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David Copperfield
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Will Watt
- Length: 34 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 2
Originally published in serial installments stretching from May 1849 through November 1850, the tale follows the titular David Copperfield throughout the course of his life in Victorian England. In parts a coming-of-age story, satire, and autobiographical novel, Dickens called David Copperfield ""a very complicated weaving of truth and invention""—as well as named it his favorite of his own works.
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5 out of 5 stars
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35 Hours?! Sure! It’s Will Watt!!
- By Christopher Enzi on 09-29-24
- David Copperfield
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Will Watt
35 Hours?! Sure! It’s Will Watt!!
Reviewed: 09-29-24
I thought I knew this story from various movies but I was wrong. Will Watt makes each detail of Dickens’ Victorian Everyman tale a breathless delight and clearly delights in highlighting each of the authour’s characters with humor, pathos, suspense, and tears. I can’t think when I’ve enjoyed a classic any more. Delightful!
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Caledonian Road
- A Novel
- By: Andrew O'Hagan
- Narrated by: Michael Abubakar
- Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public—yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much. He’s never taken other people half as seriously as they take themselves, which is the first of his mistakes. The second is a new project: opportunistic and precisely calibrated to rake in a fortune.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best audiobook I have ever listened to
- By Samuel Barker on 07-31-24
- Caledonian Road
- A Novel
- By: Andrew O'Hagan
- Narrated by: Michael Abubakar
Exciting BIG Current Novel
Reviewed: 07-08-24
Andrew O’Hagan writes of our times here like someone who has never believed the blather about novels being a dead form. His attention to detail has a classic eye for detail, like Theodore Dreiser or Flaubert. Yet he never forgets that this is an entertainment: his phrasing and word choices are delightful and illuminating. By turns funny and shocking, he builds the magnificent sandcastles that are his characters lives without stinting on detail just because we all know that the tide will come to wash them all away.
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