fuentes
- Narrated by: Carlos Fuentes, Natasha Fuentes
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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Felipe Montero encuentra un día un anuncio en el periódico en el que se ofrece un empleo en la calle Doceles 815, editando las memorias de un general. Atraído por el salario, acepta el trabajo a pesar de su única condición: tiene que vivir en la oscura casona junto con la viuda del militar y su sobrina, la misteriosa Aura, de hermosos ojos verdes y una melena azabache. Aura es una de las novelas icónicas de la literatura mexicana del siglo XX y una de las más importantes de Carlos Fuentes, autor de La muerte de Artemio Cruz.
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La memoria de la juventud
- By Mario on 02-14-19
- Aura (Spanish edition)
- By: Carlos Fuentes
- Narrated by: Carlos Fuentes, Natasha Fuentes
Terrible
Reviewed: 12-02-20
Demasiado rara para mi gusto, sobre todo porque contiene crueldad animal explícita y eso es algo que aborrezco. El audiolibro que leí está narrado por el mismo Carlos Fuentes, que hace un trabajo excepcional. Mi problema es con la actriz que hace el papel de Aura, que parece que está dormida o drogada. Asumo que es a posta, pero me daba la impresión de que tenía algo más importante que hacer y la estábamos incordiando con hacerla narrar el cuento. En fin, sé que es un clásico de la literatura mexicana pero lo único positivo que puedo decir es que es corto.
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