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The Life We Bury
- By: Allen Eskens
- Narrated by: Zach Villa
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 72,971
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 67,145
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 66,986
College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good listen!
- By Lori K. on 12-14-15
- The Life We Bury
- By: Allen Eskens
- Narrated by: Zach Villa
This is a simple story-both females were raped
Reviewed: 09-02-24
This has a simple story-line about how people have relationship troubles, a missing female or a murder. So often times with crimes against human life, it usually someone the victim is familiar with. Most CPS cases are family related injuries and violence and a very deep twisted sense of reality. I think this one is like 1,000 other cases of CPS dead that just went unresolved out of a lack of care for human value. Sometimes in our everyday life it is scary to think people dislike you, subplot against you, or think of killing you even family people. So I was surprised to see the main character get together with a female, that also became a deviant part of the story for many reasons. Mostly because they seem to have so many problems in a deeper sense of male and female, like rape as a female and males being the ones doing it. It seemed difficult to think that a female would see males different from a rapist in this book. So that was a bit of a twist.....anyway their many resolved, but CPS related deaths that happen not because someone didn't solve it but because no one cared it was happening.
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Below
- By: Paul Skillen, Aaron Gray
- Narrated by: MyAnna Buring, Rakie Ayola, Paul Mallon
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 926
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 885
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Story4 out of 5 stars 884
Ida Pederson was an executive at ‘Nyberg Shoreline’ when she was sent to the small Northern Irish village of Port Kriel to diffuse tensions between the company and the local community. When an unexploded bomb was identified on the seabed near Nyberg’s windfarm, Ida sent a local crew of eight men to investigate. That night, only two men returned home, barely alive and unable to speak of what had happened out at sea.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Eh
- By Anonymous User on 05-11-23
- Below
- By: Paul Skillen, Aaron Gray
- Narrated by: MyAnna Buring, Rakie Ayola, Paul Mallon
Excellent --story characters were done marvelous !
Reviewed: 07-14-24
The story read through is excellent, the voice actors are great! The story is a historical truth about life and figuring it out. It tells a story of discovery of self and others in such a refined way. The struggle to discover the unknown, yet the everyday life that happens within us and around us. It goes back and forth between what has always been and what is seemingly unknown to the mind of rationality. It seems as if we have both been**" ingenuine. not yet an actual word. incorrectly used when trying to describe something that is the opposite of "genuine." usually confused with "Ingenuous" which means "gullible" and "ingenuity" which means "inventive originality"."
It reminds me of the attorneys*** 200% of this sense of wanting to know what is going on, and yet not knowing that it is all just as life has always been. Its almost as if they say they "have a right to know", except they're not accepting being responsibale for what they don't know. The British really give you a genuine series of perplexities and human, genuine social solutions, rights and trust. Some basic truths about relationships, sometimes it makes sense and sometimes it doesn't, kind of scary. Then to find out your husband is not dead, it's very complex really. Great job on this audible.....the settlement...story all over the place? how true is that senario** even in the USA.... bad idea
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The Vampire Lestat
- The Vampire Chronicles, Book 2
- By: Anne Rice
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,282
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,538
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,530
Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally unabridged! Excellently read, great listen
- By Patricia on 06-29-11
- The Vampire Lestat
- The Vampire Chronicles, Book 2
- By: Anne Rice
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
The best book in audiables
Reviewed: 06-22-24
This is one of the best written book in audiables. I am only 11 hours and 12 minutes of chpt 1 some of these chapters are so exquisite -extremely beautiful, delicate, thoughtful, realistic, like a savory relationship with life. The passion for the curiosity of the living into a story of young and old knowing of what kind of monsters people really are. A Cinderella at the ball of hell, waiting for the true horror of what our lives really are. What is love in the true vision of human existence? To speak of safety and comfort and to feel as if you have found this place of living. PEACE and SWEETNESS ---speaking of HOME....one of the best chapters yet there are so many excellent honest parts of this writing--- I am still listening to this excellent writing. I really like to do a more in-depth review, I feel like there are places that he just become knowing for the first time, and he goes a little ways and then somehow he just gets side tracked. It's as If he only speaks of things as a sour beginner, of life and death. He goes in so many old places as a curiosity that the book should have been longer and better. It is a good writing at a basic brief form of the horrors that both people and life can become and the way that some people become accepting of death. I do have more to listen to, I believe this could have been a series of books and a work of art in a more intimate and deeper context. More skill is needed
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The Werewolves of Jacksonville County
- By: Joel Eden
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4 out of 5 stars 36
In the secluded mountains of Jacksonville County, Virginia, a covered bridge stretches across the Bellamont River. No one has crossed the bridge in twenty years. Some people believe that gigantic werewolves with retractable claws and razor-sharp fangs live on the other side. Would you have the courage to cross the bridge? On a warm August night, three teenagers, Jared Baker, Harold Prioleau, and Chase Avignone make a trip to the covered bridge. But only Harold and Chase return home. What happened to Jared? Chase Avignone is a high school football star with a secret. He's bigger, faster, and...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- By Jessica on 03-19-25
- The Werewolves of Jacksonville County
- By: Joel Eden
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
It was good It has some realism to people
Reviewed: 05-20-24
It was good it had some realism to people always wanting to be an authority. I don't want to sound cliche but, your average who's the boss? story. Where people are not allowed to have self defense, their is no Declaration Of Independence as in the Civil war. These two groups are confused about their relationship, how to have territory, what is right and what is wrong. These and many more are always lost in how things happened as if their is a greater story here. It was alright, It could have been better. The ending was awful, and the challenge to ones own privacy and rights is at question that was never answered. It just seems as if you don't dislike these people( police) they dont know how to handle it, they believe your weak and dislike you. It antagonizes you to engage, then your wrong cliche story line. Inxs---Listen like thieves is a good song, reflectively like a game show host on the physics radio. Their losing touch when the lights go out, listen like thieves for answers.
I cant help but think the government on private property is illegal and vigilantism. On that note it seems like people are lost in their wrongs to the point that its a living war. their is no right no wrong everything is a game show on the radio. Some commander who doesnt belong on private property or doing whatever he wants to do and law enforcement with the government being so lost they are wrong to start with. Their are many issues with in this story that could have made the story more interesting, what came before? I can see the confusion of situations never being addressed. Their is no justice despite cases of law that are already recorded, some where in here cases of law are inconvenient and put aside until it sounds like a game show on the radio. And that writing this is long and not the way other people see it, I should have no right to write my opinion though I am doing no harm in doing so. Who is on the radio?
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Bane County
- First Moon (Book 3)
- By: J R RICE
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 81
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 81
Bane County is an Ongoing Saga . . . Mystery, Suspense, an edge-of-your-seat Thriller with characters you’ll fall in love with. An old-school, heart-pounding, coming-of-age Horror series with 1,000s of 5-Star Reviews. Autumn had been a very troubling time for the residents of Bane County, and the arrival of winter and the holiday season was a welcome diversion. Over the past three months, twenty-six people had gone missing in the neighboring wildlife refuge, believed to have fallen victim to a vicious rogue bear. Bryce McNeel and Jackson Campbell knew the truth about the missing people ...
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good story/Awful AI voice
- By Amazon Customer on 03-20-25
- Bane County
- First Moon (Book 3)
- By: J R RICE
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
Past the FBI being responsiable--insane
Reviewed: 05-11-24
Past the FBI being responsible, for whats going on its a NO. Sometimes you cant make something something it shouldnt ever be. They live this irrational life when the FBI should have resolved the problem. The story so far is truly horrific, It really qualifies as a ""nightmare", the kind were people are not stopping to do something about the problem. It reminds me we have rights because previously we didn't. This story is like some for of historical insanity before people had rights. It takes an incredible amount of person and effort to go through one of these traumas and file a complaint. Put the problem where it belongs, it is so upsetting how many people are mentally off of reality and whats going on around them. It is definitely scary, that all alone in the darkness cold scary nightmare stuff. I'm on chpt 13 right now, I love stories , and good writing as a real skill, this is like an absolute please stop being that kind of people story. wow--edit later
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Bane County
- Returning Moon (Book 2)
- By: J R RICE
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 101
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 101
Bane County is an Ongoing Saga . . . Mystery, Suspense, an edge-of-your-seat Thriller with characters you’ll fall in love with. An old-school, heart-pounding, coming-of-age Horror series with 1,000s of 5-Star Reviews. For nearly two decades, life in the small rural town of Silver Canyon had been peaceful and serene. People went about their daily lives as usual, completely oblivious to the inescapable horror that loomed on the horizon. All but a select few of Bane County’s residents had forgotten the macabre occurrences of the past. It was hard to believe that twenty-one people, missing ...
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2 out of 5 stars
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Get rid of AI!!
- By LMA on 03-04-25
- Bane County
- Returning Moon (Book 2)
- By: J R RICE
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
The FBI part doesnt make any sense
Reviewed: 05-10-24
The FBI part comes up at the end of the story and its almost as if you dont even have an FBI. What happen to all the other situations we listened to? Once you bring up the FBI it almost makes you hate them, for ex. where have they been the other situations? Why didnt they do something before? What about about all the other ripped apart dead people?
For so much of this story your going hard at this all alone--ALL ALONE like you say the FBI and its like a whole nother world opens up. Almost like really, you have all the lights around the house on, people have been ripped apart, found dead, girl is missing, sheriffs says its your fault, campers went missing on and on and nothing! your suppose to live that way? Why isnt the FBI putting that thing in custody? part of the story is just to hard--its really to hard to live through what you have said has happened and then all of a sudden their is an FBI. Its a sad sorry painful, crappy story about the negligence of the FBI and how awful people live because of the lack of safety. Actually the end of this book is like a horror story of Freddy vs Michael and the negligent FBI....please wow
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Bane County
- Forgotten Moon (Book 1)
- By: J R RICE
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 215
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Story5 out of 5 stars 215
Bane County is an Ongoing Saga . . . Mystery, Suspense, an edge-of-your-seat Thriller with characters you’ll fall in love with. An old-school, heart-pounding, coming-of-age Horror series with 1,000s of 5-Star Reviews. The large river-island of Bane County has a troubled past; but some histories are eagerly forgotten, especially those written in blood. Nestled into the foothills of the National Wildlife Refuge, the small rural town of Silver Canyon seems idyllic to most; but a long-slumbering evil is about to reawaken. Seventeen-year-old Bryce McNeel is your average teenage boy, living on ...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic!
- By Hepcat89 on 01-31-24
- Bane County
- Forgotten Moon (Book 1)
- By: J R RICE
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
Someone is missing and people go on
Reviewed: 05-09-24
Someone is missing and everyone goes on with their lives as if it doesn't matter? married, family, husband, wife, friend ? When you don't care about them the way they don't care about you its a persecution. Someone is going around manipulating care from situations. People seem kind of dead to me they just don't process that someone needs their help to be found. This female is missing and no one wants to admit they made bad choices, why is she walking home? why cant you find her from the place of her possessions? why do people just not equate that to a problem ? it is really distorted how people irrationally think. I have 5 hours left.....I will edit- I finished the book and it seems that it happens often people just become missing. Their is song Missing persons---DESTINATION UNKNOWN I feel like that has said it all on the radio to the public. Their are times where people are just not in the right mind maybe ever, I don't why they have relationships. Their seems to be a systematic irrationality about people and guilty people, that disbelief. It seems like you couldn't be more obvious then a song by MISSING PERSONS about a destination unknown. It was an interesting book about the struggle of human existence to conquer this danger that is happening, The simple mind of living, shines through in this book where this has been happening for generations despite the belief that people are thought to be beyond average intellectually or that they make good choices.
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Ebon Moon
- By: Dennis McDonald
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
SAVAGE TERROR WAITS UNDER A DARKENING MOON. Seeking to escape her psychopathic husband, Jessica Lobato flees Chicago with her five-year-old daughter Megan. Reaching the small town of Hope Springs, Oklahoma, they rent a trailer house out in the country and think they're finally safe. But this small town has a very dark secret; one that emerges when the moon is full. A pack of werewolves hides amongst the populace and secretly kills selected people to satisfy their hunger. Megan is the next chosen by the pack to be devoured during the upcoming full eclipse of the moon. Jessica is about to ...
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5 out of 5 stars
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oh my gawd
- By Ivron mayfield on 03-25-25
- Ebon Moon
- By: Dennis McDonald
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
The story leaves a lot unsaid.
Reviewed: 05-08-24
The story leaves a lot unsaid as the history of something, here being a beast. It doesn't include beauty and the beast as it would be told historically. Some how you lose the depth of the way people do people wrong, and you only get this extremely ethical, self responsible lost savior perspective. It leaves out where did the beast come from, and hints that it is a beast and that their are other ones' out there. Some stories have this way of a singular vision, its because they didn't have the ability to entirely overcome their oppression. People die little by little everyday in the struggle to survive. This story is about a social group of people who had so much chaos/lack of leadership to their lives they almost couldn't fight something as a group. The predation of some sort has stopped them from communicating effectively to work together. It is a little "silence of the lambs" lamb story of people in a greater world that is not described here., So it is this savior mentality of the 2 young men who no one even liked because of how they thought they were losers and druggies that were bad people, that saved their lives and the day.
Overall if your able to have some knowledge of whats going on you can understand a little. It leaves you in a mid-story situation, wondering what happened before this, whats going to happen later if they said their were more of them? it follows that incomplete theme through the whole story. So just write a series of book enjoy the writing process, get creative, be expressive, get lost in the world of this book!
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Tower 57
- By: Drew Platt, JT Cacibauda
- Narrated by: Eddy Lee, Kevin Pariseau, Holly Palance, and others
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,038
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 999
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 995
If you drive past the lights of downtown Roswell, north on Route 285 into the darkness of the New Mexico desert, you'll run across a little radio station with a single tower. This is the home of WKLEN talk-radio, broadcast through Tower #57. Fresh out of the local community college and eager to start his career in radio production, Luther Stenson arrives for his first shift as an intern on Evening Sands, a late-night radio show focused on the unexplainable and broadcast throughout the lower forty-eight. Luther’s first night in radio quickly becomes one he’ll never forget.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great story great plot listen to this in the dark
- By M. Smith on 11-02-20
- Tower 57
- By: Drew Platt, JT Cacibauda
- Narrated by: Eddy Lee, Kevin Pariseau, Holly Palance, Jason Culp, Jessica Almasy, a full cast
One of the most misunderstood parts of a story.
Reviewed: 04-23-24
I really liked this story in a way that feels real. Sometimes when you try to help to help someone they go through the same type of situation, it is even difficult to find people to live with going into to the survival of your lives. Its almost like you can feel things that are not there and you have invisible barriers sometimes you cant cross and only begin to understand while others dont understand at all. Even though you seem at a intermediate place in this story their are so many other places to go and things to see. Thats the beauty of something that never really happened its not classified its just not existing in the minds of people. Can you really save them? How do you walk alone in this place of never ending stories and sometimes death? kind of scary when trust is broken. Thanks so much it was a great research into words. great about writing you can write things that never happened very creatively. I just loved you story especially the end, kind of makes you question your own sanity ! more than 4 stars.
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The Redemption Trilogy Box Set: Emergence, Penance, Resurgence
- The Redemption Trilogy, Books 1-3
- By: AJ Sikes
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 19 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,416
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,250
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,248
Jed Welch thought washing out of the Marines Corps was the worst thing that could happen. It landed him back in his old life of crime, running with drug dealers in Queens. Just when he thought his luck couldn’t get worse, a global viral outbreak unleashed virulent hordes of Alpha predators. He quickly finds himself alone, saving his own skin, and on the run in New York City as the outbreak spreads.
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1 out of 5 stars
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What the
- By Brian on 02-23-21
- The Redemption Trilogy Box Set: Emergence, Penance, Resurgence
- The Redemption Trilogy, Books 1-3
- By: AJ Sikes
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Great storyline-exciting with fighting your enemys
Reviewed: 04-02-24
It was a great story line with a lot of excitement in fighting your enemies. It was also a very intuitive writing of relating, accepting, and knowing your enemies are real creatures. Out of all the ways people die fighting for your survival (can be complex) is one of the best ways to go. Although the hope is that the characters/people are moral, virtuous, decent people trying to make the best possible solution. A lot of characters die fighting along the way in this story. Angie for example is a strong character who tries to help finding herself alone going through these attacks. Their are times where the character is alone and innocent that brings the writing into its truth. She was persecuted for self defense in this monstrous environment that leads you to believe these people are not in ones right mind. Then out of defending herself from multiple attacks she finally succumbs to her injuries. Self defense in a place of many many attacks is not recognized it adds to the realism of the story.
How ever the ending was a little anomalous leaving you at an abrupt closure.
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