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Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71,356
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 61,800
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61,435
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you’ll hear the voices of people he interviewed - scientists, criminologists, military psychologists.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable listen with some facts incorrect
- By Jim on 09-11-19
- Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
You always learn something worthwhile...
Reviewed: 02-20-25
You always learn something worthwhile from Malcolm Gladnwell. I think he's a great author, writer and thinker.
This time, I also learned, not surprisingly, that he's also what I would call "a little Left of Center" on social issue, like gun control, racial inequities, policing and crime. These exposures of his own feelings were very minor and didn't interfere in the least with the story he was telling or the conclusions he drew, but they were there and I did notice. They were no big deal.
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The Wasteland Chronicles
- The Post-Apocalyptic Box Set
- By: Kyle West
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 50 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 682
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 644
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 643
No one expected Ragnarok. The miles-wide meteor fell from the sky in 2030, taking most of humanity with it. The lucky ones took refuge in the Bunkers. The unlucky ones had to deal with the meteor's aftermath...and the alien virus it unleashed. Now, that virus is evolving, creating an army of mutants and monsters, mixing Earth genetics with something...not Earth. As humanity struggles in the wastelands of what's left, it might already be too late...unless a band of young heroes can rise up, and fight.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Young Adult ,Fallout inspired fantasy.
- By Aerindel on 06-19-21
- The Wasteland Chronicles
- The Post-Apocalyptic Box Set
- By: Kyle West
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Not an adult story.
Reviewed: 08-03-24
This is a title for teenagers, not adults. It takes a couple hours to confirm this although there are early hints.
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Nuclear War
- A Scenario
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,581
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,278
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,279
Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These investigations are vital to how we understand the world we really live in—where one nuclear missile will beget one in return, and where the choreography of the world’s end requires massive decisions made on seconds’ notice with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking-clock scenario.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Apocalyptic
- By Anonymous User on 04-12-24
- Nuclear War
- A Scenario
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
Everything you didn't know you didn't know about Nuclear War
Reviewed: 07-04-24
After listening to nearly one thousand audiobooks, NUCLEAR WAR by Annie Jacobsen is easily the most important.
More important than Politics because your politics won't matter if the system of Mutually Assured Destruction Deterence (MADD) spins out of control.
More important than Finance because your financial circumstances won't matter once the World Economy collapses totally in the span of a single hour.
I beleive the topic of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation is second only (in importance) to the existence of God, whether the Bible is true and whether Jesus really is (or was) His Son.
If you have no books at all, get the Bible. If you already have a Bible, get this one next.
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Law and Disorder
- A Legal Thriller
- By: Mike Papantonio
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,469
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,337
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,324
Brash, brilliant, handsome Nicholas Deketomis has built a highly successful career as a lawyer, protecting the rights of the innocent while winning multibillion-dollar lawsuits from the powers that be. "Deke" may have come from the wrong side of the tracks, but he's built a wonderful life for his close-knit family. His wife and two children live in a beautiful house in a seaside community along the Florida Panhandle. But their comfortable life is endangered.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Don't Bother
- By Tara on 08-30-20
- Law and Disorder
- A Legal Thriller
- By: Mike Papantonio
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
Leftist much?
Reviewed: 04-24-24
Thinly veiled, poorly written, poorly read Leftist Palumbo. Not suggested for adults... or children for that matter.
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WIRED
- By: Douglas E. Richards
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 898
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 816
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Story4 out of 5 stars 818
Kira Miller is a brilliant genetic engineer who discovers how to temporarily achieve savant-like capabilities in all areas of thought and creativity. But what if this transcendent level of intelligence brings with it a ruthless megalomania? David Desh left the special forces after his team was brutally butchered in Iran. Now he has been reactivated for one last mission: find Kira Miller, the enigmatic genius behind a bioterror plot that threatens millions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good, but not great.
- By Tommy Jordan on 04-13-12
- WIRED
- By: Douglas E. Richards
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Pretty good until...
Reviewed: 03-02-24
If you love God you probably won't like the very very end much where they fantasize about becoming Gods.
