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The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
- By: Stuart Turton
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
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The rules of Blackheath: Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m. There are eight days and eight witnesses for you to inhabit. We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer. Evelyn Hardcastle will die every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others....
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Disappointed
- By Anita on 05-08-19
- The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
- By: Stuart Turton
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
I have sympathy for the narrator
Reviewed: 10-25-24
a long, long, (did I say long?) boring variation of the westworld. I wonder what the publisher saw in it. I saw nothing. I wonder if the narrator is okay after the torture of going through this.
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Call for the Dead
- George Smiley, Book 1
- By: John Le Carré
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
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After an unremarkable interview, Circus agent George Smiley determines the subject of a standard security check—a civil servant in the Foreign Office named Samuel Fennan—poses no threat, nor presents any reason for suspicion of espionage. Hours later, Samuel Fennan is found dead by suicide. Suddenly finding himself under intense scrutiny, Smiley realizes the Circus intends to blame him for Fennan's death. Rather than remain idle, Smiley begins his own investigation into the nature of the man's demise.
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An Understated Adventure that keeps you wondering.
- By urbanmusicgal on 10-25-24
- Call for the Dead
- George Smiley, Book 1
- By: John Le Carré
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
Narration is the only upside
Reviewed: 10-16-24
I don't get all the adulation for Le Carre. His books are boring, the plots ranging from simplistic to, well, more simplistic. And nothing else to say, to be hohest.
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Big Ben Strikes Eleven
- By: David Magarshack
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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The discovery of Sir Robert Boniface's body on the floor of his limousine was made quite accidentally on a sultry Friday evening towards the end of June. The industrial and financial tycoon, and former stalwart of the British Cabinet, was shot in the head and left in the quiet Vale of Health. Nearby, a rejected portrait of Sir Robert is found riddled with bullets in the studio of the now missing artist Matt Caldwell.
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Boring, meandering, story filled with unnecessary sentimental tosh
- By Raminak on 08-14-24
- Big Ben Strikes Eleven
- By: David Magarshack
- Narrated by: John Telfer
Boring, meandering, story filled with unnecessary sentimental tosh
Reviewed: 08-14-24
The silverlining is that, according to the introduction, the author gave up writing detective stories after two more attempts which were, we are informed, were even worse than this one. I am puzzled why anybody thought an audible version of this dreadful work was worth the effort.
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Hallowe'en Party
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce - a hostile thirteen-year-old - boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the "evil presence". But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double murderer.
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A great Mystery
- By Gudrun on 10-26-16
- Hallowe'en Party
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
God, it was boring
Reviewed: 04-23-24
Some of his stories are better left unpublished. This one is definitely for the attic.
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The Seven Dials Mystery
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other houseguests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6:30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank then backfired, with tragic consequences. For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words "Seven Dials" were to take on a new and chilling significance....
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Skip this narrator
- By Rachel on 04-20-18
- The Seven Dials Mystery
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
Boring story, getting rather silly towards the end
Reviewed: 03-30-24
Weak plot and excruciatingly dull but saved by master narration. Ms. Emilia Fox should do more audiobooks. She manages to do 7,8, 10 characters ... Her rendering made the book bearable, nay enjoyable.
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The Blazing World
- A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
- By: Jonathan Healey
- Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
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The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the shadow of an invasion by the Dutch. Under James I, England suffered terrorism and witch panics. Under his son Charles, state and society collapsed into civil war, to be followed by an army coup and regicide. For a short time—for the only time in history—England was a republic. There were bitter struggles over faith and Parliament asserted itself like never before. There were no boundaries to politics.
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Been looking for this book for a long time
- By cmurrell on 07-30-23
- The Blazing World
- A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
- By: Jonathan Healey
- Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough
Description of political machinations
Reviewed: 03-18-24
too much 'text fillers' which could be removed with no loss to the narrative but made me lose the story's thread
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The Muse
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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Life appears to imitate art when a series of sadistic murders grips the city. Investigating the carefully orchestrated killings, Detective Gene Tripp and his partner discover that the perp might have been inspired by the best-selling novels and stories of popular thriller author Brody Pierce. Or has the demon of writer’s block driven Brody himself to step over the line between fiction and reality and exploit the dark side of his imagination?
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Interesting Short Story
- By Debbie Mathisen on 02-12-23
- The Muse
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
the plot 'twist' is interesting
Reviewed: 03-06-23
it needs 15 words when 14 or 12 oor 8 or one would do do
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The "Hitler Myth"
- Image and Reality in the Third Reich
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: George Cunningham
- Length: 11 hrs
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Few, if any, 20th-century political leaders have enjoyed greater popularity among their own people than Hitler did in the decade or so following his rise to power in 1933. The personality of Hitler himself, however, can scarcely explain this immense popularity or his political effectiveness in the 1930s and '40s. His hold over the German people lay rather in the hopes and perceptions of the millions who adored him. Based largely on the reports of government officials, party agencies, and political opponents, Kershaw's study charts the creation, growth, and decline of the Hitler myth.
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Not a study of Hitler Charismatic Authority
- By Raminak on 03-05-23
- The "Hitler Myth"
- Image and Reality in the Third Reich
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: George Cunningham
Not a study of Hitler Charismatic Authority
Reviewed: 03-05-23
Ian Kershaw has studied Hitler extensively and gathered immense material about the man. His books on the topic (culminating in the two volume biography of Hitler) regurgitate the same material under different book covers. This one does not address how Hitler managed to capture the German zeitgeist and retain his hold till the end. The book offers historical evidence of the fact and little by way of explanation or even description.
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The War That Ended Peace
- The Road to 1914
- By: Margaret MacMillan
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 31 hrs and 58 mins
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From the best-selling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I.
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Detailed review of 1882 to 1914
- By smarmer on 04-06-14
- The War That Ended Peace
- The Road to 1914
- By: Margaret MacMillan
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
There was no need to write this.
Reviewed: 12-21-22
what a dreadfully dull, boring, laborious, slogging, twaddle ever written by someone who lost a bet or something to write something about anything. AI-generated essays are more interesting and make better sense than this. URGH
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The Last Days of Hitler, 7th Edition
- By: Hugh Trevor-Roper
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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In late 1945, the fate of Adolf Hitler was a complete mystery. Missing for four months, he had simply vanished. Hugh Trevor-Roper, a British intelligence officer, was given the task of solving the mystery. With access to American counterintelligence files and German prisoners, his brilliant detective work proved finally that Hitler had killed himself in Berlin. It also produced one of the most fascinating history books ever written.
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Story never gets old ... well worth it!
- By Saman on 01-07-17
- The Last Days of Hitler, 7th Edition
- By: Hugh Trevor-Roper
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
pretentious narration of pretentious twaddle
Reviewed: 04-26-22
pretentious narration of pretentious twaddle which has to be reviewed in at least 15 words!
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