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Sherlock Holmes: The Voice of Treason
- An Audible Original Drama
- By: George Mann, Cavan Scott
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton, Frances Jeater, Don Gilet, and others
- Length: 8 hrs
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Investigating a crime seemingly unconnected to the Royal Family, Holmes & Watson uncover a conspiracy to kidnap Queen Victoria and destabilise the British Empire. With a ticking clock to her next public engagement, Holmes and Watson must discover who is behind the plot and locate her majesty, while Mycroft tries to keep the monarch’s disappearance a secret from the British people. At first, Holmes believes Moriarty is responsible for the abduction, but when the Napoleon of Crime is proved innocent, Holmes must work with his arch-nemesis to rescue the Queen.
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A fun radio drama that’s well worth a credit!
- By Dan_N_Emi on 03-28-20
- Sherlock Holmes: The Voice of Treason
- An Audible Original Drama
- By: George Mann, Cavan Scott
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton, Frances Jeater, Don Gilet, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Ivanno Jeremiah, Amy McAllister, full cast
Engaging story, engaging cast
Reviewed: 05-28-24
This was a fantastic production. The voice acting was spot on and the story was seat of your pants. You kept guessing to the end.
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Frankenstein
- By: Mary Shelley
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Narrator Dan Stevens ( Downton Abbey) presents an uncanny performance of Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel, an epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.
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ARE WE ALWAYS TO BE UNHAPPY?
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 01-28-16
- Frankenstein
- By: Mary Shelley
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
Classics are classics for a reason
Reviewed: 01-21-21
Having never read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, I was floored by the power of the story. The theme of recklessly creating "monsters" is timeless, universal, and frightening.
Dan Stevens did an outstanding job bringing these characters to life.
Highly recommend this book for any library.
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Circe
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power—the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.
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Refined writing with an intimate performance
- By Michael - Audible Editor on 04-11-18
- Circe
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
Amazing take on a Greek tale
Reviewed: 10-05-20
From the reader to the story itself, I can't gush enough. Get this audio book.
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The Extinction Cycle Boxed Set
- Extinction Horizon, Extinction Edge, and Extinction Age (The Extinction Cycle, Books 1 - 3)
- By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 25 hrs and 31 mins
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The worst of nature and the worst of science will bring the human race to the brink of extinction. Master Sergeant Reed Beckham has led his Delta Force team, code named Ghost, through every kind of hell imaginable and never lost a man. When a top secret medical corps research facility goes dark, Team Ghost is called in to face their deadliest enemy yet - a variant strain of Ebola that turns men into monsters.
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Simply Fantastic
- By John Davis on 12-06-18
- The Extinction Cycle Boxed Set
- Extinction Horizon, Extinction Edge, and Extinction Age (The Extinction Cycle, Books 1 - 3)
- By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
This needs to be a movie
Reviewed: 09-05-19
I was surprised how much I really loved this series. It moves fast and keeps the action going. The right amount of science keeps the story entertaining. No, this isn't a science project. If you want real, hard science, read a textbook.
Unfortunately, I found Bronson Pinchot to be an uneven reader. He started off rather dull, reading like the book was a textbook. He started to get better inflection and animation into the characters as the series went on, but couldn't decide on the character's accent. However, this didn't take too much from the story.
If science fiction horror is your genre like it's mine, don't pass this book up.
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The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon
- By: Todd Zwillich
- Narrated by: Todd Zwillich, Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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Without John C. Houbolt, a mid-level engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon. Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly advocated for a single, huge spacecraft to travel to the moon, land, and return to Earth. It's the scenario used in 1950s cartoons and horror movies about traveling to outer space. Houbolt had another idea: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. LOR would link two spacecraft in orbit while the crafts were travelling at 3,600 miles an hour around the moon. His plan was ridiculed and considered unthinkable.
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Caveat Emptor: Bone to Pick
- By Judah Family on 07-05-19
- The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon
- By: Todd Zwillich
- Narrated by: Todd Zwillich, Angelo Di Loreto
Light but informative
Reviewed: 08-14-19
A very nice historical audiobook about a man I didn't know about that helped get mankind to the moon.
Todd Zwillich is a perfect reader. He makes what could be dry material into a great summertime read.
Highly recommended for history buffs and a anyone who loves space exploration.
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The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
- By: H. P. Lovecraft
- Narrated by: Andrew Leman, Sean Branney
- Length: 51 hrs and 40 mins
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For the first time ever, the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has produced an audio recording of all of Lovecraft's stories. These are not dramatizations like our Dark Adventure Radio Theatre - rather, this is an audiobook of the original stories, in all-new, never-before-heard recordings made by the HPLHS' own Andrew Leman and Sean Branney exclusively for this collection. This collection spans his entire career from his earliest surviving works of childhood to stories completed shortly before his death. All tales include original music by HPLHS composer Troy Sterling Nies.
