Wil Fekeci
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Table for Two
- Fictions
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, J. Smith-Cameron
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,462
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,316
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,316
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I wish I could give six stars on all fronts
- By Rocklin D. Alling on 04-13-24
- Table for Two
- Fictions
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, J. Smith-Cameron
Oh boy
Reviewed: 05-23-24
Boring. I mean boringggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
Then very cliché ending.
Personally I dislike it when a writer throws in French word one liners here and there as to show his sophistication as to describe a scene using the French adjective. Ugh
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Only the Dead
- A Thriller (Terminal List, Book 6)
- By: Jack Carr
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8,151
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7,500
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7,489
In 1980, a freshman congressman was gunned down in Rhode Island, sending shockwaves through Washington that are still reverberating over four decades later. Now, with the world on the brink of war and a weakened United States facing rampant inflation, political division, and shocking assassinations, a secret cabal of global elites is ready to assume control. And with the world’s most dangerous man locked in solitary confinement, the conspirators believe the final obstacle to complete domination has been eliminated. They’re wrong.
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5 out of 5 stars
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UNPUTDOWNABLE!!!!
- By shelley on 05-17-23
- Only the Dead
- A Thriller (Terminal List, Book 6)
- By: Jack Carr
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
I don’t get the reviews
Reviewed: 07-01-23
This book is boring, boring, boring. Cliche and utter fantasy. Superman kills everyone with his bare hands. Oh please. I barely made it through.
I just don’t get all the glowing reviews.
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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 30,140
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 27,261
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Story5 out of 5 stars 27,195
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! It’s a Masterpiece
- By Billy on 10-25-22
- Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Ugh way too much detail
Reviewed: 05-23-23
Probably one of the best written and boring book I have ever read or listened to. There is just too much detail about nothing. I found myself skipping ahead and not missing a beat.
Too many scenes that do not add to the character development or to the overall plot. Sure they are well described scenes but it’s like watch a cigarette burn.
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The Mosquito Bowl
- A Game of Life and Death in World War II
- By: Buzz Bissinger
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 319
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 287
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity. As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps. Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war – the invasion of Okinawa—their ranks included one of the greatest pools of football talent ever assembled.
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4 out of 5 stars
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War Story Interrupted Briefly by a Football Game
- By William G. Stuart on 10-14-22
- The Mosquito Bowl
- A Game of Life and Death in World War II
- By: Buzz Bissinger
- Narrated by: George Newbern
Narrator
Reviewed: 03-16-23
The narrator does a masterful story here. Absolutely brilliant. The story starts slow but once it gets going it’s hard to stop listening. Unbelievable courage and story of our young men.
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A Marriage of Inconvenience
- The Persecution of Ruth and Seretse Khama
- By: Michael Dutfield
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story5 out of 5 stars 16
In 1948, a young white English woman, Ruth Williams, made headline news all over the world. For she had met, fallen in love with, and married Seretse Khama, an African prince and heir to the chieftainship of a tribe of more than 100,000 people - the Bamangwato. At first, the marriage was no more welcome in Africa than in government circles in London. Within a year of their wedding, the young couple had provoked an astonishing series of events that had never been explained.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great but
- By Wil Fekeci on 02-22-23
- A Marriage of Inconvenience
- The Persecution of Ruth and Seretse Khama
- By: Michael Dutfield
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
Great but
Reviewed: 02-22-23
Both fascinating and boring at the same time. Some parts I simply could not stop listening, other times it dragged on. It is more of a political historical overview than a love story between two persons. This really should be made into a movie.
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The Great Alone
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54,081
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 48,663
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 48,502
Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: He will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Long, Hard Slog Through Endless Despair and Heartache
- By Morro Schreiber on 04-11-18
- The Great Alone
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Let down?
Reviewed: 02-08-23
The bar was set so high after the fabulous Nightingale and the modern day epic Grapes of Wrath, The Four Winds, that I was a bit let down by this novel. The characters are cliché and the plot predictable.
Maybe if this book stands alone it might have some merit, but compared to the other classics by this author, it fails.
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The Four Winds
- A Novel
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36,823
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 32,075
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31,846
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli. By 1934, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Elsa must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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✫✫ 4.75 Stars ✫✫
- By ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 on 02-03-21
- The Four Winds
- A Novel
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Prepare
Reviewed: 02-02-23
Prepare to fall on love with Elisa. Prepare to fall in love with Kristin Hannah because she is truly a remarkable writer and storyteller. And prepare to fall in love with the narrator Julia Whelan who does a remarkable job. In fact her performance takes the book to another level. She is like a classical pianist performing a classical piece with her own interpretation. Bravo Julia.
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Solito
- A Memoir
- By: Javier Zamora
- Narrated by: Javier Zamora
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,146
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,912
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,907
Javier Zamora’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone amid a group of strangers and a “coyote” hired to lead them to safety, Javier expects his trip to last two short weeks.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MASTERPIECE of Poetic Prose, Outstanding Narration
- By Mary Burnight on 01-12-23
- Solito
- A Memoir
- By: Javier Zamora
- Narrated by: Javier Zamora
Editor
Reviewed: 12-20-22
A great epic tale that really needs an editor’s review.
For instance, the author might have written “I looked at my watch. It was 11:30. The big hand on the six, the little hand on the 10 as the second hand was sweeping around, silver movement against the black matte face. An editor would have revised it to read: “I looked at my watch. It was 11:30.”
Nonetheless a tale that needed to be told and was done so with meticulous detail.
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Six Armies in Normandy
- From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris
- By: John Keegan
- Narrated by: Fred Williams
- Length: 17 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 171
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 82
In a burnished, driving prose, incorporating a myriad of fresh sources, John Keegan tells the story of the Allies' greatest military achievement as he chronicles the 1944 invasion of Normandy, from D-Day to the liberation of Paris.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not for the casual WWII reader
- By Jay on 12-13-05
- Six Armies in Normandy
- From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris
- By: John Keegan
- Narrated by: Fred Williams
Interesting but painful
Reviewed: 10-04-22
A lot of factual information but so painful to listen to the narration. The only way I was able to get through it was by putting the speed up to 1.5
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Where the Crawdads Sing
- By: Delia Owens
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 296,158
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 261,797
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Story5 out of 5 stars 260,883
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don't listen to the negative reviews.
- By Kyle on 12-03-19
- Where the Crawdads Sing
- By: Delia Owens
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Love love love
Reviewed: 08-01-22
Narration is just as brilliant as the book. Both are simply a treasure. I find myself staying up way to late to listen to the next chapter.
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