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Courtney's War
- By: Wilbur Smith, David Churchill
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
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Paris, 1939. Torn apart by war, Saffron Courtney and Gerhard von Meerbach are thousands of miles apart, both struggling for their lives. Gerhard - despite his objections to the Nazi regime - is fighting for the Fatherland, hoping to one day have the opportunity to rid Germany of Hitler and his cronies. But as his unit is thrown into the hellish attrition of the Battle of Stalingrad, he knows his chances of survival are dwindling by the day....
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Mr Smith does it again
- By AMM on 06-05-19
- Courtney's War
- By: Wilbur Smith, David Churchill
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
Rollicking good fun, not the most original, but you won’t mind
Reviewed: 10-25-18
Rollicking good fun, not the most original story line, but you won’t mind. A decent espionage story, set in WWII.
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The Passage
- By: Justin Cronin
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Adenrele Ojo, Abby Craden
- Length: 36 hrs and 49 mins
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Amy Harper Bellafonte is six years old, and her mother thinks she's the most important person in the whole world. She is.... Anthony Carter doesn't think he could ever be in a worse place than Death Row.... He's wrong. FBI agent Brad Wolgast thinks something beyond imagination is coming.... It is.
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Listen, hold your breath, she is coming
- By Susan on 09-05-12
- The Passage
- By: Justin Cronin
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Adenrele Ojo, Abby Craden
Not very original, interesting or inspiring
Reviewed: 10-03-18
A fairly good read, but at the end a bit underwhelming. Similarities to Stephen Kings, "The Stand" cannot be overlooked. The characters not really well developed, and large portions of the book seem a bit unnecessary and long winded. Parts are satisfyingly exciting and gruesome, but a bit few and far between. The plot also became a bit silly at times. Possibly I am being a bit harsh, it wasn't a bad read, but it all seemed a bit predictable.
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The Undoing Project
- A Friendship That Changed the World
- By: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of Holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved, Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy. In this breathtaking new audiobook, Michael Lewis tells the extraordinary story of a relationship that became a shared mind: one which created the field of behavioural economics, revolutionising everything from Big Data to medicine.
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An amazing story
- By Anonymous User on 02-03-23
- The Undoing Project
- A Friendship That Changed the World
- By: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Moderately interesting
Reviewed: 08-20-18
I have enjoyed Michael Lewis’s other books, but this one not so much. While the other books had popular main stream topics like professional sports and Investment banking, this one seeks to create the same engagement in the rarefied world of academia, and TBQH its a tougher sell. I felt like there was a punchline that never came. The characters only mildly interesting. Similar social science books in this genre have touched on these types of economic / physiological phenomena, notably Malcolm Gladwell. It’s a tolerable 2 out of 5 for me..
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