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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
- A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
- By: Al Franken
- Narrated by: Al Franken
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,051
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,187
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,198
Finding logical inconsistencies, factual errors, and doublespeak wherever he looks, Al Franken takes on and destroys the myth of liberal bias in the media, hoists the Bush White House on its own rhetorical petard, and punctures the mean-spirited sanctimony of such media darlings as Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly. Timely, provocative, unfailingly honest, and always uproarious, Lies is sure to raise hackles and spark hilarity inside the Beltway and from sea to shining sea.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Accuracy can be fun
- By Lee on 09-15-03
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
- A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
- By: Al Franken
- Narrated by: Al Franken
Stand up comedy in written form
Reviewed: 02-06-24
As most comedy, it stings it makes you laugh, it invites you to think and it’s an opinion. 20 years later, it was a rewarding trip back in time.
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American Midnight
- The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
- By: Adam Hochschild
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 410
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 350
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 350
From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor
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5 out of 5 stars
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Disturbing yet Reassuring
- By Sams95 on 11-18-22
- American Midnight
- The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
- By: Adam Hochschild
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Informative but dry
Reviewed: 11-24-23
This audiobook was informative and provided many opportunities to pause and further research events touched on.
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The Uninhabitable Earth
- Life After Warming
- By: David Wallace-Wells
- Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,588
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,259
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,246
An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it - the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don’t read if you have depressive tendencies.
- By Ricky on 03-17-19
- The Uninhabitable Earth
- Life After Warming
- By: David Wallace-Wells
- Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells
informative though disappointing
Reviewed: 06-03-23
An unnecessarily alarmist and urgent tone takes away from the subject matter of the book. Some would counter the tone and urgency to match the subject matter being discussed, but I found it to be a distraction and detractor. The concerns outline and the challenges they create are skewed toward western and privileged people with a nod to anyone else.
The book is informative and provides a good starting point for anyone wanting to learn more on the topic or those looking to delve deeper.
The author does not spend much time on personal ownership of the issue(catering to its intended reader?) and perhaps infers individual accountability by laying out the situation we are in. I believe he is avoiding the topic and even speaks to individual ownership of change paling in comparison to meaningful gov't and corporate initiatives. An unfortunate and lazy western sentiment -"someone should do something about that".
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The Only Good Indians
- By: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,342
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,755
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,745
From New York Times best-selling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a novel that is equal parts psychological horror and cutting social commentary on identity politics and the American-Indian experience. Fans of Jordan Peele and Tommy Orange will love this story as it follows the lives of four American-Indian men and their families, all haunted by a disturbing, deadly event that took place in their youth. Years later, they find themselves tracked by an entity bent on revenge, totally helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a vengeful way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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this is the best book I've listened to maybe ever
- By Anthony on 07-15-20
- The Only Good Indians
- By: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Narration was challenged
Reviewed: 09-04-21
While I enjoyed the narrator, he may not have been the best choice for this type of story. The fear, dread and suspense where not captured by his story telling enough times to make this book unenjoyable.
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The Boy on the Bridge
- By: M. R. Carey
- Narrated by: Finty Williams
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,544
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,181
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,177
One exceptional boy journeys into the ashes of society to find the cure for a devastating plague in this riveting post-apocalyptic stand-alone set in the same world as the USA Today best-selling The Girl With All the Gifts. Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world. To where the monsters lived.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Bridge Worth Crossing
- By Zombie Reader on 05-23-17
- The Boy on the Bridge
- By: M. R. Carey
- Narrated by: Finty Williams
Familiar territory but it pays off
Reviewed: 04-27-18
Listeners may be disappointed by the similar narrative to book 1, but “patience” is rewarded for those invested in this world.
With that said, the book provides a better understanding of Beacon and the larger struggle of the remaining people in Beacon, UK and world.
An entertaining listen
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