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Luck and Judgement
- A DC Smith Investigation Series, Book 3
- De: Peter Grainger
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
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When a worker goes missing from a North Sea gas platform, there seem to be just two possible explanations - it was a tragic accident or a suicide. It does not take Smith and his detectives long, however, to discover that James Bell led a double life back onshore in Kings Lake, a life complicated enough to make him at least one dangerous enemy. Before the case can be unraveled, Smith must get a new team working together.
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In Praise of a Truly Great Literary Work
- De J.B. en 02-08-17
- Luck and Judgement
- A DC Smith Investigation Series, Book 3
- De: Peter Grainger
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
An easy listen
Revisado: 11-15-23
Witty and enjoyable. Very solid performance as usual. Recommend if you like police procedurals with a helping subtle character development.
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The Beautiful Brain
- An Audible Original
- De: Hana Walker-Brown
- Narrado por: Hana Walker-Brown
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
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An investigative documentary from multi-award-winning producer Hana Walker-Brown, The Beautiful Brain looks at the devastating effects of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) - a degenerative brain disease found in people who’ve suffered severe or repeated blows to the head. Beginning with the story of FA Cup winner Jeff Astle, the audiobook expands outwards looking at the widows, daughters and families who are left fighting for answers following the death of their loved ones.
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CTE and Sports - not just for soccer fans
- De Kingsley en 04-05-19
- The Beautiful Brain
- An Audible Original
- De: Hana Walker-Brown
- Narrado por: Hana Walker-Brown
Thank you Audible...
Revisado: 04-30-19
... for helping spread the word about a very important subject! I only wish the author would have included some forward looking content... such as how lay people can get involved and support the changes that are critically needed.
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Billy Bathgate
- A Novel
- De: E. L. Doctorow
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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To listen to this audiobook is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures as he becomes good-luck charm, apprentice, and finally protégé to one of the great murdering gangsters of the Depression-era underworld in New York City. The luminous transformation of fact into fiction that is E. L. Doctorow's trademark comes to triumphant fruition in Billy Bathgate.
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Great Gangster story. Beautiful prose. The best
- De BarelyAudible en 06-01-14
- Billy Bathgate
- A Novel
- De: E. L. Doctorow
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
Wanted to like it a bit more....
Revisado: 04-25-19
Attracted by the setting and characters, I just couldn't settle in to enjoy as much I had hoped. Consistently too wordy for a long a-book... and it felt like this slows down the development of the story. I'm sure many will find the command of the language refreshing, but for me, I would have enjoyed a better pace.
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Can't Hurt Me
- Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
- De: David Goggins
- Narrado por: David Goggins, Adam Skolnick
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
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For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare--poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a US Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force tactical air controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events.
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Opting for the book instead
- De S David en 12-24-18
- Can't Hurt Me
- Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
- De: David Goggins
- Narrado por: David Goggins, Adam Skolnick
A true American story
Revisado: 02-11-19
All the pieces of a true American story. In summary: set a goal... go for it... be tough... don't quit... you will be rewarded.
Liked: a positive story of a self-made man, hard work and dogged determination. Didn't like: the format with interview segments between chapters (added nothing except length in my opinion)... the constant "raw" language (it may be part of how he communicates, but too much for me over 13 hours).
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IQ
- De: Joe Ide
- Narrado por: Sullivan Jones
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch. They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence.
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Finally! Something new and original ;
- De Midwesterner en 11-29-16
- IQ
- De: Joe Ide
- Narrado por: Sullivan Jones
Liked it all...
Revisado: 08-08-18
Enjoyed both the story & the performance very much. Looking forward to another.
Based on this, Mr. Ide may have a bright future.
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The Kremlin Conspiracy
- A Marcus Ryker Novel, Book 1
- De: Joel C. Rosenberg
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 14 h y 51 m
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Everything he learned to protect the president, he must use to take out theirs. With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow. A czar is rising in the Kremlin, a Russian president feverishly consolidating power, silencing his opposition, and plotting a brazen and lightning-fast military strike that could rupture the NATO alliance and bring Washington and Moscow to the brink of nuclear war. But in his blind spot is the former U.S. Secret Service agent, Marcus Ryker.
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Outstanding thriller
- De DIANE M TINKLE en 03-12-18
- The Kremlin Conspiracy
- A Marcus Ryker Novel, Book 1
- De: Joel C. Rosenberg
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
If you like significant character development...
Revisado: 08-08-18
This ones's for folks that enjoy deep background and character development. For me, too much time spent there.
I usually enjoy a good "Eagle" vs. "Bear" story, but struggled with this one. Despite a very good narrator, I seriously considered abandoning this in the middle for a couple of reasons... story moved way too slow... and too many absurd contradictions (like the eclectic moral commentary). Seems like the author may have had some outside help with this one, because it certainly was a different experience than my time spent with Mr Rosenberg's previous works.
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Garden of Beasts
- A Novel of Berlin 1936
- De: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 13 h y 20 m
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Paul Schumann, a German American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hitman known as much for his brilliant tactics as for taking only "righteous" assignments. But then Paul gets caught. And the arresting officer offers him a stark choice: prison or covert government service. Paul is asked to pose as a journalist covering the summer Olympics taking place in Berlin. He's to hunt down and kill Reinhard Ernst - the ruthless architect of Hitler's clandestine rearmament.
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One of my favs
- De nicholas en 11-02-17
- Garden of Beasts
- A Novel of Berlin 1936
- De: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
Good listen, enjoyed it thoroughly
Revisado: 07-03-18
Great characters, not too typical... engaging plot that kept me interested beginning to end... and interesting settings.
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The President Is Missing
- De: Bill Clinton, James Patterson
- Narrado por: Dennis Quaid, January LaVoy, Peter Ganim, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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The White House is the home of the president of the United States, the most guarded, monitored, closely watched person in the world. So how could a US president vanish without a trace? And why would he choose to do so? An unprecedented collaboration between President Bill Clinton and the world's best-selling novelist, James Patterson, The President Is Missing is a breathtaking story from the pinnacle of power.
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Dreadful Narration!
- De Miss L en 06-07-18
- The President Is Missing
- De: Bill Clinton, James Patterson
- Narrado por: Dennis Quaid, January LaVoy, Peter Ganim, Jeremy Davidson, Mozhan Marnò
Disappointed
Revisado: 07-03-18
My bad. I should have read the reviews a bit more thoroughly. I may have picked up on the purpose of the novel... a storyline to frame political commentary. This may be interesting for some listeners, but the rhetoric really gets in the way for me. I prefer novels that entertain rather than preach.
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A Man Called Ove
- De: Fredrik Backman
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon - the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell". But behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness.
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I Laughed and I Cried
- De Bill en 08-22-15
- A Man Called Ove
- De: Fredrik Backman
- Narrado por: George Newbern
Didn't expect to, but enjoyed it greatly.
Revisado: 08-28-17
Enjoyable in commute sized bites. Helped put a smile on my face twice a day.
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A Hologram for the King
- De: Dave Eggers
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter’s college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy’s gale-force winds. This richly layered novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment.
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Subtle Paean to Emptiness, Failure & Loneliness
- De Darwin8u en 07-30-12
- A Hologram for the King
- De: Dave Eggers
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
A man and his insecurities...
Revisado: 05-13-16
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Probably not. Not much to keep you engaged.
If you’ve listened to books by Dave Eggers before, how does this one compare?
n/a
Which scene was your favorite?
Visit to the mountain village.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
It is and I won't.
Any additional comments?
Just couldn't get into it.
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