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Farewell, Amethystine
- De: Walter Mosley
- Narrado por: Michael Boatman
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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January 1970 finds Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, LA’s premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all expectations. He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a thriving investigation agency. All is right with the world… and then Amethystine Stoller, his own personal Helen of Troy, arrives. Her ex-husband is missing. A simple enough case. But even as Easy takes his first step in the investigation he trips. He falls into the memory of things past. Little things, like loss, love, a world war, and a hunger that has eaten at him since he was a Black boy on his own.
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Mosely never fails!
- De Shenelle Williams en 06-20-24
- Farewell, Amethystine
- De: Walter Mosley
- Narrado por: Michael Boatman
A hard book to listen to
Revisado: 04-09-25
This book is probably better read than listened to. There are many characters to keep up with and some of the characters have more than one name. The storyline wanders more than a lost 3 year old in Walmart. I cannot recommend this book
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The Passage of Power
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 4
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 32 h y 45 m
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The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career - 1958 to 1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had always pursued, would be thrust upon him in the moment it took an assassin’s bullet to reach its mark.
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From Powerful to Powerless
- De Abdur en 05-08-12
- The Passage of Power
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 4
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
The research to write this book was meticulous
Revisado: 03-14-25
I would rate the second book about the 1948 Senatorial race as the best, Master of the Senate second and this book third The first book about the early years is fourth. That said, all the books are good and if you enjoy history, none of the four will disappoint. I thought the portion of this book just before and after the death of Kennedy was best. I felt I was there in the room with Johnson
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Dog Soldiers
- De: Robert Stone
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers - and the price of survival was dangerously high.
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intense narrative of a dark and complex time
- De gnudung en 05-05-12
- Dog Soldiers
- De: Robert Stone
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
Not as good as reviews
Revisado: 01-18-25
10 percent of this book was good. 40 percent was average and 50 percent was hoping this toothache of a book would go away or at least get better. Long stretches of this book drug like an anchor on a ship. The narrator was good. The last quarter of the book was the best part
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Slow Horses
- Slough House, Book 1
- De: Mick Herron
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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Slough House is a dumping ground for British intelligence agents who've screwed up cases in any number of ways - by leaving a secret file on a train or blowing a surveillance. River Cartwright, one such "slow horse", is bitter about his failure and about his tedious assignment transcribing cell phone conversations. When a young man is abducted and his kidnappers threaten to broadcast his beheading live on the Internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem himself.
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Fun premise, Slow start, excellent entertaiinment.
- De Dustmouse5 en 07-07-17
- Slow Horses
- Slough House, Book 1
- De: Mick Herron
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
Awful, simply awful
Revisado: 11-17-24
Maybe this book is okay reading it but it is horrible trying to listen to it. The characters are completely unsympathetic and the plot jumps around like a kangaroo on meth The only purpose of this book is to burn one of your Audible credits
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
- The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
- De: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 16 h y 31 m
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Told from the point of view of the men who waged this steel-shattering battle, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors captures Navy pilots attacking enemy battleships with makeshift weapons and sacrificial valor, a veteran commander improvising tactics never taught in Annapolis, and young crews from across America rising to an impossible challenge.
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Outstanding
- De John en 04-17-04
- The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
- The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
- De: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
Bravery, courage, character. What more can you ask for?
Revisado: 09-21-24
Have your teenage son read this to hear about real role models These men gave their all. Very well written with excellent narration
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Our Man in Havana
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true....
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Story was intriguing
- De Anonymous User en 08-14-24
- Our Man in Havana
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Story was intriguing
Revisado: 08-14-24
The narration and beginning were hard to follow but became easier as the story advanced. This book is probably better read than listened to
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Camino Ghosts
- A Novel (Camino, Book 3)
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Whoopi Goldberg, Josh Grisham
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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Mercer Mann, a popular writer from Camino Island, is back on the beach, marrying her boyfriend, Thomas, in a seaside ceremony. Bruce Cable, infamous owner of Bay Books, performs the wedding. Afterward, Bruce tells Mercer that he has stumbled upon an incredible story. Mercer desperately needs an idea for her next novel, and Bruce now has one. The true story is about Dark Isle, a sliver of a barrier island not far off the North Florida coast. It was settled by freed slaves three hundred years ago, and their descendants lived there until 1955, when the last one was forced to leave.
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Narration is hard to get through
- De John Kelly Lewis en 06-04-24
- Camino Ghosts
- A Novel (Camino, Book 3)
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Whoopi Goldberg, Josh Grisham
Grisham again disappoints
Revisado: 08-07-24
This book is not as bad as “The Exchange” but is very predictable and slow moving. It could be summarized in 5 sentences and the reader would miss little. If you want twists and turns in the story this is not the book for you. The storyline reads as straight as the heart monitor on a dead patient
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Skies of Thunder
- The Deadly World War II Mission over the Roof of the World
- De: Caroline Alexander
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
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In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air—meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on “the Hump,” the fearsome mountain barrier that defined the air route.
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Missing In Action
- De Douglas S. en 06-07-24
- Skies of Thunder
- The Deadly World War II Mission over the Roof of the World
- De: Caroline Alexander
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
Exciting adventures of World War Two
Revisado: 07-23-24
They were heroes doing their duty. My father was one of them. May they rest in peace. This book gives more detail than any other I have read but did not know of the time my father and crew landed on the enemy airfield. They told their radar operators when the got back to their correct airfield they had been flying real low as they did not want to fill out reports explaining their mistake and to explain why the radar operators had lost them on radar. Radar was not as advanced then.
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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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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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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
Well researched but so dry it makes the Sahara Desert look like an oasis
Revisado: 07-01-24
This book is suited for history and gossip enthusiasts. The first 80 percent of the book is very slow moving and a struggle to get through. This is a 17 hour book. This book is not for those who require action and not talk. People who like to hear themselves talk and those that need to brag at a party about what they are reading should read this book. It is very well researched It is largely about who said what and who was flirting with someone else’s wife or husband although I don’t know what that had to do with Fort Sumter
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The Sisters Brothers
- A Novel
- De: Patrick deWitt
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living - and whom he does it for. With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western....
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The Cruelty To Animals is Hard to Take
- De Leslie en 07-22-12
- The Sisters Brothers
- A Novel
- De: Patrick deWitt
- Narrado por: John Pruden
Setting was well described
Revisado: 06-01-24
This book would receive a solid C. It neither interested me so much I could not quit listening nor was so bad I did not want to finish it
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