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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Robert Prentice has spent all his life attempting to escape his mother's stifling presence. His mother, Alice, for her part, struggles with her own demons as she attempts to realize her dreams of prosperity and success as a sculptor. As Robert goes off to fight in Europe, hoping to become his own man, Richard Yates portrays a soldier in the depths of war striving to live up to his heroic ideals.
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Dark
- By Barbara or Jerold Gendler on 11-30-22
By: Richard Yates
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Outside Looking In
- A Novel
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- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Story4 out of 5 stars 183
In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology PhD student, and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug’s possibilities such that their “research” becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a freewheeling exploration of mind expansion, group dynamics, and communal living.
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5 out of 5 stars
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STORYTELLING AS CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING
- By Christopher Meeks on 05-25-19
By: T. C. Boyle
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The Great Gatsby
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- Narrated by: Tim Robbins
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- Unabridged
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 47
Set against a backdrop of jazz music, bootlegging, and lavish parties, The Great Gatsby is the story of Midwesterner Nick Carraway’s curious introduction to the decadent world of his mysterious, wealthy neighbor Jay Gatsby, whose thirst for riches is matched only by his tragic obsession with the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. This dangerously propulsive tale of glitz and glamour continues to be relevant as listeners long for escapist novels—a chance to flee into Gatsby’s famed mansion and lose oneself in the rush of opulence.
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Alive and Wild! I finished it same day.
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Divided Minds
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intense!
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Wolff here returns with fresh revelations - about biding one's time, or experiencing first love, or burying one's mother - that come to a variety of characters in circumstances at once everyday and extraordinary. A retired Marine enrolls in college while her son trains for Iraq. A lawyer takes a difficult deposition. An American in Rome indulges the Gypsy who's picked his pocket.
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Great
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By: Tobias Wolff
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Vita Nostra
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- By: Sergey Dyachenko, Marina Dyachenko, Julia Meitov Hersey - translator
- Narrated by: Jessica Ball
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 402
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Story4 out of 5 stars 401
Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov under the most peculiar circumstances. The teenage girl is powerless to refuse when this strange and unusual man with an air of the sinister directs her to perform a task with potentially scandalous consequences. He rewards her effort with a strange golden coin. As the days progress, Sasha carries out other acts for which she receives more coins from Kozhennikov. As summer ends, her domineering mentor directs her to move to a remote village and use her gold to enter the Institute of Special Technologies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dark but beautiful
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By: Sergey Dyachenko, and others
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Bullet in the Brain
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 250
Anders is an angry, cynical man. A book critic known for his scathing reviews, he finds any excuse to dismiss, belittle, or insult. This afternoon is no more agitating than the next. Angers finds himself in a long line at the bank, waiting to reach a teller. Even after two men - wearing masks and carrying guns - take control of the building, Anders is unfazed. It's this behavior that lands him with a pistol against his stomach and a man screamingin his face. And when the bank robber, indignant over Anders' behavior, shoots the book critic in the head, his mind floats through the memories of his life, settling on one particular event....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Perfect Example
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By: Tobias Wolff
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The Early Ayn Rand
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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This remarkable, newly revised collection of Ayn Rand's early fiction ranges from beginner's exercises to excerpts from early versions of We the Living and The Fountainhead. Arranged chronologically, from 1926 through 1940, these works allow readers to follow the extraordinary trajectory of Rand's literary and intellectual growth, from a 21-year-old Russian immigrant struggling to master English to the brilliant prose stylist and sophisticated philosopher she was to become in her mature work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Want more Rand? Here it is.
