Meet Simon Vance
Vance’s performances have a pied piper quality, able to keep the listener
enthralled over the long haul, no matter the type of story.
Top Performances
Greatest Hits
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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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Overall126,477
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Performance108,986
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Story108,876
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
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Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Nigel Hawthorne, and others
- Length: 35 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,744
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Performance1,526
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Story1,517
At last, a single volume that gathers together all of the short stories featuring Agatha Christie's most famous creation, Hercule Poirot. The dapper, mustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head and curious mannerisms has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century—and...
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Excellent! (List of Narrators)
- By Margaret C. on 02-25-22
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Fire & Blood (HBO Tie-in Edition)
- 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones
- By: George R. R. Martin
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21,255
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Performance18,712
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Story18,639
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work, the inspiration for HBO’s upcoming Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon “The thrill of Fire & Blood is the thrill of all Martin’s fantasy work: familiar myths...
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150 years of Westeros history
- By Kingsley on 11-22-18
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A Day of Judgment
- Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries, Book 25
- By: Charles Todd
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
July, 1921: England is suffering a heatwave and the coast of Northumberland, just across the border from Scotland, is filled with holiday-makers bird watching and enjoying the beaches. Pilgrims also come to visit the home of Saints Cuthbert and Aiden—the founders of Christianity in England—located on the "Holy Island" of Lindisfarne, accessible by a causeway at low tide.
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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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Overall126,477
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Performance108,986
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Story108,876
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
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Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Nigel Hawthorne, and others
- Length: 35 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,744
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Performance1,526
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Story1,517
At last, a single volume that gathers together all of the short stories featuring Agatha Christie's most famous creation, Hercule Poirot. The dapper, mustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head and curious mannerisms has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century—and...
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Excellent! (List of Narrators)
- By Margaret C. on 02-25-22
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Fire & Blood (HBO Tie-in Edition)
- 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones
- By: George R. R. Martin
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21,255
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Performance18,712
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Story18,639
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work, the inspiration for HBO’s upcoming Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon “The thrill of Fire & Blood is the thrill of all Martin’s fantasy work: familiar myths...
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150 years of Westeros history
- By Kingsley on 11-22-18
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A Day of Judgment
- Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries, Book 25
- By: Charles Todd
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
July, 1921: England is suffering a heatwave and the coast of Northumberland, just across the border from Scotland, is filled with holiday-makers bird watching and enjoying the beaches. Pilgrims also come to visit the home of Saints Cuthbert and Aiden—the founders of Christianity in England—located on the "Holy Island" of Lindisfarne, accessible by a causeway at low tide.
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Dune Messiah
- Book Two in the Dune Chronicles
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Euan Morton, Simon Vance, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31,506
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Performance26,872
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Story26,843
The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! Frank Herbert's second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Maud'dib, heir to...
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Good-not-great book, not as fond of the narration
- By Joel D Offenberg on 11-13-09
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By Any Other Name
- A Novel
- By: Jodi Picoult
- Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown, Laura Benanti, Jodi Picoult, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,968
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Performance2,814
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Story2,814
From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about two women, centuries apart—one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—who are both forced to hide behind another name. “You’ll fall in love with Emilia Bassano, the...
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Jodi is in a class of her own
- By Dylan’s wife on 09-07-24
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
- The Heirloom Collection
- By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 58 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9,038
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Performance8,216
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Story8,203
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales are rightly ranked among the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction. Included in this collection are all four full-length Holmes novels and more than forty short masterpieces - from the inaugural adventure A Study in Scarlet to timeless favorites like “The Speckled Band” and more. At the center of each stands the iconic figure of Holmes - brilliant, eccentric, and capable of amazing feats of deductive reasoning.
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A Table of Contents & Audible Part/Chapter Notes
- By SantaFePainter on 11-18-13
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God Emperor of Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12,647
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Performance10,783
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Story10,774
More than 3,000 years have passed since the first events recorded in Dune. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species.
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Almost as good as the original
- By Joel D Offenberg on 12-03-09
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Dracula [Audible Edition]
- By: Bram Stoker
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37,583
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Performance34,043
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Story33,955
The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.
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IS THAT NOT SO?
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-05-15
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Children of Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18,247
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Performance15,539
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Story15,527
The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy.
