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bailey

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  • Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook | [Anthony Bourdain]
    Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
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    Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs)
    • By Anthony Bourdain
    • Narrated By Anthony Bourdain
    Overall
    (1470)
    Performance
    (750)
    Story
    (734)

    In the 10 years since his classic Kitchen Confidential first alerted us to the idiosyncrasies and lurking perils of eating out, much has changed for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores those changes, tracking Bourdain's strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood. Bourdain takes no prisoners as he dissects what he's seen.

    Andy says: "entertaining but not as good as kitchen conf."
    "Self important ranting"
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    Bourdain could deliver some meaningful information for food lovers and travelers. He, instead, chooses to use this forum to berate his peers, whine about almost everything and, prove to the world that he has the maturity of a 13 year old.

    Tony lost a lot of credibility with this one.

    5 of 11 people found this review helpful
  • Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef | [Gabrielle Hamilton]
    Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
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    Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

    • UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 8 mins)
    • By Gabrielle Hamilton
    • Narrated By Gabrielle Hamilton
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (526)
    Performance
    (320)
    Story
    (323)

    Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty fierce, hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Above all she sought family, particularly the thrill and the magnificence of the one from her childhood that, in her adult years, eluded her. Hamilton’s ease and comfort in a kitchen were instilled in her at an early age when her parents hosted grand parties, often for more than one hundred friends and neighbors.

    loix says: "A sensory feast"
    "Great story, the worst narration"
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    I love food writing, I truly do. Gabrielle Hamilton is a gifted writer but I can't say the same about her narration. Her monotone turned a great book into a chore and I can't say I'd recommend it to anybody.

    Read it, have someone read it to you but don't waste your money on this audio book.

    1 of 3 people found this review helpful
  • Gideon's Sword | [Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child]
    Gideon's Sword
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    Gideon's Sword

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 57 mins)
    • By Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
    • Narrated By John Glover
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (867)
    Performance
    (475)
    Story
    (471)

    At 12, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. At 24, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the truth: His father was framed and deliberately slaughtered. With her last breath, she begged her son to avenge him. Now, with a new purpose in his life, Gideon crafts a one-time mission of vengeance, aimed at the perpetrator of his father's destruction. His plan is meticulous, spectacular, and successful.But from the shadows, someone is watching. A very powerful someone, who is impressed by Gideon's special skills.

    k. says: "Pendergast fans beware"
    "P&C develop a new exciting character"
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    Loved it! It's brain candy with a loose connection to reality. I look forward to Gideon's next adventure.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Pacific | [Hugh Ambrose]
    The Pacific
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    The Pacific

    • UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 58 mins)
    • By Hugh Ambrose
    • Narrated By Mike Chamberlain
    Overall
    (246)
    Performance
    (96)
    Story
    (96)

    In this companion to the HBO miniseries - executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman - Hugh Ambrose reveals the intertwined odysseys of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot during World War II. Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan.

    Howard says: "Big let down"
    "Great story - poor narration"
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    The narration of this book misses on many counts. The reader's monotone voice hides the emotion that should be the center of this tale. There is no clear organization of the telling, chapters flow together like a runon sentence.

    I believe another reader would make this story come alive.

    6 of 6 people found this review helpful
  • Dave Barry in Cyberspace | [Dave Barry]
    Dave Barry in Cyberspace
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    Dave Barry in Cyberspace

    • UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 40 mins)
    • By Dave Barry
    • Narrated By Shadoe Stevens
    Overall
    (65)
    Performance
    (9)
    Story
    (9)

    When Dave Barry goes mano a mano with the Information Superhighway, it's guaranteed to be a rip-roaring adventure. This self-proclaimed computer geek and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist starts with the motto, "Never read the instructions," and slides from there into the world of hardware, software, Windows 95, and the critical issue of RAM ("the bottom line is, if you're a guy, you cannot have enough RAM").

    Michael says: "VERY VERY FUNNY!!!"
    "Outdated and tired"
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    This book is irrelevant in 2007. So is Dave Barry.

    0 of 3 people found this review helpful
  • The Kite Runner | [Khaled Hosseini]
    The Kite Runner
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    The Kite Runner

    • UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 2 mins)
    • By Khaled Hosseini
    • Narrated By Khaled Hosseini
    Overall
    (5651)
    Performance
    (1064)
    Story
    (1070)

    Why we think it’s a great listen: Never before has an author’s narration of his fiction been so important to fully grasping the book’s impact and global implications. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them.

    Joseph says: "A storyteller's story"
    "A moving tale"
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    I couldn't stop listening.

    3 of 9 people found this review helpful

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