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Close to Death
- A Novel
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Anthony Horowitz, Rory Kinnear
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 852
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 787
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 787
Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate. It is the perfect idyll, until the Kentworthy family arrives, with their four giant, gas-guzzling cars, gaggle of shrieking children, and plans for a garish swimming pool in the backyard. Obvious outsiders, the Kentworthys do not belong in Riverside Close, and quickly offend every last one of the neighbors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Close to perfection
- By Anonymous User on 04-20-24
- Close to Death
- A Novel
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Anthony Horowitz, Rory Kinnear
Another triumph
Reviewed: 04-20-24
The latest Anthony Horowitz is a delight. As always. This audiobook has the added pleasure of Rory Kinnear, one of the greatest audiobook narrators there is, with his wonderful voice and dramatic zest.
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Veiller sur elle - Prix Goncourt 2023
- By: Jean-Baptiste Andrea
- Narrated by: Léo Dussolier, Lila Tamazit
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story5 out of 5 stars 38
Au grand jeu du destin, Mimo a tiré les mauvaises cartes. Né pauvre, il est confié en apprentissage à un sculpteur de pierre sans envergure. Mais il a du génie entre les mains. Toutes les fées ou presque se sont penchées sur Viola Orsini. Héritière d'une famille prestigieuse, elle a passé son enfance à l'ombre d'un palais génois. Mais elle a trop d'ambition pour se résigner à la place qu'on lui assigne.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing book overall
- By Caroline Francoise Acra on 05-24-24
- Veiller sur elle - Prix Goncourt 2023
- By: Jean-Baptiste Andrea
- Narrated by: Léo Dussolier, Lila Tamazit
Émouvant
Reviewed: 11-14-23
Un roman brilliant sur l’art, la perte, l’amour, l’amitié et les tensions entre la loyauté envers soi-même et sa famille. À travers la première moitié du XXe siècle en Italie, nous voyons les triomphes d’un sculpteur nain ainsi que les déceptions et les folies de sa vie extraordinaire. Magnifiquement écrit. Magnifiquement raconté par le narrateur.
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Holly
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Justine Lupe, Stephen King
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 9,763
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,016
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9,014
When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner has Covid. Her mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Investigations in the time of Covid
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 09-05-23
- Holly
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Justine Lupe, Stephen King
Wonderful and terrifying
Reviewed: 09-10-23
Another brilliant story from the great Stephen King. His ability to create believable and sympathetic characters facing dire situations is unmatched. As is his thrilling imagination.
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Connemara
- By: Nicolas Mathieu
- Narrated by: Alysson Paradis
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Hélène a bientôt 40 ans. Elle a fait de belles études, une carrière. Elle a réalisé le programme des magazines et le rêve de son adolescence : se tirer, changer de milieu, réussir. Et pourtant, le sentiment de gâchis est là, les années ont passé, tout a déçu. Christophe, lui, n’a jamais quitté ce bled où ils ont grandi avec Hélène. Il n’est plus si beau. Il a fait sa vie à petits pas, privilégiant les copains, la teuf, remettant au lendemain les grandes décisions, l’âge des choix. On pourrait croire qu’il a tout raté.
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3 out of 5 stars
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La narratrice a gâché l’histoire
- By R. Hughes on 03-07-22
- Connemara
- By: Nicolas Mathieu
- Narrated by: Alysson Paradis
La narratrice a gâché l’histoire
Reviewed: 03-07-22
Une histoire réaliste et parfois clichée mais c’était ce que l’auteur a voulu faire- les vies ordinaires et leurs espoirs, leur tristesse et leur joies éphémères. Le personnage de Hélène n’était pas du tout sympathique. On espérait qu’elle serait au même intéressante.
Pire, la narratrice donne l’impression qu’elle voulait terminer la lecture au lieu de raconter une histoire. Elle narrait tous les personnages avec le même ton terne, de sort qu’on ne pouvait pas les différencier, et elle a raconté le dialogue de la même manière terne sur la prose. Parfois le narrateur peut rendre l’écriture pire qu’elle ne l’est, et c’est ce qui s’est passé ici.
Un auteur lauréat du Goncourt mérite mieux.
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No Name
- By: Wilkie Collins
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton, Rachel Atkins, Russell Bentley, and others
- Length: 27 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 109
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 108
Magdalen and Norah Vanstone have known only comfort and affluence for their entire lives. Orphaned suddenly following the unexpected deaths of their parents, the illegitimate sisters find themselves flung into the other extreme of living: their father had neglected to amend his will following their parents' recent marriage, leaving them with nothing, and their bitter, estranged uncle, the legal inheritor of the family fortune, mercilessly refuses them support.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good and Evil and Funny
- By John on 07-06-20
- No Name
- By: Wilkie Collins
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton, Rachel Atkins, Russell Bentley, John Foley, David Rintoul, Lucy Scott
Great tale if revenge and redemption
Reviewed: 12-19-21
One of the best Wilkie Collins novels finally gets a recording and it is everything you could wish for. Beautifully narrated by a brilliant cast, this novel shines.
