Kirsten Tautfest
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Boston Mob
- The Rise and Fall of the New England Mob and Its Most Notorious Killer
- De: Marc Songini
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
The New England Mafia was a hugely powerful organization that survived by using violence to ruthlessly crush anyone that threatened it, or its lucrative gambling, loansharking, bootlegging, and other enterprises. From information based on newly declassified documents and the use of underworld sources, Boston Mob spans the gutters and alleyways of East Boston, Providence, and Charlestown to the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C., and Boston's Beacon Hill. Its players include governors and mayors, and the Mafia Commission of New York City.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining
- De joeyg1963 en 12-07-19
- Boston Mob
- The Rise and Fall of the New England Mob and Its Most Notorious Killer
- De: Marc Songini
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
needs a better narrator
Revisado: 07-11-24
audio would have been more tolerable if it was read with a Boston accent.
takes a while for the threads to be tied together but otherwise may put you to sleep while driving
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Caffeine
- How Caffeine Created the Modern World
- De: Michael Pollan
- Narrado por: Michael Pollan
- Duración: 2 h y 2 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42,724
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36,818
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36,650
Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. In this controversial and exciting listen, Pollan explores caffeine’s power as the most-used drug in the world - and the only one we give to children (in soda pop) as a treat.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Leaves much to be desired
- De Melody H en 02-02-20
- Caffeine
- How Caffeine Created the Modern World
- De: Michael Pollan
- Narrado por: Michael Pollan
essay not history
Revisado: 12-21-23
kind of disappointed in this one. author injected too much of himself into the MS.
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Murder in an Irish Village
- Booktrack Edition
- De: Carlene O'Connor
- Narrado por: Caroline Lennon
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 125
In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, Natalie's Bistro has always been warm and welcoming. Nowadays, 22-year-old Siobhan O'Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother, along with her five siblings, after the death of their parents in a car crash almost a year ago. It's been a rough year for the O'Sullivans, but it's about to get rougher. One morning, as they're opening the bistro, they discover a man seated at a table with a pair of hot pink barber scissors protruding from his chest.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Music?
- De Amazon Customer en 05-03-19
- Murder in an Irish Village
- Booktrack Edition
- De: Carlene O'Connor
- Narrado por: Caroline Lennon
music is distracting
Revisado: 02-16-23
music is a constant throughout the entire story. it was too distracting imo.
story is okay if not a bit trite.
voice acting was good but lost impact with the background track
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The Bookshop of Yesterdays
- De: Amy Meyerson
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,001
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 892
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 891
Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy’s bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on Miranda’s 12th birthday, Billy has a mysterious falling-out with her mother and suddenly disappears from Miranda’s life. She doesn’t hear about him again until 16 years later when she receives unexpected news: Billy has died and left her Prospero Books, which is teetering on bankruptcy, and one final scavenger hunt.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great story ….BUT
- De Jean en 12-16-19
- The Bookshop of Yesterdays
- De: Amy Meyerson
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon
frustrating (spoilers)
Revisado: 11-08-22
I "read" this for my bookclub and was able to finish my homework. It was obvious to me where this plot was going and Miranda should have been smart enough to not drag out this clue game. Granted she's a history teacher and not a historian but even an amateur knows to find out the date of a death without pulling a birth certificate would go back to the cemetery gravesite. Death dates are typically engraved on headstones. If I were reading a physical copy of this I would not have finished and thrown it against the wall. Instead I found myself driving at night alone and yelling at my radio.
Narrator was average. She was not strong on voices and if the structure was flashbacks in the text it was awkwardly either read or edited so a listener has a bit of trouble.
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- De: Mitch Albom
- Narrado por: Mitch Albom
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,443
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,060
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,072
Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Unforgiveable sin
- De Andy en 11-30-04
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- De: Mitch Albom
- Narrado por: Mitch Albom
eye roll
Revisado: 10-13-22
gave up halfway through. Too ridiculous for me. the author narrating was surprisingly well done however.
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The Kitchen Front
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Ryan
- Narrado por: Jasmine Blackborow
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,372
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,210
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,210
Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses: The Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio program called The Kitchen Front is holding a cooking contest - and the grand prize is a job as the program’s first-ever female co-host. For four very different women, winning the competition would present a crucial chance to change their lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Utterly
- De esther garcia en 04-19-21
- The Kitchen Front
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Ryan
- Narrado por: Jasmine Blackborow
Excellent narration
Revisado: 06-06-22
narration was strong & spot on but story wasn't my cup of tea and ending seemed a bit forced
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A Soccer Life in Shorts
- De: Mark Vincent Lincir
- Narrado por: Mike Paine
- Duración: 57 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:2.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 5
From receiving a yellow card at age eight to scoring an own goal to snubbing an internationally renowned goalkeeper, this collection of short stories and poems will have you laughing until the final whistle.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nice stories but bad reader
- De Kirsten Tautfest en 03-06-20
- A Soccer Life in Shorts
- De: Mark Vincent Lincir
- Narrado por: Mike Paine
Nice stories but bad reader
Revisado: 03-06-20
The audio performance sucked the life out of what could have been great stories. At least it's short.
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Little Fires Everywhere
- De: Celeste Ng
- Narrado por: Jennifer Lim
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61,017
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53,504
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53,390
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads to the colors of the houses to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter, Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Boring and Drawn Out!!!
- De M. Ryder en 10-05-17
- Little Fires Everywhere
- De: Celeste Ng
- Narrado por: Jennifer Lim
not my cup of tea
Revisado: 11-09-18
Narrator was great and easy on the ear, even at 1.5x speed.
So much of the underlying story was lost in unnecessary details and sidetracks. Like why do we need a page worth of background on a very minor character?
If it weren't for this being a book club book and audible, I wouldn't have made it past the first chapter.
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Chicago
- A Novel
- De: David Mamet
- Narrado por: Jim Frangione
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 105
A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicago - a city where some people knew too much and where everyone should have known better - by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Untouchables and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross. Mike Hodge - veteran of the Great War, big shot of the Chicago Tribune, medium fry - probably shouldn't have fallen in love with Annie Walsh. Then again, maybe the man who killed Annie Walsh should have known better than to trifle with Mike Hodge.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Dialogue and Settings, Not Much Action
- De Paul Courter en 03-04-18
- Chicago
- A Novel
- De: David Mamet
- Narrado por: Jim Frangione
Dialoge awkward
Revisado: 06-12-18
I don't know if it's the reader or the fact that Mamet is known more for scripts than for novels, but the dialogue when read aloud seems stilted. The words themselves within the quotes are fine, it's more the overuse of said that got to me after a while.
I will probably have to read or listen to this again at some point to really review the story plot aspect.
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