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Call Me Maybe
- By: Cara Bastone
- Narrated by: Luci Christian, Neil Hellegers
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26,805
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24,898
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24,809
Paint your toes. Pick up the wrong coffee and bagel order. Drive from Brooklyn to Jersey in traffic so slow you want to tear your hair out. It’s amazing all the useless things I can accomplish while on hold for three hours with customer service. Three hours when I should be getting the Date-in-a-Box website ready to launch at the big business expo in a few days. Except my shiny new website is glitching, and my inner rage-monster is ready to scorch some earth...when he finally picks up. Not the robot voice I expected but a real live human named Kal.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Greatest Audible Preformance
- By Apple momma on 10-24-20
- Call Me Maybe
- By: Cara Bastone
- Narrated by: Luci Christian, Neil Hellegers
Why detract?
Reviewed: 12-24-22
What a fun story! Such a creative performance/style! And then the language … no reason! Leave it out and it would be 5 stars across the board - so disappointing. Thankfully it wasn’t so horrendous I did finish it (actually stopped listening and came back months later) but it didn’t add anything to the story or performance - so authors, please let your work shine and just leave it out.
Otherwise so fun and cute. Story line doesn’t feel overdone (not surprised but … perhaps more realistic and awh!). Wonderful performers (sorry they had to read some of those lines) - pausing, tension, everything.
Please do another story but without the unnecessary language
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Make Your Bed
- Little Things That Can Change Your Life...and Maybe the World
- By: Admiral William H. McRaven
- Narrated by: Admiral William H. McRaven
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20,112
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17,496
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17,420
If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long Naval career, but also throughout his life; and he explained how anyone can use these basic lessons to change themselves - and the world - for the better.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Watch the YouTube video
- By A. Yoshida on 01-31-18
- Make Your Bed
- Little Things That Can Change Your Life...and Maybe the World
- By: Admiral William H. McRaven
- Narrated by: Admiral William H. McRaven
Author read!
Reviewed: 08-31-22
Love that it is read by the author - not only is the book/content fantastic but it is made better by him reading. Can’t wait to start again (for the umpteenth time).
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The Miser of Mayfair
- By: M. C. Beaton
- Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,055
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 980
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Story4 out of 5 stars 976
Is Number 67 Clarges Steet the unluckiest house in Mayfair? Every season the beau mondes of the Regency would hire a house in the heart of London’s fashionable West End at disproportionately high rent for often inferior accommodation and yet Number 67 Clarges Street, a town house complete with staff, remains vacant from year to year. Could it be that it is associated with ill luck and even death? Something must be done so that the servants of this house don’t lose their livelihood.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Favorite Author/A Different Series
- By Lily on 10-26-14
- The Miser of Mayfair
- By: M. C. Beaton
- Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton
Not worth the smut
Reviewed: 07-23-22
An interesting story but towards the end they throw in some unnecessary language and graphic detail. Story would have been just fine if not better without it. Why?
Those two things make it worth reviewing for others to note if they care otherwise it’s pretty much just another quant little typical story - meh but then bleh.
Narrator did a nice job.
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Always Emily
- By: Michaela MacColl
- Narrated by: Polly Lee
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4 out of 5 stars 30
One day, 15-year-old Emily Dickinson meets a mysterious, handsome young man. Surprisingly, he doesn't seem to know who she or her family is. And even more surprisingly, he playfully refuses to divulge his name. Emily enjoys her secret flirtation with Mr. "Nobody" until he turns up dead in her family's pond. She's stricken with guilt. Only Emily can discover who this enigmatic stranger was before he's condemned to be buried in an anonymous grave. Her investigation takes her deep into town secrets, blossoming romance, and deadly danger.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Story - Description is way wrong
- By Angela Briggs on 09-07-21
- Always Emily
- By: Michaela MacColl
- Narrated by: Polly Lee
Fabulous story
Reviewed: 03-13-22
Loved the story!
If you’ve read (or watched) Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, this is a must read!
Narrator Ms. Lee did a wonderful job with the ladies voices but all the men sounded the exact same (odd) way.
Ms. MacColl wrote this so beautifully that it wasn’t that big of a deal to the story or stop me from listening (work in progress I’m sure - can’t be easy).
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Ella, the Slayer
- Serenity House, Book 1
- By: A. W. Exley
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 601
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 540
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 540
The flu pandemic of 1918 took millions of souls within a few short weeks. Except it wasn't flu, and death gave them back. Seventeen-year-old Ella copes the best she can by caring for her war-injured father, scrubbing the floors, and slaying the undead that attack the locals. Like rats, these vermin spread pestilence with every bite. Ella's world collides with another when she nearly decapitates a handsome stranger - one who is very much alive.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Needed More Zombies
- By Memeke on 06-11-20
- Ella, the Slayer
- Serenity House, Book 1
- By: A. W. Exley
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
Actually pretty good until the very end
Reviewed: 12-31-21
I love a twisted fairytale but I was hesitant on this one but intrigued enough (not a big fan of the zombie culture but love it when done right/ well). And they did a great job on both the zombie culture and the adaptation. Wrapping up the antagonist was also really well done … wrapping up the protagonists is where they lost my stars. I felt like it was done in poor fashion, not with the time period or rest of the book - a big eye roll from me. Had wanted to read/listen to the next in series but not sure if they’re going to stuff this type of junk in there …
So my recommendation is to listen to this up to the last few minutes (probably pages) and assume the ending how you want (honestly, you already know how it ends).
