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The Great Gatsby (Original 1925 Edition)
- An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Jason McCoy
- Duración: 4 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 5
The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a poignant tale of love, ambition, and the elusive American Dream, set against the opulent backdrop of the Roaring Twenties. Narrated by Nick Carraway, the story unfolds on Long Island's glittering North Shore, where he becomes entangled in the life of his enigmatic neighbor, Jay Gatsby.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Past Era Brought Vividly To Life
- De Bruce en 03-25-25
- The Great Gatsby (Original 1925 Edition)
- An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Jason McCoy
A Past Era Brought Vividly To Life
Revisado: 03-25-25
A minor criticism: The narrator doesn't distinguish voices between speakers so it can take a moment to figure out who is speaking.
Often the books tought in schools can seem overrated, but not this one. It's as close as Huck Finn or Moby Dick to being the Great American Novel, and like them a snapshot of a past that seems both foreign and familiar.
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I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
- A Novel
- De: Jason Pargin
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 12 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,059
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 988
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 988
Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC. But there are rules: He cannot look inside the box. He cannot ask questions. He cannot tell anyone. They must leave immediately. He must leave all trackable devices behind. As these eccentric misfits hit the road, rumors spread on social media that the box is part of a carefully orchestrated terror attack intended to plunge the USA into civil war.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good writing, interesting take, disappointed with ending for me at least
- De wolfman en 09-25-24
- I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
- A Novel
- De: Jason Pargin
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
Road Tripping in the Age of Social Media
Revisado: 03-01-25
A modern day road trip to self discovery with dysfunctional social media conspiracy theories and a surprise ending.
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A Small Town in Germany
- De: John Le Carré
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7
In the late 1960s, in the town of Bonn, capital of West Germany, a British Embassy officer by the name of Leo Harting goes missing—and forty-three confidential-or-higher files with him. Dispatched from the British Foreign Office to investigate, Alan Turner arrives in Bonn to find riots, protests, and a tenuous balance of power. As if there isn’t enough pressure, the embassy’s head of Chancery, Rawley Bradfield, makes it clear he has no intentions of making Turner’s investigation an easy one.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator not good
- De GA en 04-27-25
- A Small Town in Germany
- De: John Le Carré
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
A Change Of Pace For le Carrè
Revisado: 01-27-25
Good story that's not quite a spy story and not quite a thriller. Le Carrè wrote it at a dark time in his life and his cynicism shows more than usual. Not his best novel, but certainly in the top half.
I didn't find the narrator as objectionable as did some other reviewers. The voices were distinct enough, and the accents changed sufficiently to indicate social class.
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The Fourth Protocol
- De: Frederick Forsyth
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 13 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 719
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 604
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 602
Plan Aurora, hatched in a remote dacha in the forest outside Moscow and initiated with relentless brilliance and skill, is a plan within a plan that, in its spine-chilling ingenuity, breaches the ultra-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a jigsaw of devastation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As usual, Forsyth is Fantastic
- De Thomas Burch en 02-27-11
- The Fourth Protocol
- De: Frederick Forsyth
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
More Complicated Than You Think
Revisado: 11-25-24
If you start out thinking it's a well-written, but predictable, thriller you're partly right. But it's the details and machinations behind the scenes, some of which are revealed only at the very end, that elevate The Fourth Protocol to the top tier of Cold War thrillers.
