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The Body in the Stairwell
- DCI Craig Gillard, Book 10
- De: Nick Louth
- Narrado por: Marston York
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 309
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 309
Jonathan Hale is terrified. The wealthy property lawyer and money launderer is back home in Surrey after a nightmare experience in a U.S. jail. The police have him under secret surveillance. But Hales's fears lie elsewhere. His plea bargain has earned him the enmity of The Reptile, a notoriously cold-hearted gangster, now confined for life in a maximum-security jail in Arizona thanks to Hale. He's taken precautions, moved house, hidden his identity and installed security for his wife and family. But still… what if The Reptile escapes?
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1 out of 5 stars
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To gruesome
- De Bookloverco en 09-23-22
- The Body in the Stairwell
- DCI Craig Gillard, Book 10
- De: Nick Louth
- Narrado por: Marston York
Frustrating Villain
Revisado: 03-04-25
As someone else said, when the villain was first introduced, I wasn’t sure I was up for it. He seemed too intense and I was not looking for the stuff of nightmares. As it turned out, his background character did not match his actions in the plot. He’s described as a ruthless master criminal, murderer, who terrifies the most hardened criminals and then when he arrives on scene basically behaves like a bullying frat boy.
I hated, I mean hated most of the characters. I knew the villain was going to get caught. I just hoped he would kill several people beforehand.
All that said. It is a “page turner,” so to speak. And it’s short.
Oh and there are several editing errors. But basically you know who they mean.
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Faith Alone
- The Heart of Everything
- De: Bo Giertz
- Narrado por: Erick Sorensen, Bror Erickson
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3
This is Bo Giertz's masterpiece—written with the doctrinal clarity and purpose of G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis, the historical acumen of Bernard Cornwell, and the psychological insight of Kafka. The result is a Scandinavian Noir that cuts open the soul and lays it at the foot of the cross.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Heart of Everything
- De ADG en 05-30-24
- Faith Alone
- The Heart of Everything
- De: Bo Giertz
- Narrado por: Erick Sorensen, Bror Erickson
The producers don’t understand audiobooks
Revisado: 06-28-24
Loser Aaron make terrible novelists. We don’t know how to tell a story. There is a lot of potential in this for great storytelling and perhaps a person who knows the history of Sweden and knows lots of esoteric history and even for trying too much. It’s essentially debate finalized.
And the reader is just reading the book aloud not understanding that he’s reading for an audience. Every time he expresses outrage, no matter which character, it sounds like Rick Moranis as the key master in Ghostbusters. I can tell you. ;)
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The Red Badge of Courage
- De: Stephen Crane
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 4 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 199
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 146
Young Henry Fleming used to play soldier and dream of being a hero, but when he faces his first battle - the Battle of Chancellorsville - he finds that heroism is not at all what he had expected. Shells burst in front of him like strange flowers, gunfire ripped toward him in great crackling sheets of flame, and all around him, blue-coated figures lie still on the blood-drenched grass. Remarkably, Stephen Crane wrote this realistic tale of the terror of war without ever witnessing a battle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Classic
- De Sher from Provo en 06-06-16
- The Red Badge of Courage
- De: Stephen Crane
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
“I don’t like masterpieces” Holli Martens
Revisado: 06-22-24
That’s not true. I do. I’m usually surprised by how accessible a “masterpiece” is. This is a great story, well told. If not it wouldn’t have been successful in its time. And it was wildly successful. Unfortunately this reading of it is more a recitation of a masterpiece of the English language than the telling of a great story. I may look for another recording of it. I stuck it out because it was only 4 hours but by the last hour I couldn’t wait for it to be over. And to be honest, I don’t even remember how it ended and I just finished it yesterday.
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The Scarlet Letter
- De: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Narrado por: Michael Learned
- Duración: 2 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 907
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 794
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 794
Written in the winter of 1849, The Scarlet Letter unfolds the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman branded as an adulteress in the harsh Puritan world of 17th-century New England. As Hester calls on her inner strength to transcend her shame, the scarlet letter ceases to be a stigma and finally becomes Hester's symbol of self-affirmation. This dramatic reading heightens the sense of lyric poetry that permeates every line of Nathaniel Hawthorne's great novel.
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1 out of 5 stars
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abridged unlike pic indicates
- De Rhonda K. Fuller en 09-22-20
- The Scarlet Letter
- De: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Narrado por: Michael Learned
“The words came tumbling out”
Revisado: 03-28-24
Here I am almost 60 and had never read The Scarlet Letter. Somehow it was never assigned to me, unlike every other student of the past century. But, I had learned what I was supposed to think of it by proxy. Everyone knows it’s the story of Puritan sexual oppression. Duh.
The story is a brilliant illustration of how moral law, civil law, and even ceremonial law meet. The sin of adultery is the only one that must involve 2 people and therefore presents this opportunity of one being punished under civil law and one left “unscathed.”
Hawthorn also captures the reality of how Satan works upon the heart of the sinner. Convincing us our sin is too much to be forgiven even by Christ. That we must keep our sin stained souls hidden in darkness to protect ourselves, our status, and the social fabric of our communities.
Finally, we are shown the beautiful redemption that is given to us when we repent, and confess, and receive by faith the forgiveness of sins and eternal life with our merciful God. And, by contrast, the defeat of Satan and all his power.
Michael Learned is the spot on choice as reader. Her voice is one of calm and reserve. She reads the story simply and beautifully, the way a teacher might read to a class. She does not perform voice characterizations because it’s not what the story calls for. That would remove the listener from the beauty and the integrity of the tale.
My only objection is her pace. Because the book is written in a nearly extinct version of English, it requires some mental translation. I am fortunate in that I am biblically literate and read from different centuries regularly. But I did have to “rewind” a few times when my mind couldn’t keep up either my ears. I can’t imagine the struggle an unchurched teen with no concept of Christianity, sin, repentance, and redemption would have trying to decipher the point of this book. No wonder they all just accept the simplistic interpretation the teachers of the sexual revolution have handed them.
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