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The Pale Blue Eye
- De: Louis Bayard
- Narrado por: Charles Leggett
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 471
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 415
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 414
When the body of a suicide victim disappears at West Point Military Academy in 1831, only to be discovered hours later missing its heart, the Academy calls on retired detective Gus Landor to investigate. Landor is something of a legend among his peers, noted for an uncanny, Holmesian ability to read people. When Edgar Allan Poe, a new cadet, comes forth with his own cryptic conclusion—that the man Landor is looking for is a poet—Landor is intrigued and enlists Poe as his assistant.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Could not get through it
- De Amazon Customer en 10-25-15
- The Pale Blue Eye
- De: Louis Bayard
- Narrado por: Charles Leggett
the movie was really good; the book is better.
Revisado: 04-06-23
I didn't know Bayard's work before. but i do now. The movie's ending caught me off guard and when I saw there was a book, I got it the next day and plunged right in. I loved the depth of the book, but the movie couldn't go that far.
Charles Leggett was amazing. His voicing of "Gus" reminded me of the late actor Darren McGavin (who would love this, too thinking about one of great tv series, "Kolchak: the Night Stalker!)
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Fire Season
- A Novel
- De: Leyna Krow
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 14
For the citizens of Spokane Falls, the fire of 1889 that destroyed their frontier boomtown was no disaster; it was an opportunity. Barton Heydale, manager of the only bank in Spokane Falls, is on the verge of ending his short, unpopular life. But when his city goes up in flames, he sees an ember of hope shimmering on the horizon, headed right for him. As citizens flock to the bank to cash out insurance policies and take out loans, he realizes he can command the power he craves—and it’s not by following the rules. Here is his reason to live.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Kind of weird to be honest
- De D. Disser en 04-20-23
- Fire Season
- A Novel
- De: Leyna Krow
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
I loved this book, until...
Revisado: 11-15-22
the ending. Quirky characters were great, but the ending was befuddling and disappointing. I would still recommend it and I will look forward to reading other listener's reviews. BTW, Mark Deakins is a favorite reader of mine,
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Extraordinary Adventures
- De: Daniel Wallace
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 57
Edsel Bronfman works as a junior executive shipping clerk for an importer of Korean flatware. He lives in a seedy neighborhood and spends his free time with his spirited mother. Things happen to other people, and Bronfman knows it. Until, that is, he gets a call from operator 61217 telling him that he's won a free weekend at a beachfront condo in Destin, Florida. But there's a catch: The offer is intended for a couple, and Bronfman has only 79 days to find someone to take with him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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another great story by Daniel Wallace.
- De TBane en 06-13-19
- Extraordinary Adventures
- De: Daniel Wallace
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
He chose the wrong woman...
Revisado: 02-26-21
...in my opinion. it was a long book considering the plot. I loved the author's other book which became the movie, "Big Fish".
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Martin Eden
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: Peter Newcombe Joyce
- Duración: 16 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16
The phrase 'this book will change your life' has become one of the clichés of the publishing world, but Martin Eden is certainly a novel that merits that observation. Set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, Jack London's semiautobiographical narrative tells of working class sailor Eden's struggle to elevate himself to a level of society wherein, he believes, reside the intellect and culture he craves. One of the reasons for this endeavour is Ruth Morse, with whom he has fallen in love.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Martin Eden character reminds me of...
- De robert en 12-27-20
- Martin Eden
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: Peter Newcombe Joyce
The Martin Eden character reminds me of...
Revisado: 12-27-20
Ayn Rand's Howard Roark character in "The Fountainhead in respect to their unflinching principles. (I really detest what Ayn Rand's philosophy though.). Both books have a lot of "speechifying" which gets a bit tiresome after a while. London was a magnificent writer though
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The Second Coming
- De: Walker Percy
- Narrado por: David Hilder
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 137
Will Barrett of Linwood, North Carolina, is a depressed widower with a peculiar tendency to fall down in strange places. Allison, the girl in the greenhouse, has just escaped from a mental institution and is working hard to make a new life for herself. When their paths cross in a most unusual manner, a relationship begins that will help restore two struggling outcasts to new life. What follows is by turns touching and zany, tragic and comic, as Will undertakes his own Pascalian wager in search of proof that God exists.
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5 out of 5 stars
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No Easy Hothouse of Consecration
- De Darwin8u en 11-27-12
- The Second Coming
- De: Walker Percy
- Narrado por: David Hilder
Spoiler: Disappointing ending,IMO...
