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Maisie Dobbs
- Maisie Dobbs, Book 1
- By: Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,166
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,039
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,034
Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing. Lady Rowan’s friend, Maurice Blanche, often retained as an investigator by the European elite, recognized Maisie’s intuitive gifts. The outbreak of war changed everything. Ten years after the Armistice, in the spring of 1929, Maisie sets out on her own as a private investigator, one who has learned that coincidences are meaningful, and truth elusive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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All ‘round tip top
- By nancy M on 01-10-23
- Maisie Dobbs
- Maisie Dobbs, Book 1
- By: Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
Enjoyable but not revelatory
Reviewed: 07-08-24
Firstly, the narration was superb. I’ll be looking out for more titles read by Ms. Cassidy. Secondly, the book: this was a nice little book to get stuck into and I enjoyed it. For chief strengths I’d say that it is very effective at pulling the heartstrings in a few places and I’m not an especially emotional person. Its chief weaknesses I think are (1) the way the flashback structure - just two big chunks - lets a lot of the tension out of the mystery plot by digressing for a huge amount of time and (2) Maisie as a protagonist is just a little too… perfect, and forbearing, and patient - in a way I am inclined to occasionally find annoying and which takes me out of the story a bit as she doesn’t feel real at times.
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Starter Villain
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,750
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,308
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,302
Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Volcanic Lairs, Death Rays & Cats… Oh My! 😼
- By C. White on 09-19-23
- Starter Villain
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Frothy, fun, and funny
Reviewed: 07-06-24
I LOLed in the literal sense. Can recommend to anyone who has consumed any superhero, sci fi, or spy media. If they like to laugh that is.
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The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection: Books 1-5
- Whose Body?; Clouds of Witness; Unnatural Death; Lord Peter Views the Body; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
- By: Dorothy L. Sayers
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 38 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 266
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 266
This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of the first four Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels, read by Audie-award winning narrator Jonathan Keeble. A must-listen for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries, Lord Peter Wimsey is the immortal amateur sleuth created by Dorothy L Sayers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful narrator. A treat to listen.
- By MKJ on 02-06-24
- The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection: Books 1-5
- Whose Body?; Clouds of Witness; Unnatural Death; Lord Peter Views the Body; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
- By: Dorothy L. Sayers
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Finally! A good recording of one of my fav queens of mystery.
Reviewed: 06-28-24
The performance was wonderful, and these are some of my favorite mysteries. Deftly mixing humor and social commentary and intrigue. The characters are fantastic.
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A Man Lay Dead
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 663
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 582
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 583
Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley's original and lively weekend house parties are deservedly famous. To amuse his guests, he has devised a new form of the fashionable Murder Game, in which a guest is secretly selected to commit a 'murder' in the dark, and everyone assembles to solve the crime. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Upper Crust Mystery
- By Laurence G. Byrne on 02-25-16
- A Man Lay Dead
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
Ngaio Marsh deserves more recognition
Reviewed: 11-14-23
Can recommend. Excellent narrator and absolutely typical (in the best way) golden age murder mystery.
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
- By: Shehan Karunatilaka
- Narrated by: Shivantha Wijesinha
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 292
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 250
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely Splendid...
- By Paul Frandano on 02-07-23
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
- By: Shehan Karunatilaka
- Narrated by: Shivantha Wijesinha
A+
Reviewed: 07-23-23
Beautiful and strange and haunting and engrossing. Definitely recommend both the book and the narration.
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Butts
- A Backstory
- By: Heather Radke
- Narrated by: Heather Radke, Emily Tremaine
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Story4 out of 5 stars 162
Part deep dive reportage, part personal journey, part cabinet of curiosities, Butts is an entertaining, illuminating, and thoughtful examination of why certain silhouettes come in and out of fashion—and how larger ideas about race, control, liberation, and power affect our most private feelings about ourselves and others.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Woof.
- By Aaron M Groth on 01-21-23
- Butts
- A Backstory
- By: Heather Radke
- Narrated by: Heather Radke, Emily Tremaine
Excellent overview
Reviewed: 06-10-23
I found this to be an excellent overview, combining a number of different disciplines in a hope for a holistic view. It was fascinating and engrossing and at times appalling and funny. 10/10, can recommend
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