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Mrs. Dalloway
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Annette Bening
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Mrs. Dalloway, perhaps Virginia Woolf’s greatest novel, vividly follows English socialite Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares for a party in post-World War I London. Four-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening ( American Beauty, The Kids Are All Right) brings Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness style of storytelling to life, exploring the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman’s life in a brilliant performance.
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This does not work on an apple mac!!!
- By Lara on 10-25-12
- Mrs. Dalloway
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Annette Bening
Clunky
Reviewed: 06-03-18
The only good thing about this much-vaunted novel is its capacity to build up a person's appetite to read Ulysses again. Just consider what would happen if you took Septimus and Lucrezia out of the picture. How slight it would be. Exploitation much?
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The Butterfly Effect with Jon Ronson
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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[Contains explicit content] Hear the story of what happened when the tech industry gave the world what it wanted: free porn. Lives were mangled. Fortunes were made. All for your pleasure. Follow writer and narrator Jon Ronson as he uncovers our web of desire.
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Canada
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 09-23-17
- The Butterfly Effect with Jon Ronson
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
Uplifting all over
Reviewed: 08-27-17
Having listened to The Elephant in the Room, you may be inclined to think that it's all up for Ronson, but here he is back more lovable than you can possibly imagine.
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Les Misérables
- By: Victor Hugo
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 67 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Les Misérables is set in Paris after the French Revolution. In the sewers and backstreets, we encounter "the wolf-like tread of crime", and assassination for a few sous is all in a day's work. We weep with the unlucky and heart-broken Fantine, and we exult with the heroic revolutionaries of the barricades; but above all we thrill to the steadfast courage and nobility of soul of ex-convict Jean Valjean, always in danger from the relentless pursuit of the diabolical Inspector Javert.
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Use earphones that are light on bass
- By Tad Davis on 11-08-15
- Les Misérables
- By: Victor Hugo
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
Shine a light
Reviewed: 02-22-16
Any additional comments?
If you're like me, strongly averse to musicals and TV dramatisations but with a keen interest in finding out where on earth people get their ideas from, then you need to read this book. It's left me feeling like a guy who just discovered the existence of a place called "Ikea." Possibly even more modern-day-lifestyle-influential than "Day of the Dead" or that ghastly "Scarface" movie. Yes, there are digressions – but they never trouble the lower-Tolstoyean depths of feuilletonistic sophotastery. And the audio mastering is indeed terrible, but it's nothing the iTunes equalizer can't handle.
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Trilby
- By: George du Maurier
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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Trilby opens in the Latin Quarter of Paris, where Trilby O'Ferrall is working as an artist's model. Her grace and ingenuous charm make a poignant contrast to the cruel magnetism of Svengali, under whose spell she falls. Using hypnotic powers, Svengali shapes her into a virtuoso singer, Europe's most captivating soprano. But her golden voice, and even her life, become fatally tied to him.
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audible is bullying me
- By Amazon Customer on 04-30-19
- Trilby
- By: George du Maurier
- Narrated by: Nadia May
very poor show, the late nineteenth century
Reviewed: 07-30-15
If the frequent outbreaks of excruciating racism don't get you, the relentless bonhomic smugness of the narrative voice surely will.
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Strategy
- A History
- By: Lawrence Freedman
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 32 hrs and 4 mins
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In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives.
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Comprehensive 'Tour de Force' on Strategy
- By Logical Paradox on 07-20-14
- Strategy
- A History
- By: Lawrence Freedman
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
The Key to All Strategies finds its Casubon
Reviewed: 07-09-15
A widely-read, well-connected, highly qualified man takes us on an extended ramble through a subject ripe with fascination. So where did all the interesting go?
In the true mystery tradition, there are clues (and one or two red herrings) all along the way, with a full explanation clearly set out in the final few pages.
I've included that full explanation at the bottom of this post. I've reversed the text for the benefit of the spoiler averse, but this, after all, is non-fiction – you're supposed to put this sort of thing at the *front* of the book, preferably within the compass of the Audible preview, so that those of us who think this sort of cold, clunky, undilutedly materialistic, absolutely humourless mid-century complacency should go back to the pre-Roger-Penrosean monochrome ages and leave me, my monthly credit and thirty hours of my life alone.
