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Before We Were Yours
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Catherine Taber
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 87,832
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 78,623
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Story5 out of 5 stars 78,307
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge - until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents - but they quickly realize the dark truth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I was rivetted, finished in three days.
- By Lin Cloward on 06-26-17
- Before We Were Yours
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Catherine Taber
Great story, hard to get into
Reviewed: 01-18-18
Jumping back and forth between storylines was a barrier for me to this otherwise great book. One of the storylines was way more compelling than the other and I’m glad I stuck with it to the end but I almost gave up a number of times. Stick with it. It’s worth reading
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Holy Ghost Girl
- A Memoir
- By: Donna M. Johnson
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 146
A compassionate, humorous story of faith, betrayal, and coming of age on the sawdust trail. She was just three years old when her mother signed on as the organist of tent revivalist David Terrell, and before long, Donna Johnson was part of the hugely popular evangelical preacher’s inner circle. At seventeen, she left the ministry for good, with a trove of stranger-than-fiction memories.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I’m unhappy
- By Arieal Thomas on 03-28-21
- Holy Ghost Girl
- A Memoir
- By: Donna M. Johnson
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Read it four times
Reviewed: 02-09-15
Outstanding book, objective as she could possibly be. For an ex-Christian, this book helped me voice a lot of things I struggled with as a child.
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Fifty Shades of Grey
- Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
- By: E. L. James
- Narrated by: Becca Battoe
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 38,087
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 32,392
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Story4 out of 5 stars 33,000
When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Holy Crap minus the Holy
- By Penny on 05-21-12
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
- By: E. L. James
- Narrated by: Becca Battoe
If only I could give less than 1 star
Reviewed: 09-25-13
Any additional comments?
I downloaded this book to find out what all the hype was about and it turns out that this is the most horribly written book I have ever read. I hated almost every second of the six chapters I somehow managed to wade through without throwing myself of a bridge, but I kept thinking, maybe if I just keep listening it will get better. But it didn't. I should preface by saying I am sex-positive, love erotic fiction, read Dan Savage all the time, and pro-BDSM. So, my hatred for this book has nothing to do with the subject matter.
I have multiple problems with this book.
1) The writing is horrible. Terrible phrases are overused to the point where it is extremely distracting. Every other sentence Ana is "blushing scarlet" or "flushing beet red", saying "holy crap" or "holy ___" fill in the blank. Christian is always gazing, paralyzing her with his good looks. I started keeping track of overused words but once I hit 18 uses of "blushing" I had to stop reading, it was just too painful.
2) The plot is horrible. The fact that this is a bootleg erotica story based on the Twilight books is so painfully obvious. Ana is clumsy and terrible at sports and falls a lot? Okay.
3) This story paints BDSM in such a stupid, negative light. In reality, you should be having discussions on what each person is into, negotiate the encounter, and there isn't just one person in control doing whatever they want to the submissive.
Really, America? This is what hits the top of the best seller lists?
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World War Z
- An Oral History of the Zombie War
- By: Max Brooks
- Narrated by: Max Brooks, Alan Alda, John Turturro, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,869
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,444
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,452
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of 30 million souls, to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet.
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2 out of 5 stars
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needs to be unabridged
- By Catherine on 11-17-08
- World War Z
- An Oral History of the Zombie War
- By: Max Brooks
- Narrated by: Max Brooks, Alan Alda, John Turturro, Rob Reiner
Fantastic book, but ABRIDGED?? WHY?!?!
Reviewed: 11-23-12
What made the experience of listening to World War Z the most enjoyable?
The ONLY reason I can't rate this 5 stars is because it was too short. There seemed to be layers left out of the story and when I went back to look at the description I saw it was abridged, which really seems to explain it all. I haven't even read the original and I could tell it was abridged just by listening... I can't fathom why they would choose to do this unless the original unabridged version is poorly written (doubt it). Otherwise, that was my only complaint - I listened to this in one day and accomplished nearly nothing because I was so engrossed.
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