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  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? | [Jeanette Winterson]
    Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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    Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

    • UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 7 mins)
    • By Jeanette Winterson
    • Narrated By Jeanette Winterson
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (118)
    Performance
    (108)
    Story
    (110)

    Jeanette Winterson’s bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. This memoir is the chronicle of a life’s work to find happiness. It is a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser drawer; about growing up in a north England industrial town in the 1960s and 1970s; and about the universe as a cosmic dustbin.

    glamazon says: "The Title Says It All"
    "Excellent memoir"
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    Excellent memoir. I really enjoyed this author. Very insiteful and thought provoking. This will lead me to read her other books.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Graveyard Book | [Neil Gaiman]
    The Graveyard Book
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    The Graveyard Book

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 47 mins)
    • By Neil Gaiman
    • Narrated By Neil Gaiman
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (5226)
    Performance
    (2049)
    Story
    (2068)

    Why we think it’s a great listen: Gaiman’s not just an award-winning author, but a narrator who earns rave reviews – and fields requests from other authors to perform their books, too! Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead....

    Guillermo says: "Masterful Fantasy for the Jaded Heart"
    "excellent story"
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    I really enjoyed this story. Neil Gaiman is a wonderful storyteller. Highly recommended.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • All Things Wise and Wonderful | [James Herriot]
    All Things Wise and Wonderful
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    All Things Wise and Wonderful

    • UNABRIDGED (15 hrs)
    • By James Herriot
    • Narrated By Christopher Timothy
    Overall
    (417)
    Performance
    (132)
    Story
    (135)

    This enchanting collection of stories is the warm and joyful sequel to All Things Bright and Beautiful and All Creatures Great and Small, the memoirs of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian.

    C. McCoy says: "The best in Classics"
    "Just as good as I remember"
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    My mother gave me this series to read when I was about 11 or 12 and I thought it was wonderful. I got James Herriot's Stories for Children from Audible for my kids to listen to on car rides and enjoyed it so much that I got the All Things Great and Small series for myself. It held up to everything I thought about it 30 years ago. I was a great series to listen to while I worked. Wonderful observations on humanity, funny stories, sad moments and just an overall pleasure to enjoy again. Excellent performance by Christopher Timothy as well.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book I | [George R. R. Martin]
    A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book I
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    A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book I

    • UNABRIDGED (33 hrs and 50 mins)
    • By George R. R. Martin
    • Narrated By Roy Dotrice
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (15490)
    Performance
    (9975)
    Story
    (9981)

    In a time long forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons off balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. As the cold returns, sinister forces are massing beyond the protective wall of the kingdom of Winterfell. To the south, the king's powers are failing, with his most trusted advisor mysteriously dead and enemies emerging from the throne's shadow.

    Teddy says: "OMG! OMG! OMG!"
    "addictive"
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    Can't stop listening to this series. It is truly addictive. Roy Dotrice does a great job narrating.

    0 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany | [John Irving]
    A Prayer for Owen Meany
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    A Prayer for Owen Meany

    • UNABRIDGED (27 hrs and 20 mins)
    • By John Irving
    • Narrated By Joe Barrett
    Overall
    (683)
    Performance
    (63)
    Story
    (64)

    Why we think it’s a great listen: For 20 years, John Irving believed that his ambitious novel could never be adequately executed in audio – and then he met narrator Joe Barrett.... In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys - best friends - are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument.

    Maxine Fuentes says: "Wonderful"
    "poor narration choice"
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    This is one of my all time favorite books and I think the choice of narrator was a poor one. The story became flat and boring and the voice of Owen Meany didn't work.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Complete Just So Stories | [Rudyard Kipling]
    The Complete Just So Stories
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    The Complete Just So Stories

    • UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 7 mins)
    • By Rudyard Kipling
    • Narrated By Johnny Morris
    Overall
    (74)
    Performance
    (33)
    Story
    (34)

    Have you ever wondered how and why the animals came to be as they are? In these magical tales, drawn from stories he heard as a child in India as well as on folk traditions he later collected all over the world, Rudyard Kipling gives some wonderfully imaginative explanations.

    Ann says: "Fun & sweet, & great narration"
    "Excellent"
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    These are some of my all time favorite stories and they were told beautifully, keeping my two children, their friend, and myself thoroughly engaged and entertained on a long car ride. I sometimes want to listen even when the kids aren't with me.

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful

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