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InsideADog

Goleta, CA | Member Since 2009

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  • 12 reviews
  • 36 ratings
  • 202 titles in library
  • 16 purchased in 2013
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  • Let the Great World Spin

    • UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 16 mins)
    • By Colum McCann
    • Narrated By Richard Poe, Gerard Doyle, Carol Monda, and others
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (924)
    Performance
    (285)
    Story
    (290)

    A Pushcart Prize-winning author and contributor to the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, and GQ, Colum McCann is renowned for his carefully constructed character studies. No exception, Let the Great World Spin follows the fortunes of a menagerie of New Yorkers through a day in 1974 - the day of Philippe Petit's death defying tightrope walk between the newly built Twin Towers.

    Robert says: "An essential addition to your Audible library."
    "Thoroghly Enjoyed"
    Overall
    Performance
    Story

    I thought this story was well written, put together with intrigue, and told in a poignant manner. I enjoyed the variety of readers and felt they were well matched to their parts. My parents were both born in NY and I have visted many times. It was a strong look at the city and the people of that city. After finishing I found myself wanting to know more about the development of the story. I highly recommend this listening.

    4 of 4 people found this review helpful
  • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

    • UNABRIDGED (8 hrs)
    • By Anthony Bourdain
    • Narrated By Anthony Bourdain
    Overall
    (2877)
    Performance
    (824)
    Story
    (816)

    Last summer, The New Yorker published chef Anthony Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." Now, the author uses the same "take-no-prisoners" attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable audiobook, sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike.

    Holly says: "Kitchen Confidential"
    "Great Fun"
    Overall
    Performance
    Story

    This book could drag if read slowly and carefully, but Anthony keeps the pace lively and the text flying at you adding to the point of the story. Lots of Laugh Our Loud places and great information. Enjoyed this book.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Beautiful Ruins

    • UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 53 mins)
    • By Jess Walter
    • Narrated By Edoardo Ballerini
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (3780)
    Performance
    (3253)
    Story
    (3233)

    The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot - searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.

    Cindy says: "Best Mistake I Ever Made On Audible..."
    "Has Become One of My Favorites"
    Overall
    Performance
    Story

    I loved the story and really loved the reader. I found the jumping around in time easy to follow and found myself loving and caring about the characters. It seems so believable, I didn't want it to end.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • House Rules

    • UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 55 mins)
    • By Jodi Picoult
    • Narrated By Mark Turetsky, Nicole Poole, Andy Paris, and others
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (2659)
    Performance
    (901)
    Story
    (900)

    One of America’s most popular authors, Jodi Picoult has earned a reputation for crafting riveting, topical fiction. In House Rules she examines how being different can have dire consequences. Teenager Jacob Hunt has Asperger’s syndrome. A forensic science wizard, he follows his scanner to show up at crime scenes and give law enforcement officials his advice.

    Charlotte says: "Great book until the ending"
    "Maybe Not Fair To Compare, But"
    Overall
    Performance
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    I feel like I should say I endured this book. It was long the readers were good, but oh did they read slowly. The story develops so slowly and the historical back flashes go on right to the last 20 minutes. I couldn't help but compare it to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. That book had a similar subject, dealing with autism and there being a mystery to be solved, but after that, no comparison. Curious Incident was much better and had a much more salient conclusion. House Rules left me saying, Meh, Really? Sorry I wasted my time.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

    • UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 51 mins)
    • By Sherman Alexie
    • Narrated By Sherman Alexie
    Overall
    (887)
    Performance
    (390)
    Story
    (393)

    Born poor and hydrocephalic, Arnold Spirit survives brain surgery. But his enormous skull, lopsided eyes, profound stuttering, and frequent seizures target him for abuse on his Indian reservation. Protected by a formidable friend, the book-loving artist survives childhood. And then - convinced his future lies off the rez - the bright 14-year-old enrolls in an all-white high school 22 miles away.

    Darwin8u says: "Best Kids Books Are Written in Blood"
    "Great Listen"
    Overall
    Performance
    Story

    This story was at once funny, tragic, silly and heartwarming. The reading was perfect. I would recommend this to anyone who appreciates understanding about our fellow humans.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Shatner Rules: Your Key to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large

    • UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 27 mins)
    • By William Shatner, Chris Regan
    • Narrated By William Shatner
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (257)
    Performance
    (243)
    Story
    (243)

    Admit it. You want to BE William Shatner. This collection of rules, illustrated with stories from Bill’s illustrious life and career, will show you how Bill became WILLIAM SHATNER, larger than life and bigger than any role he ever played. Shatner Rules is your guide to becoming William Shatner. Or, more accurately, beautifully Shatneresque.

    Jacli says: "William Shatner DOES Rule!"
    "A Good Time Waster"
    Overall
    Performance
    Story

    This is good for some laughs and Shatner insight. Nice to get some of his biography. At 80 he has earned the right to be full of himself, and he is. Wish he read it a bit slower and less mumbly, but it was mostly understandable. There is a way too long section read in Spanglish. Can't even figure what that was all about or why he bothered.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Night Circus

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 39 mins)
    • By Erin Morgenstern
    • Narrated By Jim Dale
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (4737)
    Performance
    (4194)
    Story
    (4180)

    The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

    Pamela says: "The circus of your dreams"
    "My Favorite In A Long Time"
    Overall
    Performance
    Story

    The Night Circus was a great feeling for my inner child. I found myself wanting to go to that circus. Trying to figure out if a circus like that could really exist. The author’s descriptions were a feast for the mind. I also loved the story, it was fresh and intriguing without undue violence. Lastly, is Jim Dale. Always a brilliant reader does not disappoint in this book.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Graveyard Book

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 47 mins)
    • By Neil Gaiman
    • Narrated By Neil Gaiman
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (5225)
    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"
    "A Fun Listen"
    Overall
    Performance
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    A fresh idea for a story. Left a good feeling. At least one chapter was good but didn't tie in to the story. Other than that, left me wanting a sequel.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Kitchen House: A Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 55 mins)
    • By Kathleen Grissom
    • Narrated By Orlagh Cassidy, Bahni Turpin
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (5230)
    Performance
    (3341)
    Story
    (3324)

    Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin. Eventually, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction.

    Margaret says: "For the love of all things Holy, READ THIS!!!"
    "Good Story"
    Overall
    Performance
    Story

    This was well read and well written. A difficult subject done well. The author did a nice job tying it all together. Some was a bit predictable, but overall good.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • 11-22-63: A Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (30 hrs and 44 mins)
    • By Stephen King
    • Narrated By Craig Wasson
    Overall
    (13147)
    Performance
    (11533)
    Story
    (11474)

    On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King - who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer - takes listeners on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.

    Kelly says: "I Owe Stephen King An Apology"
    "Sorry I Spent the Time"
    Overall
    Performance
    Story

    This story was so repetatitve with so much detail throughout leading to nearly nothing and certainly no purpose in the end. Gosh Mr. King, couldn't you have been a bit more creative with this great concept? Then there is the reader. Must have been paid by the hour because he read soooo slowly. I would not recommend this book.

    0 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 58 mins)
    • By Isabel Allende
    • Narrated By S. Epatha Merkerson
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (490)
    Performance
    (143)
    Story
    (145)

    Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarit - known as Tt - is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tt finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves.

    Madelaine says: "good story, ok narration"
    "Interesting"
    Overall
    Performance
    Story

    This was an excellent story and very educational. The reader had a beautiful voice and pronouced all the name and places with a pleasing accent. The negative was the reader's emotions. There weren't any. This is an emotional story and I felt much more could have been read into it. I wished I had read it in print.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful

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