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Fool Moon
- The Dresden Files, Book 2
- De: Jim Butcher
- Narrado por: James Marsters
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37,491
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32,766
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32,674
Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is Chicago's only openly practicing wizard. He is also dead broke. His vast knowledge and magical skills are unfortunately matched by his talent for making powerful enemies and alienating friends. With little more than his integrity left, he accepts an offer of work from Lt. Karin Murphy of Chicago's Special Investigations Unit. He wants to redeem himself in Murphy's eyes and make enough money to quiet his rumbling stomach.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best books I've read in a long time!
- De Just Dave en 05-06-10
- Fool Moon
- The Dresden Files, Book 2
- De: Jim Butcher
- Narrado por: James Marsters
Juvenile story line; attempt at wizardry insubstantial and foolish. Much better examples: Ben Abramowitz.
Revisado: 04-10-25
The story was just unnecessarily gruesome and did not transport the listener to a new place.
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Austerlitz
- De: W. G. Sebald
- Narrado por: Richard Matthews
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 243
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 212
A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion.
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2 out of 5 stars
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To each their own
- De Sebastian Romero en 04-23-20
- Austerlitz
- De: W. G. Sebald
- Narrado por: Richard Matthews
Subtle slowly evolving personal history
Revisado: 07-28-24
The narrator was superb and the story intriguing. I am going to check out the narrator for other selections.
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The Demon of Unrest
- A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Will Patton, Erik Larson
- Duración: 17 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,698
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,465
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,465
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vividly Told History of the Start of the Civil War
- De WLC en 05-01-24
- The Demon of Unrest
- A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Will Patton, Erik Larson
The extensive detailed recitation of the facts at the start of war; which could have but never did became tedious.
Revisado: 05-11-24
Excellent narration from a reader with an interesting subtle voice. An excellent book for those with either extensive or little knowledge of Lincoln’s election and the start of the war.
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One Last Prayer for the Rays
- A DCI Yorke Thriller, Book 1
- De: Wes Markin
- Narrado por: Aubrey Parsons
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 45
When 12-year-old Paul disappears from school, Yorke’s only clue is a pool of animal blood. Fearing the worst, he turns toward the most obvious suspect: recently released local murderer Thomas Ray. But as the snow in Salisbury worsens, Ray’s mutilated body is discovered, and Yorke is left with no choice but to journey into the sinister heart of a demented family that has plagued the community for generations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent crime thriller
- De Milica en 02-05-20
- One Last Prayer for the Rays
- A DCI Yorke Thriller, Book 1
- De: Wes Markin
- Narrado por: Aubrey Parsons
Gruesome.
Revisado: 07-07-23
I love mysteries and crime stories but this was unnecessarily gruesome with not much suspense. Unrelenting misery.
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Off Kilter
- Scottish Highlands Mystery Series, Book 1
- De: Hannah Reed
- Narrado por: Angela Dawe
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,193
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,090
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,085
After the recent death of her mother and the dissolution of her marriage, 30-something Eden Elliott is seriously in need of a fresh start. At the urging of her best friend, best-selling author Ami Pederson, Eden decides to embark on an open-ended trip to the picturesque village of Glenkillen in the Scottish Highlands, to do some hands-on research for a book of her own. But almost as soon as Eden arrives in the quaint town, she gets caught up in a very real drama....
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4 out of 5 stars
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And yet I enjoyed it...
- De Constance Jenkins en 05-20-18
- Off Kilter
- Scottish Highlands Mystery Series, Book 1
- De: Hannah Reed
- Narrado por: Angela Dawe
Improbable story
Revisado: 03-19-23
Not interesting. I got it because of the possibility of actual knitting and sheep content. Written on about a 3rd grade reading level and mostly boring.
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The Conviction
- David Sloane, Book 5
- De: Robert Dugoni
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,862
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,641
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,636
As David Sloane continues to piece his life back together in the wake of his wife's vicious murder, he also struggles to handle his difficult teenage son, Jake. Reeling from the loss of his mother, Jake's bad behavior escalates and his relationship with Sloane is pushed to the brink. When Sloane's old friend, Detective Tom Molia, recruits Sloane and Jake to join him and his son on a camping trip, Sloane sees the trip as an opportunity to repair their broken father/son bond.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another Good Installment To The Series
- De Lia en 04-01-17
- The Conviction
- David Sloane, Book 5
- De: Robert Dugoni
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
Gruesome child abuse
Revisado: 06-15-22
The story depicts sadistic cruel treatment to inmates at a juvenile prison in graphic terms. The legal aspect is secondary and not up to Dugoni’s usual thriller. It’s slow and drags out the unlikely ending. I can’t believe I listened to almost all of this book.
