Leonard Komen
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All About Me!
- My Remarkable Life in Show Business
- By: Mel Brooks
- Narrated by: Mel Brooks
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, and the stage. Now, for the first time, this EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winner shares his story in his own words.
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Wonderful and nostalgic
- By GAT on 12-07-21
- All About Me!
- My Remarkable Life in Show Business
- By: Mel Brooks
- Narrated by: Mel Brooks
uncontrolled boasting
Reviewed: 01-23-25
Some of the background stories were interesting and enlightening but the enjoyment was overwhelmed by his
constant bragging about himself and those surrounding his career. Not a hint of modesty. I was a big fan of his comedic talent.
Which now has been greatly diminished.
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Word of Honor
- By: Nelson DeMille
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 28 hrs
- Unabridged
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He is a good man, a brilliant corporate executive, an honest, handsome family man admired by men and desired by women. But a lifetime ago Ben Tyson was a lieutenant in Vietnam.There the men under his command committed a murderous atrocity -- and together swore never to tell the world what they had done. Now the press, army justice, and the events he tried to forget have caught up with Ben Tyson.
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This one's worth a credit!
- By MIKE WILSON on 09-08-09
- Word of Honor
- By: Nelson DeMille
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
the best of DeMille
Reviewed: 06-14-23
I am so disappointed that it took me 14 years to find this book. It may very well be the finest book written by DeMille
For those of us of the Vietnam generation or interested in military history, this is a must-listen and a book to keep in your library.
The twists and turns of the plot keep the reader alert and anxious to get the rest of the story.
The narration as usual is excellent.
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The Quest
- A Novel
- By: Nelson DeMille
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
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From the locked archives of the Vatican to the overgrown jungles of Ethiopia, an unlikely trio begins a deadly search for the Holy Grail. Two journalists and a beautiful photographer are traveling together in a broken down Jeep while covering the 1975 Ethiopian civil war. Both men fall in love with the woman and that complicates things. When the trio winds up lost in the jungle, in the no man's land between the fighting factions, they take cover and dig in for the night. In their hiding place, they encounter a dying man who tells them an amazing and quite unbelievable story. But for some reason - one that they grapple with for the rest of their journey - that night they believe.
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The Quest to make money
- By Andy on 10-07-13
- The Quest
- A Novel
- By: Nelson DeMille
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
excessive dialog and gratuitous sex
Reviewed: 05-28-23
I began to suspect that this was not written by DeMille since it is way beneath him. One of his worst. Endless irrelevant dialogue to over develop the characters. tedious narration. Very explicitly set scenes
he couldn't decide whether to write a romance novel or an adventure
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True Believer
- A Novel (Terminal List, Book 2)
- By: Jack Carr
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
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In acclaimed author Jack Carr’s follow-up to The Terminal List, former Navy SEAL James Reece’s skill, cunning, and heroism put the US government back in his debt and set him on another path of revenge.
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The BEST book I've heard this year!!!!
- By shelley on 07-31-19
- True Believer
- A Novel (Terminal List, Book 2)
- By: Jack Carr
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Disjointed
Reviewed: 09-15-22
the plot meandered and built no interest. as though the author went thru the motions
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Seizing the Enigma
- The Race to Break the German U-Boats Codes, 1939–1943
- By: David Kahn
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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For almost four desperate years between 1939 and 1943, British and American navies fought a savage, losing battle against German submarine wolf packs. The Allies might never have turned the tide of that historic battle without an intelligence coup. The race to break the German U-boat codes is one of the last great untold stories of World War II.
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A tough coice for audio
- By Alan on 06-01-12
- Seizing the Enigma
- The Race to Break the German U-Boats Codes, 1939–1943
- By: David Kahn
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
Boring details
Reviewed: 05-06-22
The book is bogged down with latitude and longitude descriptions.. the title misleading. 80,% of the story is about the use and not the capture
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Pacific Glory
- World War II Navy, Book 1
- By: P. T. Deutermann
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
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Marsh Vincent, Mick McCarty, and Tommy Lewis were inseparable friends during their naval academy years, each man in love with the beautiful, unattainable Glory Hawthorne. Only Tommy wins her heart and marries Glory after graduation. Different skills set the three men on separate paths in the Navy, but they are all forever changed by the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.
Glory, now Tommy’s widow, is a tough Navy nurse still grieving her loss while trying to save lives at the Pearl Harbor naval hospital.
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Best of PT Deutermann
- By MM on 11-27-11
- Pacific Glory
- World War II Navy, Book 1
- By: P. T. Deutermann
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
Read or listen to the epilogue 1st
Reviewed: 01-26-22
Since this is a story partly of fiction but based upon true events, hearing the epilogue will eliminate any possible discomfort with the alteration of facts or names and give significant appreciation of the story itself.
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The 13th Valley
- By: John M. Del Vecchio
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 27 hrs and 24 mins
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The 13th Valley follows the terrifying Vietnam combat experiences of James Chelini, a telephone-systems installer who finds himself an infantryman in territory controlled by the North Vietnamese army. Spiraling deeper and deeper into a world of conflict and darkness, this harrowing account of Chelini's plunge and immersion into jungle warfare traces his evolution from a semipacifist to an all-out combat-crazed soldier.
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Could Have Been Brilliant
- By KB2187 on 12-03-17
- The 13th Valley
- By: John M. Del Vecchio
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Not worth the money; a political romance
Reviewed: 12-29-21
A HUGE part of this book covers the characters' lost loves, longings for home, flashbacks to bad marriages, and, political and philosophical meanderings about the meaning of war and a 5 minute history of Vietman. If it was correctly described as such a book, I wouldn't have wasted my money on it.
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The Dark Hours
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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There’s chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year’s Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard waits out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. Only minutes after midnight, Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party.
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Too much Covid; not enough Bosch
- By sdhaase1 on 11-13-21
- The Dark Hours
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin
How doess Connelly do it, again and again!
Reviewed: 11-29-21
I have read or listened to every one of his books and he never disappoints.
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Silverview
- A Novel
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Toby Jones
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian’s evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian’s family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.
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Le Carré's SILVERVIEW brings him and us back home
- By Close Listener on 10-14-21
- Silverview
- A Novel
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Toby Jones
too obtuse and slow
Reviewed: 10-26-21
I thought iI was used to LeCarre but this one failed to intrigue me. The character development was all over the place
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The Splendid and the Vile
- A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: John Lee, Erik Larson
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
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On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next 12 months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally - and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless."
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John Lee’s narration is a struggle
- By Leslie Rathjens on 03-05-20
- The Splendid and the Vile
- A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: John Lee, Erik Larson
one third based on his daughter's innane diary
Reviewed: 07-27-21
a lot of new information but not much insight and primarily a recitation of his children's foibles.
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