R. MCRACKAN
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Corpies (Part 1 of 2) (Dramatized Adaptation)
- Super Powereds
- By: Drew Hayes
- Narrated by: Andy Clemence, Danny Gavigan, Dawn Ursula, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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Titan was one of the nation’s most loved and respected Heroes, until an infidelity scandal tore his image and family apart. After decades spent out of the limelight, Owen Daniels has decided to take up the mantle of Titan once again to try and make amends for his years away. Unfortunately, the Titan Scandal is still common knowledge, and no Hero team wants such a polarizing figure. With no other options, Owen is forced to take a job overseeing a group of corpies, corporate-sponsored Supers who do rescue work… as long as there are cameras around.
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story and narration is fine
- By Lori on 05-29-23
- Corpies (Part 1 of 2) (Dramatized Adaptation)
- Super Powereds
- By: Drew Hayes
- Narrated by: Andy Clemence, Danny Gavigan, Dawn Ursula, Eric Messner, Jessica Lauren Ball, Nanette Savard, Scott Bruffey, Thomas Penny, Daniel Llacal, Jenna Sharpe, Alyssa Keegan
Good supplemental book
Reviewed: 04-02-25
In any other series, I'd call this book great. Among the Super Powereds books, this is the bottom of the stack. However, that says more about how great they are. Corpies is very good and I'm glad I read it.
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When the Moon Hits Your Eye
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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For some it’s an opportunity. For others it’s a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in everything. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and uncertainty. And then there are the billions looking to the sky and wondering how a thing that was always just there is now... something absolutely impossible.
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Wil Wheaton is torture
- By Amazon Customer on 03-27-25
- When the Moon Hits Your Eye
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Middling Scalzi
Reviewed: 03-28-25
Interesting premise that FAR overstays its welcome. This probably should have been about half as long. After the silliness has passed it's one maudlin existential crisis after another. Exhausting.
Sorry, Mr. Scalzi -- I love so very many of your stories but this one is a miss.
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Sunrise on the Reaping
- A Hunger Games Novel
- By: Suzanne Collins
- Narrated by: Jefferson White
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
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As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.
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A Sad but Beautiful Tale
- By Anonymous User on 03-19-25
- Sunrise on the Reaping
- A Hunger Games Novel
- By: Suzanne Collins
- Narrated by: Jefferson White
As good as the first 2 books
Reviewed: 03-23-25
As much as I love this series, it's honestly hit and miss. The orig was great and book 2 was the perfect sequel. Book 3 was weird and, except for the ending, I pretty much hated every bit of it. The prequel with Snow wasn't bad but it wasn't great either. Sunrise on the Reaping is an excellent return to what made it great, with an excellent narrator that I certainly hope we'll hear more from in the future.
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Allow Me to Retort
- A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
- By: Elie Mystal
- Narrated by: Elie Mystal
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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This is an easily digestible argument about what rights we have, what rights Republicans are trying to take away, and how to stop them. Mystal explains how to protect the rights of women and people of color instead of cowering to the absolutism of gun owners and bigots. He explains the legal way to stop everything from police brutality to political gerrymandering, just by changing a few judges and justices. He strips out all of the fancy jargon conservatives like to hide behind and lays bare the truth of their project to keep America forever tethered to its slaveholding past.
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Informative and Entertaining
- By Kindle Customer on 03-06-22
- Allow Me to Retort
- A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
- By: Elie Mystal
- Narrated by: Elie Mystal
A depressing companion to "The Color of Law"
Reviewed: 03-09-25
I almost gave up at first because it's frankly depressing. There's no solutions here because the system itself is irrevocably broken.
It reminded me a lot of "The Color of Law" except that book took some unnecessarily cheap shots. Allow Me to Retort knows there's no reason for cheap tricks -- when you're being intellectually honest there's already only one reasonable outcome.
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Heads in Beds
- A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
- By: Jacob Tomsky
- Narrated by: Jacob Tomsky
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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Jacob Tomsky has worked in hotels for more than a decade, doing everything from valet parking to manning the front desk. He's checked you in, checked you out, separated your white panties from the white bed sheets, parked your car, tasted your room service, cleaned your toilet, denied you a late check out, given you a wake-up call, eaten M&Ms out of your mini-bar, laughed at your jokes, and taken your money. And in Heads in Beds, he pulls back the curtain on the hospitality business.
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credit worthy
- By colleen on 01-20-13
- Heads in Beds
- A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
- By: Jacob Tomsky
- Narrated by: Jacob Tomsky
An amusing peak behind the front desk
Reviewed: 03-09-25
While it's no Kitchen Confidential, Heads in Beds is an enlightening look at the workers in high end hotels. I was informed and reasonably entertained, but not blown away.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Techniques for Retraining Your Brain
- By: Jason M. Satterfield, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Jason M. Satterfield
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a well-tested collection of practical techniques for managing moods and modifying undesirable behaviors through self-awareness, critical analysis, and goal-oriented change. CBT illuminates the links between thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and physical health and uses those connections to develop concrete plans for self-improvement. In 24 engaging half-hour lectures, you'll build a robust and effective self-improvement toolkit with the expert guidance of Professor Satterfield of the University of California, San Francisco.
