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Stay True
- A Memoir
- De: Hua Hsu
- Narrado por: Hua Hsu
- Duración: 5 h y 28 m
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In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, who makes ’zines and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to. The only thing Hua and Ken have in common is that, however they engage with it, American culture doesn’t seem to have a place for either of them.
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At the end, this book is about friendships
- De rosalinda lam en 10-31-22
“what we pretend to be is fragile in the wake of personal tragedy.”
Revisado: 04-09-25
“When you’re young, you do so many things hoping to be noticed. The way you dress or stand, the music played loud enough to catch the attention of another person who might know a song, too. And then there are things you do as you step out into the world, the real world full of strange adults, testing out what it means to be generous or thoughtful. In that instant, before every memory was placed along some narrative arc, before the act of remembering took on a desperate air, I simply felt lucky enough to witness something so effortlessly kind - to see my friend do something that was good.”
There is that infamous quote from Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut that goes, “we are who we pretend to be, so we must be careful about who we pretend to be.” This memoir rewrites that quote a bit: “what we pretend to be is fragile in the wake of personal tragedy.”
I’ll be honest here: Hua Hsu, from this memoir, sounds like an insufferable asshole. His personality reminds me a bit of dudes who put that they’re only interested in deep conversation in their dating profiles, who treat the world around them that doesn’t align as not having value.
That’s probably a little unfair, but I kind of felt annoyed reading this at points. That cult of self really hits on these pages, but it’s one thing to reduce people’s value to the music they like or the content they consume.
Still, I liked this. Quite a bit. I enjoy Hsu’s observations on the facets of grief and other things.
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Uncommon Type
- Some Stories
- De: Tom Hanks
- Narrado por: Tom Hanks
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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A collection of 17 wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. The short stories are surprising, intelligent, heartwarming, and, for the millions and millions of Tom Hanks fans, an absolute must-have!
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Old fashioned romp of stories, some real gems!
- De Lili en 11-13-17
- Uncommon Type
- Some Stories
- De: Tom Hanks
- Narrado por: Tom Hanks
Hanx’ Greatest Hits
Revisado: 01-29-25
“Kirk, as his defensive stance, pulled out book after book, reading like he was a chain-smoker with a carton of menthols.”
I liked this collection, but I don’t think the gimmick works all that well. The gimmick is, there is a typewriter somewhere in every story, kind of like “Where’s Waldo” for vintage nerds.
If you’re familiar with Tom Hanks’ oeuvre, then you kind of know what’s in store, and in many ways it feels like his “greatest hits.” To me, that’s not a bad thing. Love me some Hanx.
There are many stand out stories in here.
The first, “Three Exhausting Weeks” is a great story about a whirlwind relationship with a person that is “too much.” It ends amicably, and loved it for that. Also connects to the last story, “Steve Wong Is Perfect.”
“Welcome to Mars” is not a space story, but I really liked it a lot. “Alan Bean Plus Four” is the space story, and I really liked it a lot.
“The Past is Important to Us” is a fantastic time travel story that becomes a horror story.
I think the best story is “Go See Kostas, about an immigrant from Bulgaria coming to America. Hanx captures a beautiful vision of what immigration was like in nicer times.
All in all, I dig it. Will reread my favorites.
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Lost Man's Lane
- A Novel
- De: Scott Carson
- Narrado por: Corey Brill
- Duración: 15 h y 30 m
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Marshall Miller would’ve remembered her face even if he hadn’t seen it on a MISSING poster. When a young woman disappears in his small town, the investigation hinges on Marshall’s haunted sighting of her, crying in the back seat of a police car driven by a cop named Maddox. There’s only one problem: no local cop named Maddox exists. But the speeding ticket he handed to Marshall certainly does.
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Two Pack and Nazz
- De Katy Ryan en 04-04-24
- Lost Man's Lane
- A Novel
- De: Scott Carson
- Narrado por: Corey Brill
Well written, but the big bad threw me
Revisado: 12-17-24
This book has all the hallmarks of a fantastic coming of age story, until the big reveal of who and what the big bad is. I appreciate the want for originality, but that reveal just kind of took the wind out of my sails. Will check out more from this author, though.
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Boys in the Valley
- De: Philip Fracassi
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life here. As he approaches adulthood, he has friends, a future...a family. Then, late one stormy night, a group of men arrive at their door, one of whom is badly wounded, occult symbols carved into his flesh. His death releases an ancient evil that spreads like sickness, infecting St. Vincent's and the children within.
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Absolutely deserves five stars
- De wisconsinclark en 08-04-24
- Boys in the Valley
- De: Philip Fracassi
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
Peter is a 🥾+ 👅er
Revisado: 12-06-24
I’m not the biggest fan of possession literature. Evil is tame in these novels more often than not, and the same is the case in this instance.
This book had a chance to really showcase how bad religious trauma is, and to an extent it does, but settled for a redemption arc involving a teenager who chose his abusers over love. What kind of message is that?
Those kids did nothing wrong.
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This Thing Between Us
- A Novel
- De: Gus Moreno
- Narrado por: Robb Moreira
- Duración: 5 h y 56 m
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It was Vera’s idea to buy the Itza. The “world’s most advanced smart speaker!” didn’t interest Thiago, but Vera thought it would be a bit of fun for them amidst all the strange occurrences happening in the condo. It made things worse. The cold spots and scratching in the walls were weird enough, but peculiar packages started showing up at the house - who ordered industrial lye? Then, there was the eerie music at odd hours, Thiago waking up to Itza projecting light shows in an empty room.
