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The Surgeon
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart
- Length: 29 mins
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- MalTru
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Like a poorly written Twilight Zone episode
I didn't care for The Surgeon. I thought the premise sounded very interesting, but the writing fell flat for me. It didn't seem natural or realistic, nor did it seem like the author was intentionally being over the top to create a particular mood. It was often unclear or confusing, though there is a "twist" in the end that may mean we're meant to forgive any unrealistic or over the top exchanges/descriptions? There were times when I couldn't tell if it's that the writing was truly that confusing or if the narrator just wasn't emphasizing things correctly or giving pause to let certain things land. I don't know- I just couldn't connect with it. Luckily, it was incredibly short.
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Irish immigrant Katie O’Connor and her younger sister, Shannon, risk everything to journey to America at the turn of the twentieth century. As each woman passes into an intimidating, stirring, and unpredictable New York City, she is forced to rethink her dream of a better life. It isn’t until Katie begins serving the sick in the depressed slums of the Bowery alongside Dr. Titus Brentwood that she discovers her true calling. Meanwhile, fate directs the vulnerable Shannon down an unsettling path that could put her life at risk.
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Immigrant Life in Early 1900s
- By Debbie on 10-13-19
By: Renee Ryan
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Near to the Wild Heart
- By: Clarice Lispector
- Narrated by: Rebecca Morris
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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This new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tells the story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence. Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called "Hurricane Clarice": a 23-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce.
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AMAZING!
- By Gordy on 04-11-18
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The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
- By: Kiersten White
- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Elizabeth Lavenza hasn't had a proper meal in weeks. Her thin arms are covered with bruises from her "caregiver", and she is on the verge of being thrown into the streets...until she is brought to the home of Victor Frankenstein, an unsmiling, solitary boy who has everything - except a friend. Victor is her escape from misery. Elizabeth does everything she can to make herself indispensable - and it works. She is taken in by the Frankenstein family and rewarded with a warm bed, delicious food, and dresses of the finest silk.
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Engrossing
- By MK on 02-02-19
By: Kiersten White
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Psychomech
- Psychomech Trilogy
- By: Brian Lumley
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Richard Garrison, a corporal in the British Military Police, loses his sight while trying to save the wife and child of millionaire industrialist Thomas Schroeder from a terrorist bomb. While Garrison is recovering from his injuries, Schroeder makes him an offer the young man cannot refuse - refuge at Schroeder's luxurious mountain retreat and rehabilitation from the best doctors who can treat Garrison's blindness and, if not cure him, at least teach him a new way of life. But Thomas Schroeder has a secret. He is dying and determined not to lose his life.
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brian lumley is the best
- By Kindle Customer on 03-26-19
By: Brian Lumley
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Dracula
- By: Bram Stoker
- Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical, film, and television interpretations since its publication. Required listening for any fan of the genre!
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Do not purchase
- By Kurt Faus on 05-20-17
By: Bram Stoker
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Dr. Futurity
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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When Dr. Jim Parsons awakens after a car accident, he finds himself in a future populated almost entirely by the young. But for the young to keep running the world, death is fetishized, and those who survive to old age are put down. In such a world, Parsons - with his innate desire to save lives - is a criminal and an outcast. For one revolutionary group, however, he may be just the savior they need to heal and revive their cryogenically frozen leader.
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Time's Second Arrow
- By Darwin8u on 11-16-16
By: Philip K. Dick
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The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
- By: Emilie Autumn
- Narrated by: Emilie Autumn
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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Two young women, living centuries apart, both accused of madness, communicate across time to fight a common enemy...their doctors. Emilie begins a secret diary to document her terrifying experience and to maintain her sanity in the asylum for wayward Victorian girls. But when Emilie opens her notebook to find a desperate letter from a young woman, imprisoned within an insane asylum in Victorian England and bearing her own name and description, a portal to another world is blasted wide open.
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Painful narration
- By Lis.beth on 02-06-19
By: Emilie Autumn
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Brave New World
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Michael York
- Length: 8 hrs
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When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.
Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.
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Michael York should stick to the stage and leave narration to the pros.
- By SD on 08-21-19
By: Aldous Huxley
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The Diabolic
- By: S. J. Kincaid
- Narrated by: Candace Thaxton
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager created to protect a galactic senator's daughter, Sidonia. The two have grown up side by side but are in no way sisters. Nemesis is expected to give her life for Sidonia, and she would do so gladly. She would also take as many lives as necessary to keep Sidonia safe. When the power-mad emperor learns Sidonia's father is participating in a rebellion, he summons Sidonia to the Galactic court. She is to serve as a hostage. Now there is only one way for Nemesis to protect Sidonia. She must become her.
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Solid start that descends into YA cliches
- By Blake on 01-01-17
By: S. J. Kincaid