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Full Tilt
- De: Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes
- Narrado por: Lorelei King
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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A note from the author: With Full House, Charlotte Hughes and I teamed up to create an exciting new series. Now we bring you the second audiobook, Full Tilt, filled with even more fast-paced action, crazy characters, steamy sex, suspense, and nonstop hilarity. While these audios are not set in the world of Stephanie Plum, we're convinced they will bring you all the fun, wisecracks, and the adventure that we love.
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Fluff
- De Janet en 04-30-03
- Full Tilt
- De: Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes
- Narrado por: Lorelei King
Stupid is not the same as funny
Revisado: 07-28-23
A 2003 vintage Evanovich. She tries to combine too many plot cluches. Neither the situation or characters resemble reality enough for silliness and absurdity to seem humorous.
I suppose there’s something about how cliches have changed in 20 years that creates a bit of interest. Classic cars, small town newspaper, stupid gangsters with a whiny harlot, cops who don’t preserve evidence, a vane trophy wife, a moody chatbot, 1940’s style wooing and many more. A touch of verisimilitude and real humor could have saved this.
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Impact Winter
- De: Travis Beacham
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 4 h y 55 m
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From executive producers of The Walking Dead and Travis Beacham, the writer of Pacific Rim, comes a heart-stopping Audible Original featuring a brilliant British cast. It’s the near future and seven years since a comet hit the earth and blotted out the sun. The world is a dark, frozen landscape. And then, beastly creatures emerge and take over. A story of apocalypse, horror, and adventure, Impact Winter is a wholly original new saga created just for Audible with immersive 3D audio that dares you to pop in your earbuds and listen in the dark.
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can't stand the sounds
- De Joseph en 02-18-22
- Impact Winter
- De: Travis Beacham
- Narrado por: full cast
A good entry in the vampire-apocalypse genre
Revisado: 07-09-23
Read a few yea/nay reviews and hear a sample. It’s targeted to women. Men are not represented well except possibly wimpy Felix. Jebson(?) as a leader/father figure is especially portrayed as a super dork. British influence shows in rule-following and lack of romance (and misportrayed, I think, as humorless). Danger, fear of betrayal and fear of the unknown sustain tension effectively.
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Daisy Darker
- A Novel
- De: Alice Feeney
- Narrado por: Stephanie Racine
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member follows…
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Ok story idea; juvenile writing
- De will33 en 09-01-22
- Daisy Darker
- A Novel
- De: Alice Feeney
- Narrado por: Stephanie Racine
Sour viewpoint sets unpleasant mood
Revisado: 03-29-23
Daisy is petty, catty or snotty for several hours as she characterises her family and sets the scene. She also keeps alluding to an incident and won’t tell us what it is or its relevance—obviously a needed ploy but a rude form of storytelling. Ultimately i see why some loved and some hated the twist but I dislike the dislikable characters and the borderline personality method of unfolding the plot. (I did enjoy the twist)
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A Dirty Job
- De: Christopher Moore
- Narrado por: Fisher Stevens
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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People start dropping dead around Charlie, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death.
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Great Listen!
- De Janie en 03-24-06
- A Dirty Job
- De: Christopher Moore
- Narrado por: Fisher Stevens
Just as funny the fifth time through!
Revisado: 03-14-23
I fondly remember hearing this on CD with my spouse on a long drive when it was new. We shared so many laughs. Some of the humor was fresher then but now has a ring of nostalgia to go along. C.Moore has a great talent for turning a phrase, stretching our imaginations and gently recognising our frailties in a hilarious way.
The negative reviews sadden me. It seems so many people have learned to be offended for so many reasons in the intervening years. Is judgementalism our new religion? If you have to filter what you see and hear and pass judgement on it before you can laugh, you may be missing joy.
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Bloodprint
- De: Kitty Sewell
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 13 h y 17 m
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Psychotherapist Madeleine Frank sees her world shattered when a terrible accident claims the life of her husband. Lost, she migrates from the Florida Keys to Bath, England. Starting a practice there, she soon begins treating a troubled woman named Rachel, whose past eerily echoes Madeleine's own.
