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The Silence of the Lambs
- By: Thomas Harris
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8,369
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7,540
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7,519
A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname—Buffalo Bill—is stalking women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the FBI Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter—Hannibal the Cannibal—who is kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Much more than the movie
- By 9S on 07-03-11
- The Silence of the Lambs
- By: Thomas Harris
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
Superb storyline, excellent and unpredictable plot
Reviewed: 06-25-20
Harris pulls you in from the beginning. An innocuous beginning to a thrilling tale. Made me want to watch the movie again.
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The Summer House
- The Classic Blockbuster from the Author of Lion & Lamb
- By: James Patterson, Brendan DuBois
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,738
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,468
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,402
Once a luxurious Southern getaway on a rustic lake, then reduced to a dilapidated crash pad, the Summer House is now the grisly scene of a nighttime mass murder. Eyewitnesses point to four Army Rangers - known as the Night Ninjas - recently returned from Afghanistan. To ensure that justice is done, the Army sends Major Jeremiah Cook, a veteran and former NYPD cop, to investigate. But the major and his elite team arrive in sweltering Georgia with no idea their grim jobs will be made exponentially more challenging by local law enforcement....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not as good as expected by hype.
- By Anonymous User on 06-16-20
- The Summer House
- The Classic Blockbuster from the Author of Lion & Lamb
- By: James Patterson, Brendan DuBois
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
Predictable
Reviewed: 06-23-20
Patterson has woven his transparent web again. The story is completely predictable with plot twists that can be seen from a mile away.
If the pedestrian storyline isn't bad enough, his depiction of people from the South is right out of the 1960s. It's clear he spent too much time "palling" around with self loathing Bill Clinton. If this fluff writer had spent a tenth the time researching the people of Georgia as he did researching Afghanistan, he may have learned that. What a total waste of my money and my time!
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Bandits
- By: Elmore Leonard
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 237
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Story4 out of 5 stars 208
Working at his brother-in-law's New Orleans funeral home isn't reformed jewel thief Jack Delaney's idea of excitement - until he's dispatched to a leper's hospital to pick up a corpse that turns out to be very much alive ... and under the care of a beautiful, radical ex-nun in designer jeans. The "deceased" is the one-time squeeze of a Nicaraguan colonel who's ordered her dead for trying to "infect" him, and Sister Lucy's looking to spirit the young woman away from his guns and goons.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You just can't beat these guys.
- By Richard Delman on 05-08-12
- Bandits
- By: Elmore Leonard
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
Excellent Elmore Leonard
Reviewed: 05-07-20
Frank Muller is my favorite narrator for Elmore Leonard books. I've read many and this one is up there with Tishomingo Blues and Rum Punch. His classic use of "good" bad guys and "bad" bad guys is in full throat in Bandits. If you're already a fan, this won't disappoint. If you're not already a fan you will be!
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Whole Heart, Whole Horse
- Building Trust Between Horse and Rider
- By: Mark Rashid
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 707
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 641
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Story5 out of 5 stars 637
Many horse trainers, even those who espouse the so-called natural horsemanship approach, take the position that horses who fail to obey a human's request are doing so as much out of perversity as ignorance. That's not Mark Rashid's view. In his words, "If we understand that horses can't separate the way they feel from the way they act, then we can start to see that unwanted behavior isn't bad behavior at all. More times than not, it's just the horse expressing the way he feels at that particular moment in time....
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5 out of 5 stars
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After growing tired...
- By Douglas on 02-08-14
- Whole Heart, Whole Horse
- Building Trust Between Horse and Rider
- By: Mark Rashid
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Excellent read.
Reviewed: 07-19-19
I've spent a good deal of time getting ideas from old horsemen, seeing how they match up with my philosophy. None have come nearly so close as Mark Rashid. I started riding when I was barely walking, but I never had a mentor like Mark's "old man" he refers to in his books.
Mark's brand of horsemanship, while similar to guys like Buck Branaman and Warwick Schiller, is unique in that he relies on feel, heart and relationship more than drill and technique. His ubiquitous story telling and relating those human interactions to interactions with your horse are spot on. I've read a few of his books now and this one does not disappoint.
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62,580
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55,967
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55,867
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over 40 years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In Mamaw's Contradictions Lay Great Wisdom
- By Cynthia on 11-20-16
- Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
Okay diversion
Reviewed: 05-24-19
Vance writes this as though the circumstances are unique to Appalachia when in fact there's a version of his story happening in every region, dare I say every state. I appreciate that he doesn't suggest some series of government programs to solve this, however he doesn't put forth any solutions...justvcd c5 complaints about this behavior or that. Drugs and the surrounding culture are usually the source of these social maladies, but they may only be a reģffguy tģfffaction to an even greater sociý problem. I give him credit for exposing the plight of working poor whites and that abject poverty is not a racial thing. Solving it is a family values issue.
