Carlin

#1 Laugh Out Loud Listen

Revisado: 01-30-25

This is the absolute best, laugh out loud story ever. If you are or know a grumpy old man or woman, this book's for you. If your mobility isn't great and people seem to ignore you, channel the retired lady trucker who bumps people out of the way with her scooter. Wish you could get your close friend to really see how wonderful they are despite how their family treats them? Meet the pensioners' (retirees) social outing coordinator and the friends who champion her. Love Helen Mirren in the movie Red? Meet Daphne. She may or may not be a crack shot, but that doesn't matter. Watch out for her cane. The narrator is fabulous, the story is over the top with huge laughs bursting out at least every 20 minutes while you listen. Sometimes the laughter come so back-to-back that you just have to stop what you are doing and catch your breath. This is one of the three Audible books, all British humor, that pulled me out of despair in mid-January. It is a never-fail blues buster. Prepare to chortle and celebrate with the gang in an excellent epilogue.

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Laugh Out Loud Therapy #2

Revisado: 01-30-25

Grumpy Old Men meets Dennis the Menace, in the UK. Don't listen to this book if you are not in a place where huge guffaws will disrupt your neighbors or family. Don't listen while attempting downward dog or you'll collapse in a heap of giggles. Don't listen to this book if a five-year-old repeating profanity heard once from a neighbor and blurted out at inopportune moments is offensive. The Irish lilt of the narrator is fantastic, the story is heart wrenching, rewarding, hysterical, and almost achingly satisfying when deep grief finally begins to ease. There is no Cinderealla ending, so it feels a bit more like real life. I can see Frank and Red in my neighbors, albeit without Frank's mouth. This is one of the three Audible books, all British humor, that pulled me out of despair in mid-January. Listen any time - multiple times!!! - when you need laughter therapy.

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Laugh Out Loud #3

Revisado: 01-30-25

When life gets you down and you need to laugh out loud, this is your book. If you've ever been tempted to walk away from a party where you're ignored, this is your book. If you want to be rescued and rescue yourself at the same time, this is your book. This is one of the three Audible books - all British humor! - that pulled me out of despair in mid-January. Buy it now and save it for when you need your own laughter therapy.

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Strong women succeed in unusual careers

Revisado: 11-06-24

I listened to this for the second time on the eve of a tense election because I wanted a solid story with a hopeful ending. Once the Russian cousin enters the story, there are also laugh out loud moments. I know I will listen again because Sunflowers is now one of my go-to books to offset the blues. Even the author's note at the end is an encouraging story of overcoming challenges.

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No likeable characters

Revisado: 03-31-24

I enjoy these narrators and wanted to love this book but half-way through, I unsuccessfully attempted to return it to Audible. I found nothing I could really admire or even like about any of the characters and I am a person who always roots for the underdog! This author's style of suspense creation and resolution works for many other readers and I would try another title after reading the reviews about the characters carefully. The premise was a good one and the writing is excellent. I just never clicked with Las Vegas, cryptocurrency, the social worker sister turned adoptive mom, the Princess Di impersonator, or the precocious teen girl. I had high hopes for the female characters when I read the summary and other reviews. What I discovered in the first half of the book were hints and partial sentences about all the ways they'd been beat down; there was never a glimmer of a better outcome for them by 'the end' to entice me to read further and see it come to fruition. With almost five hours left in the book and no way to return it, I am abandoning the ladies with a hope that readers with more stamina will see Betsy, Chrissy, and Marissa standing together on the last page.

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History, romance, magic, kilts

Revisado: 08-12-17

What did you like best about this story?

This was an intriguing mix of history and romance with just a hint of magic. The characters are believable and their adventures plausible. The humor was perfect.

Any additional comments?

As soon as I finished the first book in the series, I bought the other two without even listening to the samples, and I'll look for others by this author. You won't want the stories to end!

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A lot of sex, a little story

Revisado: 09-29-09

The valley is a free love community, embracing straight, gay and menage a trois relationships. The narrator makes up his own pronunciations, adding and dropping letters at will.

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