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The MAGA Diaries
- My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (and How I Got Out)
- De: Tina Nguyen
- Narrado por: Tina Nguyen
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
In The MAGA Diaries, she tells not only her story of loving and leaving the conservative movement but the history of the right wing, painting a shocking picture of how they recruit, train, and indoctrinate generations of young people and shape them into the influential leaders and the supporting cast of tomorrow’s Republican party. They are ruthless in building robust networks of power, even if it means demolishing entire civic institutions, from women’s rights to fair elections—and staging a coup when it doesn’t work out.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Engaging Story from A Brave Young Journalist
- De SM en 01-25-24
- The MAGA Diaries
- My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (and How I Got Out)
- De: Tina Nguyen
- Narrado por: Tina Nguyen
Excellent Insight Into The Personalities And Ecosystem Of The Right
Revisado: 01-19-24
From dating Chuck Johnson in prep school and college, to her white supremacist mentor John Elliott at IHS, to working for and wanting to be Tucker Carlson, Tina Nguyen writes about her journey through the right, her escape from the right-wing media ghetto and her career chronicling the American right with a depth of insight gained from knowing the people and institutions involved.
Another plus is she narrates her own story rather than relying on a professional reader. 5 stars.
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The Long Goodbye
- A Philip Marlowe Novel, Book 6
- De: Raymond Chandler
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 365
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 318
In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam, and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Extremely over acted.
- De Kindle Customer en 09-03-22
- The Long Goodbye
- A Philip Marlowe Novel, Book 6
- De: Raymond Chandler
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
Great Story Competently Narrated
Revisado: 12-29-23
I enjoyed the story and narration. My only complaint is the musical bumpers between the chapters that interrupt to flow.
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Bomber
- De: Len Deighton, Malcolm Gladwell (Introduction)
- Narrado por: Richard Burnip, Malcolm Gladwell (Introduction), Len Deighton (Author's Note)
- Duración: 21 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Skilled Royal Air Force bomber pilot Sam Lambert is exhausted, and his veteran crewmen have just been replaced by an inexperienced new team. Victor von Löwenherz, a German night fighter pilot who intercepts RAF bombers in his Junkers Ju 88, looks on with horror at the Nazi regime. And Hansl, a German boy in the small market town of Altgarten, sleeps at home. Lambert and his crew prepare for a bombing raid on the Ruhr area. It’s a night that many will never forget. Bomber is a masterful, gripping minute-by-minute account of what occurs over the next twenty-four hours.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great writing, awful narrartion
- De JW en 09-11-23
Amazing Story and Narration
Revisado: 12-10-23
An amazing story about a WWII bombing raid, on a small German town, told from a multitude of perspectives. Deighton at his best.
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The Ipcress File
- De: Len Deighton
- Narrado por: James Lailey
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secret British intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton’s iconic unnamed protagonist—later christened Harry Palmer—to find out why. His search begins in a grimy Soho club and brings him to the other side of the world. When he ends up amongst the Soviets in Beirut, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Why is this such a popular book?
- De MLC en 05-18-24
- The Ipcress File
- De: Len Deighton
- Narrado por: James Lailey
Len Deighton's First Spy Thriller
Revisado: 08-24-23
Well written and narrated spy thriller set over half a century ago. I couldn't put it down and listened all the way through from beginning to author's note.
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The Odessa File
- De: Frederick Forsyth
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,323
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 957
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 951
Frederick Forsyth's spellbinding novels are the natural outgrowth of an adventuresome career in international investigative journalism. Written in Austria and Germany during the fall of 1971, The Odessa File is based on its author's life experiences as a Reuters man reporting from London, Paris, and East Berlin in the early 1960s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic SS Thriller of (fictionalized) History
- De Scott en 08-09-10
- The Odessa File
- De: Frederick Forsyth
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
Great Story That Holds Up Well Decades Later
Revisado: 05-23-23
Enjoyable tale seamlessly merging fact and fiction. Both the story and narration are excellent.
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The Great Train Robbery
- De: Michael Crichton
- Narrado por: Michael Kitchen
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,673
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,053
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,033
In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive?
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unusual but rewarding listen
- De Matthew en 11-21-15
- The Great Train Robbery
- De: Michael Crichton
- Narrado por: Michael Kitchen
Enjoyable Tale of Victorian Crime
Revisado: 05-19-23
Loved the story, especially the Victorian criminal slang. Story and performance are both excellent.
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