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Narrated by:
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Adam Sims
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Daniel Keyes
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Charlie Gordon, a floor sweeper born with an unusually low IQ, has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that doctors hope will increase his intelligence - a procedure that has been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.
All Charlie wants is to be smart and have friends, but the treatment turns him into a genius.
Then Algernon begins to fade.
What will become of Charlie?
Read by Adam Sims.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I’m sorry I waited so long to read this book.
- By Julie W. Capell on 05-27-14
By: Ernest Cline
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The Brothers Karamazov
- Penguin Classics
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuff - translator
- Narrated by: Luke Thompson
- Length: 43 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 405
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 350
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The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, driven to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother, Smerdyakov. Dostoyevsky's dark masterwork evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested.
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Fix an error near the end of chapter 7.
- By Ragena Mae Brown on 10-17-21
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and others
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Solaris
- The Definitive Edition
- By: Stanislaw Lem, Bill Johnston - translator
- Narrated by: Alessandro Juliani
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,314
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,579
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At last, one of the world’s greatest works of science fiction is available - just as author Stanislaw Lem intended it. To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Solaris, Audible, in cooperation with the Lem Estate, has commissioned a brand-new translation - complete for the first time, and the first ever directly from the original Polish to English. Beautifully narrated by Alessandro Juliani ( Battlestar Galactica), Lem’s provocative novel comes alive for a new generation.
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A comment on negative reviews
- By Burns on 09-20-11
By: Stanislaw Lem, and others
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,950
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,994
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In what is considered one of Heinlein's most hair-raising, thought-provoking, and outrageous adventures, the master of modern science fiction tells the strange story of an even stranger world. It is 21st-century Luna, a harsh penal colony where a revolt is plotted between a bashful computer and a ragtag collection of maverick humans, a revolt that goes beautifully until the inevitable happens. But that's the problem with the inevitable: it always happens.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heinlein's Masterpiece
- By Peter on 12-04-06
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Ubik
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,794
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,264
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5,262
Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business - deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in "half-life," a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter's face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Holy sh*t
- By Amazon Customer on 03-17-17
By: Philip K. Dick
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1Q84
- By: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin - translator, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
- Length: 46 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 10,775
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,486
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9,461
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....
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WOW, WOW, WOW.
- By Amanda on 11-06-11
By: Haruki Murakami, and others
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Frankenstein
- By: Mary Shelley
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20,632
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18,580
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18,510
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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3 out of 5 stars
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ARE WE ALWAYS TO BE UNHAPPY?
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 01-28-16
By: Mary Shelley
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East of Eden
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 25 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 18,157
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 16,060
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Story5 out of 5 stars 16,054
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why have I avoided this Beautiful Book???
- By Kelly on 03-25-17
By: John Steinbeck
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The Sword of Kaigen: A Theonite War Story
- By: M. L. Wang
- Narrated by: Andrew Tell
- Length: 24 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,347
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,010
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,006
On a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful warriors in the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. For hundreds of years, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held the Empire's enemies at bay, earning their frozen spit of land the name "The Sword of Kaigen". Born into Kusanagi's legendary Matsuda family, f14-year-old Mamoru has always known his purpose: To master his family's fighting techniques and defend his homeland.
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5 out of 5 stars
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OH. MY. GODS! Holy emotional epicness!
- By Kevin Potter on 09-03-20
By: M. L. Wang
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To Kill a Mockingbird
- By: Harper Lee
- Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 47,545
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 42,217
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Story5 out of 5 stars 42,070
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred, available now for the first time as a digital audiobook. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A gift to be treasured
- By David Shear on 07-09-14
By: Harper Lee
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- Eric Palevsky
- 04-05-19
makes you wonder about mankind
very interesting point of view. heartbreaking and not so science fiction any more. read it!
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- Anonymous User
- 10-24-21
Extraordinary. Beautiful and sad.
A unique book. Fascinating, but with a very sad ending. The narration was occasionally difficult.
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- Knut
- 11-07-17
The most dynamic character ever.
It's hard not to love this book. I felt a lot of empathy for Charlie, and even though Charlie's became a true dick, I really liked him. I the ending was not as satisfying as I had hoped, but it's a really minor inconvenience.
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- Dean Van Es
- 08-12-21
Really good
Not like any other book I've read. I really enjoyed it and couldn't wait to get back to it.
Different, a great story well written and well narrated.
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- Nikoloz
- 03-11-23
Circle of life
While Flowers for Algernon is a great book, it feels like an extended version of Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog, which was written in 1925.
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- Lasse Hovlandsdal
- 06-07-23
Great story
While I find the story fantastic, I find myself disagreeing with most other reviewers - I found the narration flat. For parts of the book it would make sense, but during tense or emotional scenes I found the performance disappointing. Overall I still recommend the book.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-20-24
Heartbreaking is the right word
Couldn’t stop listening, I was holding my breath and kept hoping… Charlie was a very well rounded character, even if some portrayals of female characters were lacking in my opinion. I didn’t get mad about it. Worth a listen definitely!
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- Anonymous User
- 11-13-24
the plot
The narrator was annoying but the book is so touching! I cried at the end
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- julia
- 05-29-19
Wonderful but dark
I had heard of the title of this book a lot
but never thought of trying it until yesterday.
The story was so compelling that I finished the whole thing in a day.
It makes you think a lot about how far science should go in altering the way things are.
And the character felt so real, which somtimes made it difficult to listen to not so very pleasant things happening inside his head.
I liked the book but for some very dark, painful moments throughout, especially towards its end.
I found myself skipping these parts.
But I guess these were necessary to do justice to what it would really feel like to be in the protagonist's shoes.
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- Carol
- 09-12-21
Charlie
I really enjoyed this book. Completely different from what I usually read. Was good .
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