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Beartown
- By: Fredrik Backman
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,092
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 999
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 997
Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart. Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly shrinking with each passing year. But now the town is on the verge of an astonishing revival. A bright new future is just around the corner. Until the day it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act. It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up and forgotten, and those who'll risk the future to see justice done.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Learnt a lot about ice hockey!
- By elaine blaus on 01-09-17
- Beartown
- By: Fredrik Backman
- Narrated by: John Sackville
A well handled subject
Reviewed: 14-02-24
Backman manages to bring into existence a lively town with real people. He fills this town with fanatical hockey players, and almost makes me one as well!
He also handles a really difficult subject extremely well.
I'll think back to this story often, and you will too if you read it.
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Pageboy
- A Memoir
- By: Elliot Page
- Narrated by: Elliot Page
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 327
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 292
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 292
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page. A generation-defining actor and one of the most famous trans advocates of our time, Elliot will now be known as an uncommon literary talent, as he shares never-before-heard details and intimate interrogations on gender, love, mental health, relationships, and Hollywood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Elliot’s story is painful and beautiful
- By JH on 06-06-23
- Pageboy
- A Memoir
- By: Elliot Page
- Narrated by: Elliot Page
A Heroic Tail
Reviewed: 03-09-23
I've always loved Elliot's work. Since I first saw him in Juno and later experienced his performance in Beyond: Two Souls.
I'm sure just like me you picked up this book thinking back to his performances. And like me you only ever saw the actor, and never saw the person behind the character.
Now I understand the sacrifice and pain he went through when I was enjoying life, with my own struggles sure, but nothing compared to Elliot's.
Reading this has helped me understand the struggles queer and trans-men go through in their life, and particularly in Hollywood.
It's helped me re-examine my own actions and thoughts towards my trans and non-binary friends. And I hope I'll be able to support them through their struggles better because of that.
This book is fantastic! And worth a listen for anyone who cares about queer and trans rights. You won't regret picking this up!
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- By: Gabrielle Zevin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,575
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,367
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,369
Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared world—of joy, escape and fierce competition. But all too soon that time is over, fades from view. When the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that moment. The spark is immediate, and together they get to work on what they love—making games.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I almost didn’t listen because of the sample but …
- By EmmaC on 25-02-23
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- By: Gabrielle Zevin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
An Outstanding Story
Reviewed: 12-03-23
One of the best books I've ever listened to. I enjoyed it so much that I bought a physical copy while I was listening to it so I could highlight my favourite passages.
This is a story about friendship, love, ambition, video games, and the struggles of finding your purpose in life. Zevin manages to talk about sexiest, racism, anti-LGBTQ+ and other important challenges of our time effortlessly.
This will forever be a book I keep revisiting. I recommend you visit this book too.
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README.txt
- A Memoir
- By: Chelsea Manning
- Narrated by: Chelsea Manning
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
In 2010, Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the US Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card of her digital camera. In March 2011, the US Army sentenced Manning to 35 years in military prison, charging her with 22 counts relating to the unauthorized possession and distribution of classified military documents. The day after her conviction, Manning declared her gender identity as a woman and began to transition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Balls on this Woman
- By M. McGuirk on 06-01-23
- README.txt
- A Memoir
- By: Chelsea Manning
- Narrated by: Chelsea Manning
A must read for some
Reviewed: 25-11-22
A great story told by the woman herself!
Chelsea starts from her turbulent younger years; where she struggles with understanding her identity and place in the world. This alone makes the book a must listen!
She then goes into her time in the military and the pressures created from a homophobic and transphobic atmosphere and the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy.
Her most defining moment of her leaks feels like a footnote in an, until now, untold story.
Her time in and subsequent release from prison is a great end to the tail. Highlighting just some of the many injustices that happened to her in this book.
I will keep coming back to her story. If you listen to her tail then I'm sure you will too.
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Crying in H Mart
- By: Michelle Zauner
- Narrated by: Michelle Zauner
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 704
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 609
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 604
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful story, boring and monotonous narrator.
- By Anonymous User on 05-10-21
- Crying in H Mart
- By: Michelle Zauner
- Narrated by: Michelle Zauner
A tear jerking glimpse
Reviewed: 16-10-22
Michelle tells her story beautifully. It's a powerful happy-sad account of her life growing up as a stranger in her own country. Shunned as both too Korean and too American and how this impacted her relationship with her loved ones.