The funny part of this book is a formula that's supposed to increase intelligence. And yet it doesn't lead the protagonists to the simplest and most obvious conclusion regarding the creation of the Universe... that it was created by God.
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Damascus Gate
- By: Robert Stone
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4 out of 5 stars 33
Christopher Lucas, unsure of his own beliefs, is wandering through Jerusalem, working on an article about religious mania. When he meets Sonia Barnes, dusky nightclub singer, devoted Sufi and mystic, he is entranced. As Sonia helps Lucas meet some of the visionaries and gurus who fill the city, the two suddenly find that they have become pawns in a fanatical bombing plot.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Much to learn
- By W.Denis on 11-01-09
- Damascus Gate
- By: Robert Stone
- Narrated by: George Guidall
I'm more certain than ever that Intellectualism is a waste of time.
Reviewed: 11-17-23
This book is definitely worth it. Starting out slow and intellectually burdensome with enough obscure name dropping and vague references to make all but the most well read feel like moving on, The story finally starts to pick up speed in part II and moves on at an increasing pace thru the neatly wrapped up ending of proceedings.
I say this book is worth it because in the end the writer brings it all back to the most important aspects of life, love and loss, finally closing with a couple of profoundly simple but important truths worth hearing.
Translation: The ending is worth the time it takes to get there.
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Commune 5
- Commune, Book 5
- By: Joshua Gayou, Devon C. Ford
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,555
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,452
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,447
Books and Bug are polar opposites, despite their friendship. Rumors on the road speak of a hospital in Washing D.C. Leading a small group of survivors, including pregnant women, the two travel in earnest to provide the soon-to-be mothers a safe place to deliver. Bug–a natural, charismatic leader–refuses to leave anyone behind while Books–a pragmatic social outsider–wishes not to be responsible for the safety of others. Together, they're exactly what this group needs to survive. But DC isn't exactly the safe haven they hoped for.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Excruciating (update 2x)
- By Kelly A McDermott on 10-13-22
- Commune 5
- Commune, Book 5
- By: Joshua Gayou, Devon C. Ford
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
What happened?
Reviewed: 09-20-23
Commune WAS a favorite...not anymore. Jake was mysterious. Inexplicable stumbling rage isn't even close.
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Whispers in the Tall Grass
- By: Nick Brokhausen
- Narrated by: George Spelvin
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,035
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,825
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,821
On his second combat tour, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. This unit was part of MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observations Group), or Studies and Observations Group as it was innocuously called. The small recon companies that were the center of its activities conducted some of the most dangerous missions of the war, infiltrating areas controlled by the North Vietnamese in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The companies never exceeded more than 30 Americans, yet they were the best source for the enemy's disposition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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OUTSTANDING
- By James on 12-21-19
- Whispers in the Tall Grass
- By: Nick Brokhausen
- Narrated by: George Spelvin
An Injection of Respect
Reviewed: 07-04-23
After listening to both volumes of this story, the feeling I'm left with is one of deep, deep respect for the Montagnards and the American soldiers who became their brothers in arms.
The books are not about them. They are just a part of it. A part I did not understand until I heard this story. A part I want to know more about.
That is what a successful book does. It plants a seed inside you. I'm going to water mine.
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Blood Meridian
- Or the Evening Redness in the West
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,342
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,586
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,568
Author of the National Book Award-winning All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A beautiful nightmare
- By Ryan on 07-11-11
- Blood Meridian
- Or the Evening Redness in the West
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
Masterful
Reviewed: 06-01-23
You have two choices here. Grab your dictionary and look up every new word you hear the author use, for there will be many, or simply let his mastery of the english language wash over you as the meanings leach into your brain as he paints another masterpiece.
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Frankenstein
- By: Mary Shelley
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21,027
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18,934
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18,863
Narrator Dan Stevens ( Downton Abbey) presents an uncanny performance of Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel, an epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.
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3 out of 5 stars
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ARE WE ALWAYS TO BE UNHAPPY?
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 01-28-16
- Frankenstein
- By: Mary Shelley
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
I had no idea...
Reviewed: 05-30-23
I had no idea that a tale we all THINK we know so well could be so much better than the preconceived notions I had held all these years.
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