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Recon
- Convergence, Book 4
- De: Craig Alanson
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 16 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2,661
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,491
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,491
Kaz Wolfe has everything he needs to prevent a Convergence that would allow gods and monsters from the Nether to invade our world. Everything, other than a single clue about what a Convergence is. Or how it works. Or how to stop it. To get answers, he might have to take a fun-filled family road trip to the last place he wants to go: the Netherworld.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kaz being a whinny little crybaby
- De Justin James en 05-22-24
- Recon
- Convergence, Book 4
- De: Craig Alanson
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
Constant suspense
Revisado: 06-04-24
The characters in this series are the highlight. Ongoing action makes it hard to stop listening. What a great escape!
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Dragonslayer
- Convergence, Book 2
- De: Craig Alanson
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 17 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,670
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,343
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,341
The enemy unknowingly opened a portal to the Netherworld, and our world’s only wizard somehow managed to close it. Unfortunately, something got through. Something big. A dragon. Now Kaz Wolfe, with help from his dog Duke who is channeling the spirit of a wizard from ancient Babylon, and with no help from Azib the Cowardly Genie, must find the dragon before someone gets a cellphone video of the thing, and the world learns that magic is real. Or, you know, before the dragon eats someone.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Non progressing plot and too much cheesy filler.
- De Amazon Customer en 05-31-23
- Dragonslayer
- Convergence, Book 2
- De: Craig Alanson
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
Talking animals and magic
Revisado: 02-23-24
Fun story. Best parts are Caz’s interactions with the animals, especially Duke. I can’t look at my dogs now without imagining what the might say.
The descriptions of conspiracy theorists and New Age believers was accurate and excellent satire.
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Convergence
- Convergence, Book 1
- De: Craig Alanson
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 16 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,056
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8,426
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,402
My name is Kazimir Wolfe. People call me "Kaz", except they don’t. I never use my real name; it’s too dangerous, for me and for anyone I meet. I’m on the run from the law, who think I killed my aunt, and from whoever did kill her, because they want to finish the job. So, I move around a lot, working construction or whatever job I can find. It’s a lonely life. I don’t let anyone get close...people who get close to me end up dead. Why? I’m a wizard. The world’s only wizard, as far as I know.
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1 out of 5 stars
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How did this get passed an editor?
- De Joseph en 08-03-22
- Convergence
- Convergence, Book 1
- De: Craig Alanson
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
Fun and funny
Revisado: 02-18-24
A talking dog added humor to suspense. The performance was very good, but the voice was too old for a character in his mid 20s. Didn’t like that it didn’t actually end.
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Tom Lake
- A Novel
- De: Ann Patchett
- Narrado por: Meryl Streep
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16,762
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 15,512
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15,498
In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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1 out of 5 stars
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So incredibly boring
- De Rhonda Morrison en 08-05-23
- Tom Lake
- A Novel
- De: Ann Patchett
- Narrado por: Meryl Streep
Beautiful
Revisado: 12-13-23
Ann Patchett has written the best pandemic book. It weaves together past and present, young love and mature love and love of place. The characters are richly drawn. Her writing is simple and beautiful. It is a story as much about life as Our Town. Meryl Streep’s reading is pitch perfect.
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The Years
- De: Annie Ernaux
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 199
The Years is a personal narrative of the period of 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present - even projections into the future - photos, books, songs, radio, television, and decades of advertising and headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and written notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the time, slogans, brands, and names for ever-proliferating objects are given a voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mixed Feelings
- De Elin VanD en 05-10-20
- The Years
- De: Annie Ernaux
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
Remarkable
Revisado: 01-25-23
A tour de forcé. Ernaux ties together internal and external events in a way that is unique. It lets each of us rethink the passage of time in our own lives.
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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston
- Duración: 21 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 30,635
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27,721
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 27,655
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! It’s a Masterpiece
- De Billy en 10-25-22
- Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston
Wonderful story
Revisado: 01-16-23
It is a morality tale wrapped up in a good old fashioned yarn. Beautifully written.
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The Island of Missing Trees
- A Novel
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Daphne Kouma, Amira Ghazalla
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,815
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,625
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,620
Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WOW! What a great story and narration!
- De Marcy en 12-02-21
- The Island of Missing Trees
- A Novel
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Daphne Kouma, Amira Ghazalla
Good story
Revisado: 11-06-22
This was a beautiful story, revealing a too little known history. Using the fig tree as a narrator was an unnecessary addition, detracting from the narrative.
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Savage Beauty
- The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- De: Nancy Milford
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 24 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself. Her voice was likened to an instrument of seduction, and her impact on crowds and on men was legendary. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Woman
- De David P en 04-29-22
- Savage Beauty
- The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- De: Nancy Milford
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
Fascinating life
Revisado: 06-26-22
I have enjoyed Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poetry for many years, but knew little of her life. During her lifetime, however, it appears the reverse was true for her contemporary audience. The biography is an excellent portrait of a woman who lived by her own rules at a time when this was simply not done. Her story is ultimately tragic, as is true for so many artists. It is well written and researched. My only criticism is that it is too long.
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The Sentence
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Louise Erdrich
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,666
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,339
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,323
Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading "with murderous attention", must solve the mystery of this haunting.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Addictive and surprising
- De Amazon Customer en 11-25-21
- The Sentence
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich’s Best
Revisado: 03-15-22
A combination ghost story, love story, political story and more. Louise Erdrich tells it in language so beautiful it makes me want to cry. It is also a tale of hope and redemption.
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Whereabouts
- A Novel
- De: Jhumpa Lahiri
- Narrado por: Susan Vinciotti Bonito
- Duración: 3 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 174
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 176
Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. In the arc of one year, an unnamed narrator in an unnamed city, in the middle of her life’s journey, realizes that she’s lost her way. The city she calls home acts as a companion and interlocutor: traversing the streets around her house, and in parks, piazzas, museums, stores, and coffee bars, she feels less alone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gorgeous melancholy reflections
- De BenYL en 06-15-21
- Whereabouts
- A Novel
- De: Jhumpa Lahiri
- Narrado por: Susan Vinciotti Bonito
Disappointing
Revisado: 06-20-21
For a book that received such excellent reviews, I found it lacking. The writing is beautiful and each episode has a point or two. But I kept looking for some reason to care about this woman and found none.
The narrator was excellent in most ways, but needs to learn not to drop certain vowel sounds, e.g. the g in recognition.
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