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The One Man
- A Novel
- De: Andrew Gross
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
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1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendel and his family were trying to flee Paris when they were caught and forced onto a train, along with thousands of other Jewish families. At the other end of the long, torturous train ride, Alfred is separated from his family and sent to the men’s camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life’s work. The Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed. And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war, or end it.
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You gotta have a STRONG stomach.
- De Richard Delman en 09-22-16
- The One Man
- A Novel
- De: Andrew Gross
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
Bloated, implausible, Annoying
Revisado: 03-25-24
Every bit as believable as "The Perils of Pauline" or any other silent-movie serial,
I enjoy a good adventure story-- even ones that reach beyond credibility. The Sharpe series for example stack up improbabilities but are respectful of history. But this mess could not insult our intelligence more if our protagonist slashed his way out of Auschwitz with a lightsaber, I do not know why I finished this story. When I did, I could not believe it was only 12 hours long. It felt like 12 weeks.
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End of Story
- A Novel
- De: A. J. Finn
- Narrado por: Helen Laser
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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“I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.” So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story . . . while living alongside his beautiful second wife, Diana; his wayward nephew, Freddy; and his protective daughter, Madeleine. Soon Nicky finds herself caught in an irresistible case of real-life “detective fever.”
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The end of story
- De Robert A. en 03-31-24
- End of Story
- A Novel
- De: A. J. Finn
- Narrado por: Helen Laser
Self-conscious Effort at Cozy Mystery/Gothic
Revisado: 03-16-24
Performance okay, but cannot save a boring story-- one I could not finish.
The narrator is hard to distinguish from other women (at least in the audio version). The author wishes to set up the mystery-writing central figure as a pompous know-it-all with quirky habits. The result is a crashing bore of a character-- it is really hard to know how the assorted characters surrounding him have not fled into the dark and stormy night, Early on, we learn he is nearing his death and wants someone to memorialize him. I wished he would die and end this nonsense.
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Play Dead
- De: Harlan Coben
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 17 h y 17 m
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Theirs was a marriage made in tabloid heaven, but no sooner had supermodel Laura Ayars and Celtics star David Baskin said “I do” than tragedy struck. While honeymooning on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, David went out for a swim - and never returned. Now widowed and grieving, Laura has a thousand questions and no answers. Her search for the truth will draw her into a web of lies and deception that stretches back thirty years - while on the court at the Boston Garden, a rookie phenom makes his spectacular debut....
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I love Harlan Coben, but...
- De Debbie Woodruff en 10-20-10
- Play Dead
- De: Harlan Coben
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
Preposterous story, long and boring
Revisado: 07-21-22
Scott Brick, a favorite performer, could not save this turkey. Harlan Coben has improved enormously sine this.
Daytime soaps would be embarrassed to air this ridiculous plot.
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The Alice Network
- A Novel
- De: Kate Quinn
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
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In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive.
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We are standing on the shoulders of giants...
- De Marie en 02-25-18
- The Alice Network
- A Novel
- De: Kate Quinn
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
Mechanical, Predictable, Cardboard Characters
Revisado: 06-25-22
I listed to almost half this book before I gave up and returned it. In retrospect, I think the narrator kept me going, but in the end, she could not keep this mess pasted together. I think I know how this story ends up-- and think I knew well before I determined that I did not give hoot about what happened to any of these characters.
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We Own This City
- A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption
- De: Justin Fenton
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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Baltimore, 2015. Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. In this urgent book, award-winning investigative journalist Justin Fenton distills hundreds of interviews, thousands of court documents, and countless hours of video footage to present the definitive account of the entire scandal.
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Hard to Follow
- De Dmez en 05-17-21
- We Own This City
- A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption
- De: Justin Fenton
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
Why do so many hate the police? This book tells you
Revisado: 05-05-22
I wavered between shock and dismay. Corruption so brazen that it seems political and career officials had to know or strongly suspect what was going on.
Reading this book tells you why so many people in poor areas hate the police.
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The Disappearing Act
- A Novel
- De: Catherine Steadman
- Narrado por: Catherine Steadman
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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A leading British actress hoping to make a splash in America flies to Los Angeles for the grueling gauntlet known as pilot season, a time when every network and film studio looking to fill the rosters of their new shows entice a fresh batch of young hopefuls - anxious, desperate, and willing to do whatever it takes to make it.
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Does not disappoint
- De Jennifer Paugh en 06-10-21
- The Disappearing Act
- A Novel
- De: Catherine Steadman
- Narrado por: Catherine Steadman
Sympathetic fool battles Hollywood beasts
Revisado: 08-17-21
Good with minor problems. The protagonist, Mia, thrusts herself into danger repeatedly. It is as if she is the female lead in a mad-slasher movie. You know the type. When fleeing a murder with a chainsaw in one hand and an axe in the other, she runs into the corner of a dark basement where no one can hear her scream. Nevertheless, Mia is an endearing character, full of English resolve and kind gestures . She trusts everyone except the ones who tell her not to trust anyone. All the same, this book moves fast and looking forward to the next novel from Catherine Steadman.
