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Killing Floor
- Jack Reacher, Book 1
- De: Lee Child
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 17 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22,013
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19,856
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19,790
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Even if you have it GET THIS ONE!!
- De shelley en 10-30-15
- Killing Floor
- Jack Reacher, Book 1
- De: Lee Child
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
A plot looking for a writer
Revisado: 07-06-23
Let’s get this out of the way, the book had a decent plot. The problem is how it was executed, no pun intended. This book strains suspension of disbelief to the absolute extreme. Reacher goes from being a drifter accused of murder to the equivalent of lead detective on the case virtually overnight. That’s not an exaggeration. He gives orders to the police, including the head of detectives, throughout the book, and they blindly follow.
The police woman love interest is portrayed as painfully weak. She’s utterly dependent on the main character, which is troubling in itself, but even more so since she’s in law enforcement.
On a lighter, but equally annoying note, if I ever hear the word “right?”after a sentence again, I will go nuts. And it’s not a dialect thing, because everyone from the Boston detective to Reacher the drifter to the Alabama people say it. And not in a questioning way. “I called him on the phone, right“. “I’m chasing him down an alley, right“. Repeated ad nauseum.
I did kind of enjoy parts of the book, like some of the action sequences. HOWEVER, the final action scene, in the warehouse, is absolutely comedic. For one thing, I’ve never had slow motion read to me, but that wasn’t even the worst, which I can’t get into without spoilers. Suffice it to say, if this whole scene had happened earlier in the book, I would have stopped listening right there.
This is a rare instance where the TV series is much better than the book!
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Gladiators
- Deadly Arena Sports of Ancient Rome
- De: Christopher Epplett
- Narrado por: Matthew Josdal
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 215
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 187
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 186
It's hard for modern listeners to truly grasp the spectacle that was arena sports in ancient Rome, which pitted man against man and man against beast in mortal combat. Our modern games of football and hockey, or even boxing and MMA, truly pale in comparison. The Gladiators is a comprehensive survey of these ancient sports, focusing on gladiatorial combat and the beast hunts (venationes).
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3 out of 5 stars
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A lot drier than the description lets on
- De Jim en 06-13-17
- Gladiators
- Deadly Arena Sports of Ancient Rome
- De: Christopher Epplett
- Narrado por: Matthew Josdal
Dry as dust
Revisado: 02-04-22
I don’t like giving negative reviews, but for such an interesting topic, the writing was incredibly lackluster. The author obviously did his homework, but nothing in the writing or the narration grabbed my attention at all. I got my hopes up a little when Caligula came along, but very quickly he was dead and gone.
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Through the Brazilian Wilderness
- De: Theodore Roosevelt
- Narrado por: Andre Stojka
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 75
A former American president nearly dies during an ill-planned exploration through the Brazilian Wilderness and down the River of Doubt. Theodore Roosevelt was a naturalist, explorer, author, hunter, governor, soldier and 26th President of the United States.
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1 out of 5 stars
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narration hindrance to story
- De EBH en 09-29-20
- Through the Brazilian Wilderness
- De: Theodore Roosevelt
- Narrado por: Andre Stojka
So close to turning it off
Revisado: 04-26-19
I’ll admit to only being about ten percent through this, but if the subject matter wasn’t interesting there would be no more listening for me. The narration is horrible. The speaker delivers every sentence with the giddy enthusiasm of an over-eager hired actor reading ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas to a room of four year olds. He interjects laugh-talking where I presume he presumes Roosevelt was chuckling as he wrote. He mispronounces words such as ornithology (“or-IN-thology”) and foliage (“folage”) with regularity. And now I feel bad, because he just has the sound of someone who’s a very nice person. He would make a great kids’ book narrator, but a daunting Amazonian trek is not something he should verbally venture into. The content is actually very interesting, although I was a bit amused, if that’s the right word, when Roosevelt spoke nobly of protecting the wild in one passage and in the next is mentioning all the animals he is shooting for no other reason than to shoot and leave them. But his descriptions of the adventure and his ability to relate events, objects and aspects of nature in colorful detail are wonderful, and the overall subject is gripping.
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No Country for Old Men
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14,565
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12,040
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12,031
Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years. Written in muscular prose, No Country for Old Men is a powerful tale of the West that moves at a blistering pace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional, engrossing, frightening.
