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A novel about boarding school, hardcore Scrabble fanatics, and fracking - a new kind of environmental novel by a spokesman and chief strategist for Common Cause.
The Fracking King follows Winston Crwth - a boarding-school kid, loner, and Scrabble prodigy - who becomes an unlikely hero in the fight to stop fracking in Pennsylvania. Truth is a rare commodity in politics, and the idea of "winning" a debate as cleanly and simply as you'd win a Scrabble game can seem impossible. But with the truth on his side, a jar of toxic "frackwater", and the belief that he can win a Scrabble tournament whose first prize is a meeting with Governor Linda King LaRue, Winston creates a moment of devastating truth for her and for the people who want to frack the state.For all its thoughtful environmental concerns, The Fracking King is also a hopeful audiobook about the power of believing in yourself and pursuing your own particular genius. Winston's Scrabble prowess has its freakish side, but it also makes him genuinely heroic, and his lexical predicaments are funny, shocking, dirty, and sometimes mind-boggling. This is the rare, satisfying debut that's as playful as it is profound.
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- justin
- 07-01-14
How exactly does a ONE-star review happen already?
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How is it anyway possible to give a ONE star review for an audiobook that just CAME OUT 3 HOURS ago??? The answer? Its' not.
Audible needss to fix this system. Once again, here is another book that gets low reviews within just HOURS of release. THere is no one on the planet that can truly give a complete, fair, knowledgeable review in that amount of time!
It is unfair to the other buyers, who many like myself, depend on the reviews of others before using precious credits on a audiobook! IT is also unfair to the publishers, writer, etc.
Plus who would BUY an audiobook period when they already know that is only worthy of one star??? Kinda fishy if you ask me...
Note - In order to support what I've said above, I will edit and give FULL review after I finish the novel...but otherwise this rating system is severly flawed (as are the people who don't take it seriously)
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Not worth reading
I did not like this book at all. It made no sense to me. I would like a refund.
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Story4 out of 5 stars 70
People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. Most come for the books themselves, of course; some come to borrow companionship. For head librarian Kit, the public library in Riverton, New Hampshire, offers what she craves most: peace. Here, no one expects Kit to talk about the calamitous events that catapulted her out of what she thought was a settled, suburban life. She can simply submerge herself in her beloved books and try to forget her problems. But that changes when 15-year-old, home-schooled Sunny gets arrested for shoplifting a dictionary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Story. Well Read.
- By Catherine Singer on 07-12-18
By: Sue Halpern
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
- Stories
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King, Dylan Baker, Brooke Bloom, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,647
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,609
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,598
A master storyteller at his best - the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of King's finest gifts to his constant fan. "I made them especially for you," says King. "Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth."
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5 out of 5 stars
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HE'S A CUP OF COFFEE
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 12-10-15
By: Stephen King
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All the Bright Places
- Movie Tie-In Edition
- By: Jennifer Niven
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne, Ariadne Meyers
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,343
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,065
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,070
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might die. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best YA Quirky Love Story of 2015
- By FanB14 on 06-09-15
By: Jennifer Niven
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The Nix
- A Novel
- By: Nathan Hill
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 21 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,822
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,003
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,982
It's 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson - college professor, stalled writer - has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn't seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she's reappeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high school sweetheart.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Is There An Editor In The House??
- By Sara on 11-03-16
By: Nathan Hill
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Looking for Alaska
- By: John Green
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,937
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,678
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,671
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words - and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps”. Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I am concussed dot-dot-dot
- By Brendan McKenna on 10-01-19
By: John Green
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The Impossible Knife of Memory
- By: Laurie Halse Anderson
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Luke Daniels
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 316
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 283
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Story4 out of 5 stars 284
Despite my best intentions, I was beginning to understand how my dad saw the world. The shadows haunting every living thing. The secrets inside the lies wrapped in bullshit. Even Gracie’s box of pills was beginning to make sense. For the past five years, Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, have been on the road, trying to outrun the memories that haunt them both. They moved back to Andy’s hometown to try a “normal” life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Powerful and Riveting
- By The Reading Date on 02-25-14
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The Tender Bar
- A Memoir
- By: J. R. Moehringer
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper, Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 841
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 740
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 737
J.R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J.R. spoke his first word. Sitting on the stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J.R. would strain to hear in that plummy baritone the secrets of masculinity and identity. Though J.R.'s mother was his world, his rock, he craved something more, something faintly and hauntingly audible only in The Voice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Love this Book
- By Corey on 07-30-21
By: J. R. Moehringer
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King of the Mild Frontier
- An Ill-Advised Autobiography
- By: Chris Crutcher
- Narrated by: Chris Crutcher
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Once you have read about Chris Crutcher's life as a dateless, broken-toothed, scabbed-over, God-fearing dweeb, and once you have contemplated his ascension to the buckskin-upholstered throne of the King of the Mild Frontier, you will close this book, close your eyes and hold it to your chest, and say, "I, too, can be an author." Hell, anyone can.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story writing.
