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My Name Is Barbra
- By: Barbra Streisand
- Narrated by: Barbra Streisand
- Length: 48 hrs and 7 mins
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Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in the history of popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major motion picture. In My Name Is Barbra, she tells her own story about her life and extraordinary career.
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BARBRA IS LIKE BUTTAH!
- By JoeGato57 on 11-08-23
- My Name Is Barbra
- By: Barbra Streisand
- Narrated by: Barbra Streisand
Every inch an incomparable star
Reviewed: 01-03-24
Listening to Ms Streisand”s memoir was the greatest bookish pleasure of 2023. Utterly riveting. I hear her in my dreams. I would have loved to have met her.
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2)
- 1938-43
- By: Chips Channon
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Length: 48 hrs and 28 mins
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This second volume of the best-selling diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon takes us from the heady aftermath of the Munich agreement, when the prime minister Chips so admired was credited with having averted a general European conflagration, through the rapid unravelling of appeasement, and on to the tribulations of the early years of the Second World War. It closes with a moment of hope, as Channon, in recording the fall of Mussolini in July 1943, reflects: 'The war must be more than half over.'
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- By MG on 03-09-22
- Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2)
- 1938-43
- By: Chips Channon
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
Channon in the Midst of WWII England
Reviewed: 06-20-22
Amazing 48 hours of listening to the often (unintentionally) hilarious Chips Channon diary entries, read in theatrically plummy tones.
Politics, society, royalty, aristo hijinks — all seen through the lens of a privileged, social-clawing narcissist. It’s utterly brilliant.
Plus, I laughed aloud so many times, at Channon’s days and observations.
Definitely not mainstream, and a delicious pleasure.
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A Promised Land
- By: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 29 hrs and 10 mins
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Color me grateful.
- By Angela on 11-19-20
- A Promised Land
- By: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
To hear President’s story in his voice is a gift
Reviewed: 10-13-21
I listened to this book while driving — and read it in hardcover too.
Organized, powerful, compelling. It made me appreciate the man’s character, intellect, ambition, and decency all the more.
I laughed. Wept. Gasped at the high stakes.
Obama is a superb writer.
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The Devil May Dance
- A Novel
- By: Jake Tapper
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington DC, know all too well how the tangled web of power in the nation's capital can operate. Attorney General Robert Kennedy needs them to look into a potential threat not only to the presidency but to the security of the United States itself. Charlie and Margaret quickly find themselves on a flight to sunny Los Angeles, where they’ll face off against a dazzling world of stars and studios. At the center of their investigation is Frank Sinatra, a close friend of President John F. Kennedy and a rumored mob crony.
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Smarmy rehash of Hollywood cliches
- By D2Zen on 05-13-21
- The Devil May Dance
- A Novel
- By: Jake Tapper
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Smarmy rehash of Hollywood cliches
Reviewed: 05-13-21
No plot. Instead, An avalanche of appropriated Hollywood-as-Gomorrah hash, sanctimony, cliches of every stripe, and breathtakingly banal writing.
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Dark Sacred Night
- A Ballard and Bosch Novel: Harry Bosch, Book 21
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Titus Welliver
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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Renée Ballard is working the night beat again and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out but then checks into the case herself, and it brings a deep tug of empathy and anger. Bosch is investigating the death of 15-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally murdered and her body left in a dumpster like so much trash. Now, Ballard joins forces with Bosch.
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I tried to like it but...
- By Suzanne on 11-06-18
- Dark Sacred Night
- A Ballard and Bosch Novel: Harry Bosch, Book 21
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Titus Welliver
Police Partners, Connelly-style
Reviewed: 11-17-18
Connelly is the master of Los Angeles police procedurals with his own special style of setting little traps and clues along a clean, crisp narrative. Ballard was billed as his “new” main character after Harry Bosch aged out.
His Ballard intro, The Late Show, was good. Dark Sacred Night lets Bosch slip back in and I cheered! I love the character. The big juicy treat is that handsome, wily, world-weary Bosch is delivered by the delicious Titus Welliver, who knows the character inside and out, having played him in the television series.
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