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Total waste of time
- By Dan on 08-23-15
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Techniques for Retraining Your Brain
- By: Jason M. Satterfield, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Jason M. Satterfield
Great first half
Reviewed: 02-28-25
The first half is great. It's also more general. The 2nd half goes through practical applications. When an application applies to you, this is helpful. When it doesn't, you may as well just skip that lecture.
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Bad Monkeys
- A Novel
- By: Matt Ruff
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann, Emily Woo Zeller, Greg Tremblay
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons - "Bad Monkeys" for short. This confession earns Jane a trip to the jail’s psychiatric wing, where a doctor attempts to determine whether she is lying, crazy, or playing a different game altogether.
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Young Adult novel..
- By k :) on 10-06-20
- Bad Monkeys
- A Novel
- By: Matt Ruff
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann, Emily Woo Zeller, Greg Tremblay
Ouch! Aggressively bad
Reviewed: 02-26-25
The other 2 books I have from this author are excellent. And I have several books from some of these narrators also, all of which are well-read. How did this book get everything so wrong?
At first I thought the tropes were the worst part but I could eventually look past these and apply a kind of comic book logic that made that part manageable.
The narration was extremely amateurish. I don't think I have any novel in my audible library where the professional narration is this bad. I have many books where an author, who isn't an entertainer, had to read their own novel in order to get the audiobook made. Bad Monkeys wasn't much better.
The plot holes and twists though are just too much. All technology, abilities, etc seem to pop up out of nowhere whenever it's convenient to the plot at that moment and then vanish otherwise. The "twists" were so frequent that you couldn't feel invested because you knew the current part would also be a lie. By the end both were so bad that I just kept looking at the timer to see how much more I had to endure.
There were a few creative ideas. Also the "Nod problem" it introduced was thoughtful. The rest though? Again: How did this book get everything so wrong?
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The Book of Murder
- A Prosecutor's Journey Through Love and Death
- By: Matt Murphy
- Narrated by: Matt Murphy
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Examining murder from an insider’s perspective, Matt Murphy—a former senior deputy district attorney and current ABC News legal analyst—discusses cases from his career, how they strained his personal life, and how he found peace seeking justice for victims and their families. Part taxonomy of murder, part prosecutor’s handbook, and part personal memoir, The Book of Murder goes through a dozen cases and his recollections of his 26 years in the Orange County DA’s office (17 in the Homicide Unit).
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Great book
- By Last Lemming on 10-04-24
- The Book of Murder
- A Prosecutor's Journey Through Love and Death
- By: Matt Murphy
- Narrated by: Matt Murphy
3 star memoir, 5 star true crime
Reviewed: 02-21-25
The memoir parts of this book were not well done. This true crime parts, which thankfully are the majority, are excellent. Great recountings of fascinating cases.
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Carrie
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Sissy Spacek, Margaret Atwood
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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An unpopular teenage girl, whose mother is a religious fanatic, is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates. She uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge.
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The best of Stephen Kings books, and to think he a
- By Angelia Chisolm on 09-26-12
- Carrie
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Sissy Spacek, Margaret Atwood
Still holds up
Reviewed: 02-18-25
This novel is wonderfully read by Carrie herself and it still stands up today. In some ways possibly even more so than when it was written.
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The Boy Who Loved Batman
- A Memoir
- By: Michael E. Uslan
- Narrated by: Michael E. Uslan
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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Is any superhero cooler than Batman? He’s a crime-fighting vigilante with a tragic past, a lawless attitude, and a seemingly endless supply of high-tech gadgetry. In this memoir, author Michael E. Uslan recalls his journey from early childhood fandom through to the decades he spent on a caped crusade of his own: to bring Batman to the silver screen as the dark, serious character he was at heart.
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Misleading discription
- By R. MCRACKAN on 02-11-25
- The Boy Who Loved Batman
- A Memoir
- By: Michael E. Uslan
- Narrated by: Michael E. Uslan
Misleading discription
Reviewed: 02-11-25
Good memoir if not a bit ramble-y. (Ok, a LOT ramble-y.) This part of the book's description made me think I was going to hear more about the making of the movies "following his work as executive producer on every Batman film from Tim Burton’s 1989 re-envisioning to 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises." We hear a fair amount about 1989 Batman but hardly anything about any of the others. Also, 20% of the book is epilogues -- a real slog of a way to finish.
This isn't a bad book -- many parts are very good, he did lead an interesting early life, is a fine story teller, and is a fun narrator. The book could have used a lot of revisions though.
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