Well worth the listen.
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The Big Short
- Inside the Doomsday Machine
- By: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Jesse Boggs, Michael Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,842
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,374
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,368
The long-awaited follow-up to the global best-seller Liar's Poker, The Big Short tells a story of spectacular, epic folly. It has taken the world's greatest financial meltdown to bring Michael Lewis back to the subject that made him famous. His international best seller Liar's Poker exposed the greed and carnage of the City and Wall Street in the 1980s; he wrote it as a cautionary tale, but people seem to have read it as a how-to guide. Now, he wants to settle accounts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A thriller that is still evolving into a nigthmare
- By Wras on 10-02-15
- The Big Short
- Inside the Doomsday Machine
- By: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Jesse Boggs, Michael Lewis
One of the greatest stories from Wall Street
Reviewed: 17-07-22
One of the most amazing tales of greed ever told. A great listen but only for those interested in the stock market or the 2008 financial crisis.
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The Lazarus Heist
- From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War
- By: Geoff White
- Narrated by: Geoff White
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Story5 out of 5 stars 160
Meet the Lazarus Group, a shadowy cabal of hackers accused of working on behalf of the North Korean state. It's claimed that they form one of the most dangerous criminal enterprises on the planet, having stolen more than $1bn in an international crime spree. Their targets allegedly include central banks, Hollywood film studios and even the British National Health Service. North Korea denies the allegations, saying the accusations are American attempts to tarnish its image.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolute gem
- By LondonBubble on 25-03-23
- The Lazarus Heist
- From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War
- By: Geoff White
- Narrated by: Geoff White
Rocket men and hackers!
Reviewed: 14-07-22
Geoff does an amazing job of recounting North Korea's history and hacking escapades. He dives deep into their most well known stories, however, this book did not provide me much more insight into the Lazarus group.
Sadly North Korea is too secretive even for Geoff!
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The Transgender Issue
- An Argument for Justice
- By: Shon Faye
- Narrated by: Shon Faye
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 649
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 545
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Story5 out of 5 stars 539
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. In this powerful new book, Shon Faye reclaims the idea of the 'transgender issue' to uncover the reality of what it means to be trans in a transphobic society. In doing so, she provides a compelling, wide-ranging analysis of trans lives from youth to old age, exploring work, family, housing, healthcare, the prison system and trans participation in the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities, in contemporary Britain and beyond.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A timely and much needed work
- By Laura Leigh on 19-09-21
- The Transgender Issue
- An Argument for Justice
- By: Shon Faye
- Narrated by: Shon Faye
Excellent and eye opening
Reviewed: 02-07-22
Shon Faye does an excellent job at highlighting the issues trans people face in today's society.
Everyone who supports trans rights should read this!
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The Future of Capitalism
- By: Paul Collier
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 143
Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen, we have lost the sense of ethical obligation to others that was crucial to the rise of post-war social democracy. So far these rifts have been answered only by the revivalist ideologies of populism and socialism, leading to the seismic upheavals of Trump, Brexit and the return of the far right in Germany.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Opened my eyes
- By Dr P on 18-05-19
- The Future of Capitalism
- By: Paul Collier
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
Biased and overly flowery
Reviewed: 21-06-22
The author has a clear disdain for any policies on the left. It makes it hard to trust the accuracy of the book.
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Disruption
- By: Jessica Shirvington
- Narrated by: Hannah Norris
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 4
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Story3 out of 5 stars 4
What if a microchip could identify your perfect match? What if it could be used against you and the ones you love? Eight years ago, Mercer Corporation’s M-Bands became mandatory. An evolution of the smartphone, the bracelets promised an easier life. Instead, they have come to control it. Two years ago, Maggie Stevens watched helplessly as one of the people she loves most was taken from her, shattering her world as she knew it. Now, Maggie is ready. And Quentin Mercer – heir to the M-Corp empire – has become key to Maggie’s plan.
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1 out of 5 stars
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An utterly terrible story
- By James on 20-02-22
- Disruption
- By: Jessica Shirvington
- Narrated by: Hannah Norris
An utterly terrible story
Reviewed: 20-02-22
The plot made no sense. Any character with half a brain would have figured out at any point in the story that the main character was using them and that their goal made no sense.
This could have been an excellent story but so many bad decisions were made while writing this.
Honestly, go read any other book, you probably couldn't do much worse than this.
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