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The Horse Whisperer
- By: Nicholas Evans
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 333
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 280
In a snow-covered morning in upstate New York, a girl out riding her horse is hit by a 40-ton truck. Though horribly injured, both 13-year-old Grace and her horse Pilgrim survive. Annie, Grace's mother, refuses to have Pilgrim destroyed and hears about a man in Montana, a 'whisperer' who is said to have the gift of healing troubled horses. They set off across the continent to find him and there, under the massive Montana sky, all their lives are changed forever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A qualified review...
- By Douglas on 10-10-09
- The Horse Whisperer
- By: Nicholas Evans
- Narrated by: William Dufris
Incredible story
Reviewed: 04-23-19
As a horseman, I appreciate the accuracy of the scenes with horses. As an avid reader I loved each turn of phrase and every carefully maneuvered plot twist. A masterful weaving of a love story with a stable as the stage.
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City of Bones
- Harry Bosch, Book 8
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Peter J. Fernandez
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,656
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,746
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,716
On New Year's Day, Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch fields a call that a dog has found a bone - a bone that the dog's owner, a doctor, feels certain is human.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good book
- By meandmommy on 01-14-03
- City of Bones
- Harry Bosch, Book 8
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Peter J. Fernandez
Excellent Series
Reviewed: 04-12-19
Michael Connelly weaves a tale that keeps you guessing right up to the last chapter. His signature character development was on full display in this, his last of the Harry Bosch series.
Unfortunately Fernandez' narration falls far short of the first few in this series.
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Angels Flight
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Peter Giles
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,034
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,291
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,293
An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But the case is so explosive - and the dead man's enemies inside the L.A.P.D. are so numerous - that it falls to Harry to solve it. Now the streets are superheating. Harry's year-old Vegas marriage is unraveling. And the hunt for a killer is leading Harry to another high-profile L.A. murder case, one where every cop had a motive. The question is, did any have the guts?
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3 out of 5 stars
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narrator ruined it for me
- By cdigo on 10-02-13
- Angels Flight
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Peter Giles
Excellent Read
Reviewed: 04-09-19
Great story, more Connelly magic. Not thrilled with Giles as narrator. Hopefully a new reader on book 7 will be more like the original reader on the first 5 Bosch series books.
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Cemetery Road
- A Novel
- By: Greg Iles
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 23 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,063
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,249
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,214
When Marshall McEwan left his hometown at age 18, he vowed never to return. The trauma that drove him away ultimately spurred him to become one of the most successful journalists in Washington DC. But just as the political chaos in the nation’s capital lifts him to new heights, Marshall is forced to return home in spite of his boyhood vow. His father is dying, his mother is struggling to keep the family newspaper from failing, and the town is in the midst of an economic rebirth that might be built upon crimes that reach into the state capitol - and perhaps even to Washington.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cemetery Road comes to Life...
- By shelley on 03-06-19
- Cemetery Road
- A Novel
- By: Greg Iles
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Blatant vehicle for writer's opinion.
Reviewed: 04-03-19
Isles creates wet dream for atheist, Trump hating, corrupt journalist. Story was just OK otherwise.
His glorification of a journalist abandoning principles to force/extort "powerful" men to do philanthropic work reeks of the same kind of crap leftists are famous for...doing good with OTHER people's money. His atheism on display is just as bad as the writer's complaints of religion on display. Had he only left out his obvious personal hatred for conservatives and Christian's, he may have had a decent novel on his hands. As this was my first Isles book, I can't speak for any of his other work, but I surely won't bother to find out.👎
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The Moonshine War
- By: Elmore Leonard
- Narrated by: Mark Hammer
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 399
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 339
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 343
Dual Meaders, Doc Taulbee, and their gang of city slickers set out to steal thousands of dollars worth of homemade Kentucky Whiskey from Son Martin, a hell-raising country boy, during the midst of Prohibition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Elmore Leonard
- By David I. Williams on 01-28-12
- The Moonshine War
- By: Elmore Leonard
- Narrated by: Mark Hammer
Mark Hammer captures Leonard's essence.
Reviewed: 07-13-18
Elmore Leonard weaves his tale of bad guys and worse guys again in this artfully written and masterfully performed story of life in depression era rural Kentucky. The hero is a lovable rogue, the lawmen are outlaws and the bad guys make you cheer each time one of them dies. Classic Elmore Leonard.
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