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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
- A Novel
- By: Benjamin Stevenson
- Narrated by: Barton Welch
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that.
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Good book
- By Wowhite on 09-05-23
- Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
- A Novel
- By: Benjamin Stevenson
- Narrated by: Barton Welch
Stupid
Reviewed: 08-19-24
A waste of my time
Just ridiculous
Don’t bother
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The Outsider
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
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An 11-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.
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Will Patton great - story so so
- By Randall on 06-19-18
- The Outsider
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Will Patton
Just stupid
Reviewed: 12-01-23
Terrible, ridiculous premise and ludicrous plot that cost me a credit. I struggled through half of it until I felt insulted.
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A Beautiful Blue Death
- Charles Lenox Mysteries Series #1
- By: Charles Finch
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist the chance to unravel a mystery. Prudence Smith, one of Jane's former servants, is dead of an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinister: murder, by a rare and deadly poison.
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I like cozy
- By Sheryl on 05-21-12
- A Beautiful Blue Death
- Charles Lenox Mysteries Series #1
- By: Charles Finch
- Narrated by: James Langton
Bland
Reviewed: 06-07-23
Never interested. Lackluster.
I started over twice to see if I could gather any reason to continue. At least it put me to sleep as I trudged through.
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Life After Life
- A Novel
- By: Kate Atkinson
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
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On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war.
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Strange & Fascinating
- By Sara on 11-02-15
- Life After Life
- A Novel
- By: Kate Atkinson
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
Read again
Reviewed: 02-18-23
Even better ten years later. What a marvel- Kate Atkinson’s imagination is staggering. The narrator is perfect.
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The Crossing Places
- The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteies, Book 1
- By: Elly Griffiths
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, Ruth Galloway lectures at the University of North Norfolk. She lives happily alone in a remote place called Saltmarsh overlooking the North Sea and, for company; she has her cats Flint and Sparky, and Radio 4. When a child's bones are found in the marshes near an ancient site that Ruth worked on ten years earlier, Ruth is asked to date them.
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An atmospheric creepy mystery set in Saltmarsh
- By Sara on 05-19-14
- The Crossing Places
- The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteies, Book 1
- By: Elly Griffiths
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
I love archeology.
Reviewed: 01-29-23
Artifacts, mystery, and lots of character development- I really enjoyed this book. Plus, the narrator added to the story.
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The Bullet That Missed
- A Thursday Murder Club Mystery, Book 3
- By: Richard Osman
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw, Richard Osman, Steph McGovern
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case—their favorite kind--leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers. Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot.
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When the second book came out I was worried
- By Foralark on 09-20-22
- The Bullet That Missed
- A Thursday Murder Club Mystery, Book 3
- By: Richard Osman
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw, Richard Osman, Steph McGovern
Fun story, terrible narrator
Reviewed: 01-14-23
If there hadn’t been such a promise of another fun romp in the continuing larks of the Club, I wouldn’t have been able to continue to listen to the alternately growling and annoying whispery voice of the narrator this time. Why the change? She made listening very unpleasant. I will never choose another book narrated by this untalented person. I’m just sorry.
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Run Time
- By: Catherine Ryan Howard
- Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins, Alan Smyth, Gary Furlong, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Feeling her stardom fading, struggling soap-actress Adele Rafferty is ready to give up on her dreams when she gets a last-minute offer to play the lead in upcoming horror film Final Draft. Could this be her big break? Will she have redemption for what happened the last time she was on a film set? Adele doesn’t think twice before signing the dotted line. But when life on set starts to mirror the sinister events portrayed in the script, Adele fears the real horror lies off the page. Isolated and unsure who in the crew she can trust, is there anywhere or any time left to run?
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Good book, cool concept
- By Adb222 on 09-16-22
- Run Time
- By: Catherine Ryan Howard
- Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins, Alan Smyth, Gary Furlong, Gerard Doyle, Siobhan Waring, Alison McKenna
Horrible
Reviewed: 01-02-23
Absolute drivel.
Tried to finish and read last two chapters. Nothing but repetitions of frantic thoughts of ridiculous main character as she ignores every chance to extract herself from unbelievably stupid plot.
How could this get published?
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Mrs. Osmond
- A Novel
- By: John Banville
- Narrated by: Amy Finegan
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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Isabel Archer is a young American woman swept off to Europe in the late 19th century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naïve girl's experience of the world. When Isabel comes into a large, unexpected inheritance, she is finagled into a marriage with the charming, penniless, and - as Isabel finds out too late - cruel and deceitful Gilbert Osmond, whose connection to a certain Madame Merle is suspiciously intimate.
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Clever Continuation of Henry James
- By Fate_D on 03-18-18
- Mrs. Osmond
- A Novel
- By: John Banville
- Narrated by: Amy Finegan
Clever Continuation of Henry James
Reviewed: 03-18-18
After listening to five chapters of Mrs. Osmand, I realized my memory of The Portrait of a Lady didn’t seem adequate-although I could have continued because John Banville gives the reader very subtle segments of the necessary background for most of us.
It was really that my curiosity had been piqued: how would I react now to James’ 137 year old publication which I had read fifty years ago. So, after I listened to the samples of about four available on Audible, I chose a narrator with a masculine voice, in homage to Henry James.
Twenty-two hours later, I started Mrs. Osmond again and was happier, feeling I had accompanied Mr James’ Isabell Archer right up to the commencement of Banville’s imagination of her. He seamlessly constructs what would have been James’ next chapter in a voice so similar to his that one wouldn’t notice any change if this novel had been purported to be a long lost manuscript.
What a treat for those of us who agree with Jane Austin that a well-written novel cannot be too long. And, the fresh voice of the female narrator on Audible is just fine for those of us who love to have a story told to us.
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Dunbar
- William Shakespeare's King Lear Retold: A Novel
- By: Edward St Aubyn
- Narrated by: Henry Goodman
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage, he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan, but, as relations sour, he starts to doubt the wisdom of past decisions. Now, imprisoned in Meadowmeade, an upscale sanatorium in rural England, with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels.
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depressing tale of horrid people
- By Trudy Owens on 10-25-17
- Dunbar
- William Shakespeare's King Lear Retold: A Novel
- By: Edward St Aubyn
- Narrated by: Henry Goodman
Hogarth Shakespeare Novel Sizzles
Reviewed: 02-26-18
Finally, a modern Shakespeare that succeeds with the rapid fire wit of Edward St. Aubyn. Most Americans aren’t familiar with St. Aubyn who is truly among the best living English writers. This tale of King Lear in the twenty first century is loaded with scintillating dialogue, and characters whose greed and debauchery might be too vivid for the easily offended- I, for one, found them fascinating. Dunbar himself as King Lear is repulsive, yet there’s some remaining humanity within his obsession with power. Two of his daughters are disgustingly spoiled, and the “doctor” who toadies to their every sexual and drug craving is just plain bad. My favorite character is the British actor who befriends Dunbar in a mental hospital where the two daughters have plotted to have him committed. Here, Audible shines, because the narrator enlivens all of his mimicry with aplomb.
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