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Sonora Carver (1904-2003) was a circus entertainer and one of the first female horse divers. In the arresting autobiography A Girl and Five Brave Horses, Sonora tells her life story. Her sensational act was mounting a running horse as it reached the top of a 40-foot or 60-foot tower and sailing down on its back as it plunged into an 11-foot pool of water below. In 1931, she was blinded due to hitting the water off balance with open eyes while diving her horse. After the accident, she continued to dive horses until 1942. The film Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken is loosely based on her life.
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- Adrian
- 07-17-21
Terrible narrator!
Narrator made it impossible for me to finish! I tried multiple times and it time it got more and more annoying!
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- S. Workman
- 04-22-21
Great Story, Terrible Reader
The story is great and anyone who’s seen Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken will love it. However, the reader has an accent that comes and goes, seeming sometimes British and sometimes German. This is not only annoying but problematic since Sonora was Southern, and the reader pronounces several words wrong to the point where some of them are nearly incomprehensible. Moreover, the editing was very poorly done. There are bits where there are repeated words akin to a vinyl record skip and several bits where the reader sighs or starts to make a comment to someone in the recording room. It’s very jarring and if the story wasn’t so intriguing I’d honestly have never made it through this book.
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- Justin L.
- 07-24-20
good story
what an interesting life! I've wanted to get hold of this book for a while so I was happy to find it on audible. my only complaint is that while it was read well, the narrator's accent was slightly off putting and her pronunciation of some words very strange. I kept mentally correcting and was pulled out of the story for it.
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- Angela Schindler
- 01-17-23
Poor choice of narrator, but great story
Narrator a strange mix of British, Irish, South African and Colonial India to be reading a story with significant pieces of Americana. Didn’t care for the reader and her but here pronunciation of ‘pedestal, and Yosemite,’ but if you’ve seen the movie, you’ll like the book 10X more!
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- Knielsen
- 01-08-23
A wonderful story!!
Such a great story and so well written. The reader is great. I was surprised to hear an English accent for the very American author.
I loooooved the story!!
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- Randa Becco
- 12-26-22
Good story but the narrator was terrible
The story was entertaining enough that I bought it for my granddaughters. The narrator Bob not due the book justice
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- Nancy Burreece
- 10-31-22
Great story
The story itself is wonderful… however… the person reading it has much to thick of a British accent to really love it. Sonora is from the south and it is really hard to listen to the person reading it and believe it is a true story.
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- Kara Stenberg
- 08-01-22
Awesome story, mediocre performance
This autobiography is wonderful: gripping, succinct, and entertaining. However the choice of narrator is bizarre. Sonora Carver was American and yet a British person, for whom English may even be a secondary language, was chosen. Her overall tone and inflection was good but there were many obvious mispronunciations of regular words as well as well-known American place names.
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- llgldilox
- 03-27-22
Charming book - Worst Reader Ever!
I absolutely loved this book, but I had to give up listening to it on my ride to work everyday and just read it in my own. For some bizarre reason, they chose to have a woman with a thick European/Italian accent read an autobiography about an American woman's life as a horse diver. That in itself was already very confusing and off-putting. I tried to get past that, but unfortunately she didn't read well at all and I couldn't even understand her most of the time. Ugh!!
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- Scotto
- 07-29-21
Great book, disappointing reading.
This book is fascinating. Sonora's life was very unique.
I had a really hard time with this reader. Sonora wrote this book in the first person. She is from Georgia. This reader has a Scottish (I think) accent. That disconnect is off-putting. It wouldn't be that bad if the reader had taken the time to learn how to pronounce things like "Yosemite" and "Waco." If you're a professional speaker, learn how to pronounce place names. The reader also always sounds irritated. Like she is impatiently telling me this story.
Whoever edited this also didn't cut out all the multiple takes. At times the reader would say something then immediately repeat it, clearly a second take. Other times I could hear other people chatting in the background. Seeing such a wonderful story produced with such a lack of care is frustrating.
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Horse People
- Scenes from the Riding Life
- By: Michael Korda
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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Best-selling author Michael Korda's Horse People is the story - sometimes hilariously funny, sometimes sad and moving, always shrewdly observed - of a lifetime love affair with horses, and of the bonds that have linked humans with horses for more than 10,000 years. It is filled with intimate portraits of the kind of people, rich or poor, Eastern or Western, famous or humble, whose lives continue to revolve around the horse. Korda is a terrific storyteller, and his book is intensely personal and seductive, a joy for everyone who loves horses.
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good yarn for nag lovers
- By bj bell on 03-27-21
By: Michael Korda
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Brat Farrar
- By: Josephine Tey
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family’s sizeable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick’s mannerisms, appearance and every significant detail of Patrick’s early life, up to his 13th year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself.
