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Isaac Steele and the Forever Man
- The Isaac Steele Chronicles
- By: Daniel Rigby
- Narrated by: Daniel Rigby
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,377
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,220
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,214
Agent Isaac Steele has problems. He spends all his splibs on drink and drugs. He has some deep-seated and very much unresolved issues with his parents. And his robotic partner at Greatest Britain’s Department of Clarification, Dr Timothy Stephens, is ruled more by his heart than his hard drive. But all these issues take a back seat when Isaac stumbles upon a case involving the most sensitive information in the cosmos - a Never File, inaccessible to all except those with the highest clearance. He is expressly forbidden to involve himself. So naturally he does.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic narration and fantastical story!
- By JL on 10-09-21
- Isaac Steele and the Forever Man
- The Isaac Steele Chronicles
- By: Daniel Rigby
- Narrated by: Daniel Rigby
Please make more
Reviewed: 20-09-23
I’ve listened to this four times already - it’s so good and clearly there should be more please 🙏
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Venomous Lumpsucker
- By: Ned Beauman
- Narrated by: John Hastings
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 93
The venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was the most intelligent fish on the planet. Because it might already be extinct. Nobody knows. And nobody cares. Except for two people. Mining executive Mark Halyard has a prison cell waiting for him if that fish has gone for good. And biologist Karin Resaint needs it for her own darker purposes. They don't trust each other, but they're left with no choice but to team up, pursuing the lumpsucker across the strange landscapes of near-future Europe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ironically funny but terrifying eco Sci-Fi horror
- By Sarah on 22-10-23
- Venomous Lumpsucker
- By: Ned Beauman
- Narrated by: John Hastings
Funny and important
Reviewed: 12-08-23
Great book - on one hand a satirical romp through a only barely implausible future world - wryly observed. On the other heartfelt exploration or the contradiction at humanity’s core. Fresh and free spirited and thought provoking - for me memorable with identifiable characters and the only book ever where I have ever come across my own mindset in a character. Hats off to Ned Beaumont. The narration suits the prose and was never distracting so full marks for that too.
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To Paradise
- By: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: BD Wong, Catherine Ho, Edoardo Ballerini, and others
- Length: 28 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 630
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 560
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 559
In an alternate version of 1893 America, The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist's damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him - and solve the mystery of her husband's disappearances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow, I can’t believe it’s over
- By Rika on 19-01-22
- To Paradise
- By: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: BD Wong, Catherine Ho, Edoardo Ballerini, Feodor Chin, Kurt Kanazawa
3.5 overall Interesting but not enthralling
Reviewed: 03-09-22
Some wonderful insights and sensitively drawn emotional portraits. But story itself was always a second thought here.
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The People in the Trees
- By: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 145
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 130
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Story4 out of 5 stars 130
In 1950, a young doctor call Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an expedition to the remote Micronesian island of Ivu’ivu in search of a rumoured lost tribe. They succeed in finding not only that tribe but also a group of forest dwellers they dub ‘The Dreamers 17, who turn out to be fantastically long-lived but progressively more senile. Perina suspects the source of their longevity is a hard-to-find turtle; unable to resist the possibility of eternal life, he kills one and smuggles some meat back to the States.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Em - Harsh, but well written
- By mollymoon1 on 26-08-14
- The People in the Trees
- By: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
Not perfect, but so original I’ll give 5 stars
Reviewed: 06-03-22
This book is wildly imaginative and darkly engaging. I found the progression of the narrative and the self awareness (and lack of it) of central characters really intriguing. Raises lots of important themes in a novel and blackly humorous way. People with a taste for visceral and edgy anthropological satire like DBC Pierre will enjoy.
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Full Dark, No Stars
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson, Jessica Hecht
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 658
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 463
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 463
'I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger....' writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up '1922', the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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All thriller no killer
- By Barbara on 23-06-16
- Full Dark, No Stars
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson, Jessica Hecht
Intelligent horror/thriller stories
Reviewed: 24-08-21
These are well-crafted and thoroughly enjoyable in a dark way stories, with none of the silliness characteristic of some of King’s more recent horror novels. One of his best novella/story collections. I know a lot of people love his recent supernatural horror but I find it difficult to suspend disbelief In the way I did with his earlier books. This set of stories is a welcome change from that.
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Four Past Midnight
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: James Woods, Ken Howard, Tim Sample, and others
- Length: 29 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 439
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 388
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 389
At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when, between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and switch you into a new and terrifying world. Four Past Midnight: four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the desperate, clutching reach of sanity....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stephen King goes to the twilight zone.
- By Dallas Winston 9 on 17-01-17
- Four Past Midnight
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: James Woods, Ken Howard, Tim Sample, Willem Dafoe
Genuinely creepy at times but poor endings
Reviewed: 21-09-20
King has great setups in all of these tales but the ‘reveals’ were all too overblown to keep me caring except one. I found the first tale, the Langoliers, great while everything remained a mystery but increasingly silly after that. Ditto ‘The Library Policeman’. I’d describe Sun Dog as actually genuinely scary until the very end when again it just lost its hold. The one that worked best as a whole is the ‘secret window’ one, but there are things which spoilt its pacing too. So not King’s best, especially i think if you like his older, more carefully constructed novels. If you like his more recent ones, you might enjoy better.
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The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
- By: Joël Dicker
- Narrated by: Robert Slade
- Length: 20 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,539
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,419
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,415
August 30, 1975: the day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with 15-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard, along with a manuscript copy of the novel that secured his lasting fame. Quebert is the only suspect. Marcus Goldman - Quebert’s most gifted protégé - throws off his writer’s block to clear his mentor’s name. Solving the case and penning a new best seller soon merge into one.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I don't wanna know the truth about the affair
- By Susi on 02-05-14
- The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
- By: Joël Dicker
- Narrated by: Robert Slade
Tedious rambling nonsense
Reviewed: 08-09-16
This pompous, navel-gazing narrative was so unbelievable that I kept wondering if it was meant to be a comedy. But there were no obvious attempts at humour. Basically it's about a writer who is completely gormless trying to solve an implausible mystery -and because the actual author of this book Joel Dicker can't write for toffee he makes it a kind of continuous monologue from this gump's point of view. The dialogues make you squirm. The characters are all stereotypes and you see every plot twist coming a mile off. I recommend avoiding this if you enjoy well-written fiction.
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The Tommyknockers
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 27 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,276
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,146
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,145
Everything is familiar. But everything has changed. Coming back to the little community is like walking into a nightmare for Jim Gardener, poet, drunk, potential suicide. It all looks the same: the house; the furniture; Jim's friend, Bobbi; her beagle (though ageing); even the woods out at the back. But it was in the woods that Bobbi stumbled over the odd, part-buried object and felt a peculiar tingle as she brushed the soft earth away. Everything is familiar. But everything is about to change.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This book is awful, but don't take my word for it.
- By Amazon Customer on 08-11-20
- The Tommyknockers
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Original story but goes on a bit
Reviewed: 08-08-16
I love King's older books and this one is better than I remembered. Saying that, I did find the ending went on and on and on. Definitely worth listening to though.
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