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Irma Grese & Auschwitz: Holocaust and the Secrets of the the Blonde Beast
- By: Raymond Jennings
- Narrated by: Scott ODell
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4 out of 5 stars 63
Because of her gender and youth, Irma Grese remains known today for her crimes against humanity in the camps of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Executed at 22 years old, she was the youngest woman to die under British law in the 20th century. Irma Grese has gained notoriety as a villain in many diaries, journals, and creative works of Holocaust survivors. She has been studied by historians, psychologists, and psychiatrists across the world. What could cause someone to act as she did? After listening to this book, you'll be able to decide for yourself.
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1 out of 5 stars
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repeated information
- By Andy on 05-15-19
Too much repetition of general points
Reviewed: 01-01-24
This is a fascinating topic and she is an interesting subject. It’s a fairly brief book to begin with. Much of it is expressing in different words how depraved she was in the same basic ways. A bit short on specific incidents. Narrator seems consistent with the “meh” level of research and writing.
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The Spirit Lake Massacre and the Captivity of Abbie Gardner
- By: Abbie Gardner-Sharp
- Narrated by: Brian V. Hunt, Claire Dayton
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
Long considered one of the best of the captive narratives from the 19th century, Abbie Gardner's thrilling and graphic tale of her abduction by a band of Santee Sioux in 1857 will captivate you from beginning to end. Barely 14 years old, her family was butchered before her eyes and she witnessed the deaths of two other women captives before her release by Chief Inkpaduta.
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5 out of 5 stars
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INCREDIBLE AMERICAN HISTORY
- By Joe Johnson on 02-11-25
First hand account
Reviewed: 12-10-23
I was captivated by the candor of this author’s experience being taken hostage by the Sioux. Much disturbing yet fascinating detail.
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Floating Dragon
- By: Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Fritz Weaver
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Abridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story3 out of 5 stars 34
Two monstrous evils. The quiet suburban town of Hampstead is threatened by two horrors. One is natural. The hideous, unstoppable creation of man's power gone mad. The other is not natural at all. And it makes the first look like child's play.
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1 out of 5 stars
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heavily abridged
- By al on 03-09-12
- Floating Dragon
- By: Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Fritz Weaver
Seriously condensed form of book
Reviewed: 09-07-22
I enjoyed this - but - the severely abridged version here was disappointing! The original book was so good. Why doesn’t the title page advise this is condensed edition? It should say so!
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Butterfly in the Typewriter
- The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of a Confederacy of Dunces
- By: Cory MacLauchlin
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 48
The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. In Butterfly in the Typewriter, Cory MacLauchlin draws on scores of new interviews with friends, family, and colleagues as well as full access to the extensive Toole archive at Tulane University, capturing his upbringing in New Orleans, his years in New York City, his frenzy of writing in Puerto Rico, his return to his beloved city, and his descent into paranoia and depression.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worth it! Good biography. Informative.
- By French Quarter on 07-09-13
- Butterfly in the Typewriter
- The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of a Confederacy of Dunces
- By: Cory MacLauchlin
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
Fascinating Story Palatably Written- Painfully Narrated
Reviewed: 08-22-21
I found this biography to be informative and adequately written - not great - but the author did his homework.
UNFORTUNATELY,
I cannot be the only person who found it difficult not to be distracted by the 1950s voiceover style of this narrator. He often made the author’s perfectly palatable writing sound overblown and tedious.
I found the narrator to be out of touch with the nature of the content he was conveying.
It was as if the book were written in ALL BOLD CAPS.
It’s a captivating story if you’re prepared to listen to this guy bark it out at you.
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The Trees
- Awakening Land Series, Book 1
- By: Conrad Richter
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 67
The Trees is the story of an American family in the wilderness - a family that "followed the woods as some families follow the sea." The time is the end of the 18th century, the wilderness is the land west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River. But principally, The Trees is the story of a girl named Sayward, eldest daughter of Worth and Jary Luckett, raised in the forest far from the rest of humankind, yet growing to realize that the way of the hunter must cede to the way of the tiller of soil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A taste of early frontier life
- By dkh5 on 09-11-21
- The Trees
- Awakening Land Series, Book 1
- By: Conrad Richter
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
An incredible story; drab performance
Reviewed: 02-28-21
I love this Award winning trilogy of books by Conrad Richter. I’ve read them all. He captures so vividly and touchingly, the early 19th century development of a community in the Midwest. Characters and conditions come to life with Richter’s beautiful writing.
Unfortunately- this narrator - does not do the material justice. He seems to have put on a “Woodsy” character voice with a sing songy style that - to my mind - diminishes the seriousness - and humor - in the material.
A very shallow rendering of a very deep story.
If you can get past that - you may love this book!
I’d love to dive into “The Fields” next - but I’m not sure I will if it’s the same narrator.
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