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Listen for the Lie
- A Novel
- By: Amy Tintera
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Will Damron
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,774
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13,288
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13,289
After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It’s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can’t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Truth doesn’t matter
- By Ru on 03-08-24
- Listen for the Lie
- A Novel
- By: Amy Tintera
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Will Damron
Extremely Entertaining
Reviewed: 07-07-24
It's not Shakespeare or Emerson, but that's not the point. A clever approach to the storyline, and an overall well-executed book and very well performed. If you're looking for a breezy murder mystery, and you follow the true crime genre, this is right up your alley.
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101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
- By: Brianna Wiest
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,536
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,160
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,142
Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writing. This new compilation of her published work features pieces on why you should pursue purpose over passion, embrace negative thinking, see the wisdom in daily routine, and become aware of the cognitive biases that are creating the way you see your life. Some of these pieces have never been seen; others have been read by millions of people around the world. Regardless, each will leave you thinking: This idea changed my life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finding ways on being a better version of yourself
- By Laura K. Alvarado Fonseca on 08-19-20
- 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
- By: Brianna Wiest
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
Your Typical Self-Empowerment Stuff
Reviewed: 03-24-24
I wish I'd done more background research before I'd downloaded this. I didn't realize this was a self-help book. Some may benefit from this. I'm not the audience.
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The Debutante
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,520
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,275
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,272
Thirty years ago, award-winning journalist Jon Ronson stumbled on the mystery of Carol Howe—a charismatic, wealthy former debutante turned white supremacist spokeswoman turned undercover informant. In 1995, Carol was spying on Oklahoma’s neo-Nazis for the government just when Timothy McVeigh blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but not compelling
- By Gail Jester on 04-15-23
- The Debutante
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
Not his best
Reviewed: 02-28-24
It wasn't that interesting and didn't really lead anywhere. They can't all be winners, I suppose.
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God, Human, Animal, Machine
- Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
- By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 211
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 210
For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence urgently require rethinking.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Confessions of an Evangelical Pastor
- By Jonathan F. on 10-28-21
- God, Human, Animal, Machine
- Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
- By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Punishment
Reviewed: 02-05-24
I'm a big fan of this genre. But, sheesh, this was like sitting through a freshman seminar taught by the most pretentious of student aides.
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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 28,202
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 25,491
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Story5 out of 5 stars 25,425
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! It’s a Masterpiece
- By Billy on 10-25-22
- Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Pretty great, but it could have been half as long
Reviewed: 09-17-23
I'm pretty shocked by all the people clutching their pearls over this book. To my thinking, this book was fairly woke and mild. Extremely well written, great story. My only complaint is that I think it should have been half as long as it is. It seems to me that the author felt the need to belabor concepts over and over again. Personally, I could have done without this.
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Halcyon
- A Novel
- By: Elliot Ackerman
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4 out of 5 stars 8
Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Our narrator, Martin Neumann, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. When news breaks that scientists funded by the Gore administration have discovered a cure for death, it calls into question everything Martin thought he understood about life, not least his work as a historian. Who is Ableson, really, and why did he draw Martin into his orbit? Is this new science a miraculous good or an insidious evil?
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Blueridge!
- By Mark Stein on 06-03-23
- Halcyon
- A Novel
- By: Elliot Ackerman
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
Enjoyable, but heavy handed.
Reviewed: 06-20-23
I made it all the way through and mostly enjoyed the audiobook, but I wish the author had focused more on creating a great novel and less on forcing a lesson on the listener.
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Tier One
- Tier One Thrillers, Book 1
- By: Brian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15,522
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14,159
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14,109
John Dempsey's life - as an elite Tier One Navy SEAL named Jack Kemper - is over. A devastating terrorist action catapults him from a world of moral certainty and decisive orders into the shadowy realm of espionage, where ambiguity is the only rule. His new mission: hunt down those responsible for the greatest tragedy in the history of the US Special Ops and bring them to justice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This One's a Keeper!!!
- By shelley on 09-11-16
- Tier One
- Tier One Thrillers, Book 1
- By: Brian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Like an AI wrote it
Reviewed: 05-01-23
All the cliches with the cliche dial tuned to 11. i just couldn't get over it. (By the way, I'm a big fan of the genre, but I felt like a cheesy AI bot wrote this.)
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The Passenger
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Julia Whelan
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,483
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,312
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,311
It is three in the morning when Bobby Western plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the site are the pilot’s bag, the plane’s black box, and the tenth passenger. A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit—by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It’s a new Cormac McCarthy
- By Amazon Customer on 10-25-22
- The Passenger
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Julia Whelan
Rats. I really wanted this to be his masterwork.
Reviewed: 02-15-23
In this novel he takes on massive themes: metaphysics, existentialism, grief, clinical depression and insanity. The sentences are beautiful, of course, and I respect the ambition he shows by tackling these massive topics. But, alas, the story only kind of works and the characters are hard to pin down. I suspect that the author started with big things he wanted to say with this book and then worked backwards to create the story and characters.
Very quick summary:
The novel is two storylines, one of a girl, the other of her brother. They're both geniuses who struggle with their sanity. Their stories jump around through time and space. The girl eventually kills herself, and her brother floats through life unmoored and alone.
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Kingpin
- How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
- By: Kevin Poulsen
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,854
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,652
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,651
The word spread through the hacking underground like some unstoppable new virus: Someone - some brilliant, audacious crook - had just staged a hostile takeover of an online criminal network that siphoned billions of dollars from the U.S. economy. The FBI rushed to launch an ambitious undercover operation aimed at tracking down this new kingpin. Other agencies around the world deployed dozens of moles and double agents.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This should be a movie
- By Hijenks on 05-19-15
- Kingpin
- How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
- By: Kevin Poulsen
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
Did Their Best With A Kinda Boring Story
Reviewed: 02-12-22
Very well researched and written. But, for me, credit card fraud by itself is not that enthralling.
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Silverview
- A Novel
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Toby Jones
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 828
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 707
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Story4 out of 5 stars 701
Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian’s evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian’s family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Le Carré's SILVERVIEW brings him and us back home
- By Close Listener on 10-14-21
- Silverview
- A Novel
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Toby Jones
Classic le Carre, but more accessible
Reviewed: 12-19-21
All the markings of typical le Carre (mundane, subtle, detailed) but with a more relatable story line and a low enough character-count that the plot is easy to follow.
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