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great story, more production problems
- By Ziya on 04-22-08
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The Essential Lovecraft
- By: H.P. Lovecraft, Leslie S. Klinger - editor
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Marc Vietor, Scott Brick, and others
- Length: 50 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall157
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Performance137
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Story137
Forty-eight of H.P. Lovecraft’s most important stories are brought together in this collection–available only from Audible–selected and with introductions by the award-winning, best-selling Lovecraft editor Leslie S. Klinger. Howard Philips Lovecraft was the early 20th-century genius who, almost singlehandedly, pioneered horror and scientific fiction, only to die in near-obscurity. Rediscovered by critics and scholars in the 1970s, Lovecraft’s work has influenced—by their own admission—every major horror or science-fiction writer of today.
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introductions ruined it
- By Heath Long on 10-23-24
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Trust No One
- A Thriller
- By: James Rollins
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance25
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Story25
From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of international intrigue comes a shocking new stand-alone thriller that thrusts a group of university students, falsely accused of murder, into a treacherous hunt across Europe, all to unlock the secrets buried within a centuries-old book that could...
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Another great story by Rollins
- By Hillary Schmidt on 03-02-26
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Heretics of Dune
- Dune Chronicles, Book 5
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Simon Vance, Scott Brick
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8,120
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Performance6,942
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Story6,934
On Arrakis, now called Rakis, known to legend as Dune, 10 times 10 centuries have passed. The planet is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying, and the Bene Gesserit and the Bene Tleilax struggle to direct the future of Dune. The children of Dune's children awaken as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love.
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Mixed Feelings
- By John on 12-11-08
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The Vampire Lestat
- The Vampire Chronicles, Book 2
- By: Anne Rice
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7,461
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Performance6,694
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Story6,686
Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him...
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Finally unabridged! Excellently read, great listen
- By Patricia on 06-29-11
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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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Overall12,486
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Performance11,056
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Story11,049
40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, "a magnificent, compulsively readable thriller...Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire” (Chicago...
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New Editions!
- By A. Sentoni on 06-04-11
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The Broken Eye
- By: Brent Weeks
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 29 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11,515
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Performance10,360
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Story10,345
As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find the only man who can still end a civil war before it engulfs the known world in the third novel of the NYT bestselling Lightbringer series by Brent Week. As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races...
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BY ORHOLAM'S BALLS THIS BOOK IS AWESOME!!!
- By Bakerman1016 on 05-14-17
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Chapterhouse Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Euan Morton, Katherine Kellgren, Scott Brick, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,623
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Performance5,645
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Story5,643
The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world—and are tuning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. Chapterhouse Dune is the last book Frank Herbert wrote before his death: A stunning climax to the epic Dune legend that will live on forever.
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Great Story! Horrible way to compile a narration.
- By Chris Carl on 05-23-14
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Paradise Lost
- By: John Milton
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,762
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Performance1,501
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Story1,498
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny.
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The most accessible reading of Paradise Lost
- By Tony McClung on 02-21-10
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The Queen of the Damned
- The Vampire Chronicles, Book 3
- By: Anne Rice
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,234
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Performance4,674
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Story4,680
In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual...
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Concludes book 2
- By Thomas J. Foote on 01-02-16
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Knowing God
- By: J.I. Packer
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall2,660
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Performance2,272
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Story2,249
A lifelong pursuit of knowing God should embody the Christian's existence. According to eminent theologian J.I. Packer, however, Christians have become enchanted by modern skepticism and have joined the "gigantic conspiracy of misdirection" by failing to put first things first. Knowing God aims to redirect our attention to the simple, deep truth that to know God is to love His Word.
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Do not pass up on this book!
- By BluCat15 on 03-20-16
Editor's Pick
"A perfect match for the author and material."
"Sure, this is a great book with a phenomenal heroine, but set that aside—this is a truly special listen. Simon Vance’s delivery is that of a journalist letting you in on an incredible story over a beer, a perfect match for the author and material. He creates a range of subtly delineated voices for characters from all over Europe. And the way he pronounces Swedish names and places is so perfect, you’ll find yourself absentmindedly repeating them to yourself weeks after you finish listening."
More About Simon Vance
Awards and Accolades
Audie Award
Mystery, 2019
Audie Award
Best Male Narrator, 2017
Audie Award
Literary Fiction, 2015
AudioFile Golden Voice
Award Winner
T H E N A R R A T O R
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