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Magic Season
- A Son's Story
- By: Wade Rouse
- Narrated by: Wade Rouse
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story5 out of 5 stars 29
Before his success in public relations, his loving marriage and his storied writing career, Wade Rouse was simply Ted Rouse's son. A queer kid in a conservative Ozarks community, Wade struggled at a young age to garner his father's approval and find his voice. For his part, Ted was a hard-lined engineer, offering little emotional support or encouragement. But Wade and Ted had one thing in common: an undying love of the St. Louis Cardinals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best!!!
- By Toni L on 01-20-23
- Magic Season
- A Son's Story
- By: Wade Rouse
- Narrated by: Wade Rouse
Honesty
Reviewed: 11-26-23
Wade is my cousin and I was there for the Todd tragedy. I visited his grandparents and the house on the creek. Ted and Jeri took me to see West Side Story. I last saw Jeri when she told me about her Lupus.they were great people.
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Ten Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You (But Can't, Because He Needs the Job)
- By: Oliver Thomas
- Narrated by: Oliver Thomas
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 211
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Story4 out of 5 stars 170
"How did it all begin?" "What happens when we die?" These are just two of the questions Reverend Oliver "Buzz" Thomas hears centrist Christians asking as he travels across the United States, and he knows that their voices are not being heard. They're people of faith, not of politics, and they want more from their religion than a voter's guide.
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1 out of 5 stars
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hugghess
- By Linda Goodwin on 04-22-07
1000 things your pastor preaches from Bible
Reviewed: 06-27-21
Ask your pastor and listen to what he says. Call for an appointment and ask him to look at the book or audio and find out. The author could have written about Jesus he wants you to know.
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Christian Child, Atheist Adult
- From Devotion to Denial in 46 Years Flat
- By: Gregory Blount
- Narrated by: Gregory Blount
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
Christian Child, Atheist Adult is the autobiographical narrative of a Southern Baptist deacon's son who discovered just how misled he had been during his formative years; ultimately making a transformation into one of Christianity's most staunch critics. Gregory Blount provides accounts of the social and familial tactics often used by many faith-based religions to indoctrinate and entrap members. The book also provides a broad consideration of the scientific, historical, and philosophical answers that led the author to develop his perspective.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Still a Child
- By Kenneth on 08-08-18
- Christian Child, Atheist Adult
- From Devotion to Denial in 46 Years Flat
- By: Gregory Blount
- Narrated by: Gregory Blount
Still a Child
Reviewed: 08-08-18
Blount writes cynically and with anger. He is not convincing that he believes what he writes. He covers so many subjects as an authoritative scholar but has no notes or references. The narration is monotone and the same speed with no expression. He spent a lot of time writing this narrative but it jumps from his personal experience to physics, Zen and culture. He mispronounces the names of biblical persons and it is unclear how he concluded that there is a world editor that is reluctant to take Hebrews out of the Bible. He appears to be angry at his parents, his sister and Baylor University and that he wasn't there when they started allowing campus dances.If he had read Karen Armstrong he could have at least found 1000 references to support his reluctance to believe in anything. His parents and sister were human give them a break and he can move to Afghanistan or someplace if he is disillusioned with western civilization and the United States.
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Tears to Triumph
- The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment
- By: Marianne Williamson
- Narrated by: Marianne Williamson
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,251
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,063
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,060
Marianne Williamson is a best-selling author, a world-renowned teacher, and one of the most important spiritual voices of our time. In Tears to Triumph, she argues that we - as a culture and as individuals - have learned to avoid facing pain. By doing so we are neglecting the spiritual work of healing. Instead of allowing ourselves to embrace our hurt, we numb it, medicate it, dismiss it, or otherwise divert our attention so that we never have to face it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful. An absolute MUST read.
- By freedom1 on 06-29-16
- Tears to Triumph
- The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment
- By: Marianne Williamson
- Narrated by: Marianne Williamson
Sounds like a Reinvention of Ghosts
Reviewed: 11-10-17
This is a nothing book about nothing but ooh ah touchy this feely that bing bang bong.
