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Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!
“A madcap adventure . . . Adams’s writing teeters on the fringe of inspired lunacy.”—United Press International
Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth’s dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on.
God only knows what it all means. Fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since it’s light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. What else is new?
“The most ridiculously exaggerated situation comedy known to created beings . . . Adams is irresistible.”—The Boston Globe
Critic reviews
"The looniest of the lot."--Time
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"The most ridiculously exaggerated situation comedy known to created beings . . . Adams is irresistible."--The Boston Globe
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On a fateful summer morning in 1986, two 11-year-old girls meet for the first time. By the end of the day, they will both be charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of sickening attacks on young female tourists in a seaside vacation town when her investigation leads her to interview carnival cleaner Amber Gordon. For Kirsty and Amber, it's the first time they've seen each other since that dark day so many years ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I didn't want to like these girls...
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By: Alex Marwood
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Down Cemetery Road
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 136
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Story4 out of 5 stars 137
When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker becomes obsessed with finding her. Accustomed to dull chores in a childless household and hosting her husband’s wearisome business clients for dinner, Sarah suddenly finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew, as her investigation reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not as good as Slough House
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The Eyre Affair
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,179
In Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Worthy Read
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Written in Dead Wax
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He is a record collector and a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the Vinyl Detective, and some people take this more literally than others. For example, the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording on behalf of an extremely wealthy yet shadowy client. And so begins a painful and dangerous odyssey in search of the rarest jazz record of them all....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding narration!
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By: Andrew Cartmel
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London Fields
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- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
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The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing who is intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts; or the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch. As Nicola leads her suitors towards the precipice, London--and, indeed, the whole world--seems to shamble after them in a corrosively funny novel of complexity and morality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Big chewy novel, excellent narration
- By Sand on 08-21-14
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Stories
- All-New Tales
- By: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, Al Sarrantonio - editor, Joe Hill, and others
- Narrated by: Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Something for Everyone
- By Nicole on 05-24-17
By: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, and others
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The Ghost Writer
- A Novel
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Roger Rees
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 587
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Story4 out of 5 stars 590
Adam Lang has been Britain’s longest serving—and most controversial—prime minister of the last half century. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this memoirs, he hires a professional ghostwriter to finish the book. As he sets to work, the ghostwriter discovers many more secrets than Lang intends to reveal, secrets with the power to alter world politics - secrets with the power to kill.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too close to the truth?
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The Brightest Star in the Sky
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The Brightest Star in the Sky follows seven neighbors whose lives become entangled when a sassy and prescient spirit pays a visit to their Dublin townhouse with the intent of changing at least one of their lives. But what will this metamorphosis be and who will the sprite choose?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible sound quality, worse narration
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When the Tripods Came
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 219
The story of The Tripods was the basis of a popular BBC television series in the 1980s, where humanity has been conquered and enslaved by "the tripods", unseen alien entities that travel about in gigantic three-legged walking machines.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Okay, but doesn’t live up to the main trilogy
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Escape to Willow Cottage
- Willow Cottage Series
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- Narrated by: Elisabeth Hopper
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Beth is running away. With her young son, Leo, to protect, Willow Cottage is the lifeline she so desperately needs. Overlooking the village green in a beautiful Cotswolds idyll, Beth sees a warm, caring and safe place for little Leo. When she finally uncovers the cottage from underneath the boughs of a weeping willow tree, Beth realises this is far more of a project than she bargained for, and the locals are more than a little eccentric!
