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Middlesex
- By: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori
- Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,987
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,855
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,892
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie's failure to develop physically - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worth Waiting It Out
- By D. N. Meads on 08-28-09
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The Marriage Plot
- By: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 2,293
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,916
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 1,912
It’s the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pretentious? The Marriage Plot? Surely Not...
- By k teed on 03-02-18
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Revolutionary Road
- By: Richard Yates
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 762
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 419
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 415
From the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolation of the American suburbs. It's the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple who have lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Movie vs Book
- By Sara on 01-29-14
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The Rules of Attraction
- By: Bret Easton Ellis
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Danny Gerard, Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 178
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Story4 out of 5 stars 165
Set at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan '80s, The Rules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the future - or even the present - who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Ellis's best work
- By Amy on 03-31-16
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Fresh Complaint
- Stories
- By: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Eugenides, Ari Fliakos, Cynthia Nixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 136
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Story4 out of 5 stars 124
The stories in Fresh Complaint explore equally rich and intriguing territory. Ranging from the bitingly reproductive antics of “Baster” to the dreamy, moving account of a young traveler’s search for enlightenment in “Air Mail” (selected by Annie Proulx for Best American Short Stories), this collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Skip the first story, but the rest are incredible!!
- By Charlize Theron as Rita Leeds, MRF on 01-31-18
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The Bell Jar
- By: Sylvia Plath
- Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,555
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,150
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,139
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful but slowly going under - maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written, brilliantly performed.
- By Debra W. on 02-04-16
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Middlesex
- By: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori
- Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,987
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,855
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,892
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie's failure to develop physically - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worth Waiting It Out
- By D. N. Meads on 08-28-09
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The Marriage Plot
- By: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 2,293
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,916
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 1,912
It’s the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pretentious? The Marriage Plot? Surely Not...
- By k teed on 03-02-18
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Revolutionary Road
- By: Richard Yates
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 762
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 419
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 415
From the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolation of the American suburbs. It's the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple who have lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Movie vs Book
- By Sara on 01-29-14
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The Rules of Attraction
- By: Bret Easton Ellis
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Danny Gerard, Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 178
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Story4 out of 5 stars 165
Set at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan '80s, The Rules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the future - or even the present - who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Ellis's best work
- By Amy on 03-31-16
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Fresh Complaint
- Stories
- By: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Eugenides, Ari Fliakos, Cynthia Nixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 136
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Story4 out of 5 stars 124
The stories in Fresh Complaint explore equally rich and intriguing territory. Ranging from the bitingly reproductive antics of “Baster” to the dreamy, moving account of a young traveler’s search for enlightenment in “Air Mail” (selected by Annie Proulx for Best American Short Stories), this collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Skip the first story, but the rest are incredible!!
- By Charlize Theron as Rita Leeds, MRF on 01-31-18
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The Bell Jar
- By: Sylvia Plath
- Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,555
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,150
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,139
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful but slowly going under - maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written, brilliantly performed.
- By Debra W. on 02-04-16
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Fight Club
- By: Chuck Palahniuk
- Narrated by: Jim Colby
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,478
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,547
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,558
When a listless office employee (the narrator) meets Tyler Durden, his life begins to take on a strange new dimension. Together they form Fight Club - a secretive underground group sponsoring bloody bare-knuckle boxing matches staged in seedy alleys, vacant warehouses, and dive-bar basements. Fight Club lets ordinary men vent their suppressed rage, and it quickly develops a fanatical following.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The first rule about Fight Club is...
- By Ilana on 04-17-12
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Midnight Son
- By: James Dommek Jr., Josephine Holtzman, Isaac Kestenbaum
- Narrated by: James Dommek Jr.
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23,363
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21,380
James Dommek, Jr., an Alaska Native writer and musician, sheds new light on a real-life mystery that pits Native American folklore against the US justice system. In the vast Alaskan Arctic, legend has it there once lived a mythic tribe—Iñukuns—that only existed in rumors and whispers. This changed forever when an actor-turned-fugitive, Teddy Kyle Smith, had an encounter that brought Iñukuns from myth to reality. Smith was an aspiring actor with a promising career until it all came quickly crashing down with a gunshot, a manhunt, bloodshed, and other frightful events.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An investigative true crime podcast on Audible
- By Alexandra Colley on 11-13-19
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The Girls
- A Novel
- By: Emma Cline
- Narrated by: Cady McClain
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 3,637
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 3,216
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 3,231
Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Diane Keaton
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,032
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 949
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Story4 out of 5 stars 937
Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic essays, including the title piece, which will transport the listener back to a unique time and place: the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the neighborhood’s heyday as a countercultural center.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Didion deserves better.
