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Year of Yes
- How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person
- By: Shonda Rhimes
- Narrated by: Shonda Rhimes
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25,175
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22,224
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22,123
The megatalented creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder chronicles how saying yes for one year changed her life - and how it can change yours, too.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Began well, but disappointing
- By Gary on 11-30-15
- Year of Yes
- How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person
- By: Shonda Rhimes
- Narrated by: Shonda Rhimes
Repetitive but generally uplifting
Reviewed: 03-30-22
I have never watched any of her shows, and I was recommended this book by a friend who thought it would cheer me up. Some might find her tone arrogant but I liked her infectious enthusiasm. Many of her experiences resonated with me and I teared up at times. You do have to skip ahead when she starts to take too long to tell the story.
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Not Nice
- Stop People Pleasing, Staying Silent, & Feeling Guilty... And Start Speaking up, Saying No, Asking Boldly, and Unapologetically Being Yourself
- By: Dr. Aziz Gazipura PsyD
- Narrated by: Dr. Aziz Gazipura PsyD
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,529
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,288
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,276
Are you too nice? If you find it hard to be assertive, directly ask for what you want, or say "no" to others, then you just might be suffering from too much niceness. In this controversial book, world-renowned confidence expert, Dr. Aziz Gazipura, takes an incisive look at the concept of nice. Through his typical style, Dr. Aziz uses engaging stories, humor, and disarming vulnerability to cut through the nice conditioning and liberate the most bold, expressive, authentic version of you.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Changed my life forever
- By Shannon Slater on 12-07-18
- Not Nice
- Stop People Pleasing, Staying Silent, & Feeling Guilty... And Start Speaking up, Saying No, Asking Boldly, and Unapologetically Being Yourself
- By: Dr. Aziz Gazipura PsyD
- Narrated by: Dr. Aziz Gazipura PsyD
Enough about his dating adventures already
Reviewed: 07-18-21
The author makes some good points but one has to sit through overly detailed descriptions of his personal life, especially his dating adventures. Too long, too much irrelevant personal detail, sometimes even too smug. There are better self improvement books out there.
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George Cragge: In the Red & Other Mysteries
- By: Mark Tavener
- Narrated by: Barry Foster, full cast, Hugh Laurie, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4 out of 5 stars 54
In the Red sees the anarchic George Cragge investigate a spree of bizarre murders in the world of City finance, a small political party contesting a by-election, and a plan to overthrow the Director-General of the BBC. In the Balance, features George Cragge kicking off a murder trail during the FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium. In the Chair follows the maverick hack as he looks into a series of murders of dentists linked to New Labour policy. In the End, sees George Cragge investigating a series of murders of journalists.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Save your money or credits
- By TARA on 12-05-19
Great acting, wobbly stories
Reviewed: 02-22-21
Mark Tavener is no Agatha Christie. The murder mystery parts of these stories are rather week and he doesn’t do enough in terms of dropping bits of evidence / hints that might help the reader to guess at the perpetrators. Instead all is reviewed at the end with a Big Bang.
On the other hand I really enjoyed the characterisation of office politics and have learnt a thing or two about navigating the corridors of power.
Absolutely top-rate voice acting but that’s to be expected given the famous names on the slate.
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The Clocks
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 60
As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living-room floor. What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Sheila clearly remembered having heard a cuckoo clock strike 3.00. Yet, the four other clocks in the living room all showed the time as 4.13. Even more strange: only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent
- By mr kieran j murphy on 05-26-18
- The Clocks
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Not one of her best
Reviewed: 01-08-21
Started promisingly but the deduction was forced and relied too much on deus ex machina.
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Passenger to Frankfurt
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story3 out of 5 stars 21
Sir Stafford Nye's journey home from Malaysia to London takes an unexpected twist in the passenger lounge at Frankfurt: a young woman confides in him that someone is trying to kill her.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Avoid at all costs
- By Huifen on 12-30-20
- Passenger to Frankfurt
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Avoid at all costs
Reviewed: 12-30-20
I love Christie but this has to be the most boring of all the stories I’ve listened to to date on Audible. Could not get through it. Only good as background noise even with Hugh Fraser’s unimpeachable voice acting.
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The Floating Admiral
- By: Agatha Christie, Simon Brett - preface, Dorothy L. Sayers - introduction, and others
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 160
Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the body was found in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has disappeared. There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye - even the identity of the victim is called into doubt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great concept. great puzzle mystery
- By Mariana on 07-27-17
The whole is less than the sum of the parts
Reviewed: 03-27-20
The combined illustriousness of the authors and the lovely voice acting do not make up for the meandering, patchy nature of this story. I gave up halfway.
Attempt only if you need something to put you to sleep.
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Elephants Can Remember (Dramatised)
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: John Moffatt, Julia McKenzie
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 111
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Following an otherwise-enjoyable literary luncheon, the celebrated crime novelist Ariadne Oliver is accosted by a particularly formidable woman who engages her in conversation about one of her many god-daughters, whom Ariadne hasn’t seen since she was a child. She lands a bombshell with the question ‘What I want to know is this: did her mother kill her father, or was it the father who killed the mother?’
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4 out of 5 stars
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just a fun a story
- By Bee on 03-02-15
- Elephants Can Remember (Dramatised)
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: John Moffatt, Julia McKenzie
Saddest Poirot story ever
Reviewed: 12-02-19
Trigger warning if you don’t like stories about deeply dysfunctional families. I cried at the ending.
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Black Coffee
- By: Agatha Christie, Charles Osborne
- Narrated by: John Moffatt
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4 out of 5 stars 35
Sir Claud Amory has discovered the formula for a new powerful explosive, which is stolen by one of the large household of relatives and friends. Locking everyone in the library, Sir Claud switches off the lights to allow the thief to replace the formula on the table, no questions asked. When the lights come on, however, he is dead.
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2 out of 5 stars
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nothing new - do not waste your time on this
- By Huifen on 11-25-19
- Black Coffee
- By: Agatha Christie, Charles Osborne
- Narrated by: John Moffatt
nothing new - do not waste your time on this
Reviewed: 11-25-19
Without giving anything away, suffice to say that this was a draggy, poorly written mish mash of various Poirot stories. And the dialogue had the audacity to refer to the plot which this story plagrised!!! Could see the solution miles away.
Only the beautiful voice acting of John Moffatt saved the day.
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