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M. Solis

Malena

Yucatan, MX | Member Since 2007

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  • He Shall Thunder in the Sky: The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 12 | [Elizabeth Peters]
    He Shall Thunder in the Sky: The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 12
    UNABRIDGED

    He Shall Thunder in the Sky: The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 12

    • UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 7 mins)
    • By Elizabeth Peters
    • Narrated By Barbara Rosenblat
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (485)
    Performance
    (190)
    Story
    (194)

    In her best-selling Amelia Peabody mysteries, author Elizabeth Peters has created an award-winning mixture of vivid archeological detail, finely-tuned suspense, and witty romance. This, the 12th Amelia Peabody mystery, opens in 1914. As the tides of war rise, Egypt is threatened by attacks. Espionage abounds, pulling in several members of the Peabody Emerson household even as they embark on a new archeological season.

    iphone reader says: "Excellent!"
    "My favorite"
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    After reading reading most of the series, 2 last books pending, this is my favorite one, I have listened several times and enjoyed more each time, funny and intriguing.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Yard | [Alex Grecian]
    The Yard
    UNABRIDGED

    The Yard

    • UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 42 mins)
    • By Alex Grecian
    • Narrated By Toby Leonard Moore
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (323)
    Performance
    (287)
    Story
    (285)

    Victorian London is a cesspool of crime, and Scotland Yard has only 12 detectives - known as “The Murder Squad” - to investigate thousands of murders every month. Created after the Metropolitan Police’s spectacular failure to capture Jack the Ripper, The Murder Squad suffers rampant public contempt. They have failed their citizens. When Walter Day, the squad’s newest hire, is assigned the case of the murdered detective, he finds a strange ally in the Yard’s first forensic pathologist, Dr. Bernard Kingsley.

    Debra says: "Enjoyable annoying book"
    "Enjoyable"
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    Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

    Yes, very entertaining, characters to care about.


    What other book might you compare The Yard to and why?

    The Sherlock Holmes series, about the same period, crime suspense, investigation.


    What does Toby Leonard Moore bring to the story that you wouldn???t experience if you just read the book?

    Giving voice to the different characters makes you care more for them


    Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

    Just the final chapters


    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Fall: Book Two of the Strain Trilogy | [Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan]
    The Fall: Book Two of the Strain Trilogy
    UNABRIDGED

    The Fall: Book Two of the Strain Trilogy

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 31 mins)
    • By Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan
    • Narrated By Daniel Oreskes
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (1095)
    Performance
    (575)
    Story
    (578)

    Last week they invaded Manhattan. This week they will destroy the world. The vampiric virus unleashed in The Strain has taken over New York City. It is spreading and soon will envelop the globe. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweather - head of the Centers for Disease Control's team - leads a band out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late.

    James says: "The Bar is Raised"
    "Good sequel, can't wait for the third book"
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    I loved The Strain, I listened to it several times, so I was waiting for this realease; I liked a lot but I still prefer the first book, I'm looking forward for the third installment and find out how Dr. Goodweather copes with the challenge.
    I miss Ron Perlman,a work by Del Toro is not complete without him.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | [Haruki Murakami]
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    UNABRIDGED

    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

    • UNABRIDGED (26 hrs and 6 mins)
    • By Haruki Murakami
    • Narrated By Rupert Degas
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (1113)
    Performance
    (495)
    Story
    (496)

    Toru Okada is going through a difficult time. He is without a job, his cat has disappeared, and his wife is behaving strangely. Into this unbalanced world comes a variety of curious characters, a young girl sunbathing in a nearby garden; sisters who are very peculiar indeed; an old war veteran with a violent, disturbing story. Okada retreats to a deep well in a nearby house. And the story unfolds.

    Shelley says: "Bizarre"
    "My first Murakami experience"
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    I loved the book, I did not know what to expect so it was a wonderful surprise, never boring always intriguing and very interesting; loved the characters. I already bought Kafka on the Shore and Norwegian Wood, can't wait to start listening.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Cuentos Tibetanos | [Yosano Sim]
    Cuentos Tibetanos
    UNABRIDGED

    Cuentos Tibetanos

    • UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 2 mins)
    • By Yosano Sim
    • Narrated By George Bass
    Overall
    (15)
    Performance
    (8)
    Story
    (8)

    La filosofía tibetana ama la calma, la pax, un estado perfecto para lograr la correcta reflexión que nos permite interiorizar y nos conduce, a través de cuentos y sencillos relatos (como los incluidos en este libro), a lo más hondo de nuestro ser. La búsqueda de uno mismo jamás de detiene. Las narraciones de esta obra y las reflexiones que las acompañan pueden suponer un simple entretenimiento, pero también un punto de inflexión que nos haga ver el mundo desde perspectivas diferentes.

