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creative cook

piqua, ohio | Member Since 2003

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  • 9 reviews
  • 27 ratings
  • 962 titles in library
  • 25 purchased in 2013
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  • Last Man in Tower | [Aravind Adiga]
    Last Man in Tower
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    Last Man in Tower

    • UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 11 mins)
    • By Aravind Adiga
    • Narrated By Sam Dastor
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (72)
    Performance
    (58)
    Story
    (59)

    A riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, set in the booming city of Mumbai. At the heart of this novel are two equally compelling men, poised for a showdown. Real-estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a building named the Shanghai, which promises to be one of the city’s most elite addresses. Larger-than-life Shah is a dangerous man to refuse. But he meets his match in a retired schoolteacher called Masterji.

    Cariola says: "Witty, Sad, Outrageous"
    "indian philosophy"
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    Very interesting plot and psychological probe of the Indian mind. Takes contemplation to understand the underlying morality of the story.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Storyteller | [Jodi Picoult]
    The Storyteller
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    The Storyteller

    • UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 13 mins)
    • By Jodi Picoult
    • Narrated By Mozhan Marno, Jennifer Ikeda, Edoardo Ballerini, and others
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (873)
    Performance
    (724)
    Story
    (717)

    Jodi Picoult's poignant number one New York Times best-selling novels about family and love tackle hot-button issues head on. In The Storyteller, Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined - to kill him. After Josef reveals the heinous act he committed, Sage feels he may deserve that fate. But would his death be murder or justice?

    Suzn F says: "The Baker, The Nun, The Virgin and The Monster"
    "the storyteller is a wonderful story"
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    although this book has had some bad reviews I found it to be a touching and compelling story even though I do not like to read anymore about the holocaust. It causes me too much distress. Picoult did a remarkable job of telling the story and I got a kick of how she ended it.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Snow White Must Die | [Nele Neuhaus]
    Snow White Must Die
    UNABRIDGED

    Snow White Must Die

    • UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 47 mins)
    • By Nele Neuhaus
    • Narrated By Robert Fass
    Overall
    (543)
    Performance
    (471)
    Story
    (465)

    On a rainy November day, police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: a woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer. On a September evening eleven years earlier, two seventeen-year-old girls vanished from the village without a trace.

    Avid Reader and Listener says: "GREAT suspense, smart plot!"
    "Snow White must be Heard"
    Overall
    Performance
    Story

    What a wonderful story. Well written, well told and it holds the reader in suspense to the last. Of course it has a happy ending, but could easily have a sequel. Highly recommended and I am happy I found a new author.

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • Broken Harbor: Dublin Murder Squad, Book 4 | [Tana French]
    Broken Harbor: Dublin Murder Squad, Book 4
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    Broken Harbor: Dublin Murder Squad, Book 4

    • UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 59 mins)
    • By Tana French
    • Narrated By Stephen Hogan
    Overall
    (1484)
    Performance
    (1258)
    Story
    (1231)

    In Broken Harbor, all but one member of the Spain family lies dead, and it’s up to Mick “Scorcher” Kennedy to find out why. Mick must piece together why their house is full of cameras pointed at holes in the walls and how a nighttime intruder bypassed all the locks. Meanwhile, the town of Broken Harbor holds something else for Mick: disturbing memories of a childhood summer gone terribly wrong.

    Miller says: "Best in the Series"
    "great story"
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    Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

    I would recommend. Great story with lots of twists and turns and psychological analysis


    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel, Book 19 | [James Lee Burke]
    Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel, Book 19
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    Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel, Book 19

    • UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 11 mins)
    • By James Lee Burke
    • Narrated By Will Patton
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (1202)
    Performance
    (1033)
    Story
    (998)

    Creole Belle begins where the last book in the Dave Robicheaux series, The Glass Rainbow, ended. Dave is in a recovery unit in New Orleans, where a Creole girl named Tee Jolie Melton visits him and leaves him an iPod with the country blues song “Creole Belle” on it. Then she disappears. Dave becomes obsessed with the song and the memory of Tee Jolie and goes in search of her sister, who later turns up inside a block of ice floating in the Gulf.

    Melinda says: "Burke & Patton -- Synergistic Phenomenon"
    "marvelous language and descriptions"
    Overall
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    Story
    What did you like about this audiobook?

    James Burke writes using wonderful descriptions, adjectives and a complete and vast expanse of vocabulary.


    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Blood's a Rover | [James Ellroy]
    Blood's a Rover
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    Blood's a Rover

    • UNABRIDGED (26 hrs and 10 mins)
    • By James Ellroy
    • Narrated By Craig Wasson
    Overall
    (94)
    Performance
    (26)
    Story
    (25)

    Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at the vortex of History.

    Christopher says: "Ellroy is a magician"
    "trash literature"
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    This book is not worthy to be proclaimed as literature. The writing is jerky, unconnected and entirely without merit. Further, the language and references in the book are gender, religion and race denigrating. I wasted my money on this book and would not recommend it to anyone.

    0 of 2 people found this review helpful
  • The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel | [James Lee Burke]
    The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
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    The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 8 mins)
    • By James Lee Burke
    • Narrated By Will Patton
    Overall
    (2220)
    Performance
    (396)
    Story
    (387)

    Dave Robicheaux returns in another Bayou adventure, this one more gruesome and gut-wrenching than any that have come before. Hurricane Katrina has ravaged New Orleans, leaving the streets and buildings flooded and the city awash with opportunists, looters, and vicious criminals. There is no order, no law. Police are shooting randomly at innocent people, prison guards have abandoned their posts, and bodies float through the streets and hang from trees.

    Deborah says: "How Does One Manage?"
    "cornelia"
    Overall
    Performance
    Story

    Wonderful plot. Wonderful characters. Great read and listen.

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Story | [Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes]
    Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Story
    UNABRIDGED

    Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Story

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 32 mins)
    • By Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes
    • Narrated By Richard Allen
    Overall
    (71)
    Performance
    (9)
    Story
    (9)

    In this hot and steamy mystery, Tennyson is an actor struggling to hang on to his career and redeem his sex-for-pay history, which estranged him from his family, especially his father, a decorated LAPD captain who raised Tennyson to call him "Sir". Now, in the wake of his father's sudden stroke, Tennyson has to save himself from taking the fall for a murder. In the process, he discovers his hidden talents - the hard way.

    James Gordon says: "What's The Beef?"
    "context"
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    I did not enjoy this particular book because it was shallow in content, used way too much descriptive sexual activity that just seemed to be thrown in without much advancement of the plot.
    Did enjoy the development of the main characters.

    0 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • The Big Bad Wolf | [James Patterson]
    The Big Bad Wolf
    UNABRIDGED

    The Big Bad Wolf

    • UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 13 mins)
    • By James Patterson
    • Narrated By Peter J. Fernandez, Denis O'Hare
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (746)
    Performance
    (140)
    Story
    (147)

    Alex Cross' first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold. And it looks like a shadowy figure known as the Wolf, a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organized crime, is behind this business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves.

    Ed says: "Alex Cross returns"
    "big bad wolf"
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    another great Cross mystery. Can't wait for the next one. Patterson as always mixes high suspense, romance and family in a win-win plot.

    2 of 3 people found this review helpful

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