- De P. Giorgio en 07-27-13
- No Country for Old Men
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
Unmatched narration
Revisado: 03-02-19
The story was good, but this was definitely a character study. Interesting characters made the story, which I enjoyed overall, despite being a bit truncated or wandering in parts. Expect violence, but since that’s the very essence of at least one main character, the violence is necessary. In this audio version however, what made everything was the narrator. Best I have ever heard on Audible or anywhere else, with the possible exception of Rob Inglis on The Lord of the Rings.
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Twain’s Feast
- De: Audible Originals
- Narrado por: Nick Offerman
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 12,034
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10,915
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 10,866
Mark Twain, beloved American writer, performer, and humorist, was a self-proclaimed glutton. With the help of a chef and some friends, Nick Offerman presents the story of Twain’s life through the lens of eight of Mark Twain’s favorite foods.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Audible Recycling
- De Greg Hill en 11-17-18
- Twain’s Feast
- De: Audible Originals
- Narrado por: Nick Offerman
What feast?
Revisado: 11-24-18
Mark Twain was obviously a fascinating guy, and the “feast” he wrote about sounded like great material. It’s a real head-scratcher, then, that this audiobook was so incredibly boring. The “guests” were practically absent, and sounded forced and uninterested when they did offer up anything. As for the food, I was expecting a meal of the things that Twain loved, as he loved them. Not even close. I knew the whole thing was in trouble when (spoiler alert!), in the first dish the unobtainable prairie chicken was replaced with, not regular chicken, not pheasant, but tofu. Even when a main ingredient was procured, it was prepared in some frou-frou way that I doubt Twain would have remotely recognized. But I’m making it sound like the audiobook was about food. It really wasn’t. It was a couple of guys talking about Mark Twain, often meandering into something semi-related. It was often like a really bad night at the improv, with more than one episode of uncomfortable dead air. I like Nick Offerman, but the whole thing was just way too strained, forced and unfunny. The aspects of Twain’s life were okay, but this wasn’t advertised as a straight biography. When the author narrated, it was usually in an excited, “listen to this” way, and some points were worth listening to. But they weren’t what I paid to hear, so to speak. The most interesting part was the description of the deterioration of the Mississippi River delta, which was depressing, and therefore fitting, I guess. The whole book left me depressed that the material was wasted. And one last thing: nothing against vegans, you know, live and let live, all that, but who invites one to a dinner party of Mark Twain’s favorite foods? I think the only dish the poor person got to eat was the tofu prairie chicken. Maybe the cranberries, although to be honest I don’t even remember what the chef did with those.
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Barnaby Rudge
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: George Hagan
- Duración: 29 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 25
Published between 1840 and 1841, it is Dickens' first attempt at an historical novel, his only other being A Tale of Two Cities. Full of classic Dickensian characters, the plot is based on the "no-popery" or Gordon riots of 1780 seen through the eyes of the good-hearted idiot Barnaby Rudge.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Riots Of '80
- De Amazon Customer en 05-20-13
- Barnaby Rudge
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: George Hagan
Pleasant surprise
Revisado: 08-06-18
I’ll admit to listening to this book for a silly reason: I’m a huge Poe fan and wanted to read about the (at least partial) inspiration for the title character in The Raven. But I ended up liking this book quite a bit, in fact, more than the other more famous Dickens titles I’ve read like Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities. The characters were colorful and interesting, and the plot held my attention and moved along well. Maybe not a showering of glowing praise, but I’m definitely glad I listened. And a good narrator.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
- De: Alexander Dumas
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
- Duración: 43 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 473
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 432
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 437
An adventure story primarily concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness, The Count of Monte Cristo focuses on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune, and sets about getting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment. However, his plans have devastating consequences for the innocent as well as the guilty.
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2 out of 5 stars
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It's fine... until it skips chunks of the story
- De Heather Hall en 01-28-15
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- De: Alexander Dumas
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
Tough to get through
Revisado: 08-06-18
I knew the basic story for this book, but had never read it. Kind of glad, because reading it would have been harder than listening. This should have been half the length—it just went on and on (and on!) Very tedious. I gave the story three stars because it was a decent plot. There was just way too much unnecessary detail.
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