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'Salem's Lot
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Ron McLarty, Stephen King
- Duración: 17 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27,447
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24,579
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24,525
Writer Ben Mears has returned to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot with the hope that moving into a delapidated mansion, long the subject of town lore, might help him get a handle on his life and provide inspiration for a new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Performance of an Excellent Story
- De Tami en 10-02-12
- 'Salem's Lot
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Ron McLarty, Stephen King
Not Steven King's best, but still great!
Revisado: 11-05-24
Steven King writes a lot of detail in the book and covers numerous story lines which makes for a great read. However, it can be challenging to keep up with all of the different characters. There are a lot in this one.
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Defectors
- A Novel
- De: Joseph Kanon
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 266
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 235
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 228
In 1949 Frank Weeks, fair-haired boy of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, 12 years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB-approved project almost certain to be an international best seller, and has asked his brother, Simon, a publisher, to come to Moscow to edit the manuscript. It's a reunion Simon both dreads and longs for.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb thriller!
- De Rosemary Wells en 06-15-17
- Defectors
- A Novel
- De: Joseph Kanon
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
Talk about twists
Revisado: 09-27-24
Wow! This was an amazing listen and just when I thought I had the ending figured out I just kept getting one excellent surprise after another. This was an excellent book and I would highly recommend it!
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Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- De: David Grann
- Narrado por: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22,898
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20,041
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19,997
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An outstanding story, highly recommended
- De S. Blakely en 06-22-17
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- De: David Grann
- Narrado por: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
Book was Average
Revisado: 11-07-23
The real story behind this book is interesting and I'm glad someone made it into a book. That said it seemed to drag on at times. I like that they used 3 different narrators for each "Chronicle" but the 3rd chronicle was extremely dry to listen to and was not nearly as story-like as the first two parts. I agree with another comment that sometimes the book was like a textbook about the crimes but some readers may enjoy that more than I did.
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The Screwtape Letters
- De: C. S. Lewis
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 3 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14,505
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11,987
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11,966
A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below". At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old Devil to his nephew, Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Haunting Satire
- De Matthew en 07-26-10
- The Screwtape Letters
- De: C. S. Lewis
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
Advice to a "Temptor" of the Devil
Revisado: 08-04-22
This book is slightly creepy. The letters are sometimes hard to follow but the book is great and follows Wormwood, who is receiving advice from the Devil via his Uncle Screwtape. The creepiest part is the toast at the end. It has too many parallels to today's society.
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Animal Farm
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 3 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42,512
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 36,506
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 36,438
George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture, quoted so often that we tend to forget who wrote the original words! This must-read is also a must-listen!
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4 out of 5 stars
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If you hate spoilers, save the intro for last.
- De Dusty en 02-18-11
- Animal Farm
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
Every Chinese Citizen should read this
Revisado: 07-26-22
This is a perfect metaphor for the Mao revolution which has resulted in the Chinese Communist Party with Xi Jinping being Napoleon.
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The Stand
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 47 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78,578
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 70,166
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70,036
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My First Completed Stephen King Novel
- De Meaghan Bynum en 02-20-12
- The Stand
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
Another King Classic
Revisado: 07-19-22
This book was excellent! Definitely drags a bit at some points to explain the story but well worth listening to. Stephen King continues to amaze me with excellent writing and storytelling!
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The Chief Witness
- Escape from China's Modern-Day Concentration Camps
- De: Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius
- Narrado por: Xifeng Brooks
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 70
Born in China’s northwestern province, Sayragul Sauytbay trained as a doctor before being appointed a senior civil servant. But her life was upended when the Chinese authorities incarcerated her. Her crime? Being Kazakh, one of China’s ethnic minorities. The northwestern province borders the largest number of foreign nations and is the point in China that is the closest to Europe. In recent years, it has become home to more than 1,200 penal camps - modern-day gulags that are estimated to house three million members of the Kazakh and Uyghur minorities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read!
- De Stephanie en 12-22-21
- The Chief Witness
- Escape from China's Modern-Day Concentration Camps
- De: Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius
- Narrado por: Xifeng Brooks
A Must Read
Revisado: 02-16-22
This book is a raw and inside perspective of the atrocities taking place in China against innocent women, children, and men by the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese officials. I knew the CCP was an autocratic state, but wow….
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The Moscow Rules
- The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
- De: Jonna Mendez, Antonio J. J. Mendez
- Narrado por: Wilson Bethel
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,701
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,472
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,468
Antonio Mendez and his future wife, Jonna, were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s, at one of the most dangerous moments in the Cold War. Soviets kept files on all foreigners, studied their patterns, tapped their phones, and even planted listening devices within the US embassy. In short, intelligence work was effectively impossible. The Soviet threat loomed larger than ever. The Moscow Rules tells the story of the intelligence breakthroughs that turned the odds in America's favor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, clean, pro-CIA history
- De Alexander M Leasenby en 02-27-20
- The Moscow Rules
- The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
- De: Jonna Mendez, Antonio J. J. Mendez
- Narrado por: Wilson Bethel
Interesting Peak Into the CIA in Moscow
Revisado: 10-04-21
This book does a great job of introducing readers to some of the inventions and techniques which were developed to help the CIA's missions in Russia. It is interesting but the most recent information is regarding stuff from before 1990 (30 years ago); Still a fascinating collections of stories.
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The Perfect Weapon
- War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
- De: David E. Sanger
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,463
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,279
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,270
The Perfect Weapon is the startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics like nothing since the invention of the atomic bomb. Cheap to acquire, easy to deny, and usable for a variety of malicious purposes, cyber is now the weapon of choice for democracies, dictators, and terrorists. Two presidents - Bush and Obama - drew first blood with Operation Olympic Games, which used malicious code to blow up Iran’s nuclear centrifuges, and yet America proved remarkably unprepared when its own weapons were stolen from its arsenal.
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1 out of 5 stars
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mix of information and propaganda
- De Inthego en 06-14-19
- The Perfect Weapon
- War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
- De: David E. Sanger
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
Good Book for Non-Technical Readers
Revisado: 08-24-21
If this book were updated to include recent cyber attacks it would likely be an interesting book. This book discusses cyber attacks at a 20,000 ft view. The author makes their political views well known throughout the book.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Life Among the Lowly
- De: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Narrado por: Mary Sarah
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,565
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,318
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,320
Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day." A thrilling and important piece of American literature!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Narration
- De Linda en 04-14-16
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Life Among the Lowly
- De: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Narrado por: Mary Sarah
Incredible
Revisado: 01-21-21
I bought this story out of curiosity and it changed my perspective on a lot of things. An absolutely heartbreaking story which shows a minute glimpse into the emotions of people involved with slavery.
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