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Joyland
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Michael Kelly
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,466
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,526
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,513
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. Joyland is a brand-new novel and has never previously been published.
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5 out of 5 stars
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King in his Summer Finest
- By Cynthia on 06-06-13
- Joyland
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Michael Kelly
great story. great narration.
Reviewed: 01-14-25
the book is a perfect length. the narrator is easy to listen to. good cadence. conversational tone
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It
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Steven Weber
- Length: 44 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62,541
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 56,738
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56,556
Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made 28 years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Classic with a Top-Notch Performance!
- By Nicole - Audible on 06-19-17
- It
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Steven Weber
too long
Reviewed: 08-29-24
eleven-hundred something pages? yikes! and while not the worst I've heard, this narrator did not do his homework to understand the proper emphasis in idioms, place pronunciations, and the difference between a Maine accent and a Kennedy accent. he was also way too hyper way too often
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Burma Sahib
- A Novel
- By: Paul Theroux
- Narrated by: Charlie Anson
- Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 71
At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would be trained for three years as a servant of the British Empire, overseeing the local policemen in Burma. Navigating the social, racial, and class politics of his fellow British at the same time as he learned the local languages and struggled to control his men would prove difficult enough. But doing all of this while grappling with his own self-worth, his sense that he was not cut out for this, is soon overwhelming for the young Blair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glorious writing
- By Nina Jacobson on 02-21-24
- Burma Sahib
- A Novel
- By: Paul Theroux
- Narrated by: Charlie Anson
a disappointment
Reviewed: 07-19-24
I expected much better from Paul Theroux. I had enjoyed his travel books. This book was an abomination on many counts. His idioms were over-used and trite. Scenes were invariably laid out as banal lists of objects. He took himself far too seriously. The sex scenes were unnecessary and romance-novel-esque.
Furthermore the narrator was pedantic, and he used that obnoxious pretentious accent where the Rs in some words (unfortunately, the main character's surname was Blair, and Theroux almost never used his first name Eric) are dropped, and the preceding vowel is elongated (Blaaaaaah), while Rs are added to words that don't end in R. Nothing against the British, but they know how they're supposed to speak. Anyhoo, yay! Don't buy this!
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Yellowface
- A Novel
- By: R. F. Kuang
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,952
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,507
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,505
Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena’s a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn’t even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I've never hated a character harder
- By ashelyn downs on 07-26-23
- Yellowface
- A Novel
- By: R. F. Kuang
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
what is this - fifth grade?
Reviewed: 01-19-24
one long paranoid hand-wringing about image on social media. who cares? delivered by an overly snarky narrator
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The African Queen
- By: C. S. Forester
- Narrated by: Michael Kitchen
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 341
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 288
Upon her brother's death, missionary Rose Sayer and Charles Allnutt, disreputable skipper of the African Queen, become allies as, marooned in German Central Africa during World War I, they fight their old launch downriver 'to strike a blow for England'.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Book & movie
- By Astrid on 11-25-15
- The African Queen
- By: C. S. Forester
- Narrated by: Michael Kitchen
narration
Reviewed: 12-16-23
This is a great short story, impeccably read by Michael Kitchen. I wish he had narrated more books
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Practical Magic
- By: Alice Hoffman
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,552
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,922
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,904
When the beautiful and precocious sisters Sally and Gillian Owens are orphaned at a young age, they are taken to a small Massachusetts town to be raised by their eccentric aunts, who happen to dwell in the darkest, eeriest house in town. As they become more aware of their aunts' mysterious and sometimes frightening powers - and as their own powers begin to surface - the sisters grow determined to escape their strange upbringing by blending into "normal" society.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Don't expext the movie story!
- By JEAN9 on 09-25-14
- Practical Magic
- By: Alice Hoffman
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
disappointing cheap romance
Reviewed: 10-29-23
I have listened to other stories by the author and was a little disappointed with the cheap play to romance lovers
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Kim
- By: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,151
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 973
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 970
Kipling's masterpiece Kim is his final and most famous work and one of the first and greatest espionage stories ever written. It explores the life of Kimball O'Hara, an Irish orphan who spends his childhood as a vagrant in Lahore. When he befriends an aged Tibetan lama his life is transformed as he is requested to accompany him on a mysterious quest to find the legendary River of the Arrow and achieve Enlightenment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Stunning Experience
- By Jeanie on 09-19-12
- Kim
- By: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
better than I had anticipated
Reviewed: 04-11-23
I had read some of Kipling's short stories and found them a little rambling and a little judgemental. this one was not. the narration is great.
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At Home
- A Short History of Private Life
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,530
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,771
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,755
Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write a history of the world without leaving home.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bryson does it again
- By Robert on 10-15-10
- At Home
- A Short History of Private Life
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
not the humorous delivery I expected
Reviewed: 04-01-23
I had expected more of Bryson's humor, but this was interesting nonetheless. it held my attention
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How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,036
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 863
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 855
We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don’t know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check—because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Let me save you a credit: progress is hard
- By Dalton on 06-06-22
- How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
It's risky to leave your main point until the end
Reviewed: 09-17-22
The author seems over-eager to demonstrate his mastery of the material, too high-minded English science club. He spends the bulk of the book stating the benefits derived from the means that allow our current lifestyle, pointing out that there are not suitable alternatives, without stating what to me is the obvious - that these means are intrinsically harmful to humanity, stemming from the fact that unregulated capitalism, greed, apathy and overconsumption are the wrong ends.
Yes, nuclear power is far more efficient than coal, for example, but for one thing it produces radioactive waste for which we have no fail-safe storage, and even if we were to stumble on a completely efficient energy source that has no harmful by-products, the unrestrained use of energy only allows humans to more quickly exhaust other resources and externalize costs to pollution and resource depletion.
These basic things should have either been summed up at the start or interspersed throughout the book - not saved (incompletely at that) for the final chapters.
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The Ancient Minstrel
- Novellas
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Xe Sands, Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 133
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Story4 out of 5 stars 113
Harrison has tremendous fun with his own reputation in the title novella about an aging writer in Montana who spars with his estranged wife, with whom he still shares a home; weathers the slings and arrows of literary success; and tries to cope with the sow he buys on a whim and the unplanned litter of piglets that follow soon after. In "Eggs", a Montana woman reminisces about staying in London with her grandparents and collecting eggs at their country house. Years later, having never had a child, she attempts to do so.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating shorts
- By judyp on 10-06-16
- The Ancient Minstrel
- Novellas
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Xe Sands, Keith Szarabajka
There's too much about erectile dysfunction.
Reviewed: 12-23-21
The bit about erectile dysfunction was mildly funny enough for one chapter. I lost interest when it continued several chapters in.
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