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Left to You
- De: Daniel J. Volpe
- Narrado por: Thomas Gloom
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
What would you do to save a loved one? Robert’s mother, Helen, is ravaged with cancer. Every day could be her last, and Robert dreads losing the last member of his family. Robert’s friend and Holocaust survivor, Josef, tells him an unholy story and leaves him a way to save his dying mother. But, as with everything in life, the salvation comes with a steep price.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic narration!
- De HannahNola en 06-21-23
- Left to You
- De: Daniel J. Volpe
- Narrado por: Thomas Gloom
This is a terrible book 
Revisado: 01-26-24
This has probably been the worst book. I’ve listened to on audible so far. The book itself is bad. Characters are introduced that have no effects on the story whatsoever. The writing is often ridiculous and describes the action poorly. For example:
“His body was slick with the cold sweats of righteousness.”
“Evil seeped into his skin from the stone.”
The novel seems to have lacked an editor. Honestly, the first two sections of the book should have been left out entirely. The author has one of the main characters spend a significant portion of the novel describing his experience of the holocaust, which sounds stereotypical, and, at worst, exploitative. The last third of the book was somewhat OK, which is why I’m giving it two stars. However, the constant shifting between perspectives and the inexplicable changes in the way the characters act takes away from even this part of the book.
This is the first time that I have heard a book read by Thomas Gloom, but if this performance is anything like his others, I would avoid his work. He is enthusiastic. Way too enthusiastic. It’s made me think of a comic book being read out loud by the speaker from a movie trailer in the 1980s.
Do yourself a favor. Don’t get this book.
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Before They Are Hanged
- De: Joe Abercrombie
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
- Duración: 22 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 20,671
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 18,471
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 18,407
The second novel in the wildly popular First Law Trilogy from New York Times best seller Joe Abercrombie. Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It's enough to make a torturer want to run - if he could even walk without a stick. Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country. Crown Prince Ladisla is poised to drive them back and win undying glory.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Can't stand to hear the word grimace' any more.
- De Max en 08-29-17
- Before They Are Hanged
- De: Joe Abercrombie
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
Fantastic continuation of the series!
Revisado: 01-12-23
Great book, great narration! I love Abercrombie’s sense of realism that he injects to his fantastic characters. Don’t pass it up!
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Clandestine
- Mysterious Press - HighBridge Audio Classics
- De: James Ellroy
- Narrado por: William Roberts
- Duración: 12 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950s - a town blinded to its own grime by Hollywood glitter; a society nourished by newspaper lies that wants its heroes all-American and squeaky clean. A chance to lead on a possible serial killing is all it takes to fuel Underhill's reckless ambition - and it propels him into a dangerous alliance with certain mad and unstable elements of the law enforcement hierarchy. When the case implodes with disastrous consequences, it is Fred Underhill who takes the fall. His life is in ruins, his promising future suddenly a dream of the past.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Early Proto-Ellroy
- De Darwin8u en 05-21-18
- Clandestine
- Mysterious Press - HighBridge Audio Classics
- De: James Ellroy
- Narrado por: William Roberts
Decent Ellroy, Decent Performance
Revisado: 11-23-22
Narrator was hit or miss; reminded me of a book being read by Robert Loggia or Telly Savalas, which was off-putting for a California cop narrator in his late 20s and early 30s.
The story is a bit slow to start, but it speeds up around chapter 6 or so. I’ve only read one other James Ellroy novel, and this one seemed a bit more like a hard-boiled pulp crime story than Brown’s Requiem. Overall, I liked it!
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The Blade Itself
- De: Joe Abercrombie
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
- Duración: 22 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25,377
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22,918
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22,858
Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he's on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian - leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, Captain Jezal dan Luthar has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Characters drive the story. The Narrator rocks!
- De Brian Alsobrook en 11-01-16
- The Blade Itself
- De: Joe Abercrombie
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
Wow!
Revisado: 05-11-19
This was actually my first audiobook to ever listen to in cool. Steven Pacey is an excellent narrator who does an terrific job of bringing life to each character. He infuses a new voice into each character, so much so that you buy into it completely and often forget that you’re listening to the same man narrate. Joe Abercrombie’s work is incredibly smart who often upends convention even as he adheres to some of its tropes. His characters are alive and real, even if some of their stories veer into pure fantasy, and the application of real personalities to such an unreal form is very refreshing.
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