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North and South
- By: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,495
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6,680
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,684
Written at the request of Charles Dickens, North and South is a book about rebellion that poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience. Gaskell expertly blends individual feeling with social concern and her heroine, Margaret Hale, is one of the most original creations of Victorian literature. When Margaret Hale's father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience she is forced to leave her comfortable home in the tranquil countryside of Hampshire....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- By Sally on 01-04-10
- North and South
- By: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Worth the time
Reviewed: 12-22-21
What a lovely story and what an amazing job done by Juliet Stevenson!
I’ve seen the movie and always wanted to read the book - just like the movie, the very end is worth all those hours! Lol
Quite possibly the first time watching the movie after reading the book won’t disappoint - adaption is understood and they did a good job. Still highly recommend this book … despite the hours, I may even go in for a re-read (after a re-watch that is) 😎
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Bookish and the Beast
- The Once upon a Con Series, Book 3
- By: Ashley Poston
- Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly, Curry Whitmire
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,682
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,521
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,523
Rosie Thorne and her father have been short on luck - and money - for years. So when she loses her grocery store job in a heated moment of smashing the patriarchy, she knows she may be forced to give up on her dream of leaving her small town for a prestigious college creative writing program. On the other hand, Vance Reigns has been Hollywood royalty for as long as Rosie’s been clipping coupons and secretly writing massively popular fanfiction. When a tabloid scandal catches up to him, he’s forced to hide out somewhere the paparazzi would never expect to find him: Small Town USA.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Pandering
- By Megan on 08-05-20
- Bookish and the Beast
- The Once upon a Con Series, Book 3
- By: Ashley Poston
- Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly, Curry Whitmire
Story … not the narrators
Reviewed: 12-19-21
Narrators did a lovely job - love it when they use two people for the two point of view chapters.
I’ve read the first books in the series and loved them so I was Utterly disappointed to hear this one. I was so excited for this one - I love the classic storyline of Beauty and the Beast (multiple versions) but this is a first.
Between the foul language (thankfully not excessive but really? Not needed at all) and the cliches piled on (also for random reasons)… I expected so much more - I did finish it since I foolishly held out hope but I can honestly review it now too.
Not impressed and not recommending… sorry
Do read the others though!
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Emma
- An Audible Original Drama
- By: Jane Austen, Anna Lea - adaptation
- Narrated by: Emma Thompson, Joanne Froggatt, Isabella Inchbald, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21,604
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19,623
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19,487
Austen wrote, 'I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like' and thus introduces the handsome, clever, rich - and flawed, Emma Woodhouse. Emma is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage; nothing however delights her more than matchmaking her fellow residents of Highbury. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Background sonds RUINED this
- By Sandra Dodd on 09-09-18
- Emma
- An Audible Original Drama
- By: Jane Austen, Anna Lea - adaptation
- Narrated by: Emma Thompson, Joanne Froggatt, Isabella Inchbald, Aisling Loftus, Joseph Millson, Morgana Robinson
Clarification
Reviewed: 07-03-21
Just a quick explanation of the 4 stars for the story - this is an adaptation - I loved it but would have liked to have heard this in its entirety or edited the title a bit so it’s seen as an adaptation? 🤔 Couldn’t bring myself to give it 5 stars when it wasn’t the actual text 🤷🏻♀️. Great adaptation and loved it over all!
Fantastic listen
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Enchanted, Inc.
- A Novel
- By: Shanna Swendson
- Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,200
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,954
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,958
Katie Chandler had always heard that New York is a weird and wonderful place, but this small-town Texas gal had no idea how weird until she moved there. Everywhere she goes, she sees something worth gawking at and Katie is afraid she's a little too normal to make a splash in the big city. Working for an ogre of a boss doesn't help. Then, seemingly out of the blue, Katie gets a job offer from Magic, Spells, and Illusions, Inc., a company that tricks of the trade to the magic community. For MSI, Katie's ordinariness is an asset.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable Story Ruined by Awful Narrator!
- By Theresa on 04-28-14
- Enchanted, Inc.
- A Novel
- By: Shanna Swendson
- Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
wonderful but warning if you care...
Reviewed: 11-25-20
So I love this story line and can not wait for the next book!
However, I do want to note that there is some language to be aware of.
It is sparsely sprinkled throughout but it is there.
Otherwise, this book would be perfect. 😉
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Mail Order Bride: New Home for a Wyoming Bride
- By: Angela K. West
- Narrated by: Brooke Taylor
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4 out of 5 stars 16
After her husband dies in the Civil War, Fanny Ryan is well cared for by his extensive family in Boston. However, they would see her alone and mourning her late husband rather than finding her own happiness once more. After answering an ad from a man in the Wyoming territory seeking a bride, Fanny is finally certain that a new life will be hers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Quick Potential
- By Kindle Customer on 06-10-20
- Mail Order Bride: New Home for a Wyoming Bride
- By: Angela K. West
- Narrated by: Brooke Taylor
Quick Potential
Reviewed: 06-10-20
True to its word, it's clean. Also short & sweet. Audio could be improved hence potential.
I'm sorry but I wouldn't spend money on it. (thanks Audible Escape)
Nice to listen to while doing something else.
Reader has potential (keep practicing) & needs a better recording set up but it's tolerable.
Grateful it was a clean, sweet story with a fun ending.
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