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By: Ayn Rand
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Freddy and Fredericka
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Story4 out of 5 stars 213
Best-selling, critically acclaimed author Mark Helprin's work has drawn favorable comparisons to an elite group of literary legends, including James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe, and Thomas Mann. Helprin's sheer comic brilliance shines in this ingenious farce.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can't rate it high enough (and I'm a tough grader)
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By: Mark Helprin
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Fear
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 72
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4 out of 5 stars 52
Professor James Lowry didn’t believe in spirits, or witches, or demons. Not until a gentle spring evening when his hat disappeared, and suddenly he couldn’t remember the last four hours of his life. Now, the quiet university town of Atworthy is changing - slightly at first, then faster and more frighteningly each time he tries to remember.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Best of Hubbard
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The Half-Made World
- By: Felix Gilman
- Narrated by: Tamara Marston
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 108
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Story4 out of 5 stars 108
The world is only half made. What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions: the Line, paving the world with industry and claiming its residents as slaves; and the Gun, a cult of terror and violence that cripples the population with fear. The only hope at stopping them has seemingly disappeared - the Red Republic that once battled the Gun and the Line, and almost won. Now they're just a myth, a bedtime story parents tell their children, of hope.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible Story, Terrible Narrator
- By Aaron on 10-21-10
By: Felix Gilman
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Netherland
- By: Joseph O'Neill
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 327
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 143
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Alone and un-tethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country. Ramkissoon, a Gatsby-like figure who is part idealist and part operator, introduces Hans to an "other" New York populated by immigrants and strivers of every race and nationality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Get Your Post-Colonial Gatsby ON!
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By: Joseph O'Neill
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The Hunters
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Captain Cleve Connell has already made a name for himself among pilots when he arrives in Korea during the war there to fly the newly operational F-86 fighters against the Soviet MIGs. His goal, like that of every fighter pilot, is to chalk up enough kills to become an ace. But things do not turn out as expected.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Hunters
- By Nicholas on 10-25-15
By: James Salter
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Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.
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A Masterpiece
- By Robert on 05-24-13
By: Herman Wouk
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- Rick C Partain
- 02-13-12
Revisting a Modern Classic
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I remember reading this novel in middle school and thought it would be interesting to revisit in audio. It did not disappoint.
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- David
- 10-09-18
Unmatched narration. Beautiful performance.
Beautiful performance of a beautifully written book. by far my favorite audible purchase this far.
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- D. Sidwell
- 02-07-16
A Classic, well told
I enjoyed this book very much. The narrator captured so many of the subtle elements of subtext and symbol. In the end, this well-read classic gets good treatment. Great literature and a good reader.
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- Privacy please
- 10-01-21
meh.
it was an interesting book and taught many good lessons. but I don't like this kind of book. if your into action/sci-fi/etc. then don't read this.
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- Michael
- 08-22-19
A good comming of age story
This book almost seemed like a prequel of the book I just recently read, Catch 22.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-28-17
Great storytelling, not so great story.
The story was delivered amazingly however, I thought the story itself was very underwhelming and depressing.
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- Gregory
- 08-15-19
An important work
The book is well written, insightful, intellectual, sad and true. It covers both adolescent emotions and adult realities. I loved it.
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- LAD
- 01-23-23
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Read this now as a review to what I read in middle school. I honestly didn't remember very much from years and years ago. so I'm glad had the chance to review. but in the end, I didn't care much for the story nor understand why it's considered a classic.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-20-24
Started as a school project: Ended as a life Experience.
Simply speaking, beautiful. A simple story expressing life at its most innocent that steadily grows to something beastly. Each character had such a unique, personal quality to them. I couldn’t fully understand them at times. Thank you, John Knowles, for this beautiful and wondrous masterpiece that turned into a steady, never ending end. This book is more than a school project to me.
P.S. Also, these boys seem to be in love. If you (lightly) squint. Made my heart flutter a little lol
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-07-10
Thoughtful; great character development.
If you're looking for an exciting adventure story--this isn't it. But if you enjoy listening to a slower story that deals with adolescence, peace and war, and the relationships of different personalities, this is a great read. It is well written, thought-provoking, and does a great job drawing emotions that most of us experience but rarely think about.
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