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The Joy Switch
- How Your Brain's Secret Circuit Affects Your Relationships - And How You Can Activate It
- By: Chris M. Coursey
- Narrated by: Brian Conover
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story5 out of 5 stars 49
Why do we sometimes feel more connected in our relationships than at other times? Perhaps you sometimes find it easy and exciting to spend time with your loved ones - but sometimes, especially when things don’t according to plan, you feel incapable of connecting in conversations. You then feel distant from those you love most. What if the answer to remaining connected in relationships has been right under your nose - or, rather, right inside your head all along?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Operational training in what it means to love
- By Michael D. Jacobson on 02-15-22
- The Joy Switch
- How Your Brain's Secret Circuit Affects Your Relationships - And How You Can Activate It
- By: Chris M. Coursey
- Narrated by: Brian Conover
Don't waste your time
Reviewed: 11-18-23
So unbelievably repetitive. I think the author assumes that we all have an IQ of about 80. this is beyond elementary and truly boring.
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ShadowMan
- An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling
- By: Ron Franscell
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman, Chris Berger
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 184
On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody had slit open the back of their tent and snatched her from under their noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into thin air, plucked by a shadow. As days stretched into weeks, and weeks into months, Special Agent Pete Dunbar attended a workshop at FBI Headquarters in Quantico, Virgina, led by two agents who had hatched a radical new idea: What if criminals left a psychological trail that would lead us to them?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book,but heartbreaking subject matter.
- By Maureen Ohalleran on 03-04-22
- ShadowMan
- An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling
- By: Ron Franscell
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman, Chris Berger
Histrionic and Adolescent l
Reviewed: 10-23-23
Meh. There were several mispronunciations by the narrator. I'm never quite sure how this happens. Is a dictionary not close by? The author, rather than using actual vocabulary, capitulates to adolescent potty mouth language like f******, screwing, s*******, pissing, etc. The story overall is interesting. But, the manner in which is told feels very histrionic and unnecessarily TMZ-like, as opposed to something with actual journalistic integrity. Not a fan.
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The Grieving Brain
- The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
- By: Mary-Frances O'Connor
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 234
Based on O’Connor’s own trailblazing neuroimaging work, research in the field, and her real-life stories, The Grieving Brain combines storytelling, accessible science, and practical knowledge that will help us better understand what happens when we grieve and how to navigate loss with more ease and grace.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting thoughts
- By GAD on 03-12-22
- The Grieving Brain
- The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
- By: Mary-Frances O'Connor
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
GREAT book, terrible narrator
Reviewed: 06-18-23
One of my big frustrations with this app is the number of narrators who mispronounce words. This one is no exception. How hard is it to crack a dictionary or even get on Google and find out how word is pronounced?
After getting that off my chest, I have to say that I found this book really exceptional and extremely helpful. Not everyone will feel this way because it is a book about the neurobiology of grief, not a book on how to handle grief necessarily. I personally found it extremely helpful because it helped me understand that I'm not nuts. Grief is so overwhelming and it's so unfamiliar to us and unusual... and as a society we really don't talk about it or even accept it, truly.
This helped me understand exactly what was going on with me and gave me the patience to just be patient. Our brains are indeed wired to handle this loss and we just have to give it time. Understanding it, however, helped me a great deal.
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Based on a True Story
- A Memoir
- By: Norm Macdonald
- Narrated by: Norm Macdonald, Tim O'Halloran
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,614
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7,627
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,601
When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre “one step below instruction manuals.” Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, “Call it anything you damn like.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bizarre, funny ride
- By Michael Chauvin on 09-25-16
- Based on a True Story
- A Memoir
- By: Norm Macdonald
- Narrated by: Norm Macdonald, Tim O'Halloran
Horrifuc stuff you don't want to know
Reviewed: 06-02-23
I appreciate Norm MacDonald's comedy. I had recently listened to David Spade's autobiographies and since I was driving cross country I thought it would be fun to listen to more comedians. Uh, not this one. McDonald's seems to have more than self-loathing to the point of serious self-destruction. this book details how he was raped and he was 8 years old, is gambling and morphine addictions, his erratic Behavior, and hint's at suicide. I finally had to turn it off because it was so upsetting. Highly highly highly recommend that you pass this by.
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Confession of a Serial Killer
- The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer
- By: Katherine Ramsland PhD
- Narrated by: Michael Braun
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 341
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 301
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 301
In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had 10 victims. He named himself “B.T.K.” (bind, torture, kill) and wrote notes that terrorized the city. He remained on the loose for 30 years.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring & lame! Don’t wast your credit!!
- By Iread on 01-23-22
- Confession of a Serial Killer
- The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer
- By: Katherine Ramsland PhD
- Narrated by: Michael Braun
Worth it
Reviewed: 07-04-22
The narration was pleasant pleasant, and I and I found the subject interesting. I had read about this case when it 1st happened and I was genuinely stuand I was genuinely stunned when he was caught.
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The Stranger Beside Me
- The Shocking True Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy
- By: Ann Rule
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 18 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,664
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,504
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,469
Ann Rule was working on the biggest story of her career, tracking the trail of victims left by a brutal serial killer. Little did this future best-selling author know that the savage slayer she was hunting was the young man she counted among her closest friends. Everyone's picture of a natural winner, Ted Bundy was a bright, charming, and handsome man with a promising future as an attorney. But on January 24, 1989 Bundy was executed for the murders of three young women - and had confessed to taking the lives of at least thirty-five more women from coast to coast.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another Good One from Ann Rule
- By Malia on 08-24-12
- The Stranger Beside Me
- The Shocking True Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy
- By: Ann Rule
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
Soooo many mispronunciations!
Reviewed: 07-04-22
This narrator is TERRIBLE. She mispronounces so many words that it is terribly distracting to listen to her. I've read this book before and I was traveling across country, and I paid for it so I forced myself through it. But she is just terrible and I will make sure that I never buy anything again where she is in the narrator.
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