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Lessons from Lucy
- By: Dave Barry
- Narrated by: Dave Barry
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 928
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 812
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 812
As Dave Barry turns 70 - not happily - he realizes that his dog, Lucy, is dealing with old age far better than he is. She has more friends, fewer worries, and way more fun. So Dave decides to figure out how Lucy manages to stay so happy, to see if he can make his own life happier by doing the things she does (except for drinking from the toilet). He reconnects with old friends and tries to make new ones - turns out to be a struggle, because Lucy likes people a lot more than he does.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Required Reading, Excellent Audio Book!
- By Cramer407 on 04-13-19
- Lessons from Lucy
- By: Dave Barry
- Narrated by: Dave Barry
laugh out loud storytelling and wisdom.
Reviewed: 07-06-19
long been a fan of Dave Barry. This guy's the mark. Enjoyed his reading and will buy the book to read aloud to others. Warning, there is a second epilogue that takes you down a different path. Worth sticking with it.
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Junk
- By: Les Bohem
- Narrated by: John Waters
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 15,644
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 14,294
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 14,278
Set in present-day Los Angeles, Junk explores an epic conspiracy, one at work for thousands of years that involves total takeover of the planet Earth by aliens. In the wild, souped-up vision of Les Bohem - the acclaimed, Emmy-winning writer of the Steven Spielberg miniseries, Taken - the world is at the end stage of long-range plot that involves a gigantic genetic-engineering project. The aliens who have invaded us have no planet. No spaceship is coming. Instead, a small advance force comes, breeds, and dies - thus becoming an anomaly in our DNA that can’t be explained.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Flat narration on a boring story
- By Kingsley on 03-02-19
- Junk
- By: Les Bohem
- Narrated by: John Waters
good apocalyptic story with interesting premise
Reviewed: 03-20-19
enjoyed, but not at the level of Octavia Butler who captures the fear, even terror, of those who are losers in the change.
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The Just City
- Thessaly, Book 1
- By: Jo Walton
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 186
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 172
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Story4 out of 5 stars 172
Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community populated by over 10,000 children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future - all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Could Not Get Past Mispronunciations
- By Martha K. on 04-22-17
- The Just City
- Thessaly, Book 1
- By: Jo Walton
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
compelling, provocative and thoughtful..
Reviewed: 07-08-18
interesting characters and characterizations. not a dystopia, but an effort at utopia with both the philososophy and reality presented for debate and actually debated.
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Spoonbenders
- A novel
- By: Daryl Gregory
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,997
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,598
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,582
Teddy Telemachus is a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady underground associates. In need of cash, he tricks his way into a classified government study about telekinesis and its possible role in intelligence gathering. There he meets Maureen McKinnon, and it's not just her piercing blue eyes that leave Teddy forever charmed but her mind - Maureen is a genuine psychic of immense and mysterious power.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Slow start, but patience is your friend here.
- By Heather on 08-22-17
- Spoonbenders
- A novel
- By: Daryl Gregory
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
Quirky family headed toward a big crisis.
Reviewed: 07-15-17
Enjoyed listening to this story and the unique Telemachus family as it recovers from its big fall from grace on national television and then the mothers death. The kids are grown and have their own kids now, but they are all struggling with the family legacy and their own psy abilities. it's a family with issues but with strong bonds.
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Vanishing Act
- By: Thomas Perry
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 783
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 597
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 594
Jane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads solitary outcasts through hostile territory to escape the vengeance of their enemies. But the shaded forest paths her Seneca ancestors might have followed on such missions have all been converted to superhighways, and now the safest way stations are crowded urban buildings that offer the camouflage of anonymity. Still, the supply of runaways - and the need for a woman who will take great risks to save them - have never been greater.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Book - 4 Stars; Narration - 3 Stars
- By Mimi on 02-24-10
- Vanishing Act
- By: Thomas Perry
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
Strong lead. Native Am context adds interest
Reviewed: 12-16-15
Strong female character with interesting references to American Indian culture.Fast pace without being chaotic. Did not know this was a series and will definitely pick up another.
Reader was very good.
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Spin
- By: Robert Charles Wilson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,800
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,353
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,361
One night when he was 10, Tyler stood in his backyard and watched the stars go out. They flared into brilliance, then disappeared, replaced by an empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Listen!
- By pems-integ-tests on 03-28-08
- Spin
- By: Robert Charles Wilson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Worthwhile storyline & some speculative ideas
Reviewed: 11-19-13
What did you love best about Spin?
In SciFi, I like being led to "wonder" and to think about the universe in new ways. In the eventual characterization of the Hypotheticals, this book succeeds. In addition, the characters and their relationships are interesting, if not compelling. While not epic in the sense of carrying across generations, it is a long, sweeping story from the main characters' childhood, early adulthood and on told in the context of an event that seems to force humanity to confront life at the end of the world. Yet, the event is not a one-off driver of the story. There is a chain of actions and reactions that help make it realistic. Humanity's reaction is multi-faceted and evolves.
I would not call it literature, but I did find myself sitting in my car to hear more of the story a number of times.
What does Scott Brick bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
The narrator does a nice job of providing distinguishable voices to the different characters.
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Fault Lines
- How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World's Economy
- By: Raghuram Rajan
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 148
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 83
Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren't fixed.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A REAL SNOOZER
- By Frank on 12-02-10
- Fault Lines
- How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World's Economy
- By: Raghuram Rajan
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
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Reviewed: 03-31-11
The book takes several steps back from the financial crisis to consider underlying factors - fault lines - that contributed to the crisis. While he provides some suggested policy responses to prevent a recurrence, he does not address any responses to the down turn itself for which he has been criticized (e.g., Krugman and Well in their review in the New York Review of Books). However, that was not Rajan's intent.
Overall the book is far ranging, thoughtful and interesting. However, I largely turned off the audible version to read it myself as I found the reader to be ham-handed, monotonic and completely unengaging. Perhaps with another reader the previous reviewer would have been less critical.
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