- By Victoria Wright on 01-21-13
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Men We Reaped
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- By: Jesmyn Ward
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- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life - to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth - and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Felt so close to home
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Less Than Zero
- By: Bret Easton Ellis
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and reenters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Realistically good
- By steve on 09-18-10
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Glamorama
- By: Bret Easton Ellis
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 20 hrs and 40 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 159
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 134
From his first novel – Less Than Zero – published when he was still a college student – to his most recent – the fierce American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis has been a powerful and original presence in contemporary literature, whether giving voice to a previously inchoate generation or provoking a controversy that raged throughout the culture. Now he takes a quantum leap forward: an awesome reckoning of the American Century at endgame. In Glamorama, a young man in what is recognizably fashion and celebrity-obsessed Manhattan is gradually, imperceptibly drawn into a shadowy looking-glass of that society, there and in London and Paris, and then finds himself trapped on the other side, in a much darker place where fame and terrorism and family and politics are inextricably linked and sometimes indistinguishable. At once implicated and horror-stricken, his ways of escape blocked at every turn, he ultimately discovers – back on the other, familiar side – that there was no mirror, no escape, no world but this one in which hotels implode and planes fall from the sky.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riotous, as funny and brutal as American Psycho
- By Cory Cantales on 09-05-14
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Never Let Me Go
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5,536
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,852
Eva never really wanted to be a mother - and certainly not the mother of a boy who ends up murdering seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his 16th birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin’s horrific rampage, in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A smart, chilling story. Told in a very unique way
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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"You girls are my vocation... I am dedicated to you in my prime." So says Miss Jean Brodie, a teacher unlike any other. She is proud and cultured. A romantic, with progressive, sometimes shocking ideas and aspirations for the girls in her charge. When she decides to transform a select group of pupils into the 'crème de la crème' at the Marcia Blaine School they become the Brodie set. In exchange for their undivided loyalty the girls earn a special place of honour and privilege within the school. Yet they are also introduced to a startling new world of adult games....
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Primed for Classics
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American Psycho
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,136
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,842
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Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
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4 out of 5 stars
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OMG, Did I just go there? Wow
- By Christopher on 11-07-15
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Lolita
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,386
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,076
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,032
Why we think it’s a great listen: Among the great literary achievements of the 20th century, Lolita soars in audio thanks to the incomparable Jeremy Irons, bringing to life Nabokov’s ability to shock and enthrall more than 50 years after publication. Lolita became a cause celebre because of the erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Nabokov's masterpiece owes its stature not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story that is shocking in its beauty and tenderness.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Surprising good reading
- By Yvette D Skinner on 05-28-09
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Lexi Lou
- 11-06-13
Read this if you want to enjoy this audiobook
What did you love best about The Virgin Suicides?
I purchased this audiobook and was so disappointed when I found I could not tolerate listening to it. The problem was the slow, monotone voice of the narrator. I couldn't take it anymore, as listening became painful and I could not follow the story as my mind wandered. I read many similar complaints in the reviews.
I came back to the book a couple months later and tried it again. This time, I set audible.com's listening app to play it at 1.25 speed instead of the default 1. I was amazed. The audible experience became perfect, as it was meant to be. I do not believe the problem was with the narrator in the first place. I believe the track was slowed down for some reason in post production the the chagrin of may listeners.
If you tried listening to this book and simply could not get past the first chapter without wanting to tear your hair out, do yourself a favor and increase the speed of playback one notch. You will be surprised how wonderful this book, and it's narrator truly are.
Any additional comments?
Must be played at 1.25 speed to hear original recording.
108 of 113 people found this review helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Anna
- Madison, WI, United States
- 10-01-10
good listen.
This book kept me engaged. While others noted somewhat negatively about the simplicity of the story telling and odd perspective (as told by the neighborhood boys), I thought that hearing about the fascinating albeit tragic story from an outside view added to it's intrigue. I have not seen the movie and I think this added to my ability to let the vague storytelling encourage my imagination.
Beauty, youth, family issues, crime, sex, and mystery... this story has it all and is told in a way that is thought provoking. I look forward to listening to other books from this author.
16 of 16 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 05-17-06
Heartbreaking - but Wonderful!
