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The Fraud
- A Novel
- By: Zadie Smith
- Narrated by: Zadie Smith
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 432
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 390
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 389
It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper—and cousin by marriage—of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very disappointing
- By Happy purchaser on 09-10-23
- The Fraud
- A Novel
- By: Zadie Smith
- Narrated by: Zadie Smith
disappointing
Reviewed: 10-12-23
I loved White Teeth, but this story was totally uninvolving - up to the point where I gave up, at any rate. But I did give up early on as the narration was so poor. It came alive when she was doing cockney accents, but in the standard narration she keeps inserting pauses in the middle of sentences which are totally unwarranted.
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The Rehearsal
- A Novel
- By: Eleanor Catton
- Narrated by: Nicole Arumugum
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 22
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 22
A teacher's affair with his underage student jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own power. Their nascent desires surprise even themselves as they find the practice room where they rehearse with their saxophone teacher is the safe place where they can test out their abilities to attract and manipulate. It seems their every act is a performance, every platform a stage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant.
- By bluespapa on 06-17-18
- The Rehearsal
- A Novel
- By: Eleanor Catton
- Narrated by: Nicole Arumugum
too clever by far
Reviewed: 04-12-23
The English accent of the narrator led me to believe that it was set in England - but in fact it's set in the author's native New Zealand (why would they do this!). The dialogue is too clever by far - its artificiality distances one from the characters. A huge disappointment after the same author's brilliant Luminaries and Birnham Wood.
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Exciting Times
- A Novel
- By: Naoise Dolan
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 224
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 191
An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer. Ava, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children. Julian is a banker. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than "I like you a great deal".
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3 out of 5 stars
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It was ok...
- By zobo on 06-25-20
- Exciting Times
- A Novel
- By: Naoise Dolan
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
Colonially oppressed Olympics?
Reviewed: 11-17-20
Acerbic anti-heroine who mirrors youthful insecurities in an intellectual but amusing way. The narrator is great with the variety of accents required.
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The Searcher
- A Novel
- By: Tana French
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,858
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,574
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,541
Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After 25 years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WONDERFULLY DREARY IRISH ATMOSPHERE & STORY
- By McSusie on 10-06-20
- The Searcher
- A Novel
- By: Tana French
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
great story and narrator
Reviewed: 10-14-20
Rare to get a narrator who can do both US and Irish accents well. A bonus to the excellent story.
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