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Career of Evil
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17,591
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 16,099
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16,029
When Robin Ellacott opens an unexpected delivery, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but just as alarmed. He suspects that four people from his past could be responsible - and any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike has essentially ruled out, he and Robin take matters into their own hands and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Characters Mean Everything
- By Chip Atkinson on 11-09-15
- Career of Evil
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
Great series
Reviewed: 11-08-15
This is the third installment in a great detective series. It follows classical detective story forms in new and interesting ways. The characters are intriguing: love-able and flawed at the same time. The plots are gripping and the endings are always a surprise. I wait on pins and needles for the next book.
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Running of the Bulls
- A Wall Street Thriller
- By: Christopher Smith
- Narrated by: George Kuch
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4 out of 5 stars 20
Twelve people targeted for death.... Five years ago, each person sold out to the SEC and took the stand against Maxmilian Wolfhagen, the infamous arbitrageur who robbed the world of billions and brought about the collapse of the stock market. Now, with Wolfhagen out of prison, one by one, each is dying a grisly death. Two Assassins with only 48 hours to cut a swath of murder and revenge through New York.... With the time restrains so tight, the challenges are massive - but so are their skills.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great follow up
- By Pearl on 06-26-18
- Running of the Bulls
- A Wall Street Thriller
- By: Christopher Smith
- Narrated by: George Kuch
NOT a "Wall Street Thriller"
Reviewed: 11-28-13
I chose this book because it was characterized as a Wall Street Thriller, and I was in the mood for something intelligent and engaging. Unfortunately, I was really disappointed.
Good points first: the characters are quite developed and some of them are even likable. Also, Mr. Smith is good with dialogue and the narration was good enough, if slow.
However, I found the book shockingly and unnecessarily violent. Scene after scene of gore and brutality were narrated with painful, almost plodding slowness. Much of the violence was so over the top and unbelievable that it diminished the credibility of the entire story. We were supposed to believe that two hired assassins were able to pull off murder after murder, many of them faster than expected and unplanned, without ever a mistake. We were also supposed to accept that they were willing to destroy an entire block of Manhattan for an employer they never met, just as a distraction. The two were depicted as hired guns, but not psychopaths, and so it never resonated that they engaged in such relentless out of control violence: at a minimum they would oppose the associated risk.
By the end I was so tired of the non-stop violence and sexual sadism that I wish I had quit listening. I am not sure why I didn't, though maybe my interest in a couple of the characters was enough to make me continue.
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Ghost Story: The Dresden Files, Book 13
- By: Jim Butcher
- Narrated by: John Glover
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,822
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 6,809
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,812
When we last left the mighty wizard detective Harry Dresden, he wasn't doing well. In fact, he had been murdered by an unknown assassin. But being dead doesn't stop him when his friends are in danger. Except now he has nobody, and no magic to help him. And there are also several dark spirits roaming the Chicago shadows who owe Harry some payback of their own. To save his friends - and his own soul - Harry will have to pull off the ultimate trick without any magic....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Audiobook scheduling conflicts eh?
- By Bob Ueckerlele on 09-26-11
- Ghost Story: The Dresden Files, Book 13
- By: Jim Butcher
- Narrated by: John Glover
Story and Performance Both Disappointing
Reviewed: 10-13-12
I really enjoyed most of the earlier books in the series, but this one was a waste of time. I feel like the author just made up a completely new set of rules, many of which were random and nonsensical. He also riffed on lots of odd things (ie the Star Trek sequence in Molly's brain) that didn't deserve the pages and minutes they were given. The book felt ill-conceived, self-indulgent and poorly edited.
Also, the new narrator did not feel right. I am so used to the former narrator, that this guy made Harry seem older and a bit whinier. He also didn't do as many different voices. I think he would have seemed a better fit if I had never listened to the other stye, but after 12 books with Marsters (sp?) I didn't like the switch.
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