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Fast Forward
- Volume 2
- By: Stephen Morris
- Narrated by: Stephen Morris
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story5 out of 5 stars 57
Poised on the brink of success, the dizzying heights of the unknown lying ahead, Ian Curtis had taken his own life. Grieving yet determined, Stephen Morris emerged from the wreckage of Joy Division to the dawn of something new: a new band, a new tour, a new beginning. Under the name New Order, Morris and his bandmates set their sights on America, only to encounter new disasters. Yet, in true northern spirit, not even this sudden tragedy could dissuade them from following their haphazard path to greatness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rare look
- By Shane on 01-14-22
- Fast Forward
- Volume 2
- By: Stephen Morris
- Narrated by: Stephen Morris
An Unflinching Look Inside
Reviewed: 12-23-23
This is a great look inside one of the great Manchester bands with very few filters or or spins.
While Morris may have only been one of the “other two,” he was there every day and gives nobody a free pass - including himself.
If you even like one song by New Order, or want to get a peek inside one of the most significant and genuine bands of the 80s and 90s, this provides an insiders glimpse without rosy glasses or bitterness.
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Lou Reed
- The King of New York
- By: Will Hermes
- Narrated by: Will Hermes
- Length: 20 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed’s living presence has only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured. In Lou Reed: The King of New York, Will Hermes offers the definitive narrative of Reed’s life and legacy, dramatizing his long, brilliant, and contentious dialogue with fans, critics, fellow artists, and assorted habitués of the demimonde.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Biography I’ve Ever Read
- By Sammy Criscitello on 11-21-24
- Lou Reed
- The King of New York
- By: Will Hermes
- Narrated by: Will Hermes
Solid But We Need More
Reviewed: 12-15-23
Solid work and may stand for a good long while as the “go-to” on Lou. That said, the book sped through so many periods of his work with only a couple moments spent on particular albums during his mid and later career. Much more scholarship and research to be done on those periods - and I hope it happens soon, as we’re losing people quickly.
Much time was spent reading documents and quoting other written sources as well, like main research was done in the NYPL than with human sources.
Again, this is a must read on Reed, but more can and should be done on each album and his life during each creative period.
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Surrender
- 40 Songs, One Story
- By: Bono
- Narrated by: Bono
- Length: 20 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5,028
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,562
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4,546
As one of the music world’s most iconic artists and the cofounder of the organizations ONE and (RED), Bono’s career has been written about extensively. But in Surrender, it’s Bono who picks up the pen, writing for the first time about his remarkable life and those he has shared it with. In his unique voice, Bono takes us from his early days growing up in Dublin, including the sudden loss of his mother when he was fourteen, to U2’s unlikely journey to become one of the world’s most influential rock bands, to his more than twenty years of activism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic!
- By Josh on 11-04-22
A Life, A Special Life that U2 Can Have
Reviewed: 06-17-23
Each word is delivered with conviction, embarrassment, even some fear - it’s Bono, or at least who he thinks he is today, and only he can deliver this part of the story.
He does it beautifully, Lou would be proud.
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Zero Fail
- The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
- By: Carol Leonnig
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed, Carol Leonnig
- Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,912
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,659
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,654
Carol Leonnig has been reporting on the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the secrets, scandals, and shortcomings that plague the agency today - from a toxic work culture to dangerously outdated equipment to the deep resentment within the ranks at key agency leaders, who put protecting the agency’s once-hallowed image before fixing its flaws. But the Secret Service wasn’t always so troubled.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bait and switch narration with tabloid journalism
- By Paul P on 05-24-21
- Zero Fail
- The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
- By: Carol Leonnig
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed, Carol Leonnig
Absolute Trash
Reviewed: 05-22-21
Rambling, trashy stories of presidents have sex and getting shot; First Ladies bitching about random tasks and events and “insider info” that even the Service wouldn’t know.
This is pure TMZ type salacious crap, it is not worth a read or listen, save the money or a credit and just buy a few old National Enquirers from each decade instead. At least then you’ll hear about the only ridiculous non-subject subject not covered in this book - aliens.
Very much disrespect for the author, the editor (was there one?) and even Rachel Maddow for giving legs to this burning sack of literary shock feces.
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Dancing with Myself
- By: Billy Idol
- Narrated by: Billy Idol
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 961
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 866
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 860
An early architect of punk rock's sound, style, and fury, whose lip-curling sneer and fist-pumping persona vaulted him into pop's mainstream as one of MTV's first megastars, Billy Idol remains, to this day, a true rock 'n' roll icon. Now, in his long-awaited autobiography, Dancing with Myself, Idol delivers an electric, searingly honest account of his journey to fame - from his early days as front man of the pioneering UK punk band Generation X to the decadent life atop the dance-rock kingdom he ruled.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Brutally Honest
- By Katana Rogue on 01-25-16
- Dancing with Myself
- By: Billy Idol
- Narrated by: Billy Idol
An Entire Dedicated to Define the Word “Poseur”
Reviewed: 10-03-20
What crap drivel by a pop boy who bought into a real movement as a career choice rather than a passion.
From the opening where he begs for retro sympathy by crashing on his weekend warrior motorbike in the Hwd Hills, to describing a wanna-be punk club’s environment as comprising equal parts “blood, sweat, spittle and ‘love juice’ (really)” this is a lifelong wanna-be-punk by haircut trying to tread ground already covered by actual artists of the period.
He’s an aging caricature of something he never was - relevant. Luckily he worked himself into a cool clique eventually and his stories about others are worthwhile while he limps through his own pointless career and sexual exploits with an old man’s creepy remembrances that are more often than not cringeworthy - especially while living just over the hill from the aging private school-girl dad and his retired middle management wualuty valley home and lifestyle.
From his faux scowling voice to his all too often sex cliches, William “Bored” has produced the only autobiography he could - an utterly forgettable and unimportant one.
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All of Us
- The Collected Poems
- By: Raymond Carver
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
This prodigiously rich collection suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America's finest writer of short fiction, but also one of its most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Carver's stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny ability to compress vast feeling into discreet moments; a voice of conversational intimacy, and an unstinting sympathy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unable to finish because of narration
- By Stephanie on 06-12-21
- All of Us
- The Collected Poems
- By: Raymond Carver
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Brilliant Words, Mind Numbing Voice
Reviewed: 07-30-20
My God, how could Tess or the publishers let this happen?
Such amazing poetry, such amazing prose by the greatest American short story writer. Nearly all destroyed by Norman Dietz. He is robotic, elderly (important only because Carver died young), monotone and ear grating.
I pray these amazing words will be recorded by others very very soon. I cannot get through the pain of Dietz’s all out destruction of the work.
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