Cindy Bellefeuille
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The Miranda Obsession
- Written by: Jen Silverman
- Narrated by: Rachel Brosnahan, Josh Groban, John Benjamin Hickey, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
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Imagine a 1980s world of sumptuous hotel rooms, restaurants, New York City penthouses, and the powerful men who move easily between these pinnacles of luxury. They are music producers, rock stars, writers, and restaurateurs. They are household names like Billy Joel, Art Garfunkel, Eric Clapton, and Sting. And yet, each man has an entire aspect to his life that he doesn’t talk about publicly—his depression, his rocky marriage, his feelings of shame and failure, his private loss of faith. And now: The phone rings. Imagine the woman who has each of these men at her beck and call.
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Short and sweet!
- By DLP on 2022-05-10
- The Miranda Obsession
- Written by: Jen Silverman
- Narrated by: Rachel Brosnahan, Josh Groban, John Benjamin Hickey, Morgan Spector, Harry Lloyd, Milo Ventimiglia, full cast
Interesting, Offbeat, Sad in a way
Reviewed: 2022-06-27
To have such success and still be so lonely on one end and to need such extreme validation on the other is a real commentary on our own lives and times, don't you think? Because, I think it's very easy to identify just a little bit with one or more of the characters in this story. Good read, this one.
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The Ruin
- Written by: Dervla McTiernan
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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When Aisling Conroy's boyfriend Jack is found in the freezing black waters of the river Corrib, the police tell her it was suicide. A surgical resident, she throws herself into study and work, trying to forget - until Jack's sister Maude shows up. Maude suspects foul play, and she is determined to prove it. Cormac Reilly is the detective assigned with the re-investigation of a seemingly accidental overdose 20 years ago - the overdose of Jack and Maude's drug-and-alcohol-addled mother. Reilly is under increasing pressure to charge Maude for murder when his colleague Danny uncovers new evidence....
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I enjoyed this book
- By PAMELA S STEVENS on 2019-03-07
- The Ruin
- Written by: Dervla McTiernan
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
Great mystery! Recommend you read this!
Reviewed: 2022-02-02
This genre is totally out of my wheelhouse, but I was looking for something completely different. Boy, I really enjoyed this novel! Couldn't put it down or wait to find out what was going to happen next. I got so involved with the characters that I was actually frustrated, angry and terrified for them. You really have to check this one out. Bravo, Author and Narrator!
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The story doesn't do much to recommend the Irish police or child services systems of 20 years ago, nor the guard investigations of today. But, there are, luckily, a few gems in there to do justice. The author weaves such a super story with lots of twists and ties everything up (heh heh) so you're not wondering about plot holes, but you will wonder who's good and who's bad. Just read it, you'll see!
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Oak Avenue
- Dark Corners collection
- Written by: Brandi Reeds
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
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While renovating her Victorian home, Ana Clementine finds an ornate door buried under forty years of earth. Once she restores it to the attic, she starts hearing whispers, her loving husband has become a stranger, and her baby daughter learns a chilling new word. Maybe Ana has unlocked the house’s secrets. Or maybe she’s becoming just a little unhinged herself.
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Disappointing
- By Amazon Customer on 2022-06-03
- Oak Avenue
- Dark Corners collection
- Written by: Brandi Reeds
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
Here's a haunted house for you!
Reviewed: 2022-01-06
Great writing! Very suspenseful, narration is on point and the story hooks yolks you like a fish caught on a line! A very worthwhile read.
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The Silence
- Written by: Tim Lebbon
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin, Ralph Lister
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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In the darkness of a vast cave system, cut off from the world for millennia, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed. Swarming from their prison, they multiply and thrive. To scream, even to whisper, is to summon death. Deaf for many years, Ally knows how to live in silence. Now, it is her family's only chance of survival. They must leave their home, shun others, and find a remote haven where they can sit out the plague. But will it ever end? And what kind of world will be left?
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Scary Adventure
- By James S. on 2023-11-03
- The Silence
- Written by: Tim Lebbon
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin, Ralph Lister
Road trip time for the family!
Reviewed: 2022-01-06
Pretty good read, rather gut-renching in some spots and invoking fury in others for the small family as you follow them through their harrowing journey of survival. Mr. Lebbon certainly has a way of drawing you into his stories! I must add, the narrators made this all possible. They acted each character with liveliness and excitement.
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Medieval Myths & Mysteries
- Written by: Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Dorsey Armstrong
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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The 10 enlightening (and often humorous) lectures of Medieval Myths and Mysteries will show you how far from the “dark” times of legend these centuries were. Uncover the facts about the Knights Templar. Reveal the truth behind the tales of legendary creatures like the Questing Beast and the unicorn. Trace the events of the Black Death and the ways it altered the world in its wake, and much more. With Professor Armstrong, you will dig deep into the ways that later generations reshaped the narrative of the medieval years and perpetuated the myths.
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Amazing
- By Jen on 2021-08-02
- Medieval Myths & Mysteries
- Written by: Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Dorsey Armstrong
To the Victor go the spoils, they say...
