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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Book 5
- De: J.K. Rowling
- Narrado por: Jim Dale
- Duración: 26 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 114,855
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 100,873
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 100,437
Dark times have come to Hogwarts. After the Dementors' attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. There are many who deny the Dark Lord's return, but Harry is not alone: a secret order gathers at Grimmauld Place to fight against the Dark forces. Harry must allow Professor Snape to teach him how to protect himself from Voldemort's savage assaults on his mind. But they are growing stronger by the day and Harry is running out of time...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Jim Dale is the BEST!
- De Leigh en 07-03-19
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Book 5
- De: J.K. Rowling
- Narrado por: Jim Dale
Why the Order?
Revisado: 04-10-20
This is my 3rd read through of this book. Although I don't believe this is the worst in the series, mind you the series as a whole is amazing but this book lies as second or third worse (can't really decide). I mainly don't understand why they decided to title it Order of the Phoenix, the order in the book have minimal impact on the plot of the story. or am I missing something? This book did give me a dislike of someone more than Snape in Dolores Umbridge, which in hindsight of the rest of the series was probably what Rowling was going for given the direction she takes with the character.
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Red Dragon
- De: Thomas Harris
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,441
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,875
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,865
An innocent family are the latest victims of a grisly series of hideous sacrificial killings that no one understands, and no one can stop. Nobody lives to tell of the unimaginable carnage. Only the blood-stained walls bear witness. All hope rests on Special Agent Will Graham, who must peer inside the killer's tortured soul to understand his rage, to anticipate and prevent his next vicious crime. Desperate for help, Graham finds himself locked in a deadly alliance with the brilliant Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the infamous mass murderer.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Best Police Procedural of Our Time
- De Chip Atkinson en 06-21-15
- Red Dragon
- De: Thomas Harris
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
Good read
Revisado: 04-07-20
This is the second book Crime Mystery book I’ve read and much like the first one this one takes some time to get rolling.
Once you get through I’d say about the first quarter of the book it really starts getting interesting, I started reading this book in Mid-March 2020 amid the Corona Virus pandemic. On normal occasions I read durning my lunch breaks and finish the chapter or hour which ever is more at night. This book (once the story took off) compelled me to start reading during breaks between customers at work.
The only negative I have about this particular story isn’t with the book itself but with the audiobook, it took some effort to listen to it with the monotoned voice of the narrator, but that was easily fixed by increasing the speed of the narration.
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The Vampire Lestat
- The Vampire Chronicles, Book 2
- De: Anne Rice
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 21 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,311
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,563
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,555
Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally unabridged! Excellently read, great listen
- De Patricia en 06-29-11
- The Vampire Lestat
- The Vampire Chronicles, Book 2
- De: Anne Rice
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
Book and Performance Review
Revisado: 03-26-20
Book Review
I had decided to read Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned after Reading some comments on the review for the film adaptation, as the film was a favourite of mine growing up(More on this in the review of that book). The jest of which was when compared to the book the film adaptation was comparable to the substance left by the neighbour’s dog on ones lawn. I wanted to give the film the benefit of the doubt as again there was a bias there. I set out to read Queen of the Damned, but felt that if I really wanted to understand the contempt these people felt towards the film I had to start from the beginning. I had listened to the audiobook for Interview and from what I could recall wasn’t exactly critical to book 3 so I started here at The Vampire Lestat.
This was my introduction to what I call “Adult Fiction” as prior to this I had only read “required” readings for school, and only read excerpts from them never actually reading the full book hence the quotations around the word required. If it wasn’t that I had also only previously read the Harry Potter series. Anne Rice doesn’t expressly state that Lestat is in love with Nicky, Gabrielle and the other characters. It is truly up to how the reader wishes to interpret the love Lestat feels for them.
Performance Review
I thoroughly enjoyed the performance of Simon Vance, I have heard a fair amount of audiobooks through Audible and can say Simon Vance is among my favourites. Vance isn’t monotone in his delivery and reads the narrative and speech in different tones, although not as well as say Jim Dale, but regardless it isn’t a chore to listen to Vance. There is also the fact that Simon Vance has consistently read the Vampire Chronicles up to book 5 instead of switching between narrators for each book.
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