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Midnight Riot
- Rivers of London, Book 1
- De: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrado por: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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Probationary constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he'll face is a paper cut. But Peter's prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost. Peter's ability to speak with the lingering dead brings him to the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale....
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I LOVE this Book!
- De Nancy J en 02-26-13
- Midnight Riot
- Rivers of London, Book 1
- De: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrado por: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
PERFECT narrator!
Revisado: 07-23-24
I loved the books and now I’m loving the audiobooks. So happy!! I Highly recommend them all!
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D Is for Death
- De: Harriet F. Townson
- Narrado por: Sandra Duncan
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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Dora Wildwood is escaping a most unsuitable marriage. She's on the first train to London, having smuggled herself out of the house at dead of night, like all the best books. She plans to go straight to her godmother Lady Dreda Uglow, the only woman she knows who seems to live life on her own terms, and ask to stay. Dora ducks into the London Library to hide, asking the quizzical but kind Ben Stark and the clever Miss Amani for help. And it is there, surrounded by books, where she should feel most safe, that Dora Wildwood most unfortunately stumbles across her first dead body.
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D is for delightful
- De K. Martin en 07-07-24
- D Is for Death
- De: Harriet F. Townson
- Narrado por: Sandra Duncan
An absolutely stellar narrator!!!
Revisado: 06-28-24
I heard the author on the Shedunnit podcast and thought this book would be right up my alley - which it is! The narrator, Sandra Duncan, is absolutely brilliant and really made the book for me. I loved the story as well. My only complaint is that our heroine, Dora, sometimes seems to go on at random places n ways that don’t seem to further the plot, but overall a wonderful listen!
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The M. R. James BBC Radio Collection
- De: M. R. James
- Narrado por: Mark Gatiss, James D'Arcy, Anton Lesser, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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M. R. James was the master of the uncanny. His classic supernatural stories have haunted readers and listeners for over a century and been adapted countless times for radio, TV and film. This collection features dramatisations of 12 of his most popular stories: The Mezzotint, Casting the Runes, The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, A Warning to the Curious, Rats, Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come To You, My Lad, The Tractate Middoth, Lost Hearts, The Rose Garden, Number 13, Martin’s Close and Count Magnus.
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Disappointing Package, Should’ve Been Longer
- De Admiralu en 03-14-20
Still creepy after all these years!
Revisado: 07-03-23
A fabulous listen, I enjoyed the whole thing immensely! Atmospheric creeping dread at its best!
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The Brotherhood of the Wheel
- De: R. S. Belcher
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
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In AD 1119, a group of nine crusaders became known as the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon - a militant monastic order charged with protecting pilgrims and caravans traveling on the roads to and from the Holy Land. In time, the Knights Templar would grow in power and, ultimately, be laid low. But a small offshoot of the Templars endure and have returned to the order's original mission: to defend the roads of the world and guard those who travel on them.
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Epic Battle Brewing
- De Doug D. Eigsti en 03-29-16
- The Brotherhood of the Wheel
- De: R. S. Belcher
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
Fun, engaging, won’t pass the Bechdel Test
Revisado: 09-01-19
Bronson Pinchot’s performance is great. The first five minutes I was dubious and then I fell in love with him. Other good things: fun, nail biting suspense, decent characters, good story (Though I do have some issues with it, to follow).
Aless good thing: I spent the ENTIRE book wondering WHY DOES HECK HAVE A SCOTTISH ACCENT???? The text says he has a Scottish and southern accent (this is not just Bronson Pinchot’s interpretation, though he manages to pull it off very well, no mean feat). WHY???? He grew up in the states, raised by a mother and stepfather who are American (of Scottish descent). WTF?
Other annoying things: pretty sure this book does NOT pass the Bechdel Test. That is, it’s pretty sexist. People will disagree because it has some great female characters, but that doesn’t make it not sexist, especially if the focus of those female characters is always on the male characters.
The last big annoyance: as a recovering Wiccan, I have to say that the portrayal of the “ancient forces” at work in the book was ... flawed. And that’s being polite. I could be even more polite and call it simplistic. Or slightly rude and say he didn’t know what the hell he was talking about.
Also, the human bad guys were all obvious slimy, dirty mouth-breathers who practically had signs on the foreheads declaring “I am a bad guy”. Oy.
Having said all those things, I enjoyed the book, and definitely the performance!
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Binti
- De: Nnedi Okorafor
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 2 h y 30 m
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Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares.
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Messages
- De khaalidah en 10-07-15
- Binti
- De: Nnedi Okorafor
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
More of a book outline than an actual book
Revisado: 04-03-19
Super original idea, interesting world, cool main character ... now if only she had written a full, fleshed-out story instead of a book outline. I hope to see more from Ms. Okorafor in future, because she's got really neat ideas ...
