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Americanah
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,818
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12,386
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12,348
As teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love in a Nigeria under military dictatorship. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America, where Obinze hopes to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dazzling, Romantic, and Witty
- By Anna-Bo-Banana on 04-28-14
- Americanah
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Outstanding novel and narration
Reviewed: 05-28-18
One of the best audiobooks I've "read", with outstanding narration by actress Adjoa Andoh — though I will say that her American accents are more funny than accurate. If you've ever emigrated, or ever known anyone who has — or if you've just been in a relationship — worth a listen.
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Americanah
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,933
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,593
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,555
As teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love in a Nigeria under military dictatorship. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America, where Obinze hopes to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dazzling, Romantic, and Witty
- By Anna-Bo-Banana on 04-28-14
- Americanah
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Outstanding novel and narration
Reviewed: 05-28-18
One of the best audiobooks I've "read", with outstanding narration by actress Adjoa Andoh — though I will say that her American accents are more funny than accurate. If you've ever emigrated, or ever known anyone who has — or if you've just been in a relationship — worth a listen.
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Make Me
- Jack Reacher, Book 20
- By: Lee Child
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,261
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,230
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,225
“Why is this town called Mother’s Rest?” That’s all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It’s a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very reminiscent of BAD LUCK & TROUBLE
- By shelley on 09-10-15
Weaker Reacher
Reviewed: 01-20-16
Is there anything you would change about this book?
I recently listened to Michael Connelly's Trunk Music, which was narrated by Dick Hill. One of the reasons I was eager to listen to Make Me was that it was also done by Dick Hill. Well . . . it's hard to tell it's the same guy. Terrific narration in Trunk Music and UNBELIEVABLY BAD narration in this one. I'm not exactly sure what kind of accent Hill was aiming for in this case for Jack Reacher (maybe Jack Reacher as 1930's mobster?), but it is distinctly odd and pretty terrible.
The plotting is also slow (plodding plotting?) for a Reacher book. Definitely not my favorite.
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The Black Box
- Harry Bosch, Book 16
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Michael McConnohie
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,270
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,444
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,412
In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator combing through the wreckage after a plane crash, Bosch searches for the "black box", the one piece of evidence that will pull the case together.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Contrary to the tagline, Harry Bosch is not back!
- By Joanna on 11-27-12
- The Black Box
- Harry Bosch, Book 16
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Michael McConnohie
Terrible narration
Reviewed: 03-21-15
For this narrator, all white men sound exactly the same. It was frequently confusing trying to figure out who was speaking.
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