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The Bottom of the Sky
- A Novel
- De: William C. Pack
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 21 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
The Bottom of the Sky is an aching rags to riches family saga that surges from rural squalor into the opulent power chambers of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. The story contrasts the 30-year struggles of an abused sister and brother who seek to reclaim themselves from their abhorrent past. One is abandoned to a life of sexual desecration and addiction. The other escapes with his demons to wield fragile, uncanny genius and unrelenting ambition to amass staggering wealth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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good
- De Derek en 10-27-09
- The Bottom of the Sky
- A Novel
- De: William C. Pack
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
Great listen!
Revisado: 01-11-17
If you could sum up The Bottom of the Sky in three words, what would they be?
Sad, honest, necessary...
What did you like best about this story?
The honesty of the characters. There are very few happy endings here but the truth isn't always sweet.
Which character – as performed by Scott Brick – was your favorite?
Levi is really the only character that was completely developed. He was not easy to like but certainly easy to understand given his circumstances.
If you could take any character from The Bottom of the Sky out to dinner, who would it be and why?
Angela.
Any additional comments?
There are parts of this story that make it hard to continue listening. Those same parts make it impossible to stop. Well done!
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A Little Life
- A Novel
- De: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 32 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16,406
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14,893
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14,881
This transcendent story follows four college friends who move to New York City, buoyed by ambition: Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, an artist; Malcolm, an architect; and, at the center, Jude, a withdrawn, brilliant attorney haunted by an unspeakable past. Through decades of shared and separate lives, Jude’s suffering - and its impact on those who love him - raises questions about the limits of human endurance, the possibility for redemption, and the meaning of friendship.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I had to call in SAD to work
- De Angela en 10-17-15
- A Little Life
- A Novel
- De: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
Depressing, sad and painful...and really long.
Revisado: 11-17-15
What disappointed you about A Little Life?
Not one bright spot... not a single little sliver of light. The narration was much too young for the character. Left me empty and very sad.
What do you think your next listen will be?
Something much lighter.
Would you listen to another book narrated by Oliver Wyman?
Yes.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
After just finishing 30 hours of it I can't find a single reason to recommend it. Maybe in time I can revisit this question.
Any additional comments?
Total and complete sadness.
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This Is Where We Live
- A Novel
- De: Janelle Brown
- Narrado por: Erik Davies, Phoebe Zimmermann
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 145
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 145
This Is Where We Live tells the story of Claudia and Jeremy, a young married couple (she’s an aspiring filmmaker, he’s an indie musician) who are on the verge of making it. Her first film was a sensation at Sundance and is about to have its theatrical release; he’s assembled a new band and is a few songs shy of an album. But a series of seismic events deal a crushing blow to their dreams.
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3 out of 5 stars
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it held my interest but....
- De Christine en 04-09-11
- This Is Where We Live
- A Novel
- De: Janelle Brown
- Narrado por: Erik Davies, Phoebe Zimmermann
I don't want to live here...
Revisado: 01-21-15
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
No. It was not an interesting listen. The story was weak and didn't really have any point.
Would you ever listen to anything by Janelle Brown again?
No.
Did the narration match the pace of the story?
Yes.
Do you think This Is Where We Live needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
No. It does not need any sort of followup. It needs a Lifetime movie.
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The Silent Sister
- De: Diane Chamberlain
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12,807
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11,330
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11,297
In The Silent Sister, Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new identity. But why exactly was she on the run all those years ago, and what secrets are being kept now?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not My Cup of Tea
- De Taryn en 01-11-15
- The Silent Sister
- De: Diane Chamberlain
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett
Just okay...
Revisado: 01-21-15
Would you try another book from Diane Chamberlain and/or Susan Bennett?
The story was weak... narration was good
Has The Silent Sister turned you off from other books in this genre?
No
Have you listened to any of Susan Bennett’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
I have not.
Could you see The Silent Sister being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
It could easily be made into a movie.
Any additional comments?
Left me kind of flat.... wasn't a good listen or a great book.
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Gray Mountain
- A Novel
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Catherine Taber
- Duración: 14 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 8,796
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 7,805
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7,809
The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track - until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she'd get her old job back. In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan to Brady, Virginia, population 2,200, in the heart of Appalachia, a part of the world she has only read about.
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2 out of 5 stars
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So Disappointing
- De David Shear en 10-22-14
- Gray Mountain
- A Novel
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Catherine Taber
John Grisham could not write something this awful!
Revisado: 11-13-14
What disappointed you about Gray Mountain?
Everything! This is not what anyone expects from John Grisham. Nothing about this book was worth the time.
Would you ever listen to anything by John Grisham again?
Not without some convinving...
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Catherine Taber?
Her voice is juvenile and annoying. Not something you expect to hear from John Grisham.
What character would you cut from Gray Mountain?
It wouldn't matter. Before cutting characters you need a developed plot.
Any additional comments?
I want my credit back.
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Middlesex
- De: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Narrado por: Kristoffer Tabori
- Duración: 21 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11,273
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,942
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,974
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie's failure to develop physically - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Anything but middle.
- De Michael en 05-04-03
- Middlesex
- De: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Narrado por: Kristoffer Tabori
Great Story... Wrong Voice
Revisado: 08-18-14
What did you like best about Middlesex? What did you like least?
The story was interesting but the voice was not correct or at least, not what I wanted to hear.
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We Are Water
- A Novel
- De: Wally Lamb
- Narrado por: Wally Lamb, George Guidall, Maggi-Meg Reed, y otros
- Duración: 23 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,848
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,560
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,566
After 27 years of marriage and three children, Anna Oh - wife, mother, outsider artist - has fallen in love with Viveca, the wealthy Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her success. They plan to wed in the Oh family’s hometown of Three Rivers in Connecticut. But the wedding provokes some very mixed reactions and opens a Pandora’s Box of toxic secrets - dark and painful truths that have festered below the surface of the Ohs' lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lamb writes Fine Literature/What a Book!
- De Suzn F en 10-27-13
- We Are Water
- A Novel
- De: Wally Lamb
- Narrado por: Wally Lamb, George Guidall, Maggi-Meg Reed, Tavia Gilbert, Richard Ferrone, Edoardo Ballerini, Cynthia Darlow, Therese Plummer, Sandy Rustin
We really are water.....
Revisado: 05-28-14
What did you love best about We Are Water?
I enjoyed the characters and loved the narration. Even the difficult scenes were handled with grace and didn't lose a bit of the intensity. It isn't easy to find a novel as satisfying as this one.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Many..
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World Without End
- De: Ken Follett
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 45 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21,029
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 14,424
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14,413
In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, set in 12th-century England. Readers and listeners ever since have hoped for a sequel. At last, here it is. Although the two novels may be listened to in any order, World Without End also takes place in Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building their exquisite Gothic cathedral. The cathedral is again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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40 hours too short ...
- De Henrik en 11-03-07
- World Without End
- De: Ken Follett
- Narrado por: John Lee
Read one Ken Follett novel... You've read them all
Revisado: 05-28-14
What would have made World Without End better?
A plot even remotely different from Pillars of the Earth.
What was most disappointing about Ken Follett’s story?
It was the same story I have already listened to for 45 hours. I expected something different. The characters are the same without even one plot deviation.
Any additional comments?
I am just disappointed.....
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The Drowning Girl
- De: Caitlin R. Kiernan
- Narrado por: Suzy Jackson
- Duración: 13 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 484
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 438
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 439
India Morgan Phelps - Imp to her friends - is schizophrenic. Struggling with her perceptions of reality, Imp must uncover the truth about her encounters with creatures out of myth - or from something far, far stranger....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Modern Haunting
- De Diane en 07-16-12
- The Drowning Girl
- De: Caitlin R. Kiernan
- Narrado por: Suzy Jackson
Confusing waste of time
Revisado: 07-08-13
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
Nothing
What was most disappointing about Caitlin R. Kiernan’s story?
Not at all
How could the performance have been better?
This was not coherent writing. It reminded me of words thrown randomly at paper and then called a story
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Disappointment and the anger at the time and book credit I wasted. I want my credit back
Any additional comments?
Don't waste time you can't get back.
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Exotic Music of the Belly Dancer
- De: Brian Sweany
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 6
In his tragicomic debut - equal parts dark comedy, nostalgia trip, and rousing tale of redemption - manchild and small-town Indiana resident Hank Fitzpatrick stumbles through and beyond adolescence in the late 1980s. Hypersexual, drunk, stoned, occasionally Catholic, accidentally well-intentioned Hank doesn’t know it yet, but his life is about to implode in spectacular fashion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Funny and very entertaining
- De Jennifer McGuire en 05-01-13
- Exotic Music of the Belly Dancer
- De: Brian Sweany
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
Don't waste your credit....
Revisado: 05-16-13
Would you try another book from Brian Sweany and/or Johnny Heller?
It was painful to listen to this one. The voice was grating and made it difficult to get through the story. Unfortunately the story line was not any better than the narration. I can't recommend this one.
Would you ever listen to anything by Brian Sweany again?
No....
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The voice was irritating and choppy... it sounds like even the narrator is bored with story and rushing toward the end. The singing is horrible and really detracts from the story line.... the entire experience was right up there with mosquitoes buzzing around in my headset.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Exotic Music of the Belly Dancer?
Please cut the singing.... Completely annoying!
Any additional comments?
I want my credit back!
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