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The Academy
- De: Bentley Little
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 12 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 124
The formerly laid-back principal has become unusually strict. And with her toadying secretary, she seems to be running the show. That isn’t all. The janitors no longer work nights because of what they hear. The students are frightened by what they see. And things are happening on school grounds that defy rational explanation. But there is an explanation. It’s just not anything that anyone can begin to believe — or hope to survive.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Why this narrator?
- De Riley en 06-17-20
- The Academy
- De: Bentley Little
- Narrado por: David Stifel
Little delivers but little performance.
Revisado: 06-19-20
If you've read Bentley Little you know what is his work is like. 'The Academy' is no different. Taking the most mundane scenarios and twisting in the most over-the-top evil is what I enjoy about Little's works. Granted, it is easy to get annoyed with character traits and actions, however, it gives the same kind of fun as watching a horror film and yelling at the screen for the people to STOP DOING THAT!
'The Academy' is a fine jaunt into the world of charter schools (and being married to a school principal, I hear about the real corruption of charter schools all the time) and the whole story falls straight into stereotypical Bentley Little.
BUT, the major hindrance to this audio book is the narrator. David Stifel is bad...very very BAD. He sounds like a mentally challenged Canadian learning English as a 3rd language.
His "girl" voices? These are cringe worthy to the point of wondering whether he as EVER heard a woman speak. And considering there are many female characters, it gets AWFULLY aggravating.
Teenagers? Well they sound like 3 year-olds just beginning to sound out words.
Inflection? Even when the author has WRITTEN what the inflection is (i.e. "he said incredulously") it appears Stifle does not know what directional words actually mean.
I can't over-exaggerate how atrocious this narration is. I wish I had just read the paperback. My own mind fills in the audio/visual aspects of Little books so much better. A warning to those seeing the name "David Stifel" as a narrator, avoid the book. Read it on your own.
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Lineage
- A Supernatural Thriller
- De: Joe Hart
- Narrado por: Neil Hellegers
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,001
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 992
Pain, horror, fear - these are the things that have comprised best-selling novelist Lance Metzger's life. His childhood remains a riddled wasteland of abuse by a sadistic father and abandonment by an apathetic mother. In turn his only refuge became his writing. When Lance loses his ability to write and becomes haunted by a nightmare that he'd thought was buried, he is drawn inexplicably to a house on the shores of Lake Superior, where he finds his muse once again - but something is waiting for him when he arrives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- De Lauren en 07-18-16
- Lineage
- A Supernatural Thriller
- De: Joe Hart
- Narrado por: Neil Hellegers
Not original but serviceable.
Revisado: 08-02-18
The story is "m'eh." Not really anything that hasn't been done to death (no pun intended.) However, the thing that drove me insane was this narrator's tendency to have an exact one second pause after the end of a sentence. It got aggravating.[1-one thousand] He would then read the next line. [1-one thousand] Then continue to the next sentence. [1-one thousand] Seriously dude, inflection and variation is much more tolerable then the belief there HAS to be an exact pause after a period.
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Earthcore
- De: Scott Sigler
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 20 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12,647
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11,709
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11,686
EarthCore is the company with the technology, the resources, and the guts to go after the mother lode. Young executive Connell Kirkland is the company's driving force, pushing himself and those around him to uncover the massive treasure. But at three miles below the surface, where the rocks are so hot they burn bare skin, something has been waiting for centuries. Waiting...and guarding. Kirkland and EarthCore are about to find out first-hand why this treasure has never been unearthed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome Book. Well written and very creative!
- De Leslie en 06-25-17
- Earthcore
- De: Scott Sigler
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
Don't ya wanna know...how bad this is?
Revisado: 08-23-17
What would have made Earthcore better?
Decent writing, fewer cliches, pretty much ANYTHING else could have made this better.
What could Scott Sigler have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Find a way to not combine juvenile writing AND pretentiousness. Those two styles do not work well together,
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Ray Porter?
Anyone who can do an accent and not make female voices sound so creepy.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
It ended...eventually.
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