Revisado: 12-07-20
Mr. Percy was a brilliant writer, but I sure wished he maybe could have saved a little more energy and cut back on his issues with religion and tied up a few at the very end of the book. It is like he just quit writing it. I expect Cormac McCarthy books to do this, but not in this case. I doubt I would have listened for almost 13 hours had i known this.
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The Big Door Prize
- De: M. O. Walsh
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 116
What would you do if you knew your life's potential? That's the question facing the residents of Deerfield, Louisiana, when the DNAMIX machine appears in their local grocery store. It's nothing to look at, really—it resembles a plain photo booth. But its promise is amazing: With just a quick swab of your cheek and two dollars, the device claims to use the science of DNA to tell you your life's potential. With enough credibility to make the townspeople curious, soon the former teachers, nurses, and shopkeepers of Deerfield are abruptly changing course to pursue their destinies.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Such a let down
- De Anonymous User en 07-06-22
- The Big Door Prize
- De: M. O. Walsh
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
This could have been a funny book...
Revisado: 11-23-20
...but it was just the opposite. After what i thought was a good beginning, the whole thing began to get tiresome, including the reader. I am as big a fan of John Prine as he ever had, but I did not understand the cribbing of song titles or verses for chapter titles and even the title of the book, and at least in the case of one character assuming the name of a figure in a Prine song (Pamela Walker). Do you have to get permission to do this; obviously not. It was over-kill for an homage to the great singer/songwriter, IMO.
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Seize the Day
- De: Saul Bellow
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 3 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 306
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 268
Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children; at odds with his vain, successful father; failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as “the type that loses the girl”); and in a financial mess.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why?
- De Ashraf Abaza en 05-16-19
- Seize the Day
- De: Saul Bellow
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
read all of Bellow's work, this one...
Revisado: 10-29-20
...left me utterly frustrated. I liked or loved the other ones, but not this one.
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North River
- De: Pete Hamill
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 73
Haunted by the horrors of World War I, Dr. James Delaney's personal life is a nightmare. But everything changes when he returns home one day to find his three-year-old grandson on his doorstep.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good but...
- De Eileen en 08-01-08
- North River
- De: Pete Hamill
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
Wished Pete Hamill had written a sequel!
Revisado: 08-11-20
I loved everything about this book and i would liked to have known more about the characters as WW II was on the verge of breaking out as it ends. All of them were young and had a lot of living to have expounded upon. I kept wondering about this "North River" that the title and the book refers to, so it was then that I learned this was the older name for the Hudson. I had never known that, but Hamill really knew "his" town.
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Watershed
- A Novel
- De: Mark Barr
- Narrado por: Christian Baskous
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 470
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 426
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 425
Set in 1937 in rural Tennessee, with the construction of a monumental dam serving as background, Watershed delivers a gripping story of characters whose ambitions and yearnings threaten to overflow the banks of their time and place. Nathan, an engineer hiding from his past, and Claire, a housewife, struggle to find their footing in the newly electrified, job-hungry, post-Depression South. As Nathan wrestles with a secret guilt and tangled love, Claire struggles to balance motherhood and a newfound freedom that awakens ambitions and a sexuality she hadn't known she possessed.
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1 out of 5 stars
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DEPRESSING story-don’t waste your time
- De Lisa SRQ en 06-09-21
- Watershed
- A Novel
- De: Mark Barr
- Narrado por: Christian Baskous
loved the book, but...
Revisado: 01-03-20
i did not like the ending. I would listen to Christian Baskous read the "help wanted" ads as long as he doesn't try a southern accent. Even though this book is set in the south, he keeps that in check on this one.
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Call It Sleep
- A Novel
- De: Henry Roth
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 17 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 139
Lauded as the most profound novel of Jewish life ever written by an American, Call It Sleep seamlessly weaves together the searing pains and subtle joys of immigrant life in New York’s Lower East Side. It is the story of David Schearl, a dangerously imaginative little boy who arrives from Eastern Europe in 1907. Shock by shock, he is exposed to the blows - and occasional pleasures - of life in the crowded tenements.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Masterful Reading
- De Sean Bird en 05-14-20
- Call It Sleep
- A Novel
- De: Henry Roth
- Narrado por: George Guidall
masterful reading by George Guidall...i doubt I...
Revisado: 06-01-19
could have read all of this book since there are times it does go into long strange almost incoherent dialog BUT to hear Guidall read it kept me hooked. He did a magnificent job with the accents and pronunciations of the Yiddish dialect.
If people had been able to listen to the performance when it came out in 1935 (?), it most certainly would be one of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, IMO/
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