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Narrated by:
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Ken Kliban
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By:
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David Grand
About this listen
What if Howard Hughes ruled his corporate empire from a chrome-and-glass citadel, served by problem gamblers who've been enslaved so they can pay off their debts? Louse is only partly the answer to that question. It's also a deft piece of corporate satire, an Orwellian fable about absolute power, even a kind of religious allegory.
Author David Grand's remarkable first novel follows Herman Q. Louse, valet to the invalid, germ-phobic billionaire Herbert Horatio Blackwell, as he navigates the conspiracy-ridden world Blackwell has constructed in the middle of the Nevada desert. Louse's story is interspersed with snippets of memos, bulletins, press releases, and public confessions - Grand's modern version of groupthink - all of which provide a darkly comic counterpoint to the novel's growing intrigue.
There are more twists and turns in this book than in your average Hollywood thriller, yet somehow the plot - as well-oiled as it is - becomes hardly the point. Louse is a chilling look at the fate of the individual in a collectivized world, as appropriate to today's corporate drones as to the denizens of Orwell's 1984.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Story, Wonderful Listening, But the Editor?
- By George Knight on 07-14-13
By: Greg Bear
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The Curiosity
- A Novel
- By: Stephen Kiernan
- Narrated by: Kate Udall, Erik Bergmann, George Guidall
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 115
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4 out of 5 stars 101
Dr. Kate Philo makes a breathtaking discovery in the Arctic: the body of a man buried deep in the ice. Heedless of the potential consequences, Kate's boss orders that the frozen man be reanimated. As the man begins to regain his memories, the team learns that he was - is - a judge, Jeremiah Rice. Thrown together by fate, Kate and Jeremiah grow closer. But the clock is ticking and Jeremiah's new life is slipping away. Kate must decide how far she is willing to go to protect the man she has come to love.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Almost perfect
- By ellegreenland on 04-14-14
By: Stephen Kiernan
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The Shroud Conspiracy
- A Novel
- By: John Heubusch
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 485
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 451
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Story4 out of 5 stars 449
Throughout his career, forensic anthropologist and outspoken atheist Dr. Jon Bondurant has investigated many religious artifacts said to be real, but he knows better. So when he is invited by the Vatican to examine the Shroud of Turin, said to be the burial cloth that covered the body of Christ, he is delighted for the opportunity to prove once and for all that the shroud is a fake.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Jurassic Park meets the deVince Code
- By LRC on 04-21-17
By: John Heubusch
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Menagerie
- By: Rachel Vincent
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,822
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,686
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,688
When Delilah Marlow visits a famous traveling carnival, Metzger's Menagerie, she is an ordinary woman in a not-quite-ordinary world. But under the macabre circus black-top, she discovers a fierce, sharp-clawed creature lurking just beneath her human veneer. Captured and put on exhibition, Delilah is stripped of her worldly possessions, including her own name, as she's forced to "perform" in town after town. But there is breathtaking beauty behind the seamy and grotesque reality of the carnival.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Genre bending story
- By RabidReads on 10-10-15
By: Rachel Vincent
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The Devil in Silver
- By: Victor LaValle
- Narrated by: Victor LaValle
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 347
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Story4 out of 5 stars 312
Pepper is a rambunctious big man, and, suddenly, the surprised inmate of a budget-strapped mental institution in Queens, New York. He's not mentally ill, but that doesn't seem to matter. On his first night, he's visited by a terrifying creature who nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It's no delusion: The other patients confirm that a hungry devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to fight back: Dorry, an octogenarian schizophrenic; Coffee, an African immigrant with severe OCD; and Loochie, a bipolar teenage girl.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not a horror/thriller
- By Matilda Luk on 03-17-18
By: Victor LaValle
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Children of the Deterrent
- Halfhero, Book 1
- By: Ian W. Sainsbury
- Narrated by: Sam Phillips, Jaimi Barbakoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 174
The new novel by the author of the best-selling The World Walker series. 'My name is Daniel Harbin, and I'm a child of The Deterrent.' What if a superhuman turned out not to be so super...or even human? Britain's superhero, The Deterrent, was unveiled to the world in 1979 and disappeared two years later. The truth about his origins has never been revealed. The rumours about his children - those that survived - and their mysterious abilities have never been confirmed. Until now....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Everything Backstory Until Last Few Chapters
- By Sailfish on 06-30-20
By: Ian W. Sainsbury
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Kingdom Keepers: The Return Book One Disney Lands
- Kingdom Keepers: The Return, Book 1
- By: Ridley Pearson
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 197
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 199
With the defeat of the Overtakers behind them, the five teenagers known as the Kingdom Keepers should be celebrating. By all accounts they saved Disneyland from certain destruction. Why then did their mentor leave one last puzzle for them to decipher? The Keepers must solve a puzzle of the past, or be crushed under an evil that makes the Overtakers seem like gentle souls.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Why do I keep buying these?