Having first listened to the masterpiece, Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides, I thought that I might be disappointed by the initial offering from this author. I needn’t have worried!. The Virgin Suicides is just a terrific novel. Although absolutely heartbreaking, the story provides the listener with hope and a sense of peace. Nick Landrum is superb in his reading of the story and I defy any listener to have dry eyes during the final 5 minutes of his narration. I can’t wait for the next offering from Mr. Eugenides, who is, in my view, the best author out there.
21 of 22 people found this review helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Lori
- 09-26-10
Interesting but plotless
This book was interesting, but really didn't go anywhere. I too loved Middlesex and while this book has an interesting premise, it doesn't go much beyond that. You know the ending by the title, and I kept waiting for a surprise. The surprise is, there is no surprise. Didn't hate it, and don't consider it a waste of time, but I was disappointed.
19 of 23 people found this review helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Kerry
- athens, GA, United States
- 11-15-11
narrator fine
I am writing mostly to voice disagreement with previous reviewers regarding the narrator. I enjoyed the book and thought the narration was fine. The pace was possibly a bit slow, but overall I thought it was a good reading and certainly did not detract from my enjoyment in a significant way.
13 of 16 people found this review helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Michael
- Irving, TX, USA
- 05-16-06
SAMPLE BEFORE BUYING
The direction and/or narration of this audiobook is so slow that it makes the book almost incomprehensible. Each comma is a paragraph, each period a chapter. What remains is an exercise in focused concentration, for holding onto the subject of a sentence from start to finish is truely a task.
34 of 43 people found this review helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Jane
- 10-27-15
A study in style
Much as I admired and sometimes revelled in the sheer style and beauty of the writing, this novel left me cold cold cold and empty. Beautiful, but ultimately futile. Which I think was precisely the point.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Sara
- Palm Harbor, FL, USA
- 09-14-06
Tedious
I tried to like it. I really did. I LOVED Middlesex but I found my mind wandering while I was listening to this book and never developed any feeling for the characters.
12 of 17 people found this review helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- joyce
- 04-23-17
Disappointed
I finally forced myself to listen to this book on the 4th try. I kept trying because I loved Jeffrey Eugenides previous book. It is hard to identify what I didn't like about it. I think it was the narrator. The book came across as somewhat slow, boring and depressing. The book was written by a man and was read by what sounded like a young man and yet the main story was about the 5 sisters. I think I took offense to the fact that the girl's feelings, thoughts and motivations were being told to me by men who would know nothing about their inner lives nor what happened inside their home. The writing was good, very good at times and I really enjoyed the last couple of hours of the book.
However I am not sure I would recommend the book.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Malia
- LONG BRANCH, NJ, United States
- 03-21-13
Recommended Listen!
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes- for anyone who's watched the film, the book is a great companion with expanded detail and "flavor".
Who was your favorite character and why?
I didn't really have a favorite character, they were all portrayed well by Eugenides. I don't know if it were possible to have a favorite. You feel like you knew them well, and didn't know them at all.
What does Nick Landrum bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
I've listened to all of the Dexter books narrated by Nick Landrum and I like his voice. It doesn't "get in the way" of the story.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
There was a film! Don't know the tagline, but I'm sure it's just as vague as the deep story.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- nandita
- 05-09-16
Morbid but beautiful
It's short, I finished it in a few days. The prose is hauntingly beautiful and the narrator's voice makes it even more of a delight. Reading about death is not fun, so leave it if that is what you are looking for.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- Julian
- 11-08-17
Brilliant performance from Nick Landrum
Loved the narrator's understated, yet emotive delivery of this compelling story. I could listen to Nick Landrum's voice all day!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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- mrs
- 03-07-17
Wonderful
I loved this audio book. It kept me captivated throughout . Despite the obviously disturbing nature of the story, it is written with tenderness and I found the story to be strangely more moving and heartwarming than depressing.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Nigel Nicholson
- 02-08-13
Disappointing
I loved the Marriage Plot so went into this with high hopes. It uses an annoying first person plural narrative voice to recount the macabre observations of a dysfunctional family in a disordered community. All of this makes it hard to engage sympathetically though one should given the subject. Others may like this - he's a good writer but this doesn't do it form.
0 of 2 people found this review helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story1 out of 5 stars
- Jayne
- 08-07-14
pointless
Would you try another book written by Jeffrey Eugenides or narrated by Nick Landrum?
the narrator was fine with what material he had to read, but the story was tripe.
Would you ever listen to anything by Jeffrey Eugenides again?
no, i found the virgin suicides one of the most pointless books i have ever listened to
Any additional comments?
the whole story had no conclusion no loose ends tied up and no explanation to the suicides, waste of time.
0 of 3 people found this review helpful