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Utopia Avenue
- A Novel
- By: David Mitchell
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 542
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 463
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 463
Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967, Utopia Avenue released only two LPs during its brief, blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and drafty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the cusp of chart success, and on to glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome, and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968. David Mitchell’s captivating new novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue. Can we change the world in turbulent times, or does the world change us?
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4 out of 5 stars
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1960s Nostalgia Served David Mitchell-Style.
- By Nick O. on 07-20-20
- Utopia Avenue
- A Novel
- By: David Mitchell
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
unbearable narrator
Reviewed: 03-08-25
I'm a big fan of David Mitchell's but the narrators delivery is beyond unbearable. I have to abandon this now and maybe read the book at some point. It is incomprehensible to me how one can let the narrator take center stage and very much ruin this work with his staccato delivery and unchecked impulse to turn every other character into the same cranky geezer. Prefer fingernails on a chalkboard…
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Hunted
- By: Abir Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Mikhail Sen, Stefan Trout, Amber Rose Revah, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4 out of 5 stars 20
In London, the police storm Heathrow Airport to bring in a father for questioning about his missing daughter. In Florida, a mother makes a connection between her son and the bomber, fearing he has been radicalized. And in Oregon, an unknown organization’s conspiracy to bring America to its knees unfolds. On the run from the authorities, the two parents are thrown together in a race against time to stop a catastrophe that will derail the country’s future forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Non stop cringe read
- By Kathleen M on 05-27-24
- Hunted
- By: Abir Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Mikhail Sen, Stefan Trout, Amber Rose Revah, Nikki Patel, Sophia Roberts
Cliché-ridden, shallow and contrived
Reviewed: 12-13-24
as the story progressed along the well-trodden path of a conspiratorial terror plot, I increasingly became suspicious that his may well be the first book I read that was generated by a bot. Disappointed.
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Deliverance
- By: James Dickey
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,207
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,726
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,718
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"A river runs through it..."
- By karen on 11-01-13
- Deliverance
- By: James Dickey
- Narrated by: Will Patton
Outstanding audiobook
Reviewed: 08-27-12
This is a real classic. Have seen the movie at least twice, which is terrific. But this audiobook expands significantly on the intensity and suspense. Amazingly well written and read!
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