Reviewed: 2021-09-18
and the victorious write the history. I find it interesting how people, places and actions can be added or taken away to or from an historical incident and still, we, who weren't there take it as fact. When we view the incident hundreds of years later, whose word do we take as absolute? Or is it a matter of perspective?
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Zombie Dust
- An Extreme Horror Novel
- Written by: Jubilee Savage
- Narrated by: Michael Goldsmith
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
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The cop swallowed hard to keep his last meal from making a surprise reappearance. In his years on the force, he had seen plenty of things, but never anything like this. That gaping maw of spoiled flesh tested the limits of his sanity, and he couldn't tear his eyes away from it. The woman's cold, black heart was clearly visible through the opening in her chest cavity. It wasn't beating. Her lungs were both collapsed. She wasn't breathing. Yet she wouldn't release her grip on his ankle.
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Sorry, pass for me.
- By Cindy Bellefeuille on 2021-08-25
- Zombie Dust
- An Extreme Horror Novel
- Written by: Jubilee Savage
- Narrated by: Michael Goldsmith
Sorry, pass for me.
Reviewed: 2021-08-25
The narrator was so detrimental to the stories that I couldn't concentrate on them at all. Sorry, but his voice was very hard to listen to and even understand at times. I struggled to finish this one and in the end wondered if it was really worth my time and effort. Decidedly not.
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Hail to the Chin
- Further Confessions of a B Movie Actor
- Written by: Bruce Campbell, Craig Sanborn
- Narrated by: Bruce Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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One of my dad’s favorite jokes about getting older was: “I went out for coffee when I was twenty-one and when I got back I was fifty-eight!” I get what he meant now. Time flies. My first book, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a "B" Movie Actor, was published back in 2001 and it chronicles the adventures of a “mid-grade, kind of hammy actor" (my words), cutting his teeth on exploitation movies far removed from mainstream Hollywood. This next book, an “Act II” if you will, could be considered my “maturing years” in show business, when I began to say “no” more often and gravitated toward self-generated material. Taking stock in the overall quality of my life, I fled Los Angeles and moved to a remote part of Oregon to renew, regroup and reload. If that sounds tame, the journey from Evil Dead to Spider-Man to Burn Notice was long, with plenty of adventures/mishaps along the way. I never pictured myself hovering above Baghdad in a Blackhawk helicopter, facing a pack of wild dogs in Bulgaria, or playing an aging Elvis Presley with cancer on his penis - how can you predict this stuff? The sheer lunacy of show business is part of the fun for me and I hope you'll come along for the ride.
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another great book
- By Farquhar on 2022-05-24
- Hail to the Chin
- Further Confessions of a B Movie Actor
- Written by: Bruce Campbell, Craig Sanborn
- Narrated by: Bruce Campbell
Ah, Bruce Campbell, you know, that B-list actor?
Reviewed: 2020-11-29
Pretty good 3rd book, Bruce; very insightful. You truly are a "Jack of All Trades"! As a narrator, you're entertaining, but you talk too fast.
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Congo
- Written by: Michael Crichton
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists are mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies - all motionless except for one moving image - a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.
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Boring
- By Joan on 2018-02-27
- Congo
- Written by: Michael Crichton
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Congo by Michael Crichton - Review
Reviewed: 2020-10-02
Struggled to finish due to narration and type of writing. Was kind of stilted and boring in spots and exciting in others - very uneven. I did fall in love with Amy who probably had better insight and intuition than any of the humans. Because of the civil and political unrest at the time, no one should've been traveling to the Congo for any reason whatsoever. Silly, greedy people.
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Witch: A Tale of Terror
- Written by: Charles MacKay, Sam Harris - introduction
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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For centuries in Europe, innocent men and women were murdered for the imaginary crime of witchcraft. This was a mass delusion and moral panic, driven by pious superstition and a deadly commitment to religious conformity. In Witch: A Tale of Terror, best-selling author Sam Harris introduces and reads from Charles Mackay's beloved book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
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Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live
- By Chris M. Ullmann on 2017-11-30
- Witch: A Tale of Terror
- Written by: Charles MacKay, Sam Harris - introduction
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
Informative, non-fiction of witch hunts and trials
Reviewed: 2020-01-22
A rather dry, but interesting retelling of infamous witch trials that swept Europe then America in the 17th Century. The book cover is a bit misleading; this is a non-fiction novel. So beware..
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- Written by: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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From the Sunday Times top ten best-selling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. "It's about the terror, isn't it?" "The terror of what?" I said. "The terror of being found out." For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world, meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made jokes on social media that came out badly or made mistakes at work.
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This is a Must Listen
- By Vera on 2018-04-28
- So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- Written by: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
We are all social animals after all...
Reviewed: 2019-12-14
When I began listening to this book, I thought I was getting into a humourous novel. Oh, no, no, no. I soon realized it was a commentary on the social condition as it pertains to social media. Some people feel they can comment on anything. However they type with no regard, respect, thought or grace given to the anonymous comment they are composing. But, you know, sometimes it doesn't matter WHAT you write; someone will take offense - and it just may ruin your life as a result. Mr. Ronson has written an intriguing book that I couldn't put down. This is a very worthwhile read!
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