- By Rebecca on 04-04-16
By: Ridley Pearson
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The Year's Top Short SF Novels 5
- By: Cory Doctorow, Ken Liu, John P Murphy, and others
- Narrated by: Tom Dheere, Nancy Linari
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4 out of 5 stars 41
Short novels are movie-length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This audio collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2014 by current and emerging masters of this vibrant form of storytelling.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator sounds like Tony Danza
- By Sean on 03-05-16
By: Cory Doctorow, and others
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The Flicker Men
- A Novel
- By: Ted Kosmatka
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 677
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 617
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Story4 out of 5 stars 622
A quantum physicist shocks the world with a startling experiment, igniting a struggle between science and theology, free will and fate, and antagonizing forces not known to exist. Eric Argus is a washout. His prodigious early work clouded his reputation and strained his sanity. But an old friend gives him another chance, an opportunity to step back into the light.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Started out good but fell flat
- By Ed A on 08-04-15
By: Ted Kosmatka
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Process of Elimination
- A Thriller
- By: Arthur T. Bradley
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 188
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 175
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Story4 out of 5 stars 177
A powerful international organization wants to tip the balance of global power by infiltrating the White House. At the direction of its mastermind, alias Pecos Bill, presidential candidates have become unwitting targets of a world-class sharpshooter. A martial arts expert, a greedy corporate attorney, and a self-proclaimed conspiracy theorist form a shaky alliance initially intent on solving a missing persons case, only to get caught up in a bigger political plot in which they must uncover the assassin’s identity....
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3 out of 5 stars
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unlistenable
- By itinerant on 11-28-17
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The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam
- By: Chris Ewan
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,434
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,266
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,263
Charlie Howard travels the globe writing suspense novels for a living. To supplement his income - and keep his hand in - Charlie has a small side business: stealing for a very discreet clientele on commission. When a mysterious American offers Charlie 20,000 euros to steal two small monkey figurines to match the one he already has, Charlie is suspicious; the job seems too good to be true, and of course, it is. He soon finds the American beaten nearly to death, while the third figurine has disappeared.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A delightful surprise!
- By adrienne on 10-02-13
By: Chris Ewan
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The Kill Clause
- By: Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrated by: Peter Friedman
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 855
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 749
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Story4 out of 5 stars 750
Tim Rackley, a deputy U.S. marshal, watches helplessly as his daughter's killer walks free on a legal technicality. He is suddenly forced to explore his own deadly options, a quest that leads him into the welcoming fold of "The Commission".
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3 out of 5 stars
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Did not realize it was abridged
- By David Kindell on 11-13-18
By: Gregg Hurwitz
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Shadow and Light
- A Novel
- By: Jonathan Rabb
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4 out of 5 stars 46
Berlin, between the two world wars. When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. With the help of Fritz Lang (the German director) and Alby Pimm (leader of the most powerful crime syndicate in Berlin), Hoffner finds his case taking him beyond the world of film and into the far more treacherous landscape of Berlin's sex and drug trade.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful
- By Buzz on 03-25-11
By: Jonathan Rabb
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Idoru
- By: William Gibson
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 234
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 233
Colin Laney is here looking for work. He is an intuitive fisher for patterns of information. But Laney knows how to sift for the dangerous bits. Which makes him useful - to certain people. Chia McKenzie is here on a rescue mission. Her idol is the singer Rez, of the band Lo,Rez. When the Seattle chapter of the Lo,Rez fan club decided that he might be in trouble in Tokyo, they sent Chia to check it out. Rei Toei is the idoru - the beautiful, entirely virtual media star adored by all Japan. Rez has declared that he will marry her. This is the rumor that has brought Chia to Tokyo.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The narrator made me turn this off in 10 seconds
- By Rob on 12-02-18
By: William Gibson
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The Stainless Steel Rat
- Stainless Steel Rat, Book 1
- By: Harry Harrison
- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,124
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,776
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,787
DiGriz is caught during one of his crimes and recruited into the Special Corps. Boring, routine desk work during his probationary period results in his discovering that someone is building a battleship, thinly disguised as an industrial vessel. In the peaceful League no one has battleships anymore, so the builder of this one would be unstoppable. DiGriz' hunt for the guilty becomes a personal battle between himself and the beautiful but deadly Angelina, who his planning a coup on one of the feudal worlds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Rat Race Worth Running!!
- By M. Stephenson on 10-28-10
By: Harry Harrison
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- Debbie M.
- 12-11-20
I really wanted to like this
I can't think of a good reason why, but it took me 3 tries to even get past the 1st hour... I kept realizing I had completely tuned out and had no idea what was going on. Then I gave it a full 4 hours of dedicated listening, and I just could not get into it. It's not that it's poorly written or anything, I feel bad even leaving this review, but something about it left me able to abandon it after 4 hours and not even be slightly curious what happens to the characters, I just couldn't get into it. Maybe it's me? Maybe I'm in a crabby mood? But I've been binging other books and been perfectly content. I mean, I don't base your entire decision on my review, maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm really bad at breakups.
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