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4 out of 5 stars
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good but misleading description - features abuse
- By dc customer on 04-01-22
By: Bella Osborne
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Enchanted Glass
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- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 331
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 281
The mysterious Stalkers show up at almost the same instant 12-year-old Aiden Cain’s grandmother dies. Following his grandmother’s instructions, Aiden decides to seek out a powerful sorcerer at Melstone House. Yet when he arrives, he discovers the man died a year earlier. Melstone House now belongs to the sorcerer’s adult grandson Andrew, who agrees to help Aiden with the Stalker problem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magic and Ordinary Life
- By Gentle Reader Jill on 01-24-11
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The Bone Clocks
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,053
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,626
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,634
Following a scalding row with her mother, 15-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as "the radio people," Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Short Listed, This Time
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By: David Mitchell
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The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4 out of 5 stars 41
In 1943, when the United States learns that Germany is on the verge of a deadly innovation that could tip the balance of the war, the government turns to an unlikely source for help: the nation’s top science fiction writers. Installed at a covert military lab within the Philadelphia Naval Yard are the most brilliant of these young visionaries. The unruly band is led by Robert Heinlein, the dashing and complicated master of the genre. His “Kamikaze Group,” is tasked with transforming the wonders of science fiction into science fact....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pulp Perfection!
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By: Paul Malmont
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In a Cottage in a Wood
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,183
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,078
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,079
Neve comes across a troubled woman called Isabelle on Waterloo Bridge late one night. Isabelle forces a parcel into Neve's hands and jumps to her death in the icy Thames below. Two weeks later, as Neve's wreck of a life in London collapses, an unexpected lifeline falls into her lap - a charming cottage in Cornwall left to her by Isabelle, the woman on the bridge. The solution to all her problems.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listen with a Light On!
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By: Cass Green
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Doughnut
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- Narrated by: Ray Sawyer
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 398
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 354
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Story4 out of 5 stars 357
Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at work has lost him his job (and his work involved a Very Very Large Hadron Collider, so he's unlikely to get it back). His wife has left him. And he doesn't have any money. Before Theo has time to fully appreciate the pointlessness of his own miserable existence, news arrives that his good friend, a renowned physicist and Nobel laureate, has died. By leaving the apparently worthless contents of his safety deposit box to Theo, however, the professor has set him on a quest of epic proportions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fun world for scifantasy fans
- By illgnosis on 06-19-13
By: Tom Holt
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The Reluctant Adventures of Fletcher Connolly on the Interstellar Railroad
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,727
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,558
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Fletcher Connolly hasn't got a lot to lose. Since he and half the galaxy signed on to the rat race of the technological relics trade, Fletch has come to terms with the idea that he will join the ranks of unlucky explorers that perish light years from home without a dime to his name. But bankruptcy is a great motivator. With friends and family counting on him to strike it rich, Fletch embarks on an unwilling quest for alien treasure.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I wanted to love this book, but I did like it
- By wag more on 07-26-18
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The Christmas Secret
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Alex Hyde is the leaders' leader. An executive coach par excellence, she's the person the great and the good turn to when the pressure gets too much; she can change the way they think, how they operate, she can turn around the very fortunes of their companies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Was the narrator Nurse Turner?
- By Sally on 12-24-17
By: Karen Swan
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Story5 out of 5 stars 660
The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. Included on the recording are several shorter works. The Ainulindalë is a myth of the Creation and in the Valaquenta the nature and powers of each of the gods is described. The Akallabêth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Númenor at the end of the Second Age, and Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age.
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- By Anonymous User on 06-29-23
By: J. R. R. Tolkien, and others
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The Sun Also Rises
- By: Ernest Hemingway, Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: William Hurt
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, The Sun Also Rises introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. In his first great literary masterpiece, Hemingway portrays an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions.
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Great actor, terrible reader, kills classic
- By Kerry on 09-14-14
By: Ernest Hemingway, and others
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Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
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This classic deserves better
- By Matthew Salvo on 07-01-21
By: Frank Herbert
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
- A Song of Ice and Fire
- By: George R. R. Martin
- Narrated by: Harry Lloyd
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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A young, naïve but ultimately courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall towers above his rivals—in stature if not experience. Tagging along is his diminutive squire, a boy called Egg—whose true name is hidden from all he and Dunk encounter. Though more improbable heroes may not be found in all of Westeros, great destinies lay ahead for these two . . . as do powerful foes, royal intrigue, and outrageous exploits. Featuring more than 160 all-new illustrations by Gary Gianni, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a must-have collection that proves chivalry isn’t dead—yet.
