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Solid State
- The Story of Abbey Road and the End of the Beatles
- De: Kenneth Womack, Alan Parsons - foreword
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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In February 1969, the Beatles began working on what became their final album together. Abbey Road introduced a number of new techniques and technologies to the Beatles' sound and included "Come Together", "Something", and "Here Comes the Sun", which all emerged as classics. Womack's colorful retelling of how this landmark album was written and recorded is a treat for fans of the Beatles. Solid State takes listeners back to 1969 and into EMI's Abbey Road Studios, which boasted an advanced solid state transistor mixing desk.
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It's all about the recording studios
- De Tina en 02-18-20
- Solid State
- The Story of Abbey Road and the End of the Beatles
- De: Kenneth Womack, Alan Parsons - foreword
- Narrado por: William Hughes
A lot of editorial comments may not be accurate.
Revisado: 10-10-22
Now that the documentary Get Back has been released, some of the recollections in here seem to be at odds with the documentary evidence. The author has a fairly obvious slant towards certain Beatles and likely sources. For example, Lennon is often pinpointed as problematic. His drug addiction is often blamed for friction that was clearly caused by Paul's overbearing personality. The author also leans heavily into the old Yoko was the problem trope fairly often. One wonders if he only had access to certain folks who had axes to grind. The book is great in parts, but clearly biased in others (no mention of Paul's cocaine use, only Lennon's heroin). And once again, it's pretty clear he or his sources misrepresented the Get Back sessions. I do wonder if the author had flashes of anxiety as he watched Get Back and saw the real reason George Harrison quit the band and realized his retelling was less than accurate.
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Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: Hugh Fraser
- Duración: 5 h y 42 m
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The crime-fighting careers of Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have come full circle—they are back once again in the rambling country house in which they solved their first murder together. Both Hercule Poirot and Great Styles have seen better days—but, despite being crippled with arthritis, there is nothing wrong with the great detective and his “little gray cells.” However, when Poirot brands one of the seemingly harmless guests a five-time murderer, some people have their doubts. But Poirot alone knows he must prevent a sixth murder before the curtain falls.
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A Wonderful Finale.
- De Mari en 11-10-13
- Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: Hugh Fraser
Brilliant!!!
Revisado: 07-12-22
One of the best in the series and a wonderful emotional send off. A must listen. No one does Poirot better than Hugh Fraiser.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd & The Hollow
- Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: Hugh Fraser
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
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Two bestselling Agatha Christie novels in one great audiobook: Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement in one of Agatha Christie’s ten favorite novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Agatha Christie’s classic, The Hollow, finds Poirot entangled in a nasty web of family secrets when he comes across a fresh murder at an English country manor.
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Two great Christie books, excellent narrator
- De TheCook en 01-10-22
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd & The Hollow
- Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: Hugh Fraser
Drags a little bit
Revisado: 02-24-22
Hercule Poirot is not a the main focus in this one and without him, it can drag.
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Ayoade on Top
- De: Richard Ayoade
- Narrado por: Richard Ayoade
- Duración: 4 h y 39 m
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At last, the definitive audiobook about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View from the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow. In Ayoade on Top, Richard Ayoade, perhaps one of the most 'insubstantial' people of our age, takes us on a journey from Peckham to Paris by way of Nevada and other places we don't care about. It's a journey deep within, in a way that's respectful and non-invasive; a journey for which we will all pay a heavy price, even if you've waited for the smaller paperback edition. Ayoade argues for the canonisation of this brutal masterpiece.
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Listened for an hour and a half, didn't laugh once
- De Wesley en 12-13-19
- Ayoade on Top
- De: Richard Ayoade
- Narrado por: Richard Ayoade
Worth Every Penny!
Revisado: 08-05-21
Hilarious! Smart, funny, sarcastic, with shades of PG Wodehouse like metaphor and simile. Ayoade also has a thorough knowledge of film history and terminology and uses it.
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Stan and Ollie
- The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy
- De: Simon Louvish
- Narrado por: Shaun Grindell
- Duración: 17 h y 43 m
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In this audiobook, Simon Louvish traces the early lives of Stanley Jefferson and Norvell Hardy and the surrounding minstrel and variety theater, which influenced all of their later work. Louvish examines the rarely seen solo films of both our heroes, prior to their serendipitous pairing in 1927, in the long-lost short Duck Soup. The inspired casting teamed them until their last days. Both often married, they found balancing their personal and professional lives a nearly impossible feat.
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Quite good, incredibly detailed and thorough.
- De Paul en 05-16-21
- Stan and Ollie
- The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy
- De: Simon Louvish
- Narrado por: Shaun Grindell
Quite good, incredibly detailed and thorough.
Revisado: 05-16-21
The perfect kind of book for old movie obsessives. History lessons galore, not just on the families, life, work and times of Stan and Ollie, but an incredible lesson regarding the birth of the movie industry.