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Great all around
- By Catherine on 10-23-11
By: Josephine Tey
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Bonecrack
- By: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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Dick Francis, the bestselling master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing. In the middle of the night, two masked men break into Neil Griffon’s home and abduct him. He quickly discovers that unless he agrees to their unreasonable demands, they will destroy his father’s precious horse and racing stable, and ultimately Neil himself. Returned to his father’s stables, he must find a way to bring down these criminals, because having to choose between his integrity and his life is no choice at all.
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Great Dick Francis!
- By Global Mom on 02-07-23
By: Dick Francis
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The Keeper of the Bees
- By: Gene Stratton-Porter
- Narrated by: Anne Hancock
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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Jamie MacFarlane has returned a hero from the Great War but with a stubborn chest wound. The government has sent him to their new thermal springs hospital in California "where it was hoped that the brilliant sunshine, the fruits, and the clean air, the eternal summer of a beneficent land" would heal him. But nothing has worked, and with his parents now deceased and no one to care for him, it seems the next step is a camp rife with tuberculosis. Realizing this, Jamie begins his great adventure on foot toward the ocean.
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Looked forward to every listen!
- By Kraig on 08-01-21
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Horse Heaven
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Shelley Thompson
- Length: 25 hrs and 39 mins
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Many astonishing and affecting things happen at the racetrack, and the mysterious universe of horse racing, passionate, cold-hearted, pure, corrupt, is woven into a marvelous tapestry of joy and love, chicanery, folly, greed, and reckless courage. Spanning two years on the circuit, from Kentucky and California to New York and Paris, Horse Heaven, puts us among trainers, nervey jockeys, billionaire breeders, and restless track wives.
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I wish I could review book and narrator separately
- By Julie Delio on 03-21-07
By: Jane Smiley
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Rough Magic
- Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
- By: Lara Prior-Palmer
- Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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At the age of 19, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to "the world's longest, toughest horse race" - an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of 25 wild ponies across 1,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland. On a whim, she decided to enter the race. Riders often spend years preparing to compete in the Mongol Derby, and many fail to finish. Rough Magic captures the extraordinary story of one young woman who forged ahead, against all odds, to become the first female winner of this breathtaking race.
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Interesting Story - Self Absorbed Author
- By Chris on 06-11-19
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Every Heart a Doorway
- By: Seanan McGuire
- Narrated by: Cynthia Hopkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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Children have always disappeared under the right conditions - slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere...else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back. The things she's experienced...they change a person. The children under Miss West's care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.
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Utterly Moving
- By tm on 07-12-16
By: Seanan McGuire
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Novice Dragoneer
- Dragoneer Academy, Book 1
- By: E. E. Knight
- Narrated by: Nicole Poole
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
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Fourteen-year-old Ileth grew up in an orphanage, and thanks to her stutter was never thought to be destined for much beyond kitchen work and cleaning. But she's dreamed of serving with the dragons ever since a childhood meeting with a glittering silver dragon and its female dragoneer. For years she waits, and as soon as she is old enough to join, Ileth runs away to become a novice dragoneer at the ancient human-dragon fortress of the Serpentine.
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She’s 14yrs old
- By Alex D. on 10-23-21
By: E. E. Knight
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The Eighty-Dollar Champion
- Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation
- By: Elizabeth Letts
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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November 1958: the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Into the rarefied atmosphere of wealth and tradition comes the most unlikely of horses - a drab white former plow horse named Snowman - and his rider, Harry de Leyer. They were the longest of all longshots - and their win was the stuff of legend.
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Heartwarming and historical
- By Skipper on 07-01-20
By: Elizabeth Letts
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Dick Francis's Gamble
- By: Felix Francis
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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Felix Francis co-wrote several horse racing mysteries with his late father Dick Francis before the legendary author passed away in 2010. Taking up the reins for his first solo effort, Felix delivers a captivating tale that franchise fans will thoroughly enjoy. Former jockey Nicholas “Foxy” Foxton is at the track one day when he witnesses the execution-style killing of his friend Herb Novak. Worried he might be next, Foxy wonders if there was a dark side to Herb he didn’t know about.
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Frustration
- By Anonymous User on 08-24-11
By: Felix Francis
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The Culprit
- By: Martin Sasek
- Narrated by: Martin Sasek
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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Narrated by the author, this is an eloquently written memoir of the author and his wife's crazy life experiences, splashed and peppered with the outrageous antics of this wildly witted Bengal Kitten that not only turned their Empty Nest upside-down - but brought into focus a continuity of Kindred Spirits that gave meaning to their lives. A heartfelt and hilarious read that will leave you loving The Culprit from start to finish!
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Not a cat story
- By Kimberly Adcock on 01-19-21
By: Martin Sasek