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The 5AM Club
- Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
- By: Robin Sharma
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 14,664
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 12,709
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Story4 out of 5 stars 12,671
Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept more than 20 years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity. Now, in this life-changing guide, handcrafted by the author over a rigorous four-year period, you will discover the early-rising habit that has helped so many accomplish epic results while upgrading their happiness, helpfulness, and feelings of aliveness.
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1 out of 5 stars
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An absolute waste of time!!
- By Sheldon Baranec on 01-22-19
- The 5AM Club
- Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
- By: Robin Sharma
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
Self-made man ego trip
Reviewed: 02-24-25
The voice actor is top notch. You can tell which character is speaking without any effort.
However, the book itself is... off. While it contains some good advice, it's wrapped in a corny story that's too long for its own good. The prose is odd, and the dialogue cringey. It also idolatrizes some questionable people without even pausing to weight the good they did with the bad or if whethever what they accomplished was actually a product of the practices presented in the book. It pushes the idea of the 'self-made' person without any consideration regarding the possible downsides of this line of thinking.
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You Look Beautiful Tonight
- A Thriller
- By: L. R. Jones
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Story4 out of 5 stars 88
Mia Anderson is an invisible woman. An unremarkable thirty-two-year-old Tennessee librarian, she’s accustomed to disappearing in a crowd, unseen and unheard. Then she receives an anonymous note: You look beautiful today. It doesn’t stop there. The attentive stranger—a secret admirer named Adam—has plans for Mia. With each new text comes a suggestion for her hair, clothes, or attitude, and for the first time in memory, Mia feels noticed. Slowly, she develops a confidence in herself she’s never had. But Adam has a surprise coming....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Mundane and unbelievable
- By Casey Thompson on 07-30-23
- You Look Beautiful Tonight
- A Thriller
- By: L. R. Jones
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Great story, with a weak twist
Reviewed: 08-15-23
The first half of the book is rather slow, daily life stuff. You get hints and glipses that something is wrong with the setting early on, but once the second act starts in full force, everything feels lightning fast.
The mistery is interesting at first, with the reveal of the dark side of Mia's secret admirer shifting the story into something very different from the first half. After that, the mistery switches to who might be the secret admirer, but it's not difficult to deduce who it is. When the reveal came, I was waiting for some sort of double fake out, but then it was really what I thought it was and everytthing suddenly ended, all the loose ends tightly shut.
The narration is excellent. Each character feels like they have their own voice.
I liked the story, but the twist didn't feel like a twist at all, rather, I was wondering how Mia didn't pick up on all the clues (there were many).
If you want to read a story with excellent prose and interesting characters, this is the story for you. Just don't expect the ending to surprise you a whole lot.
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