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The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
- De: Mackenzi Lee
- Narrado por: Christian Coulson
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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Henry "Monty" Montague doesn't care that his roguish passions are far from suitable for the gentleman he was born to be. But as Monty embarks on his grand tour of Europe, his quests for pleasure and vice are in danger of coming to an end. Not only does his father expect him to take over the family's estate upon his return, but Monty is also nursing an impossible crush on his best friend and traveling companion, Percy.
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My absolute FAVORITE audio book ever
- De SarahBelle en 07-27-17
- The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
- De: Mackenzi Lee
- Narrado por: Christian Coulson
Enjoyable and sweet
Revisado: 04-03-19
I liked this book, the characters were fun, the love story sweet and the plot - if somewhat fantastic - was not jarringly weird or anachronistic.
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To Say Nothing of the Dog
- Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 20 h y 58 m
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In this Hugo-winner from Connie Willis, when too many jumps back to 1940 leave 21st century Oxford history student Ned Henry exhausted, a relaxing trip to Victorian England seems the perfect solution. But complexities like recalcitrant rowboats, missing cats, and love at first sight make Ned's holiday anything but restful - to say nothing of the way hideous pieces of Victorian art can jeopardize the entire course of history.
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A fun read
- De Sara en 07-23-08
- To Say Nothing of the Dog
- Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
Stellar!
Revisado: 04-03-19
First, let me confess that this is one of my favorite books ever, and I've read it so many times! That often makes the audiobook more difficult, as one has formed set ideas on what the characters sound like. Having said that, I was not wild about this reader - at first - because of his Sean Connery take on Mr. Dunworthy. However, once Ned is pitched into Victorian England, he is spot on!
A fantastic book, a wonderful reader ... perfect listen. Also, go read Jerome K. Jerome's "Three Men in a Boat, to Say Nothing of the Dog"
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The Hunt for Red October
- A Jack Ryan Novel
- De: Tom Clancy
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 18 h y 42 m
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Somewhere under the freezing Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision. The Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. The chase for the highly advanced nuclear submarine is on - and there’s only one man who can find her... Brilliant CIA analyst Jack Ryan has little interest in fieldwork, but when covert photographs of Red October land on his desk, Ryan soon finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek played by two world powers - a game that could end in all-out war.
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Thank GOD you got a new narrator!
- De Andrew M. Niehaus en 08-24-18
- The Hunt for Red October
- A Jack Ryan Novel
- De: Tom Clancy
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
The movie is better
Revisado: 02-04-19
Don't get me wrong, the book is really good, but boy the government acronyms really slow things down! If you don't mind that, it's a great story, but I really recommend the movie - it's just the good parts! :D
This also goes for "The Name of the Rose", a fabulous but extremely involved book that made me wish I had multiple history, art history and ancient language degrees. The movie with Sean Connery is just the "good parts" version.
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Dangerous Women
- De: Gardner Dozois, George R.R. Martin
- Narrado por: Scott Brick, Jonathan Frakes, Stana Katic, y otros
- Duración: 32 h y 47 m
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All new and original to this volume, the 21 stories in Dangerous Women include work by 12 New York Times best sellers, and seven stories set in the authors’ best-selling continuities - including a new "Outlander" story by Diana Gabaldon, a tale of Harry Dresden’s world by Jim Butcher, a story from Lev Grossman set in the world of The Magicians, and a 35,000-word novella by George R. R. Martin about the Dance of the Dragons, the vast civil war that tore Westeros apart nearly two centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones.
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The Joy of an Anthology
- De Susan en 03-21-14
Some truly stellar stories, some not so much
Revisado: 02-04-19
Some of the stories are truly amazing - two standouts are "Neighbors" by Megan Lindholm and "Second Arabesque, Very Slowly" by Nancy Kress, both are absolutely brilliant stories. Three others that are excellent are "Raisa Stepanova" by Carrie Vaughn, Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell by Brandon Sanderson and "Some Desperado" by Joe Abercrombie.
Some of the stories written by the male authors were ... difficult for me. I guess "Dangerous Women" made me erroneously expect strong women or women as the protagonist or even as the main character and those were not always the case. Which is fine. I just didn't like the ones in which the "dangerous woman" was more of an afterthought or a victim. But it was worth listening to just for the Lindholm and Kress stories, and all the readers were excellent.
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After Anatevka: Live
- De: Alexandra Silber
- Narrado por: Ellie Fishman, Kerstin Anderson, Sheldon Harnick, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 23 m
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Fiddler on the Roof revival cast member Alexandra Silber continues the story of the beloved characters from the Broadway classic.
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Fiddler fans will love this
- De Cat en 10-05-18
I think I would have liked it more live onstage
Revisado: 02-04-19
Her premise is interesting, but I never got engaged or stopped feeling that I would have liked it if I saw it onstage but wasn't thrilled with it in this format.
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