- By Amazon Customer on 07-21-17
By: Chris Crutcher
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Son of a Critch
- A Childish Newfoundland Memoir
- By: Mark Critch
- Narrated by: Mark Critch
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
What could be better than growing up in the 1980s? How about growing up in 1980s Newfoundland, which - as Mark Critch will tell you - was more like the 1960s. Take a trip to where it all began in this funny and warm look back on his formative years. Here we find a young Mark trick-or-treating at a used car lot, getting locked out of school on a fourth-floor window ledge, faking an asthma attack to avoid being arrested by military police, trying to buy beer from an untrustworthy cab driver, shocking his parents by appearing naked onstage - and much more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By Kathleen Meier on 01-22-22
By: Mark Critch
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Thanks for the Trouble
- By: Tommy Wallach
- Narrated by: Francisco Pryor Garat
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Parker Santé hasn't spoken a word in five years. While his classmates plan for bright futures, he skips school to hang out in hotels, killing time by watching the guests. But when he meets a silver-haired girl named Zelda Toth, a girl who claims to be quite a bit older than she looks, he'll discover there just might be a few things left worth living for.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Thanks For The Trouble
- By Kindle Customer on 05-24-20
By: Tommy Wallach
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The Land of Laughs
- By: Jonathan Carroll
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 472
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 426
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Story4 out of 5 stars 423
Thomas Abbey is a man stuck in a rut. To kick-start his life, he takes a sabbatical to work on a biography of his favorite writer, the mysterious Marshall France. Although Abbey has been warned that France's daughter, Anna, has blocked all previous attempts at her father's biography, he is surprised to find her the soul of small-town hospitality and quite excited about Abbey's proposal. Even stranger than Anna's behavior, though, is the town itself. The people seem to know what their future holds - freak accidents and all - down to the hour.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It's Not You - It's Me
- By Daryl on 11-01-12
By: Jonathan Carroll
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Speak
- 20th Anniversary Edition
- By: Laurie Halse Anderson
- Narrated by: Mandy Siegfried, Ashley C. Ford, Jason Reynolds, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,911
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,574
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,580
From her first moment at Merryweather High, Melinda Sordino knows she's an outcast. She busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, a major infraction in high-school society, so her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't know glare at her. She retreats into her head, where the lies and hypocrisies of high school stand in stark relief to her own silence, making her all the more mute.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Recommend with Slight Reservations
- By FanB14 on 05-21-12
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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
- By: Maile Meloy
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 445
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Story4 out of 5 stars 387
Eleven unforgettable new stories demonstrate the emotional power and the clean, assured style that have earned Meloy praise from critics and devotion from readers and listeners. Propelled by a terrific instinct for storytelling, and concerned with the convolutions of modern love and the importance of place, this collection is about the battlefields—and fields of victory—that exist in seemingly harmless spaces, in kitchens and living rooms and cars.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The beautiful ache of the unattainable
- By Ryan on 01-16-14
By: Maile Meloy
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I Know This Much Is True
- By: Wally Lamb
- Narrated by: Ken Howard
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,400
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,133
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,127
In the long awaited follow-up to the highly praised novel She's Come Undone, Dominick Birdsey must come to terms with himself, as well as with the schizophrenic twin brother he has spent his life both protecting and resenting.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By Douglas on 03-20-08
By: Wally Lamb
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The Wednesday Wars
- By: Gary D. Schmidt
- Narrated by: Joel Johnstone
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 638
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 546
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 544
Meet Holling Hoodhood, a seventh-grader at Camillo Junior High who must spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher, Mrs. Baker, while the rest of the class has religious instruction. Mrs. Baker doesn’t like Holling - he’s sure of it. Why else would she make him read the plays of William Shakespeare outside class? But everyone has bigger things to worry about, like Vietnam.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Happy Book
- By David Tousey on 11-01-20
By: Gary D. Schmidt
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- By: Karen Joy Fowler
- Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,891
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,685
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,689
Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. “I was raised with a chimpanzee”, she explains. “I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren’t thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern’s expulsion...she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister”. As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This was totally worth the credit.
- By Amber on 10-04-13
By: Karen Joy Fowler
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Dear Mr. You
- By: Mary-Louise Parker
- Narrated by: Mary-Louise Parker
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 616
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 550
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 546
An extraordinary literary work, Dear Mr. You renders the singular arc of a woman's life through letters Mary-Louise Parker composes to the men, real and hypothetical, who have informed the person she is today. Beginning with the grandfather she never knew, the letters range from a missive to the beloved priest from her childhood to remembrances of former lovers to an homage to a firefighter she encountered to a heartfelt communication with the uncle of the infant daughter she adopted.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Profoundly moved and delighted
- By Vicki J. O'Grady-Longo on 11-18-15
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An Abundance of Katherines
- By: John Green
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 267
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 266
When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has $10,000 in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun - but no Katherines.
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1 out of 5 stars
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struggled to finish listening
- By Daniel on 03-11-20
By: John Green