„˙ʇou op ʎǝɥʇ ɟı sǝɔuǝnbǝsuoɔ ǝɥʇ sǝıɹɐsɹǝʌpɐ oʇ ɓuıuıɐldxǝ ɹo noʎ ɥʇıʍ ʞɹoʍ oʇ sɹǝɥʇo ɓuıɔuıʌuoɔ ɹǝɥʇǝɥʍ 'uoısɐnsɹǝd ʇnoqɐ sʎɐʍlɐ sı ʇı snɥʇ – sɹǝɥʇo ɟo ɹnoıʌɐɥǝq ǝɥʇ ɓuıʇɔǝɟɟɐ ɥɓnoɹɥʇ sʞɹoʍ ʇı ʇnq 'ʍolloɟ uɐɔ sɹǝɥʇo ʇɐɥʇ os 'spɹoʍ oʇuı ʇnd ǝq oʇ pǝǝu ʎɓǝʇɐɹʇs sǝop ʎluo ʇoN ˙ɯǝɥʇ ʇnoɥʇıʍ ssǝlɓuıuɐǝɯ sı ʎɓǝʇɐɹʇs ǝsnɐɔǝq sı uoıʇɐɔıunɯɯoɔ puɐ ǝɓɐnɓuɐl ɟo suoıʇsǝnb oʇ uǝʇɟo os pǝuɹnʇǝɹ sɐɥ ʞooq sıɥʇ uosɐǝɹ ǝɥ⊥„
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Steppenwolf
- By: Hermann Hesse
- Narrated by: Peter Weller
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine.
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Save this Hesse novel for your midlife crisis.
- By Darwin8u on 03-02-14
- Steppenwolf
- By: Hermann Hesse
- Narrated by: Peter Weller
the spell is never broken...
Reviewed: 07-03-15
...not to say that the spell mightn't push its luck once or twice (like the infrequent flirtations with silliness don't provide much needed relief). As it is with Finnegan's Wake, this would be a good one to save up for a while, seeing as how it leaves a lot of other very worthwhile novels reading like so much fan fiction. Also as it is with Finnegan's Wake, you're more or less guaranteed at least one moment where some long-forgotten-dream memory will burst its banks.
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The Woman in White
- By: Wilkie Collins
- Narrated by: Glen McCready, Rachel Bavidge
- Length: 27 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Walter Hartright, a drawing teacher to two sisters, wants to marry Laura, though she is betrothed to another. But who is the mysterious woman in white he encounters? Wilkie Collins was a master of suspense, but his transfer to audiobook requires a cast of readers to faithfully reflect the11 different characters who tell the story. Naxos AudioBooks brings together a strong cast to bring alive the mystery and suspense of The Woman in White.
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Excellent Writing; Superb Narration
- By Liz on 08-15-09
- The Woman in White
- By: Wilkie Collins
- Narrated by: Glen McCready, Rachel Bavidge
meticulous presentation of superb material
Reviewed: 06-22-15
As time goes by, Wilkie Collins becomes more and more contemporary. Quite a trick. There are, no doubt, as yet unformulated genres in media still inconceivable within which he will one day, quite justly, be considered the protypical author.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- By: Stieg Larsson
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
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Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate.
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worthwhile
- By Joe on 08-01-09
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- By: Stieg Larsson
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
I feel some kind of explanation is in order
Reviewed: 06-15-15
In particular, the depiction of computer hacking betrays a contempt for the reading public which is borderline incomprehensible. A person could almost forgive Dan Brown for that awful "Lost Symbol" book. Almost.
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David Copperfield
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Patrick Tull
- Length: 38 hrs and 40 mins
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Listen as David recounts the experiences of his rise to successful novelist - his wretched boyhood , the drudgery of his various jobs, his marriage to the boss’ pretty daughter, his flight to the continent, and finally, a reunion with his true love. Tull’s marvelously resonant voice ushers us smoothly through young David’s trials. His ability to move deftly between different accents gives new life to some of the best-known characters in all of literature.
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Superlative reading
- By qtvxzplr on 12-19-12
- David Copperfield
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Patrick Tull
peddling complacency
Reviewed: 04-21-15
do yourself a favour and leave the boy in Canterbury - it's nothing but mawkish, self-satisfied nonsense from thereon out
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