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The Women
- A Novel
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kristin Hannah
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 47,388
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 45,238
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Story5 out of 5 stars 45,241
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WOW. Just Wow
- By Joanne DeVuono on 02-08-24
- The Women
- A Novel
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kristin Hannah
Needs more Vietnam, less romance
Reviewed: 01-12-25
Only the first 1/3 of this story takes place in Vietnam. For a story about women in Vietnam, there actually isn’t a lot of meat in the plot about the women in Vietnam. Every man in the story falls in love with Frankie at first sight, for no reason. Pretty predictable and blah, which is disappointing because there’s obviously a lot of potential here.
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The Covenant of Water
- By: Abraham Verghese
- Narrated by: Abraham Verghese
- Length: 31 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,841
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,604
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,592
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala’s long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Story Telling At Its Best
- By Regina on 05-06-23
- The Covenant of Water
- By: Abraham Verghese
- Narrated by: Abraham Verghese
Needs Editing and A New Narrator
Reviewed: 01-03-25
Verghese was not a good narrator. Couldn’t tell the difference between his Irish accents and Indian accents and his American South accent was awful. This story could use a healthy dose of editing. Could be 10 hours shorter without missing anything. Unfortunately not on par with Cutting for Stone!
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The Lacuna
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,715
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,095
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,102
Born in the United States, but reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers and, one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed muralist Diego Rivera. When he goes to work for Rivera, his wife, exotic artist Kahlo, and exiled leader Lev Trotsky, Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great Writers need Great Narrators
- By Gypsy Wife on 12-04-09
- The Lacuna
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
In dire need of editing
Reviewed: 08-08-24
Kingsolver is a lovely writer and this story started out pretty interesting but man - it’s way too long. Began to lose interest at the halfway point. Could be edited down by 25%.
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Tidelands
- The Fairmile Series, Book 1
- By: Philippa Gregory
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,061
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,822
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,808
On Midsummer’s Eve, Alinor waits in the church graveyard, hoping to encounter the ghost of her missing husband and thus confirm his death. Until she can, she is neither maiden nor wife nor widow, living in a perilous limbo. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run. She shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marshy landscape of the Tidelands, not knowing she is leading a spy and an enemy into her life. England is in the grip of a bloody civil war that reaches into the most remote parts of the kingdom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Please pay close attention to the opening scenes and description of the land and sea
- By paula wright on 09-02-19
- Tidelands
- The Fairmile Series, Book 1
- By: Philippa Gregory
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
Thought it would never end
Reviewed: 02-07-24
Entertaining but feels way longer than it is. Too many plot holes than should be allowed for a such a long story.
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Three Cups of Tea
- One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations
- By: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,738
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 912
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Story4 out of 5 stars 939
In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time: Greg Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Fraud
- By Sara on 02-23-16
- Three Cups of Tea
- One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations
- By: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Worst audiobook ever
Reviewed: 01-25-24
The narrator was awful and the way he pronounced certain words was very obnoxious. As soon as i started this book i learned that this guy Mortenson is a fraud and should have just returned it then.
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The Summer That Made Us
- By: Robyn Carr
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,730
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,463
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,453
A television talk show host returns to her childhood summer home to rebuild her life after she's fired for falling ratings. The return is bittersweet as the house has been neglected for years. She's flooded with memories of the wonderful summers she spent with her sisters and cousins before a tragic event changed everything. Working to uncover what really happened the last summer they were all together, she reaches out to her family and the women all gather for an uneasy family reunion.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Couldn't get past the f-bombs
- By Shauna on 02-13-21
- The Summer That Made Us
- By: Robyn Carr
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
Irrationally unrealistic
Reviewed: 12-20-23
The story was very bad. If people in Minnesota are such genuine, self-aware, high emotional intelligence beings with fabulous communication skills, then maybe they should be running our country. There were only two “bad” characters in the whole story unless you also include the woman that was with Ivan. All of the plots had extremely unrealistic points, especially the end - where Hope is somehow magically healed of her personality disorder. Also most characters are overly sappy and desperate. Yikes. Almost all of them are characterizations of what actual people are like.
The narrator was okay but the lilt of her voice was not good much of the time. Her character voices were much better than her narrating voice.
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The Martian
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 38,767
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 34,482
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Story5 out of 5 stars 34,378
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I love Wil Wheaton but why not R. C. Bray?
- By L. Newman on 01-11-20
- The Martian
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Narrator was Terrible
Reviewed: 08-03-23
This book needs to be re-recorded because this narrator was terrible. Horribly botched the German accent, did even try to make the other characters sound different so everyone just sounds the same. Story is okay but tbh the writing style is pretty elementary and Watney sounds like an obnoxious 12 year old in an adults body.
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All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
- A Novel
- By: Bryn Greenwood
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21,739
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19,840
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19,791
As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house until one night her stargazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.
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3 out of 5 stars
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So many 'hard to listen to' moments
- By jksullycats on 12-27-16
- All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
- A Novel
- By: Bryn Greenwood
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
Not even okay
Reviewed: 07-28-23
It’s not ok to try to normalize childhood sexual abuse, grooming, and pedophilia. The plots in this story are preposterous, not to mention disgusting. Also Kellen does not have “a heart of gold”, I can’t even believe that is how he’s described in the summary.
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
- A Novel
- By: Shelby Van Pelt
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Michael Urie
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 51,374
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 47,091
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Story5 out of 5 stars 47,014
After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hidden gem, incredible narration!
- By Christine T on 05-17-22
- Remarkably Bright Creatures
- A Novel
- By: Shelby Van Pelt
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Michael Urie
Predictable story about man-child and elderly grump
Reviewed: 06-15-23
This book was pretty terrible. Not sure about all the rave reviews. The main characters have minuscule story arcs and terrible character development. The only redeeming character is Marcellus and his chapters are too few and far between.
Many concepts and characters are introduced with no follow up or true reason for being in the story (Lester). Glaring plot holes (too many to name). One main character who is an idiot man child that can’t hold a job for more than three months and has no redeeming qualities but we’re supposed believe he’s a genius for some reason. The other main character is a curmudgeon who’s supposed to be 70 but is really portrayed as 80 years old.
Feels like the author is trying to replicate a “Man Called Ove” type story but the writing is very shallow / surface level. Also cannot stand this narrator.
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11-22-63
- A Novel
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 30 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70,593
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63,691
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63,547
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King - who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer - takes listeners on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Owe Stephen King An Apology
- By Kelly - Write Well Academy on 04-16-12
- 11-22-63
- A Novel
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
A solid story
Reviewed: 06-15-23
After listening to some not-so-great books and narrators, it was a breath of fresh air to listen to this. I really enjoyed this story though specific parts got a little graphic.
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