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Will

Cochrane, AB, Canada | Member Since 2005

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475 titles in library
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For the Time Being

UNABRIDGED
- by Annie Dillard
- Narrated by David Birney
For the Time Being

UNABRIDGED (6 hrs)

By Annie Dillard

Narrated By David Birney

Overall
(31)
Performance
(3)
Story
(3)
Dan says: "Amazing Books, Ignorant Reader"
"sadly awful"

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This is one of the best books I've ever read, and I've read it four or five times, each time discovering new insight and new mystery in its inter-related sections. So I was delighted to see it on Audible, but sadly, the reader is terrible. All the thoughtful, questioning, spiritual objectivity of this beautiful book is lost in his ponderous intonation. Find us another reader and I'll happily buy the book again.

4 of 5 people found this review helpful
Specimen Song: A Gabriel Du Pre Mystery, Book 2

UNABRIDGED
- by Peter Bowen
- Narrated by Jim Meskimen
Specimen Song: A Gabriel Du Pre Mystery, Book 2

UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 50 mins)

By Peter Bowen

Narrated By Jim Meskimen

Overall
(15)
Performance
(13)
Story
(13)

A lost and frightened horse plods down the National Mall, startling the crowd. When Gabriel Du Pré spots the confused animal, the connection is immediate, for neither of these creatures belongs in the sweltering heat of a DC summer. Du Pré, a Métis Indian from the wilds of Montana, calms the horse and leads it to the nearest policeman. Du Pré is in Washington to play his people’s music for a Smithsonian festival, but after leading the horse to safety, he encounters a murder instead.
Patroo says: "The difference between reading & performing"
"Meskimen inhabits Dupré, and Bowen's whole world"

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I've liked the Peter Bowen Montana mysteries for a long time, but these new recordings by Jim Meskimen outdo the old ones by a long long mile. Meskimen 's reading is head and shoulders better than the earlier versions—he allows us to see how good the writing is in these plain prairie tales, complicated by mystical interruptions from the venerable Benetsee. Bowen's humour comes shining through here, and so does the genuine clean air of that Montana landscape. Very highly recommended.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful
A Change of Heir

UNABRIDGED
- by Michael Innes
- Narrated by Matt Bates
A Change of Heir

UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 55 mins)

By Michael Innes

Narrated By Matt Bates

Whispersync for Voice-ready

Overall
(3)
Performance
(3)
Story
(3)

George Gadberry, "resting actor", packs his bags and heads for obscurity when the tax inspector beckons. Then he receives a mysterious invitation and a proposition that could lead to enormous riches. Wealthy imbiber Nicholas Comberford wants George to impersonate him in order to secure a place in the will of fabulously affluent Great-Aunt Prudence, who lives in a Cistercian monastery and won't allow a single drop of liquor in the place. Gadberry's luck seems to have changed - but at what cost?
Will says: "Not Innes's very best—try Allingham first"
"Not Innes's very best—try Allingham first"

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There's always a certain weird charm about Michael Innes's mysteries—they're interior, as well as intellectual. This one is almost entirely interior, but the person we inhabit is a two-bit actor, down on his luck, venal and weak. It's a long time to spend being so closely inside his head. Well read, but for a much more delightful run at this kind of plot (lost heirs, mistaken identities, clergymen with a taste for the occult) try Sweet Danger, by Margery Allingham, a fabulous and often very funny rural-Ruritania romp. (And listen to other Inneses first, the brilliant Appleby ones, like Hamlet, Revenge or Silence Observed.)

0 of 0 people found this review helpful
The Wandering Fire: The Fionavar Tapestry, Book 2

UNABRIDGED
- by Guy Gavriel Kay
- Narrated by Simon Vance
The Wandering Fire: The Fionavar Tapestry, Book 2

UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 51 mins)

By Guy Gavriel Kay

Narrated By Simon Vance

Overall
(170)
Performance
(92)
Story
(91)

A mage's power has brought five university students from our world into a realm where an ancient evil has freed itself from captivity to wreak revenge on its enemies.
Katherine says: "heavy"
"Great fantasy, exquisitely told"

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This fantasy cycle, which concludes with The Darkest Road (not yet available on Audible, so brace yourself for a wait), is the very best of the genre. The epic battle brewing between Light and Dark is made more bitter by the addition of the Arthurian story, worked out once again here in the first of all the worlds, Fionavar. A magnificent series. But WHERE IS PART THREE!??

1 of 1 people found this review helpful
The Summer Tree: The Fionavar Tapestry, Book 1

UNABRIDGED
- by Guy Gavriel Kay
- Narrated by Simon Vance
The Summer Tree: The Fionavar Tapestry, Book 1

UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 3 mins)

By Guy Gavriel Kay

Narrated By Simon Vance

Overall
(268)
Performance
(126)
Story
(129)

The Summer Tree is the first novel of Guy Gavriel Kay's critically acclaimed fantasy trilogy, The Fionavar Tapestry. Five university students embark on a journey of self-discovery when they enter a realm of wizards and warriors, gods and mythical creatures - and good and evil...
Nissa says: "Obviously the first book of three"
"Brilliant, but where is part 3??!!!"

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The Fionavar trilogy outstrips Lord of the Rings in its own field. This is the most fully-imagined, fully-realized epic in the whole of the genre, and a must-listen for anyone who loves intelligent, spell-binding fantasy. The narration is a bit stiff off the top but soon warms. But WHERE IS PART THREE??? We are hanging on by our fingertips waiting for it.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Latter End

UNABRIDGED
- by Patricia Wentworth
- Narrated by Diana Bishop
Latter End

UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 21 mins)

By Patricia Wentworth

Narrated By Diana Bishop

Overall
(58)
Performance
(26)
Story
(25)

Things had never been quite the same at Latter End since Lois had taken over. Suddenly life seemed to be an endless succession of bitter family rows - which Lois, needless to say, invariably won. More than one person at Latter End found themselves stretched to the limit by Lois and her bullying, and it was only a matter of time before somebody snapped.
Mary says: "Hurrah for Miss Silver!"
"Very very good"

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This is just lovely, a good plain classic mystery beautifully read by Diana Bishop. Let's hope the other twenty or so Miss Silver mysteries follow quickly.

3 of 3 people found this review helpful
The Gate of Angels

UNABRIDGED
- by Penelope Fitzgerald
- Narrated by Nadia May
The Gate of Angels

UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 10 mins)

By Penelope Fitzgerald

Narrated By Nadia May

Overall
(10)
Performance
(3)
Story
(3)

It is 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate. In lecture halls and laboratories, the model of a universe governed by the Mind of God is at last giving way to something wholly rational, a universe governed by the Laws of Physics. To Fred Fairly, a junior fellow at the College of St. Angelicus, this comes as a great comfort. Science, he is certain, will soon explain everything.
Will says: "quiet brilliance"
"quiet brilliance"

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Nobody conveys the ordinary sense of life within a time like Penelope Fitzgerald. Here, her characters balance on the cusp of scientific and religious thought before the First World War, trying to reconcile the atom and the existence or non-existence of God; or, in the case of Daisy, getting on with it and carving a place for her own fierce physical presence in a dry, intellectual, uninvolved world.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful