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Secrets in Scarlet
- Arkham Horror Series
- By: Charlotte Llewelyn-Wells - editor
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4 out of 5 stars 14
A secret organization ruthlessly seeks power over supernatural terrors in this globe-trotting anthology of arcane mystery and adventure, from the bestselling world of Arkham Horror.
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4 out of 5 stars
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You cannot inject modern into period prices and expect to produce the same feeling
- By bethg on 01-06-24
- Secrets in Scarlet
- Arkham Horror Series
- By: Charlotte Llewelyn-Wells - editor
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
You cannot inject modern into period prices and expect to produce the same feeling
Reviewed: 01-06-24
Too many of the stories had modern viewpoints and values inserted as if they were normal and accepted at the time and the world perviously created that they are trying to connect to.
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Meddling Kids
- A Novel
- By: Edgar Cantero
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,562
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,421
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,423
Summer 1977. The Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in Oregon's Zoinx River Valley) solved their final mystery and unmasked the elusive Sleepy Lake monster - another low-life fortune hunter trying to get his dirty hands on the legendary riches hidden in Deboën Mansion. And he would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling kids.
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2 out of 5 stars
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should have been a YA novel
- By Bearded Barista on 08-20-17
- Meddling Kids
- A Novel
- By: Edgar Cantero
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
Better than I expected.
Reviewed: 08-16-17
It seemed shallow and predictable at the beginning with too much forced grit to show that the characters were no longer children. This surprisingly deepened with Nate, but stayed shallow and forced with Andy and Kerri. I would have liked to see Karri develop rather than be the idol for Andy.
I hoped for more from Ghost Peter, but that seemed to fizzle out and become an afterthought. The play between predictable scoot plot and lovecraftian story was more enjoyable and more complex than expected.
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The Gods of H. P. Lovecraft
- By: Rachel Caine, Seanan McGuire, Laird Barron, and others
- Narrated by: David Stifel, uncredited
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 596
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 537
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 536
The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft: a brand new anthology that collects the 12 principal deities of the Lovecraftian Mythos and sets them loose. Featuring the biggest names in horror and dark fantasy, including many New York Times best sellers; full of original fiction; and individual commentary on each of the deities by Donald Tyson.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great story... hard to listen to
- By Lauens on 10-17-16
Missed the mark
Reviewed: 04-05-17
These stories miss that the strength of a lovecraftian story is not explaining too much, and that the elder things do not care for humanity. It reads like the authors read a Wikipedia article on their assigned character as their only research.
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Mythology
- By: Edith Hamilton
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,764
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,519
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,527
Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern listener the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture—the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good reading of classical myths
- By Kathi on 03-18-13
- Mythology
- By: Edith Hamilton
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Not a collection of myths
Reviewed: 08-03-14
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
I was looking for a complete telling of Greek and roman myths. Instead the author injects too much commentary, drowning the original myths.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
Unfortunately no, not only did it fail to tell a cohesive narrative of the myths, but poisoned the well with all her commentary and references.
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