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Lots of attitude
- De Dana en 03-14-23
- Bloodprint
- De: Kitty Sewell
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
Lots of attitude
Revisado: 03-14-23
Sorry, I didn’t finish. Narration becomes grating as it’s overly emotive with a judgemental element in nearly every sentence. Within a few minutes of entering the story, each of the first 3 men had mention of their penis. Women involved with bad-boy types seems to be the theme. I did like some of the descriptive passages, some imagination and novelty there.
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Soon I Will Be Invincible
- A Novel
- De: Austin Grossman
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo, Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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Doctor Impossible, evil genius and diabolical scientist, has tried to take over the world in every way imaginable, but this time is going to be different. He'll have to contend with Fatale, however, a rookie superhero on her first day with the Champions, the world's most famous superteam. She's a patchwork woman of skin and chrome, a gleaming technological marvel built for the next generation of warfare.
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Now that I have you at my mercy. . .
- De Brad W. en 07-02-07
- Soon I Will Be Invincible
- A Novel
- De: Austin Grossman
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo, Paul Boehmer
Disappointing after the setup
Revisado: 01-08-22
I suppose this book is like a new school year. Exciting to meet classmates and see a novel classroom but then it’s all drudgery. Especially if your classmates all turn out to be eunuchs with either autism or borderline personality. Many interesting physical attributes but there is no one in this book you would want to get to know.
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The Girl in the Ice
- Detective Erika Foster Crime Thriller, Book 1
- De: Robert Bryndza
- Narrado por: Jan Cramer
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the murder investigation. The victim, a beautiful young socialite, appeared to have the perfect life. Yet when Erika begins to dig deeper, she starts to connect the dots between the murder and the killings of three prostitutes, all found strangled, hands bound, and dumped in water around London.
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Great detective thriller!
- De Wayne en 06-09-16
- The Girl in the Ice
- Detective Erika Foster Crime Thriller, Book 1
- De: Robert Bryndza
- Narrado por: Jan Cramer
Writing is deft. Erika is daft.
Revisado: 01-03-22
DCI Erika Foster is unbelievably stupid throughout the book. The book is otherwise enjoyable and tightly written, pretty much a classic in its genre.
The story evolves like a 70’s TV cop show, maybe Baretta or Starsky and Hutch, where the enthusiastic protagonist defies the boss and society to take down a prominent citizen. But the protagonist here is a female Inspector Clouseau.
Erika has Borderline Personality Disorder. Unlike Munk’s OCD or House’s opioid addiction, it’s not a psychiatric problem that in any way allows for good working relationships.
(In America, folks with BPD are often labeled with Bipolar Disorder instead for political reasons. Mainly, BD treatment is covered by medical insurance and allows for lots of drugs whereas BPD is neither. Culturally, BD is more acceptable than BPD). The hallmarks of BPD are emotional lability in interpersonal relationships and lack of true empathy. Folks with this do not rise in large organizations. Quick anger and impulsive actions are most noticeable. They tend to love or hate, to be distrusting and untrusted. (Bipolar is marked by fluctuations in mood and activity level in all realms rather than just interpersonal)
It’s great that Erika is considered a good cop and has loyal lackeys. It’s just too unrealistic.
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Free: Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff
- De: Pappy Pariah
- Narrado por: Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Ari Fliakos, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 32 m
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By turns tender and terrifying, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff captures America on the verge of political upheaval in 2016 and introduces us to a man who just might be able to save us from the oncoming horror. Yes, Bob Honey - carnival carny, sewage specialist, and government operative, among other occupations - has spent years in preparation, crisscrossing the world in the employ of a mysterious government program that pays in small bills.
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A simulation of profundity, disguising emptiness.
