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Nervous Kid
- A Bondi Bears Novel
- By: Colin Dereham
- Narrated by: Colin Dereham
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4
Ryan meets Dominic when their parents rekindle a relationship they’d abandoned many years before. Cocky, confident, and handsome Dominic quickly becomes Ryan’s best mate as well as his secret infatuation. When a line is crossed as the young men explore uncharted desires, a passionate, forbidden affair leads Ryan to fall hopelessly in love. However, disaster and heartbreak hit hard when the family unit is torn apart.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bad audio quality
- By Z. on 03-08-25
- Nervous Kid
- A Bondi Bears Novel
- By: Colin Dereham
- Narrated by: Colin Dereham
Bad audio quality
Reviewed: 03-08-25
The story is good and the performance by the author is actually good too, but I had to give a negative review because the audio quality of the recording is pretty bad.
The first and last chapters are impossible to listen to, because the audio cuts out completely, and not for a few seconds but for long enough to make it impossible to follow the story.
Disappointing, because otherwise the story is good.
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L'Assommoir [The Drinking Den]
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
After her lover abandons her and their two children, Gervaise marries a tin worker, Coupeau, who helps her rebuild her life. She starts her own business, and the two have a daughter, Anna (the protagonist of Zola's later novel Nana). But their happiness is short-lived as a freak accident leaves Coupeau seriously injured, beginning the family's fall into alcohol, desperation, and violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Zola delves into Dickensian territory
- By Z. on 08-14-23
- L'Assommoir [The Drinking Den]
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
Zola delves into Dickensian territory
Reviewed: 08-14-23
A gripping study of a family’s alcoholism-fueled descent into poverty, domestic violence, and “moral corruption.”
Less saccharine and more venal than Dickens, in this book Zola nevertheless explores similar subjects of poverty and dissolution among the urban working class, with 1850-60s Paris as his setting rather than Dickens’ Victorian London.
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