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When Breath Becomes Air
- De: Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese - foreword
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra, Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29,481
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25,887
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25,822
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Phenomenal book!
- De A. Potter en 01-16-16
Reflections on life from a neurosurgeon
Revisado: 03-25-16
Where does When Breath Becomes Air rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Top 15
What was one of the most memorable moments of When Breath Becomes Air?
When hew accepts that he will not become the doctor he has worked to become.
Have you listened to any of Sunil Malhotra and Cassandra Campbell ’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
No
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes
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American Pastoral
- De: Philip Roth
- Narrado por: Ron Silver
- Duración: 15 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,040
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,264
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,243
Philip Roth presents a vivid portrait of an innocent man being swept away by a current of conflict and violence in his own backyard - a story that is as much about loving America as it is hating it. Seymour "Swede" Levov, a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, and the prosperous heir of his father's Newark glove factory comes of age in thriving, triumphant postwar America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s. Not even a most private, well-intentioned citizen, it seems, gets to sidestep the sweep of history. American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate American's rise and fall ... a strong, confident man, a master of social equilibrium, overwhelmed by the forces of social disorder. For the Swede is not allowed to stay forever blissful living out life in rural Old Rimrock in his 170 year-old stone farmhouse with his pretty wife (his college sweetheart and Miss New Jersey of 1949) and his lively albeit precocious daughter, the apple of his eye ... that is until she grows up to become a revolutionary terrorist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Masterpiece
- De Thomas en 06-29-03
- American Pastoral
- De: Philip Roth
- Narrado por: Ron Silver
Maybe the best combination of book and performer.
Revisado: 03-21-14
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes I would recommend it, it is a classic of American literature made even more wrenching and poignant by the narrator.
What does Ron Silver bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
He renders Meredith's lines just as she would have spoken them.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes, but then I wouldn't have had it to listen to for a second and third sitting.
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Whispers Under Ground
- Peter Grant, Book 3
- De: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrado por: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,826
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,471
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,449
It begins with a dead body at the far end of Baker Street tube station, all that remains of American exchange student James Gallagher - and the victim's wealthy, politically powerful family is understandably eager to get to the bottom of the gruesome murder. The trouble is, the bottom - if it exists at all - is deeper and more unnatural than anyone suspects...except, that is, for London constable and sorcerer's apprentice Peter Grant.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lesley's Back!
- De Tango en 04-06-13
- Whispers Under Ground
- Peter Grant, Book 3
- De: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrado por: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Kept me up to finish listening
Revisado: 01-14-13
Where does Whispers Under Ground rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Top 25%
What did you like best about this story?
Inventive concept of modern police utilizing magic
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes, but I don't allow myself to do so.
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This Is How You Lose Her
- De: Junot Díaz
- Narrado por: Junot Díaz
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,497
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,304
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,319
The stories in This Is How You Lose Her, by turns hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender, lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of our all-too-human hearts. They capture the heat of new passion, the recklessness with which we betray what we most treasure, and the torture we go through - "the begging, the crawling over glass, the crying" - to try to mend what we've broken beyond repair. They recall the echoes that intimacy leaves behind, even where we thought we did not care.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Yes, he lost her. So deservedly.
- De McSue en 10-16-12
- This Is How You Lose Her
- De: Junot Díaz
- Narrado por: Junot Díaz
Very very short stories
Revisado: 11-05-12
Is there anything you would change about this book?
The author reads well and is interesting to listen to. As an author he should stick to a male point of view. There is some fairly graphic descriptions of sexual activity which are totally appropriate to the stories.
Would you recommend This Is How You Lose Her to your friends? Why or why not?
Yes, for a short listn
What about Junot Díaz’s performance did you like?
I loved his natural accent and it was easy to distinguish the variou characters.
Was This Is How You Lose Her worth the listening time?
Yes.
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