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A Return to Love Workshop
- The Basics of A Course in Miracles
- By: Marianne Williamson
- Narrated by: Marianne Williamson
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,269
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,076
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,062
On July 1-3, 2011, Marianne Williamson taught a workshop on A Course in Miracles in Los Angeles, California. The topic of the weekend was how miracles - shifts in thinking from fear to love - make all the difference in how we live and how we feel. Learning to think differently - to stand psychologically and emotionally on a different ground of being - is the spiritual journey from anxiety to inner peace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- By Camille on 09-21-13
- A Return to Love Workshop
- The Basics of A Course in Miracles
- By: Marianne Williamson
- Narrated by: Marianne Williamson
A very strange Nothing
Reviewed: 11-10-17
Save your money and time and read Dr. Seuss. The author is not an author.
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The End of White World Supremacy
- Four Speeches
- By: Malcom X
- Narrated by: George Washington III
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 959
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 843
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 831
Here in his own words are the revolutionary ideas that made Malcolm X one of the most charismatic and influential African-American leaders of the 1960s. These speeches document Malcolm's progression from Black nationalism to internationalism, and are key to both understanding his extraordinary life and illuminating his angry yet uplifting cause.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Didn’t age well
- By Greg on 06-10-20
- The End of White World Supremacy
- Four Speeches
- By: Malcom X
- Narrated by: George Washington III
educational
Reviewed: 08-27-16
Too short needs more explanation of viewpoints. and background of author for me I need another book
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God'll Cut You Down
- The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi
- By: John Safran
- Narrated by: Tom Bromhead
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 49
A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young Black man named Vincent McGee. At first the murder seemed a twist on old Deep South race crimes. But then new revelations and complications came to light. Maybe it was a dispute over money rather than race - or, maybe and intriguingly, over sex.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Awful awful awful narrator
- By Merrie Caruana on 10-06-15
- God'll Cut You Down
- The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi
- By: John Safran
- Narrated by: Tom Bromhead
Run of the mouth
Reviewed: 12-21-14
Would you try another book from John Safran and/or Tom Bromhead?
Not really a book
Would you ever listen to anything by John Safran again?
Save your money
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Tom Bromhead?
The narrator is not the problem.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from God'll Cut You Down?
The whole book.
Any additional comments?
Save your money
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Eventide
- By: Kent Haruf
- Narrated by: George Hearn
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 543
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 415
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 409
When the McPheron brothers see Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they’d taken in, move from their ranch to begin college, an emptiness opens before them—and for many other townspeople it also promises to be a long, hard winter. A young boy living alone with his grandfather helps out a neighbor whose husband, off in Alaska, suddenly isn’t coming home, leaving her to raise their two daughters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful!
- By Bill L. on 05-17-04
- Eventide
- By: Kent Haruf
- Narrated by: George Hearn
Lots of sex in every chapter
Reviewed: 12-21-14
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Too much sexual description that is unecessary for the story.
What other book might you compare Eventide to and why?
Not Jane Austen
Which character – as performed by George Hearn – was your favorite?
He was versatile
If you could rename Eventide, what would you call it?
Eventide is fine.
Any additional comments?
Cut the sex. Can't listen to it on speakers with small children.
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Benediction
- By: Kent Haruf
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 393
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 350
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Story4 out of 5 stars 347
From the beloved and best-selling author of Plainsong and Eventide comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado. When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife, Mary, must work together to make his final days as comfortable as possible. Their daughter, Lorraine, hastens back from Denver to help look after him....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Blessing
- By HDJ on 06-09-13
- Benediction
- By: Kent Haruf
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
40% sex
Reviewed: 12-21-14
If you could sum up Benediction in three words, what would they be?
Sex worked into every angle pssible.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Narrator.
What does Mark Bramhall bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Versatile
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The death.
Any additional comments?
Can't play sex on speakera with SMALL CHILDREN IN THE ROOM.
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The Quiet Game
- By: Greg Iles
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,136
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,437
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,411
When former prosecutor Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, he doesn't find the peace he desperately craves. He finds that his own father is being blackmailed by a corrupt ex-cop. And when Penn investigates, he uncovers a murderous secret - and the small town's violent past.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Complex and Good Courtroom Drama!
- By R. Pontiflet on 02-09-15
- The Quiet Game
- By: Greg Iles
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
25% sex
Reviewed: 12-21-14
What made the experience of listening to The Quiet Game the most enjoyable?
It was a good story but impossiblr to listen to without earplugs in front of small chhildren because of unecessary sexual narration.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Anne she was a child.
Have you listened to any of Tom Stechschulte’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
He is versatile.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes without the sex.
Any additional comments?
Books can sell without the sex adults don't need to hear it.
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