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What separates Lloyd from Dotrice
- By Pusang Tulog on 10-14-15
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Storm Front
- The Dresden Files, Book 1
- By: Jim Butcher
- Narrated by: James Marsters
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A call from a distraught wife, and another from Lt. Murphy of the Chicago PD Special Investigation Unit makes Harry believe things are looking up, but they are about to get worse, much worse. Someone is harnessing immense supernatural forces to commit a series of grisly murders. Someone has violated the first law of magic: Thou Shalt Not Kill. Tracking that someone takes Harry into the dangerous underbelly of Chicago, from mobsters to vampires....
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Excellent Story, Distracting Sound Engineering
- By Tom on 05-20-10
By: Jim Butcher
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Interview with the Vampire
- By: Anne Rice
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,473
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We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks--as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead. . . He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently . . . carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir--young, romantic, cultivated--to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister Lestat into the other, the "endless," life....
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New Editions!
- By A. Sentoni on 06-04-11
By: Anne Rice
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Columbus Day
- Expeditionary Force, Book 1
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47,951
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We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved.
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WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 01-04-17
By: Craig Alanson
What listeners say about So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
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- Keisha Dennis
- 08-04-20
loved it.
I love this series from the content to how well the narrator's is versed st keeping my interest. The books are eccentric but fascinating.
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- Preston
- 03-31-19
delightfully funny
Mr. Adams does it again. This time we get a nice look into Arthur's life as a (relatively) normal human in Earth. new characters are introduced, old are sunset and Adam's off topic ramblings will knock you off your chair with laughter again.
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- Lynn
- 01-18-24
Narrated by Arthur Dent
it got a boring in the middle. it's not as funny as the previous entries by Addams but still enjoyable
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- Andrew
- 09-06-18
One of the Better Stories
In my opinion, So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish is one of the better stories in the Hitchhiker’s Guide collection. Granted, it strays away from Zaphod and Trillian - barely mentioning them - as well as Ford, but it does go into romance for Arthur. I’m not a fellow into romantic novels, but the subtlety of Arthur’s yearning for companionship and his chance to take hold of it are great.
It is important to keep in mind that much of what takes place in this story has very little to do with the previous stories, and there even some conflict in timeline if you consider the story to be part of a series. But, this and the other stories - Hitchhiker’s Guide..., Restaurant..., Life..., Mostly Harmless - were written independently of each other. So, it’s best to know a little background and read them as independent stories.
Douglas Adams had an amazingly creative mind. So creative that, if you thought he hadn’t imagined a thing in his life and put it to paper, you would be as wrong as a person trying to hail a taxi with just a middle finger. Such sentences as the previous one was certainly his style and, though they can be exhausting after a while, and sometimes they distract from the story, it is only for a moment and you’re amazing at the man’s imagination. (I am, at least.)
Martin Freeman did a wonderful job narrating this story, also. Well done!
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- Vincent J Cotroneo
- 06-13-18
best... Other than the first
love the first book... The second was good too... Struggled with the Third... But this one was almost as much of a masterpieces the first
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- sharonme
- 07-21-19
Imaginative!
Such a unique universe. Quirky, fun, and loveable characters. And Freeman brings them all to life.
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- Maddy DiMarzio
- 07-12-18
Great series!
I love these books and Martin Freeman is great! I can't wait to listen to the last book! The author has such a great sense of humor. Even breaking the 4th wall in a BOOK! lol 📚👍
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- Derek Kruger
- 10-04-21
great series
Adams is a genius it ages well the British humor is spectacular need more
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- Justin C Trautmann
- 12-21-18
Would you like to buy a raffle ticket?
I'd buy a raffle ticket if it meant avoiding a sorry-for-the-imperialism sandwich. Hold the mayo.
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- Joseph Demartino
- 08-06-18
My favorite book in the series
This is my favorite book in the series. Very well written. Douglas Adams was a genius.
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