- De Colin P. Dalton en 10-18-16
- Free: Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff
- De: Pappy Pariah
- Narrado por: Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Ari Fliakos, Leila George
Timber Glump by Jim Morrison wannabe
Revisado: 01-02-22
Biography of an Anti-Gump written by an Anti-Lyricist. “…laughed like a disingenuous reptilian jackal.” Attempts to understand the concepts included here are likely to be thwarted by one or more excess adjectives and discontinuities.
Sean does Bob’s voice as a sort of Hank Hill. Initially we learn some of Bob’s proclivities, that he has a few good memories and enjoys SCUBA diving. Despite strings of truisms playing in his brain, he seems to lack purpose in his life. At some point, he starts doing stuff again, the mistiming of his block party is truly funny.
In the last third hour of this literary quagmire, Bob goes on a road trip where some prior allusions and illusions are revisited. The timing is around the 2016 election and we learn that Bob is just a typical Anti-Trumper. JK.
Partial spoiler: There’s a short action scene and Bob finds some closure. I reveal this much because listeners will almost certainly want to skip parts of this but might want to know if or where to come back to the book.
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Outfoxed
- An Andy Carpenter Mystery
- De: David Rosenfelt
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter spends as much time as he can working on his true passion - the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs. Lately Andy has been especially involved in a county prison program where inmates help train dogs the Tara Foundation has rescued to make them more adoptable, benefiting both the dogs and the prisoners. One of the prisoners Andy has been working with is Brian Atkins, who has 18 months left on a five-year term for fraud.
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another fun book
- De Debby B. en 07-20-16
- Outfoxed
- An Andy Carpenter Mystery
- De: David Rosenfelt
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
Stereotypes becoming outdated
Revisado: 01-02-22
Rosenfelt uses many narrative conveniences to keep the stories going but they’re becoming more sterile and formulaic. Andy is surrounded by Marvel Superheroes practically. An omnipotent computer hacker who answers on the first ring. His only Black acquaintance is always his guardian angel but capable only of grunting and killing when around white men. The Patterson police force and newspaper and the FBI are at all his disposal even on weekends . His partner is a hypochondriac Jew who does all the real procedural work. He has a perfect wife and kid and dog and lots of money.
If that’s not enough, his quest for Liberal Elite perfection is achieved when he has an underdog client. Now he can get people killed and operate societal machinery with impunity, anything to get his client off is free of moral obligation or judgement.
Andy’s appreciation of life and good humor are intended to counterbalance his unworldly advantages but if his character is going to get up to date, he’ll have to feel more guilty or at least more cognizant of the unfairness others face.
And if Rosenfelt wishes to compete with “good” authors, he should learn something of which he writes. His sendup of internet dangers and mysticism here is a complete sham. His past plots involving “illegal drugs” and terrorists and smuggling and WMDs, etc reflect no more than a single Google abstract’s worth of knowledge. He does seem to know how to gamble on sports.
Of all the superpowers incorporated in these novels, Tara’s immortality is probably most appreciated.
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The Judge's List
- A Novel
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Mary-Louise Parker, John Grisham
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change.
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THE NARRATION IS FINE!
- De JTH en 10-20-21
- The Judge's List
- A Novel
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Mary-Louise Parker, John Grisham
NPR-ish. formulaic Grisham
Revisado: 12-29-21
Pro: many serial killer novels severely strain credulity, this doesn’t. Grisham is great for feeding information steadily as your mind is asking for it. He doesn’t leave loose ends or serious gaps. And this time he isn’t brushing the villain with too many coats of maniacal or evil colored paint.
Cons: write about what you know. JG sees the world through the eyes of an NPR podcast producer or as if the audience is middle class, middle aged and liberally educated. A penchant for victimism, Hollywood morality and governmentally delegated vengeance is assumed. stereotypical characters and actions abound. (If you are the kind of liberal bigot that the media assumes we all should be, your beliefs will not be challenged in any way)
Satisfying but not mind expanding. Plays better at higher speeds.
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