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Look to the Lady
- An Albert Campion Mystery
- De: Margery Allingham
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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The Gyrth family had guarded the Chalice for hundreds of years. It was held by them for the Crown. Its antiquity, its beauty, the extraordinary legends that were connected with it, all combined to make it unique of its kind. It was irreplaceable. No thief could hope to dispose of it in the ordinary way. And indeed no ordinary thief would dream of trying. But there are others besides those who make their living by robbery, others whose immense wealth and passion for collecting render them less immune to the practical considerations that must guide even the less honestly minded citizens.
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Love the start to this one, like the reader
- De Meep en 11-16-13
- Look to the Lady
- An Albert Campion Mystery
- De: Margery Allingham
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
More adventure than mystery
Revisado: 11-28-20
Not quite as good as some of the more "who done it" murder mystery focused Campion books. But still a fun adventure caper/mystery.
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Toast on Toast
- Cautionary tales and candid advice
- De: Steven Toast
- Narrado por: Matt Berry - as Steven Toast
- Duración: 3 h y 50 m
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In Toast on Toast - part memoir, part "how to act" manual - Steven Toast draws on his vast and varied experiences, providing the reader with an invaluable insight into his journey from school plays to RADA and from "It's a Right Royal Knockout" to the Colony Club. Along the way he reveals the secrets of his success. He discloses how to brush up on and expand your technical and vocal skills, how to nail a professional voiceover, and how to deal with difficult work experience staff in a recording studio....
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Glorious performance from Matt Ber-Ray.
- De Stanley McHale en 11-18-16
- Toast on Toast
- Cautionary tales and candid advice
- De: Steven Toast
- Narrado por: Matt Berry - as Steven Toast
Excellent companion to the TV show
Revisado: 10-12-20
Hilarious performance, great inappropriate comedy, everything you'd want after seeing the TV show three times through.
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Ukridge
- De: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrado por: Jonathan Cecil
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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If Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge had a fiver for every dodgy scheme he had ever floated, he would be a very rich man indeed. In these ten stories he tries every way of making money, from writing political slogans to opening a college for dogs. In his own eyes, Ukridge is a Great Man and a visionary. In ours, he is English literature's most delightful chancer and one of Wodehouse's greatest comic creations: charming, ambitious, persuasive, optimistic and almost always disastrous.
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If You Like Jeeves & Wooster...
- De Troy en 12-19-16
- Ukridge
- De: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrado por: Jonathan Cecil
Pure Genius. Hilarious!
Revisado: 08-17-20
Ukridge is a deepcut. This definitely not a book that made him famous but it's one that Wodehouse fans love.
This is easily the funniest non-Jeeves or Blandings collection. In my humble opinion it is his best collection of short stories. It is a non-stop laugher that chronicles one of the best cads Wodehouse ever created. The hijinks veer on the seedy without actually upending his usual style of screwball comedy.
This is definitely Wodehouse in fine form. A must read. And of course, Jonathan Cecil is as great as ever.
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Murder by Milk Bottle
- De: Lynne Truss
- Narrado por: Matt Green
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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The August bank holiday is approaching, and after two extremely high-profile murder cases, Constable Twitten is eagerly anticipating a quiet spell at work. But then they find the bodies - and the milk bottles. Three seemingly unconnected victims - a hard-working AA patrolman, a would-be beauty queen, a catty BBC radio personality - have all been killed with the same highly unusual murder weapon.
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A very fun murder mystery
- De Paul en 08-10-20
- Murder by Milk Bottle
- De: Lynne Truss
- Narrado por: Matt Green
A very fun murder mystery
Revisado: 08-10-20
A mix of light and dark humor. Goofy fun characters and plot that will appeal to the mystery reader looking for a laugh.
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The Case of the Gilded Fly
- De: Edmund Crispin
- Narrado por: Phillip Bird
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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Yseut Haskell, a pretty but spiteful young actress with a talent for destroying men's lives, is found dead in a college room just metres from unconventional Oxford don Gervase Fen's office. The victim is found wearing an unusual ring, a reproduction of a piece in the British Museum featuring a gold gilded fly but does this shed any light on her murder? As they delve deeper into Yseut's unhappy life the police soon realise that anyone who knew her would have shot her, but can Fen discover who could have shot her?
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Sad disappointment
- De Marina en 01-06-13
- The Case of the Gilded Fly
- De: Edmund Crispin
- Narrado por: Phillip Bird
Appeals to early 20th Century Intellectuals, maybe
Revisado: 08-05-20
The mystery was par for the course. The characters were not the most likeable, especially the "detective". Very heavy on satire that at times is humorous, but most of the humor lies in getting the now obscure literary references. Certainly has a dated intellectual feel.
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