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Pirate Hunters
- Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
- De: Robert Kurson
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,519
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,130
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,121
Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men—John Chatterton and John Mattera—are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister. At large during the Golden Age of Piracy in the seventeenth century, Bannister should have been immortalized in the lore of the sea—his exploits more notorious than Blackbeard’s, more daring than Kidd’s. But his story, and his ship, have been lost to time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pure Gold
- De Mel en 06-24-15
- Pirate Hunters
- Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
- De: Robert Kurson
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
In need of a good editor!
Revisado: 03-24-16
Struggled to finish. Would have been an excellent short story in a magazine such as the New Yorker.
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This Doesn't Happen in the Movies
- Reed Ferguson Mystery, Book 1
- De: Renee Pawlish
- Narrado por: Johnny Peppers
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 159
Reed Ferguson's first case is a daring adventure, complete with a dose of film noir, and a lot of humor. With a great supporting cast of the Goofball Brothers, Reed's not too bright neighbors, and Cal, Reed's computer geek friend, This Doesn't Happen in the Movies is detective noir at its best. Follow Reed as he solves crime akin to his cinematic hero, Humphrey Bogart.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining book
- De Heather en 07-28-14
- This Doesn't Happen in the Movies
- Reed Ferguson Mystery, Book 1
- De: Renee Pawlish
- Narrado por: Johnny Peppers
Unskilled Reader or Needs Better Direction.
Revisado: 03-07-16
The reader seems not to have read the book prior to making the recording. His voice doesn't reflect the descriptive text.
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The Glass Key
- De: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 566
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 506
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 511
Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett’s tour de force of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness. A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Hammett invented the noir crime novel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pacing Quick & Plot was Goldilocks
- De Darwin8u en 05-16-12
- The Glass Key
- De: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
WORST EVER!!
Revisado: 06-23-12
What disappointed you about The Glass Key?
This is possibly the worst book I have ever read! I was shocked at how poor the writing is. I have read at least 4 Dashiell Hammett books and most were quite good, but this one should never have gotten past his editor, or I'm tempted to say that he couldn't possibly have had one.
I quit at the end of the third CD(out of five) without really knowing just what the plot is, and who the characters are, and what their positions are. Many of Hammett's descriptors are inappropriate, teenage level.
I don't understand how this book got such high review ratings.
Would you ever listen to anything by Dashiell Hammett again?
I'm not sure I would try another Hammett without listening to a good representative part of it.
What didn???t you like about Stephen R. Thorne???s performance?
The reader isn't bad, but not particularly good, either.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Glass Key?
What scenes would I have cut? Just about all of them.
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Treason's Harbour
- Aubrey/Maturin Series, Book 9
- De: Patrick O'Brian
- Narrado por: Patrick Tull
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,817
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,491
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,474
The espionage activities of cunning ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin have kept him at odds with the most important French agent in the Mediterranean, Lesueur, a man with a long memory and a taste for revenge. When that revenge takes the shape of the delicate and distracting Mrs. Fielding, who also attracts the ever-wandering eye of Jack Aubrey, Stephen's sensibilities are severely tested.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The restoration of the average
- De Darwin8u en 04-24-17
- Treason's Harbour
- Aubrey/Maturin Series, Book 9
- De: Patrick O'Brian
- Narrado por: Patrick Tull
Reader is Disappointing
Revisado: 03-24-11
This reader, Patrick Tull, is so concerned with 'authentic' accents that the listener is denied access to O'Brien's delicious syntax. For example, the is nothing in O'Brien's description of Maturin's Catalan-Irish ancestry to indicate that he speaks with a strong Irish brogue. Quite the contrary, Aubrey, in the first book, is not aware that Maturin is Catholic: an Irish brogue would have made Protestantism doubtful.
The reader Simon Vance, on the other hand, read's O'Brien as written, with excellent cadence and rhythm befitting the characters' personality and heritage as suggested in the wonderful text.
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The Siege of Mecca
- The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine & the Birth of Al-Qaeda
- De: Yaroslav Trofimov
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 299
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 210
On November 20, 1979, worldwide attention was focused on Tehran, where the Iranian hostage crisis was entering its third week. The same morning, the first of a new Muslim century, hundreds of gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islam's holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Armed with rifles that they had smuggled inside coffins, these men came from more than a dozen countries, launching the first operation of global jihad in modern times.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"The Siege" - A Review
- De Mitch Emswiller en 05-31-08
- The Siege of Mecca
- The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine & the Birth of Al-Qaeda
- De: Yaroslav Trofimov
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
Just Excellent
Revisado: 11-06-09
Complete and balanced. An essential read (Step NO. One in a process) for anyone really wanting to understand the relationship between the Saudi Arabia's leadership and U.S.A., between Al Qida and other Sunni Arabs; where America (and Russia) went wrong.
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