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In the Woods
- A Novel
- De: Tana French
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 20 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 18,105
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14,884
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 14,858
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Detection with a Difference
- De Lesley en 07-18-07
- In the Woods
- A Novel
- De: Tana French
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
Disappointing
Revisado: 12-12-14
What disappointed you about In the Woods?
Spoiler alert: as a "whodunit" mystery this book is disappointing. There are two mysteries in it, one is never solved and serves only as a distraction from the main story. It brings in elements of the supernatural that are never developed or explained. The main mystery is not handled well, and the characters lack insight and depth.
Would you be willing to try another one of Steven Crossley’s performances?
If by a different author
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Doctor Sleep
- A Novel
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 18 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39,123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35,533
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35,452
Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special 12-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted fans of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Because the Past Defines the Present
- De Cynthia en 09-28-13
- Doctor Sleep
- A Novel
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Will Patton
It's like listening to the old Stephen King
Revisado: 03-02-14
Any additional comments?
I have been a cocstant and faithful reader of Stephen King, but some of the recent titles have been lacking. Dr. Sleep was like a welcome back! The story and plot were suspenseful without the graphic details. The characters were like old friends. I enjoyed this story and highly recommend it.
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NOS4A2
- A Novel
- De: Joe Hill
- Narrado por: Kate Mulgrew
- Duración: 19 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17,744
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16,270
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16,245
Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Vic doesn't tell anyone about her unusual ability, because she knows no one will believe her. She has trouble understanding it herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping performance by Kate Mulgrew....
- De Leslie en 05-06-13
- NOS4A2
- A Novel
- De: Joe Hill
- Narrado por: Kate Mulgrew
Poor narration
Revisado: 12-13-13
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The voices used by the narrator were disturbing and made it difficult to continue to listen. If the story hadn't been so intriguing I would not have been able to complete the book. I would have enjoyed it better if the narrator had simply read the book.
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Zoo
- De: James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,265
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,905
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,895
All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear. With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it's too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will be no place left for humans to hide.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Love Patterson, but this was just SILLY
- De JimmyD en 09-06-12
- Zoo
- De: James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
Good book, but...
Revisado: 09-29-13
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The narrator had a good voice and read the story well, but his voice when reading the part of children detracted from the story. It would have been better if he had continued with his regular voice and not tried to impersonate a child. His tone, and inflection for children's voices grated on my nerves and made it hard for me to appreciate those characters.
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The Golden Compass
- His Dark Materials, Book 1
- De: Philip Pullman
- Narrado por: Philip Pullman, Joanna Wyatt, Rupert Degas, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20,158
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15,108
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15,101
Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal—including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world. Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want. But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Audio Book I've ever Heard
- De GSDNH en 11-13-03
- The Golden Compass
- His Dark Materials, Book 1
- De: Philip Pullman
- Narrado por: Philip Pullman, Joanna Wyatt, Rupert Degas, Alison Dowling, Douglas Blackwell, Jill Shilling, Stephen Thorne, Sean Barrett, Garrick Hagon, John O'Connor, Susan Sheridan, full cast
Loved it!
Revisado: 12-21-12
Any additional comments?
I can't wait to listen to book two! The story is suspenseful and well written. The narration is superb!
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Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
- De: Matthew Dicks
- Narrado por: Matthew Brown
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 762
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 664
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 670
Budo is lucky as imaginary friends go. He's been alive for more than five years, which is positively ancient in the world of imaginary friends. But Budo feels his age, and thinks constantly of the day when eight-year-old Max Delaney will stop believing in him. When that happens, Budo will disappear. Max is different from other children. Some people say that he has Asperger's Syndrome, but most just say he's "on the spectrum." None of this matters to Budo, who loves Max and is charged with protecting him from the class bully.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Brilliant Book
- De Taryn en 08-24-12
- Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
- De: Matthew Dicks
- Narrado por: Matthew Brown
Very good-but...
Revisado: 12-21-12
Any additional comments?
This was an excellent story. As a teacher of young children with special needs, I found the story very true to real life. The only part that I didn't understand was the very end. What happened to Budo?
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The Good House
- De: Tananarive Due
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 21 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,089
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,133
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,122
Tananarive Due, author of The Living Blood won the American Book Award and is praised as Stephen King's equal by Publishers Weekly. In The Good House, Due sets a story of ancient powers and modern retribution in a small Pacific Northwest town. When a young woman returns to her grandmother's empty mansion, she is pitted against demonic forces that have poisoned her family for generations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deeply Satisfying
- De Lee en 05-08-08
- The Good House
- De: Tananarive Due
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
Overall a decent story
Revisado: 06-05-12
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Probably
What aspect of Robin Miles’s performance would you have changed?
Good narrator
Any additional comments?
The story was good up until the final chapter. The end was cheesy- story would have been better if it ended without the last chapter.
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Stories
- All-New Tales
- De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, Al Sarrantonio - editor, Joe Hill, y otros
- Narrado por: Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 890
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 695
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 695
The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Something for Everyone
- De Nicole en 05-24-17
- Stories
- All-New Tales
- De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, Al Sarrantonio - editor, Joe Hill, Joanne Harris, Richard Adams, Jeffery Deaver
- Narrado por: Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren, Euan Morton
Disappointing
Revisado: 05-09-12
Would you try another book from the authors and/or the narrators?
Probably not from the authors- definitely not from the narrators
What do you think your next listen will be?
Unknown
What didn’t you like about the narrators’s performance?
Very poor accents that were mostly stereotypical and grated on my nerves.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Stories?
Most of the stories. There were only a few that were good, and on them the narration was bad.
Any additional comments?
There were a few good stories, so I kept listening, but most were disappointing and some were really awful!
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Under the Dome
- A Novel
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Raul Esparza
- Duración: 34 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29,217
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22,411
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22,419
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when - or if - it will go away.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Glad I Listened to 11-22-63 First
- De Russell en 02-09-12
- Under the Dome
- A Novel
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Raul Esparza
predictable
Revisado: 08-20-10
This book took a long time to get started and never really got off of the ground. As a long time Stephen King fan, I found it predictable and to be a blend of previously written books. The basic good vs, evil of The Stand, blended with some of the alien invasion features of The Tommyknockers.
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Legends II: Volume III
- New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy
- De: Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Robert Silverberg
- Narrado por: Jason Culp, Peter Bradbury, Michael Emerson
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 174
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Fantasy fans, rejoice! Seven years after writer and editor Robert Silverberg made publishing history with Legends, the acclaimed anthology of original short novels by some of the greatest writers in fantasy fiction, the long-awaited second volume is here. Each of the best-selling writers represented in these selections from Legends II returns to the fantasy universe he or she made famous throughout the world.
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2 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 3 of these stories
- De Barb en 06-21-10
- Legends II: Volume III
- New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy
- De: Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Robert Silverberg
- Narrado por: Jason Culp, Peter Bradbury, Michael Emerson
2 out of 3 of these stories
Revisado: 06-21-10
Of the 3 stories in this book 2 were totally forgettable. The third was a better listen.
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