Joe D. Green
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Buried Deep
- De: Margot Hunt
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 2 h y 38 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 39,156
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35,281
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 35,222
In this pulse-pounding short thriller for fans of Big Little Lies and The Last Mrs. Parrish, Maggie Cabot refuses to sit by idly as police re-open an investigation into the mysterious death of a woman her husband used to know. After two decades in a near-perfect marriage, Maggie and James Cabot are enjoying their first year as empty-nesters in their charming Florida suburb, until two detectives arrive at their front door and change their lives forever.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Drivel
- De Pamela B en 12-11-19
- Buried Deep
- De: Margot Hunt
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
Listened basically straight through.
Revisado: 02-29-20
I really liked the book all the way up until the last 30 seconds. I could have been happier about the ending.
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Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues
- De: Molly Harper
- Narrado por: Amanda Ronconi, Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 3 h y 3 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 28,590
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25,939
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 25,906
A hilarious new standalone novella brimming with otherworldly charm from the reigning queen of paranormal romantic comedy Molly Harper! Ingrid Asher is the newest resident of Mystic Bayou, a tiny town hidden in the swamp where shapeshifters, vampires, witches and dragons live alongside humans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An absolute gem!!!
- De Sara en 06-07-19
- Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues
- De: Molly Harper
- Narrado por: Amanda Ronconi, Jonathan Davis
Would like to hear more.
Revisado: 02-11-20
This seems like it could easily be expanded into something more. wish it had been longer.
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Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- De: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71,228
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 61,689
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61,324
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you’ll hear the voices of people he interviewed - scientists, criminologists, military psychologists.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable listen with some facts incorrect
- De Jim en 09-11-19
- Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- De: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell
Great book
Revisado: 02-09-20
Loved this book as well as Outliers from the same author. Both have a lot of thought put into them. Similar to Freakonomics.
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Initializing
- Somnia Online, Book 1
- De: K. T. Hanna
- Narrado por: Andrea Parsneau
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 782
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 726
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 721
Wren, a seasoned healer, is dismayed when Somnia Online automatically assigns her character, Murmur, to the Enchanter class. Determined to overcome the unexpected setback, she assembles her guild, intent on the coveted number-one spot. Twelve keys stand between her and victory, but finding them is only part of the puzzle. Armed with telepathic abilities, Murmur rises to the challenge. However, old rivals have followed her to Somnia Online desperate for revenge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great LitRPG
- De r1se en 10-04-18
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- Somnia Online, Book 1
- De: K. T. Hanna
- Narrado por: Andrea Parsneau
Very Entertaining But Internally Inconsistent
Revisado: 12-12-18
I will start off by saying that I was entertained the whole way through. The first thing I did after the end of the book (and the end of the drive to work) was buy the sequel.
That being said, the main party of players in the game are portrayed as hardcore gamers and they really aren't. They play like super casuals that just happened to be logged in a lot.
As an example, it's super common for the main character to tell the other players in the group how to play their classes. Hardcore gamers don't need to be told by people from other classes how to play their own classes.
The game also seems to be reminiscent of a late 90s MMO with VR added and the main character, many years into the future, is constantly inventing strategies that were invented back in the late 90s in the real world in this other MMO. The book tells you these players are veterans of past games, but you get the idea from listening like they never played any past games. Not saying that it's important to be a gamer historian or something, but "hardcore gamers" far into the future should have some knowledge of past game basics.
An example of that would be the main character being a crowd control type, but she is learning the basics of CC by stumbling around in game and she seems not to have seen or heard of anyone in any past game ever doing basic CC. The main character casts spells and stuff in ways that it would be suicidal for a CCer to do. It also works out better than it would in other real MMOs every time.
The only thing that really makes them sound hardcore at all is how little everybody appears to be sleeping in RL. It should be a requirement that somebody has knowledge of basic MMO group tactics before you can call them hardcore. Especially so if they are veterans of past MMOs as they are portrayed here.
The main character also really tries to micromanage everybody else, telling people after like 10 sec to start doing something any self respecting hardcore player would have started doing 10 seconds before on their own without being told.
I think all these complaints could have easily been avoided without detracting at all from the story. If the players in the group just played competently and they weren't just stumbling around learning everything like it was a completely new concept every time then the story would have been just fine.
TLDR, the story is interesting and the characters are interesting and if you aren't really a gamer at all then you probably don't see anything wrong with any part of the story, but if you are a gamer you will probably ask yourself "Really?" a lot when you hear the characters being complete newbs when they are portrayed as hardcore.
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