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Best Lovecraft Collection on Audible!
- By Aransas R. on 04-30-19
- The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
- By: H. P. Lovecraft
- Narrated by: Andrew Leman, Sean Branney
On a scale 1 to 5, this is a 10!
Reviewed: 08-11-19
I purchased this audio book and I was not the least bit disappointed. The tales are reminiscent of Edgar Allen Poe with its dark, Gothic prose and fantastic descriptions. The first person narratives pulled you into the story.
However, it's the hard, skillful work of Andrew Leman and Sean Branney that brought the audio book to vivid life. I wish these two readers could read for every audio book. They're not just reading; they are acting the part of the narrator and take great pains to make pronunciation of foreign words sound fluid and natural.
This audio book is by far the best I've listened to and has, unfortunately, spoiled me. I now look for audio books with readers beyond passable instead of books that I prefer.
This audio book was worth every single penny and I can't recommend it enough.
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Dodge & Twist
- An Audible Original Drama
- By: Tony Lee
- Narrated by: Matt Lucas, Stephen Mangan, Michael Socha, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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It’s rumoured that Dickens wanted to return to his classic novel Oliver Twist, to bring him back into a later book as an older character, but he never managed this before he died. However, if Oliver had returned, what would he have been like? Would the scars of his childhood affect the man he would become? And what of ‘Dodger’, sent to a land halfway around the world, his friend, mentor and master dead because of Oliver? Dodge & Twist is that story. The tale of two boys, 12 years later, returning into each other’s lives - for both good and bad.
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Excellent performance, pretty dismal story
- By Kevin on 02-04-19
- Dodge & Twist
- An Audible Original Drama
- By: Tony Lee
- Narrated by: Matt Lucas, Stephen Mangan, Michael Socha, Kara Tointon
Masterpiece Theater on Audibles
Reviewed: 07-03-19
This program completely blew me away! The story was very well imagined paying great tribute to Charles Dickens. The acting was top notch. The pace brisk with a very good flow. Better than anything on TV or movies nowadays.
If you like theater or classics, if you just like a good story, you need to pick this title up.
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Alien III
- An Audible Original Drama
- By: William Gibson
- Narrated by: Tom Alexander, Barbara Barnes, Michael Biehn, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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Father of cyberpunk William Gibson’s original script for Alien III, written in 1987 as a sequel to Aliens, never made it to our screens, although it went on to achieve cult status among fans as the third instalment that might have been after being leaked online. This terrifying, cinematic multicast dramatisation - directed by the multi-award-winning Dirk Maggs - is the chance to experience William Gibson’s untold story and its terrifying, claustrophobic and dark encounters between humans and aliens, as a completely immersive audio experience.
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Audio Dramatization of the Movie that never was
- By Alan on 05-31-19
- Alien III
- An Audible Original Drama
- By: William Gibson
- Narrated by: Tom Alexander, Barbara Barnes, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Lorelei King, Laurel Lefkow, Keith Wickham
Should have been a movie
Reviewed: 06-29-19
It was great to listen to this Audible production. This should have been made into a movie.
However, as compensation, I got to listen to top notch acting. I am glad I downloaded this and highly recommend.
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The Dead Drink First
- By: Dale Maharidge
- Narrated by: Dale Maharidge
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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Dale Maharidge’s father, like many World War II veterans, never talked about “the good war”. There was just one clue to his dad’s experience as a US Marine - a portrait with a close friend that hung permanently in their home. In The Dead Drink First, Dale, now a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, recounts his 18-year quest to find and repatriate the missing remains of his dad’s buddy, Herman Walter Mulligan, 73 years after he was killed in action.
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read it even if it's not your usual genre
- By Kindle Customer on 06-07-19
- The Dead Drink First
- By: Dale Maharidge
- Narrated by: Dale Maharidge
A story that needed to be told
Reviewed: 06-27-19
I don't know where to begin. This program held me from the first and helped me understand the uglier side of the 'Good War'.
I highly recommend this book for everyone interested in getting all angles of World War II.
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The Caves of Steel
- Robot, Book 1
- By: Isaac Asimov
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions.
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Sci-Fi Mystery at its Best!
- By HL on 09-16-14
- The Caves of Steel
- Robot, Book 1
- By: Isaac Asimov
- Narrated by: William Dufris
The Robot series is Asimov's best work
Reviewed: 05-22-19
This was nostalgia for me. I have always loved Isaac Asimov's Robot series. Discovering it again has been a great joy.
Moreover, William Dufris is an excellent reader. He truly breathed life into the characters and drew me back into the future world of Earth.
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