    Ignacio says: "Un poco mas que regular"
    "Good stories but..."
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    The tibetan stories are excellent but the comentator doesn't leave room to draw the reader's own conclusions it offers a pont of view even before the story is finished, is very annoying, I stopped listening.

    1 of 2 people found this review helpful
  • The Graveyard Book | [Neil Gaiman]
    The Graveyard Book
    UNABRIDGED

    The Graveyard Book

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
    • By Neil Gaiman
    • Narrated By Neil Gaiman
    Overall
    (434)
    Performance
    (229)
    Story
    (230)

    When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still looking for him - after all, he is the last remaining member of the family.

    Tim says: "Wonderful story, brilliant writing and narration"
    "Excellent!"
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    Very enjoyable, excellent characters and good messages for young readers and older too. The narrator was also very good.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Nineteen Seventy Four: Red Riding Quartet | [David Peace]
    Nineteen Seventy Four: Red Riding Quartet
    UNABRIDGED

    Nineteen Seventy Four: Red Riding Quartet

    • UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 16 mins)
    • By David Peace
    • Narrated By Saul Reichlin
    Overall
    (236)
    Performance
    (45)
    Story
    (47)

    Jeanette Garland, missing Castleford, July 1969. Susan Ridyard, missing Rochdale, March 1972. Claire Kemplay, missing Morley, since yesterday. It’s winter, 1974, Yorkshire, Christmas bombs, Lord Lucan on the run, the Bay City Rollers, and Eddie Dunford’s got the job he wanted – crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Evening Post. He didn’t know it was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with a swan’s wings stitched into her back. A gypsy camp in a ring of fire. Corruption everywhere you look.

    Lori says: "Disturbing, Uncomfortable - Real Crime Fiction"
    "Violent but good reading"
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    At first I found the violence, especially toward women, hard to listen to, but the plot is very good in the final balance.

    2 of 2 people found this review helpful
  • The Virgin Blue | [Tracy Chevalier]
    The Virgin Blue
    UNABRIDGED

    The Virgin Blue

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 30 mins)
    • By Tracy Chevalier
    • Narrated By Laurel Lefkow
    Overall
    (16)
    Performance
    (2)
    Story
    (2)

    This is the compelling story of two women, born centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them. Ella Turner tries hard to fit into the small, close-knit community of the French town that she has moved to. She even changes her name back to Tournier, and knocks the rust off her high-school French. However, isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry, with heart-wrenching results.

    Siri-Mette Amble says: "A nice enought read"
    "nothing extraordinary"
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    Being fan of Umberto Eco I expect a lot of historical novels, this one is only entertaining but I kept thinking it would exploit more on some of the subjects, like the historical background or maybe the magical theme or something about reincarnation, so it would not end up too superficial; the narrator's voice changes in some chapters, it sounds like a total different person.

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • The Strain | [Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan]
    The Strain
    UNABRIDGED

    The Strain

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 36 mins)
    • By Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan
    • Narrated By Ron Perlman
    Overall
    (1805)
    Performance
    (763)
    Story
    (772)

    The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan's Labyrinth and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event.

    Frank says: "Painful to get through"
    "Vampire update"
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    A modern Bram Stroker Dracula and more, excellent!!

    1 of 2 people found this review helpful
  • World Without End | [Ken Follett]
    World Without End
    UNABRIDGED

    World Without End

    • UNABRIDGED (45 hrs and 38 mins)
    • By Ken Follett
    • Narrated By John Lee
    Overall
    (7549)
    Performance
    (2038)
    Story
    (2062)

    In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, set in 12th-century England. Readers and listeners ever since have hoped for a sequel. At last, here it is. Although the two novels may be listened to in any order, World Without End also takes place in Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building their exquisite Gothic cathedral. The cathedral is again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge.

    Laura says: "Repetitive, but still enjoyable"
    "A book without end"
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    I liked The Pillars... so I was interested in reading the sequel, it's tooooo long, the story is good but innecessarily long, maybe the abridged version it's a better option.
    Still after reading Ken Follet's works, definitely Umberto Eco is the king.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
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