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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
- A Novel
- De: Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland
- Narrado por: Laurence Bouvard, Shelley Atkinson, Laural Merlington, y otros
- Duración: 24 h y 27 m
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From best-selling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world.
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Exceptional voice cast, unconventional format
- De Jesse en 07-03-17
- The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
- A Novel
- De: Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland
- Narrado por: Laurence Bouvard, Shelley Atkinson, Laural Merlington, Joe Barrett, Will Damron, Luke Daniels
Starts Slow but Big Payoff
Revisado: 04-10-19
Opening is a bit of a slog, something like the first climb of a roller coaster. After that, speed, fun, thrills and amazement. The is a delightful romp through history, bureaucratic idiocy, management jargon, death by PowerPoint, sword fights and more. Imagine a picaresque time with Candide, Sheldon, Princess Leah, and Stephen Hawking. You will not be sorry.
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The Cuckoo's Calling
- De: Robert Galbraith
- Narrado por: Robert Glenister
- Duración: 15 h y 54 m
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After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, he’s living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with a shocking story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry - known to her friends as the Cuckoo - famously fell to her death a few months earlier.
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Unbelievable debut mystery set in London
- De Tracey en 05-26-13
- The Cuckoo's Calling
- De: Robert Galbraith
- Narrado por: Robert Glenister
J.K Rowling Channels Doyle, Chandler and Hammet
Revisado: 11-05-18
Set in today's London, but with shades of Holmes, Chandler and Hammet. Ms. Rowling, writing as Mr. Galbraith, has given a protagonist injured in Afghanistan, an intellect capable of stringing together clues as well as Sherlock, and a private investigator with a sense of justice framed in the sensibilities of film noir. There is even a Watsonian character plopped into a story reminiscent (but not a copy of) The Big Sleep..
Galbraith plays the game fairly. Every single clue was there for us to see, but we have no chance to get ahead of the protagonist. We even get a denouement with the detective outlining the entire case to the killer.
A great detective story that forces me to wade into the series.
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Deja Dead
- De: Kathy Reichs
- Narrado por: Barbara Rosenblat
- Duración: 16 h y 2 m
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It's June in Montreal, and Dr. Temperance Brennan, who has left a shaky marriage back home in North Carolina to take on the challenging assignment of Director of Forensic Anthropology for the province of Quebec, looks forward to a relaxing weekend in beautiful Quebec City. First, though, she must stop at a newly uncovered burial site in the heart of the city. The remains are probably old and only of archeological interest, but Tempe must make sure they're not a case for the police. One look at the decomposed and decapitated corpse, stored neatly in plastic bags, tells her she'll spend the weekend in the crime lab.
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Perplexed over other reviews about the narrator
- De R. Klein en 04-26-14
- Deja Dead
- De: Kathy Reichs
- Narrado por: Barbara Rosenblat
The performance brought it up to a two
Revisado: 10-10-18
In mad-slasher movies, the audience screams at the woman: "Don't go upstairs! There is no way out!" And, of course, the heroine goes up the stairs. This whole book is like that. In the movies, a few of the women must get killed, but eventually one woman, through courage and pluck and common sense conquers the mad-slasher. Not in this story.
No one could do as many stupid things as our protagonist and survive. Toward the end, I wanted her to get killed. Then I could scream at her: "Your colleagues told you so! I told you so! The mad slasher told you so! This is what you get!"
Prose is clumsy and the plot absurdly convoluted with too many contrived red herrings. I hope this series improved, but I'll never know.
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Something in the Water
- A Novel
- De: Catherine Steadman
- Narrado por: Catherine Steadman
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough, Mark a handsome investment banker with big plans. Passionately in love, they embark on a dream honeymoon to the tropical island of Bora Bora, where they enjoy the sun, the sand, and each other. Then, while scuba diving in the crystal blue sea, they find something in the water....
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No Thrill Here
- De Sara en 06-08-18
- Something in the Water
- A Novel
- De: Catherine Steadman
- Narrado por: Catherine Steadman
Opens Strong, Gets Stronger
Revisado: 09-11-18
This fine thriller starts with the strongest opening of any book I have read in years. What follows does not fall off. Catherine Steadman gave me everything I I want in a thriller. I was constantly asking myself the greatest question of all: "And then what happened?"
The story is unlikely, but relentlessly plausible. At several points I asked myself if this character or that would behave as described. Every time I asked the answer was the same-- "Yeah, I know someone who would do that."
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