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Unsure what I feel but it’s a lot
- De Liv Templeton en 12-01-21
- This Thing Between Us
- A Novel
- De: Gus Moreno
- Narrado por: Robb Moreira
A Grueling, Brutal, Dreamlike Nightmare on the Natute of Grief.
Revisado: 10-30-24
As someone who has lost a lot of people, this book is incredible. It portrays grief in all its forms: as relentless guilt; stoic strength in front of people who don’t really want or know how to be there for you; a comforting word which does nothing to reassure you. Life feels dreamlike. This book is brilliant. Highly recommended.
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The Paranormal Ranger
- A Navajo Investigator’s Search for the Unexplained
- De: Stanley Milford Jr.
- Narrado por: Stanley Milford Jr., Duane Minard
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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As a Native American with parents of both Navajo and Cherokee descent, Stanley Milford Jr. grew up in a world where the supernatural was both expected and taboo, where shapeshifters roamed, witchcraft was a thing to be feared, and children were taught not to whistle at night. In his youth, Milford never went looking for the paranormal, but it always seemed to find him. When he joined the fabled Navajo Rangers—a law enforcement branch of the Navajo Nation who are equal parts police officers, archeological conservationists, and historians—the paranormal became part of his job.
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Needs a better narrator
- De Kindle Customer en 11-08-24
- The Paranormal Ranger
- A Navajo Investigator’s Search for the Unexplained
- De: Stanley Milford Jr.
- Narrado por: Stanley Milford Jr., Duane Minard
If you enjoyed the Unsolved Mysteries episode, this is a must read!
Revisado: 10-25-24
After watching the Unsolved Mysteries episode about the Paranormal Rangers, I wanted to hear more, and I’m so glad Stanley Milford, Jr.’s book is out now. Milford, Jr. does such a wonderful job narrating it, and the stories he tells are endlessly fascinating, full of more details about them. The book is wonderfully interspersed with Navajo lore in between stories of Milford Jr’s time with The Navajo Rangers. This is a must read and a wonderful inclusion to the wide variety of paranormal literature in print.
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Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One
- De: Jack Townsend
- Narrado por: MrCreepyPasta
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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Drunk customers. Shoplifting raccoons. Otherworldly visitors. As night shift clerk at the 24-hour gas station at the edge of town, Jack has pretty much seen it all.
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- De Avery Adair en 11-27-23
- Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One
- De: Jack Townsend
- Narrado por: MrCreepyPasta
A really fun mess, part John Dies at the End, part Crank.
Revisado: 10-07-24
This book is a mess, but it’s super fun. Its “all over the place” vibe really lends itself to an entertaining story.
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When Darkness Loves Us
- Paperbacks from Hell
- De: Elizabeth Engstrom
- Narrado por: Karly Hutchins
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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Sally Ann and Martha. Two women, searching for love. Finding terror. During a terrifying storm, a gentle childhood is destroyed by a twisted man who promises love but delivers nightmare. In the lightless depths of an underground labyrinth, unseen creatures lie in wait for an innocent traveler, cold skeletal hands stretched out in welcome. There is horror in darkness - horror made greater when darkness loves us.
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Loved it
- De timj26 en 04-30-23
- When Darkness Loves Us
- Paperbacks from Hell
- De: Elizabeth Engstrom
- Narrado por: Karly Hutchins
Two really great novellas.
Revisado: 09-27-24
This collection contains two novellas, the first, “When Darkness Loves Us” is good, but “Beauty Is…” is PHENOMENAL. Both are slow burns, but their endings more than make up for it.
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After the Flying Saucers Came
- A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon
- De: Greg Eghigian
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 15 h y 49 m
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Greg Eghigian tells the story of the world's fascination with UFOs and the prospect that they were the work of visitors from outer space. While accounts of great wonders in the sky date back to antiquity, reports of UFOs took place against the unique backdrop of the Cold War and space age. After the Flying Saucers Came traces how a seemingly isolated incident sparked an international drama involving shady figures, questionable evidence, suspicions of conspiracy, hoaxes, new religions, scandals, unsettling alien encounters, debunkers, and celebrities.
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Old news = snooze
- De Amazon Customer en 11-23-24
- After the Flying Saucers Came
- A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon
- De: Greg Eghigian
- Narrado por: David Colacci
A great overview of UFOs and alien contact
Revisado: 09-04-24
Greg had been researching this topic for a long time and it comes through. More importantly, Greg presents the UFO phenomenon in as wide a lens as possible and on many continents as possible, an aspect missing from most books on the topic, which are typically Amerocentric. It’s not without its flaws, but its strengths far out measure them.
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Any Man
- A Novel
- De: Amber Tamblyn
- Narrado por: Glenn Davis, Robin Miles, Therese Plummer, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 33 m
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In this electric and provocative debut novel, Amber Tamblyn blends genres of poetry, prose, and elements of suspense to give shape to the shocking narratives of victims of sexual violence, mapping the destructive ways in which our society perpetuates rape culture, brilliantly brought to life through a multi-voice performance featuring Glenn Davis, Ben Foster, Marc Maron, Jason Ritter, John Roberts, Russ Tamblyn, Amber Tamblyn, January Lavoy, Phoebe Strole, Robin Miles, Thérèse Plummer, Dan Bittner, James Fouhey, and Michael Crouch.
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I've been finished with this for hours
- De Bill en 06-29-18
- Any Man
- A Novel
- De: Amber Tamblyn
- Narrado por: Glenn Davis, Robin Miles, Therese Plummer, Dan Bittner, James Fouhey, Michael Crouch, Ben Foster, Marc Maron
The Most Affecting Book About Assault I’ve Ever Read
Revisado: 03-18-24
This book will not leave my mind ever. As someone who has been assaulted, it felt real reading this.
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