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Beast in View
- By: Margaret Millar
- Narrated by: Jennifer Wydra
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 66
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 65
At 30, Helen Clarvoe is alone: Her only visitors are the staff at the hotel where she lives, and her only phone calls come from a stranger. Until that stranger, with a quiet, compelling voice, lures the aloof and financially secure Miss Clarvoe into a world of extortion, pornography, vengeance, madness, and murder. But who is the hunter and who is the victim?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Irritating performance
- By Katherine T. Reed on 01-01-17
- Beast in View
- By: Margaret Millar
- Narrated by: Jennifer Wydra
Superb psychological study
Reviewed: 07-17-15
If you could sum up Beast in View in three words, what would they be?
This is a superb psychological study disguised as a novel of suspense and terror. Millar is a master of the unexpected twist and this clearly is one of her best books. In Millar, like Highsmith, crime is more interesting than detection and the ultimate focus is on a diseased society and the way it breeds fear.
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The Fiend
- By: Margaret Millar
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
There are worse crimes than murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful and frightening tale with numerous twists
- By Traveling professor on 07-12-15
- The Fiend
- By: Margaret Millar
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
Powerful and frightening tale with numerous twists
Reviewed: 07-12-15
Any additional comments?
An effective tale that is well performed. Psychological study of several damaged souls. The potential danger facing a young girl becomes the foundation for a richly imagined study in character. Although there are numerous twist, this book and most of Millar's work depends on character study more than detection. This is crime fiction at its best.
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Fledgling
- By: Octavia E. Butler
- Narrated by: Tracey Leigh
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,179
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 996
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 994
Fledgling, Octavia E. Butler's final novel, is the story of a young amnesiac girl whose inhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must learn who wanted to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Child in sexual situations
- By Laura on 05-13-11
- Fledgling
- By: Octavia E. Butler
- Narrated by: Tracey Leigh
Creepy sexuality in new kind of vampire tale
Reviewed: 04-28-15
Fascinating revision of vampire tale has Humans engaged in symbiotic relationships with vampire. Central character is 53 years old but looks like a ten year old girl and that makes her sex scenes with various adults creepy. The power dynamics of these relationships are not fully explored but the plot has both battles and a long courtroom scene.
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World War Z: The Complete Edition
- An Oral History of the Zombie War
- By: Max Brooks
- Narrated by: Max Brooks, Alan Alda, John Turturro, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25,126
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22,665
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22,623
World War Z: The Complete Edition features 21 additional Hollywood A-list actors and sci-fi fan favorites performing stories not included in the original edition. New narrators include Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese, Spiderman star Alfred Molina, The Walking Dead creator Frank Darabont, rapper Common, Firefly star Nathan Fillion, Shaun of the Dead’s Simon Pegg, and members of the casts of Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes and more!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Will never pre-order again
- By Ignatz on 05-18-13
- World War Z: The Complete Edition
- An Oral History of the Zombie War
- By: Max Brooks
- Narrated by: Max Brooks, Alan Alda, John Turturro, Rob Reiner, Mark Hamill, Alfred Molina, Simon Pegg, Henry Rollins, Martin Scorsese
Superb multi cast performance of a powerful story
Reviewed: 04-28-15
Perhaps the smartest fictional study of warfare in 21st-century literature. The use of the framework provided by a fictional oral history leads to many strong stories and insights. Probably our best zombie novel and one of our best works of science fiction.
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A Death in the Life
- By: Dorothy Salisbury Davis
- Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story3 out of 5 stars 4
Twenty-five-year-old Julie Hayes is feeling overshadowed by her globe-trotting journalist husband and looking for some excitement and direction in life. On what amounts to a dare, she sets herself up as "Friend Julie", a storefront fortune-teller in Manhattan's seedy Theater District.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun read with interesting characters
- By Traveling professor on 04-19-15
- A Death in the Life
- By: Dorothy Salisbury Davis
- Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson
Fun read with interesting characters
Reviewed: 04-19-15
If you could sum up A Death in the Life in three words, what would they be?
Smart, fun, vivid
Any additional comments?
The first of the Julie Hayes mysteries offers a bright young woman who stumbles into a world of crime and murder in 1970s New York City and ends up solving the mystery. Good characterization, clever plotting, and a vivid rendering of the city as it was back then. The book is smart and fun.
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The So Blue Marble
- Griselda Satterlee, Book 1
- By: Dorothy B. Hughes
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4 out of 5 stars 39
At the age of twenty-four, Griselda Satter lee has already lived two lifetimes. A star of the silver screen, she gives up Hollywood after a year and moves to New York to become a designer. While her ex-husband, Con, is out of town, she is staying in his apartment. Walking back one night, she meets two cheerful young men who want to go home with her - and won't take no for an answer.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Okay thriller
- By Traveling professor on 04-06-15
- The So Blue Marble
- Griselda Satterlee, Book 1
- By: Dorothy B. Hughes
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
Okay thriller
Reviewed: 04-06-15
Disappointing crime story with clueless characters trapped in situations that a sane person would have avoided. I never cared about any of the spoiled and stupid members of the upper class who filled the story.
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Snow Crash
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 21,360
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16,959
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Story4 out of 5 stars 17,045
Neal Stephenson is a blazing new force on the sci-fi scene. With the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, he has "vaulted onto the literary stage." It weaves virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility - in short, it is the gigathriller of the information age.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A solid sci-fi novel
- By Brent on 02-05-03
- Snow Crash
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Best cyberpunk novel by far
Reviewed: 12-17-14
If you could sum up Snow Crash in three words, what would they be?
Entertaining, smart, fast paced.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Snow Crash?
From the first chase to the final battle, this novel moves quickly but has a witty edge.
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