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A Little Life
- A Novel
- By: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 32 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,341
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,118
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,117
A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma.
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1 out of 5 stars
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And the hits just keep on coming…
- By Mark T. Vernon on 01-04-23
- A Little Life
- A Novel
- By: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Awful
Reviewed: 08-28-24
I’m having a hard time understanding the critical acclaim that this received. I suppose her writing style is good, but the subject is - well, I’m not sure what her subject or point is. I am a physician and there are some wild medical and health care system situations in this book which lead me to believe she doesn’t have a real knowledge of what she is writing about.
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The New York Times Audio Digest, Two Week Free Trial
- Length: 45 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,886
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,295
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,186
How does a reading of The New York Times sound? As an audible.com® exclusive, we offer an audio digest of the Times that includes stories from the front page, international, national, business, journal, sports, and editorial sections. Try it free for two weeks!
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1 out of 5 stars
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Danger
- By Ducksoup on 07-27-19
- The New York Times Audio Digest, Two Week Free Trial
Mixed
Reviewed: 06-05-22
Started off as literature, then devolved to pulp fiction. More rich beginning, then it turned into Crazy Rich Asians. Interesting historical setting.
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Hamnet
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,300
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8,080
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,014
Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A masterpiece
- By Molly-o on 08-03-20
- Hamnet
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
Boring
Reviewed: 09-15-21
Overlong, melodramatic, way too much “description” of setting. Started off promising and steadily deteriorated. Possibly could have been better if there had been no reference to Shakespeare, but then again maybe not - would likely have been similarly uninteresting.
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A Woman of No Importance
- The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
- By: Sonia Purnell
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,483
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,841
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4,818
In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and - despite her prosthetic leg - helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we know it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Maybe it’s the narrator?
- By Andrea on 09-18-19
- A Woman of No Importance
- The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
- By: Sonia Purnell
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Narration was distracting
Reviewed: 11-10-20
Interesting story, however unfortunately perhaps not as rich in detail as might have been desired. Due primarily of course, to the reticence of Virginia herself to have provided source material. Terribly distracting to the story was the narrator, particularly her interpretation of what an American accent should sound like and insisting on switching to this (southern-Texan hybrid drawl) quite abruptly during the story.
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The Far Field
- A Novel
- By: Madhuri Vijay
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 586
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 539
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Story4 out of 5 stars 536
In the wake of her mother's death, Shalini, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village in the troubled northern region of Kashmir. Certain that the loss of her mother is somehow connected to the decade-old disappearance of Bashir Ahmed, a charming Kashmiri salesman who frequented her childhood home, she is determined to confront him. But upon her arrival, Shalini is brought face to face with Kashmir's politics, as well as the tangled history of the local family that takes her in. And then life in the village turns volatile and old hatreds threaten to erupt into violence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very morose
- By Amy Lanman on 06-08-19
- The Far Field
- A Novel
- By: Madhuri Vijay
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
Slow
Reviewed: 12-03-19
Lovely prose, usually. A bit overwrought at times. Sad tale of an over-privileged yet under-insightful woman’s naive and self-centered journey to unsuccessfully find meaning in a life paralyzed by an inability to engage. The latter possibly the result of growing up the only child of a bipolar, magnetic, domineering mother.
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Valiant Ambition
- George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution
- By: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,616
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,438
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,435
In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental army under an unsure George Washington evacuated New York after a devastating defeat by the British army. Three weeks later, near the Canadian border, one of his favorite generals, Benedict Arnold, miraculously succeeded in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have lost the war. As this book ends, four years later, Washington has vanquished his demons, and Arnold has fled to the enemy. America was forced at last to realize that the real threat to its liberties might not come from without but from within.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic book that every American should read
- By Ross on 11-02-16
- Valiant Ambition
- George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution
- By: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Comprehensive yet opinionated
Reviewed: 10-30-19
Good research. Interesting history that I wasn’t aware of, but sometimes too much detail. Since Philbrick used (and credited) so many historical sources, I expected a more academic, nuanced take. However, I found instead that the author seemed rather opinionated and to have drawn conclusions about individual’s motives and mental states that could only be conjectures.
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Little Fires Everywhere
- By: Celeste Ng
- Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61,010
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 53,497
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 53,383
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads to the colors of the houses to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter, Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Boring and Drawn Out!!!
- By M. Ryder on 10-05-17
- Little Fires Everywhere
- By: Celeste Ng
- Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
Interesting but
Reviewed: 09-20-19
For the most part a compelling and well told story. The unfolding narrative allows for an interesting look at several issues regarding reproductive rights. However, while feigning initially to be sympathetic to various views, the author’s biases results in a progressive reduction of the dimensionality of the characters, and a feeling that ultimately it could have been much better.
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