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A Line to Kill
- A Novel
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Rory Kinnear
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,344
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,041
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,033
When ex-detective inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the south coast of England, they don’t expect to find themselves in the middle of murder investigation - or to be trapped with a cold-blooded killer in a remote place with a murky, haunted past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I have learned my lesson...make a one night listen
- By C. A. Cameron on 10-20-21
- A Line to Kill
- A Novel
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Rory Kinnear
A Sherlock and Watson for Today
Reviewed: 10-21-21
Brilliant as always. Wonderful story. Clever plotting. And Rory Kinnear is one of the great narrators with a beautiful voice and a remarkable ability to differentiate characters.
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Billy Summers
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Paul Sparks
- Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32,573
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 29,169
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29,018
Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. So what could possibly go wrong?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely amazing
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 08-03-21
- Billy Summers
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Paul Sparks
Brilliant and moving
Reviewed: 08-07-21
What a read. A gripping, engrossing and ultimately quite moving novel. The narrator is superb.
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The Evidence for Modern Physics
- How We Know What We Know
- By: Professor Don Lincoln, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Professor Don Lincoln
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 435
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 371
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Story5 out of 5 stars 367
In this 24-lesson course aimed at non-scientists, noted particle physicist Dr. Don Lincoln of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory covers more than a century of progress in physics, describing exactly how scientists reach the conclusions they do. He starts with the atom, which was long hypothesized but wasn’t definitively proven until a paper by Albert Einstein in 1905. That was just the beginning, as researchers probed ever deeper into the atom’s complex structure, leading to the weird findings of quantum mechanics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Strongly Recommend for Everyone
- By Liam A on 05-23-21
- The Evidence for Modern Physics
- How We Know What We Know
- By: Professor Don Lincoln, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Professor Don Lincoln
Brilliant company for a complex subject
Reviewed: 07-03-21
Professor Don Lincoln is a perfect companion for an exploration of modern physics. He has a wonderful, warm and inviting voice and he speaks to the listener with authority as well as humility. I am not gifted in mathematics -- but thanks to Professor Lincoln's deft and lucid explanations of some of the most challenging discoveries in physics and cosmology as well as some of the more abstract concepts such as dark matter and dark energy, I have come away knowing a lot more about how we came to be here in the universe. I hope he can create other courses like this -- I would gladly follow him anywhere.
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Manhattan Beach
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Egan
- Narrated by: Norbert Leo Butz, Heather Lind, Vincent Piazza
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,130
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,608
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,612
Anna Kerrigan, nearly 12 years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children, and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. Years later her father has disappeared, and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love !!
- By MNC on 10-28-17
- Manhattan Beach
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Egan
- Narrated by: Norbert Leo Butz, Heather Lind, Vincent Piazza
Crossed lives in wartime
Reviewed: 10-23-17
Wonderful, thoroughly absorbing novel that explores the lives of almost-inadvertently remarkable everyday New Yorkers, in the 1930s and the early 1940s. Anna, her father Eddie, nightclub owner Dexter. They're so wonderfully alive. This novel is more "traditional" than Egan's Pulitzer-winning "Greetings from the Goon Squad," but it's nevertheless an utterly contemporary exploration of who we believe we are, and our relation to where we live and how that fuels our dreams.
More than the majority of novels set in New York, Egan's makes us aware of the sea that surrounds and defines the city. She plunges us into another age, and we are there as if by magic -- this is a historical novel that feels lived-in rather than researched.
The alternating voices in this audio book give it an added dimension, and Norbert Leo Butz, Heather Lind and Vincent Piazza capture the soul, longing and yearning of their characters. A triumph.
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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 61,273
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 55,581
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55,398
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
'It' is awesome.
Reviewed: 05-22-17
Stephen King's epic novel of childhood, horrors, memories, demons, evil, love, crime, salvation, desire and revenge is gripping from the start, and stays with you throughout the arc of the intertwining stories (the past of 1958 and the present of 1985). This audiobook is an enormous production as well -- at least in length, rivaling "Les Miserables" and "Gone with The Wind," both of which are 50+ hours long. At 44+ hours, "It" is a deep, immersive, frightening, enthralling and satisfying experience. Steven Weber is an excellent narrator (one small note: he muffs the pronunciation of certain French phrases), who is able to imbue individuality to all of the characters. He can also bring to life King's remarkable rendering of verbal grunts and shouts and sneers.
Now a word about the production - quite often the ends of words are cut off. Here, King himself sometimes breaks off words in mid-sentence for effect, only to pick up the sense in the immediate next chapter, or one following it quickly. But the producers have also clipped the ends of Weber's spoken words with alarming frequency. This takes you temporarily out of the story. It's also quite annoying - careful editing should have been a must with an audiobook by such an important writer as King.
Those quibbles aside, this is a terrific book (in both senses: horrifying and absolutely enthralling), and for the most part it's extremely well served by having it read by such a passionate reader as Steven Weber. Stephen King is a wonderful writer - a national treasure, really - and "It" is one of his most rewarding novels.
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