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The Graveyard Book
- By: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Nobody Owens is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings - such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him.
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Masterful Fantasy for the Jaded Heart
- By Guillermo on 10-12-09
- The Graveyard Book
- By: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
Loved it!
Reviewed: 12-08-08
The story is great, but the narration was the best. Sometimes authors don't make the best narrators - Ray Bradbury - but Neil Gaiman is amazing. His voice is perfect and his character voices are all distinct and perfectly matched to the text and situations. It is more like an old time radio show than a reading. If this "writing thing" doesn't work out, he should consider acting. Another great story well read by the one person who knows it the best.
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
- By: John Boyne
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some information about the audiobook, but in this case we think that would spoil the listening. We think it's important that you start to listen without knowing what it is about.
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Absolutely Phenomenal!!!
- By Jensophie on 05-04-09
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
- By: John Boyne
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
Great book, terrible narration
Reviewed: 11-23-08
The book itself deserves 5 stars. Michael Maloney, the narrator, I'd give 1. He has this very distracting way of fading quickly at the end of sentences making you think you are getting a call. If you listen on an iPhone you know how audio fades right before the ring begins. Even without thinking you are receiving a call, his fadding, breathy voice is very annoying. The story is wonderful, touching and sad - but I would not buy another audio book with Michael Maloney as narrator.
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Born Standing Up
- A Comic's Life
- By: Steve Martin
- Narrated by: Steve Martin
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In the mid-70s, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. Born Standing Up is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked away".
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Fantastic
- By Andrew on 11-30-07
- Born Standing Up
- A Comic's Life
- By: Steve Martin
- Narrated by: Steve Martin
touching and funny
Reviewed: 04-23-08
I have always loved Steve Martin's work and now I understand how his distinct sense of humor developed.
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Toast
- The Story of a Boy's Hunger
- By: Nigel Slater
- Narrated by: Nigel Slater
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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Toast is Nigel Slater's truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. In each chapter, as he takes listeners on a tour of the contents of his family's pantry (rice pudding, tinned ham, cream soda, mince pies, lemon drops, bourbon biscuits), we are transported.
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Nigel Slater is fabulous!
- By S on 02-13-07
- Toast
- The Story of a Boy's Hunger
- By: Nigel Slater
- Narrated by: Nigel Slater
Great!
Reviewed: 04-17-08
When someone really loves you, they make you toast. Toast is Nigel Slater's favorite food and a great metaphor for anything warm, comforting and memorable - like this book. It's a great biography and introduction to good food. follow it up with Eating for England.
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Eating for England
- The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table
- By: Nigel Slater
- Narrated by: Nigel Slater
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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The British have a relationship with their food that is unlike that of any other country. Once something that was never discussed in polite company, it is now something with which the nation is obsessed. But are we at last developing a food culture or are we just going through the motions? Eating for England is an entertaining, detailed, and somewhat tongue-in-cheek observation of the British and their food, their cooking, their eating, and how they behave in restaurants.
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A Must-Hear!
- By Laura on 07-04-08
- Eating for England
- The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table
- By: Nigel Slater
- Narrated by: Nigel Slater
Delicious
Reviewed: 04-17-08
Not as enjoyable as his previous book Toast - but just because Toast told a story - this is just collection of food essays. They are well written and entertainig - will make you want to run out to an import food store and try a few new items - as I did. Start with Toast though. Toast will help you understand how Nigel came to be.
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Book of the Dead
- Scarpetta, Book 15
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
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Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace. Moving to Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she and her colleagues, including Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy, offer expert crime-scene investigation and autopsy services to communities lacking local access to competent death investigation and modern technology.
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RIP Kay Scarpetta
- By Jennifer Seattle, WA on 10-25-07
- Book of the Dead
- Scarpetta, Book 15
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
Let Kay die - really
Reviewed: 12-26-07
I think Kay has had her run. I used to love these books - now it seems like she's not even trying. I thought she researched the Kay novels. When her character's last trip to the Vatican was to embalm a pope - I almost yelled out loud - "Popes are not embalmed!" I am tired of hearing details about the travertine tile she laid in a herringbone pattern one warm summer day. These ridiculous details are even more pretentious when read aloud. Don't even ask about the reader. Her voices do not fit the characters making this a painful listen.
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